The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-01-27
Michigan
Happenings

ySOO,OOO road BOND issue Will De SOLD
here February 8. The bonds will bear
Az per cent interest.
Marshall.-Word was received here
of the death of Mrs. Georgia Phillips.
who killed herself in her lonely cabin
near Dimes. Alaska. She left here ~
years ago.
Ionia.-Cireuit Judge f.. d. M. Da-
Wis announced his candidacy for re-
nomination Mt the primary election
March Z Judge Davis has been on
the bench here since 1894.
Bay City.-John A. Smith, f1fty-nine,
caretaker ut Wenona Beach for the
last II years and In the employ of the
street railway company for 20 years
without demerit mark, died at his
home Of pneumonia.
Bessemer.-Judge Samuel s. Cooper,
who has been judge Of the circuit
composed Of Gogebic and Ontonagon
counties for the last ten years. has an
nounced that he will not be candi-
date again because of illness.
Ann Arbor.-Mrs. Carrie Mandt, six
ty-five years old, has started $4,000
damage suit against John Schill.
wealthy Bridgewater farmer. Mrs.
Mandt is widow. She alleges that
Schill has called her and her son
names.
Flint.-While playing with revolt
yer which he found in the dresser of a
boarders room at his parents home,
Archie Hayward, ten-year-old son of
himself through the heart and died In
stantly.
Kalamazoo.-Afterb being tied up for
several days on hard coal deliveries,
the emergency commission announced
that supplies were on hand and stimuli
taneously appealed for more transfers.
An offer to aid manufacturers unable
to obtain fuel was renewed.
Grand Rapids.-Miss Theresa Tilma.
daughter of Mayor Tilma, succeeds Err
nest Ghysels as private secretary to
the mayor. According to the records,
this is the first time in the history Of
the city that woman has been pri-
vate secretary to the mayor.
East Lansing.-The extension depart
ment of the Michigan Agricultural col
lege is cooperating with the bureau
Of animal industry, of the United
States department of agriculture, in
warning people not to eat pork which
has not been thoroughly cooked.
Grand Rapids.-The explosion of an
oil stove in cobbler's small shop
nearly caused the death of Oscar Leav-
lit, twenty-five years old. Leavitt was
sleeping in the shop when the fire
started and was severely burned from
his hips to his feet and about the face
and ears.
|. Lansing.-Attorney General Groes-
beck decided for Game Commissioner
William II. Oates that the act of 1903,
giving riparian owners In Saginaw bay
the right to license fishing rights off
their land, was practically invalid.
The law Is expected to be repealed by
the present legislature, as 1t is local
act.
Holland.-W. w. Vosburgh, an Allie
gan Jeweler, has secured relic in two
pairs Of old spectacles which he pur-
chased for the value of the gold In the
frames. They had been the property
of John f. Beebe, a member of General
Pritchard's company, which captured
JEFF Davis. The glasses were taken
from jeff Davis after his capture.
Vosburgh values his purchase at 500.
Grand Rapids.-The city is up
against the problem of disposing Of
tons of refuse which are plllng up be-
cause the council and the administra-
ton have failed in negotiations with
Henry Hartman, and because Hart
mans concern has been enjoined from
dumping garbage In Paris township
and the railroads cannot furnish him
with cars to carry 1t to his Muskegon
county plant.
st. Joseph Giving himself up to Ber-
rien county officials, Tony Onestro, Of
Chicago, charged with murder in con-
nectiOn with the death near Benton
HarbOr last fall Of Henry Pontorno.
was arrested and lodged In the jail with
Frank Demico, his nephew, arrested a
month ago on the same charge. Ones
trO's action came as q surprise, al
though his attorneys had said that he
would give himself up. The two de-
PENDANTS will, 1t Is understood, plead
self-defense.
Pontiac.-After having been terribly
Injured by a bull on his farm In South
field township. seven miles from Birm-
ingham, Marion I. White, f1fty-fve,
died at his home. White had gone to
feed the bull, but It broke one Of the
two chains fastening 1t and attacked
him. His grandson, aged four. was
the only person In the barn Mt the time
and found the mans body PROSTATE.
Indications were that White had
fought Off the animal with hammer
until he was knocked down and his
head crushed. He leaves widow and
three children.
Detroit.-That $479, 3O959 was spent
by the Michigan Home Rule league In
stead Of $648,775.85 as computed from
figures In the Wayne county clerks
office Is the contention Of Secretary