The Yale expositor., 1917-03-08
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

'oluHtSeT cavalry mas Deeu SldIlSu III
Pontiac.
Bay City carpenters have demanded
that their wages be increased from
40 to SO cents an hour.
In gas explosion in No. 10 shaft OF
the Tilden mine at Bessemer, two
men were killed and three others
badly hurt. The shaft was ruined.
Fred Engel of Mayville, was instant
ly killed when he jumped from Pere
Marquette freight train, hit snow
bank and fell back under the wheels.
The open air school in connection
with the city schools at Iron Mountain
now has an attendance OF 20 pupils. 1t
has only been established three
months. The children are warmly
dressed in Eskimo suits, and study,
recite and take their lunches out CT
doors
After reading an editorial on
patriotism in her favorite newspaper,
Mrs. j. r. Sutton of Hillsdale started
for the attic to get out her American
flag, as she had resolved to raise it
above her home. At the top of the
steps she slipped and rolled to the
bottom.
Gov. Sleeper has appointed A. A.
Anderson, of Hastings, to the board
OF the Kalamazoo state hospital; John
F. Petermann, of Calumet, to the
board of Marquette prison; M. F.
Bush, of Caro-, and H. H. Prosser, OF
Flushing, to the board of the Michi.
gan farm colony for epileptics.
Frogs and cnakes are reported as
fr, c2ing to death in the fall ana after
thawing out in the winter, coming to
life Goldfish are known to 10 the
same. A globe of them in show
window at Mancelona were frozen In
solid ice during the record cold spell.
After being thawed out they con-
tinued swimming as before.
Forging of 1917 automobile license
plates is going on at a rate that Is
expected to cause the state authori-
ties to use drastic measures for its
suppression. officials are hunting
down license forgers, and when they
are caught the secretary of state will
prosecute them for misuse OF the state
SEAL which is attached to every Ii.
cense. Severe penalties will be asked.
An overhead sewer more than 900
feet in length is new departure in
engineering recommended for Iron
Mountain by a firm of engineers. The
sewer is to cross a caved in mine.
The only other methods possible for
! handling the situation would be to
pump sewage over a hill or make
deep cut. AS the town is not growing
the overhead plan is considered the
most feasible.
After a ten-months hunt the game
commissioners department at Lansing
announces that it has finally succeed
ed in apprehending Louis Pawab'
quenee, a Chippewa Indian, who Is
alleged to have made a murderous
assault upon Game Warden 4. s. Long
on Burt lake last May. Long suffered
severance Of portion OF his hand
in battle with the Indian on the
shores of the lake.
Seven cars of Grand Trunk
freight train were derailed near Port
Huron, causing a delay of several
hours to traffic. Among the cars ditch.
ed was one loaded with potatoes. The
valuable tubers were scattered over
the right OF way, but were gathered
up by the wrecking crew and a guard
placed over them until they were
loaded into another car. The cause
OF the accident is unknown.
At a meeting of members OF the st.
Clair County Sugar Beet Growers
association at Capac, 1t was decided
that the members would hold out for
So a ton for beets this year. Sugar
companies have declined to pay this
price and have refused to deal with
farmers organizations. The farmers
threaten to plant other crops unless
the sugar companies yield to their
terms. About rs beet growers were in
attendance.
Professor Francis Kelsey, of the
University of Michigan, presented
"dollar.a-month" plan for raising
money for the relief or the children
of Belgium to the Ann Arbor Rotary
club. The club indorsed the plan and
will present it to the 300 Rotary clubs
In the United States. Professor Kel.
sey's plan is to get people to promise
to give a dollar a month to this fund
so long as the war shall last In
Europe. He believes that Michigan
should give at least $4,000 a month
towards this relief work for the starv.
ing children of Belgium.
A letter from Pueblo. Colo, received
by George Lewis, of Hanover, clears
up a murder mystery of 40 years
standing. The letter signed by s.
Stout says a tramp who fell from 4.
train and was fatally injured asked
Stout before he died to write Mr..
Lewis that he had killed Tom Lewis
here in a card game and buried him
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