The Yale expositor., 1917-02-08
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

| otner BamDllng devices nave Deeh
placed under ban in Hillsdale by Sher-
III f. w. Phillips.
Contracts were awarded this week
by the Macomb county road commits
sioners for IA miles of construction
10 the county the coming spring.
While a physician was examining
him, Daniel Skeily, of Harbor Beach,
! fell dead. Heart trouble was the
cause of death, the physician stated.
Harold Hoaglin of Muskegon was
fatally hurt as the result of kick
from a horse under whose hoofs he
fell. Doctors stated he would be blind,
If he recovered.
Michigans debating teams will COM
pete with Wisconsin and Illinois
March 80 on the question of lockouts
and strikes in utilities and mines be-
| fore government investigation.
Remarkable strength enabled Will
gears on machine at the Continental
Motor works, Muskegon, in which 1t
had caught and saved his life.
Miss Frank Gray Shaver of High
land Park. ILL.,, plaintiff in S125,O0O
suit against Baroness Won Pallandt
Van Verde of Menominee, was awarded
$1S,514,9O by jury in circuit court.
The Duplex Truck Co, of Charlotte,
has taken on 80 more men. A CO.
operative company is being talked OF.
The city is burning saw dust at the
water works, no coal being available.
Democrats of Oakland county will
hold their county convention at the
Pontiac court house Saturday, Febru-
airy 10. to select delegates for the state
convention at Grand Rapids, Febru-
airy Is.
/. p. Dunn, unconscious with tuber-
culosis, was carried from his residence
in Teconsha when it burned. The fire
started when a child fell against a
stovepipe upstairs. Villagers raised
purse of $3.50 for Mrs. Dunn.
AS a result of having had both of
his feet and legs frozen half way to his
knees while husking corn in a barn
! in a Grand Blanc township few days
ago, Charles Moore, As, Flint, may lose
both of his feet. Gangrene developed.
A spark, caused by the rubbing OF
silk dress in the hands of an en-
ploye of a cleaning and dyeing shop
in Flint ignited a pail of gasoline,
causing a slight explosion. Several of
the employees escaped with minor
burns.
The shortage of coal has compelled
| the Detroit and Mackinac railroad to
discontinue two trains daily between
Alpena and Cheboygan and two trains
! daily between Alpena and Hillman.
Other trains may be taken off later it
| is said.
Dewitt Henning. jail breaker and
/ forger, was bound over to circuit court
after making a spectacular plea in
! his own behalf in the Ann Arbor JUS
/ tice court. He claimed the charge of
I forgery was not right because there
was no such person as that indicated
on false certified checks which he had
cashed.
The Michigan State Tax association
in their meeting at Battle Creek elect
ed officers as follows: President
Geo. Clapperton, Bay City; vice presi-
dents, Bruce Mcdonald, Flint; Daniel
w. Powell, Marquette; secre-
tary, George Lord. Detroit; treas
urer, John A. Russell, Detroit. Bay
City gets the next convention.
Theodore Harmon, of Plymouth, re-
ceived from a relative of Mrs. Anna
Edison Taylor, the first woman to go
over Niagara Falls, the barrel in which
Mrs. Taylor went over the rapids. The
gift arrived last week. The barrel was
of hard wood and bound by II iron
hoops. Mrs. Taylor went over the
falls in 1901. Later she went on the
stage, but this venture failed and she
is now retired in Bay City.
Action to compel chemical factories
along the Tittabawasse and Saginaw
rivers to cease dumping their chem
ical refuse into the streams was start
ed in the Saginaw county circuit court
by the public domain commission and
Attorney General Alex. ]. Groesbeck.
The suits will be based on the findings
of the state health board chemists.
The chemists reported that the nox-
ious odor of the water and its peculiar
taste which has rendered fish unfit
for food is caused by chemicals and
coal tar products poured into the riv-
ers by the chemical manufactures.
Entertaining girls four nights a
week at chop suey houses and taking
them to theatres proved the downfall
Of Charles Morgan, %, of Flint, who
pleaded guilty in circuit court to a
highway robbery charge in which he
and another young man held up and
robbed Arthur Carylon on January s.
Judge Stevens outlined the following
course for him to follow in his proba.
ton rules: He must use only SIS a
week of his salary to entertain girls
while the rest, after paying his board
must be turned over to Acting County
Agent w. o. Pankhurst, to be depos