The Yale expositor., 1917-01-11
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS


versity of Michigan.
Robert Patterson, 63 years old, Sec
tion hand for the New York Central
lines, was killed by an engine in the
company yards.
The 500 will have a first class post.
office after July /. having done about
$400 more business in the last year
than is required for this class.
William M. Kruse, who relinquishes
the office of county treasurer of Mt.
Clemens to Herman w. Behnke, re-
ports a balance OF $59,09S.22 on hand
in the county treasury.
Maurice Sisco of Battle Creek, was
sentenced to Jackson prison for Ia
years for forging Endorsement on a
5000 check. He was arrested while
spending the money in Chicago.
Lydia Marshall, "a years old, of Kal.
amazoo, died at a hospital after suffer
ing for three weeks from burns she
received while preparing a meal. Her
clothing was entirely burned off.
Mine workers of district "a will be
given a voluntary increase in wages
next Saturday. The district includes
Bay, Saginaw, Genesee and Tuscola
counties and 5000 men are affected.
John Preston, of Hillsdale,, proprie-
tor Of Tally-Ho Inn, pleaded guilty OF
stealing wood from the Catholic ceme-
terry, and was placed on probation for
one year and agreed to vacate his
inn.
On request of the prosecution the
case of John Strong, of Engle, charged
with numbering his nephew, William
Eddy, of Eagle, was continued until
Feb. g. Mr.. Strong Is free under
$4,000 bail.
A slump in the stock market is
blamed for the suicide of f. Laverne
Woolston, stock and bond salesman
of Grand Rapids whose body was
found in his room at the homo OF Will
ard r. Grifhths.
Fears are expressed that Mrs. Han.
na II. Stiber, of Saginaw, has done
away with herself in Lake Erie near
Cleveland. Her coat was found on the
short and she is missing from the
home of relatives.
Joseph M. Trueman, n foreman in
the beater room of the Boehme &
Rauch paper mills of Monroe, was IA
tally injured when he was caught on
a belt and thrown against the ceiling.
His skull was fractured.
Members of the prison board deny
that Warden Simpson was paid $500
a year instead of $4,000. The differ
ence between the two amounts was de.
posted in a bank to be paid to him
If a test case upheld the opinion OF the
board.
Thomas w. Wright of Detroit,
freshman in Alma college, won the To-
cal oratorical contest with the grafton,
The Delay of the Law" and will rep
resent Alma college at the Michigan
intercollegiate oratorical contest in
March.
Pickerel fishing through the ice at
Fair Haven and along the shores OF
New Baltimore bay is on and l4-pound
speciments have been taken. Muscal-
longe weighing 80 or 35 and even 40
pounds have also been caught at New
Baltimore.
Mrs. Mindelin McGerry Allmayer,
who gained distinction as an inventor
of electrical devices, died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Morgan Pitten-
ger, Of Grand Rapids. She was 90
years old. She was the inventor Of
numerous devices, chief among which
was a ventilating fan in use at the
present time.
Miss Emma S. Sailor, II years old,
the Cheboygan school girl who dis
appeared three weeks ago, has been
found on a farm near HarrisviIle,
where she is employed as nurse. She
had worked a few days in Alpena. A
woman in Harrisville saw a descrip-
ton in a newspaper and wrote the
family. The girl will return to school,
Charles E. Mahan, missing treasur-
er of Kalkaska county, has been
stealing money from the time he en-
IeTeu OHCe, lOuI ycdiS u6O, oSSOi uiiib
to the supervisors who have begun
an audit OF his books. In 1913 and
1914, Mahan was not asked to account
for funds. His shortage is approx
mately $4,000. No trace Of Mahan has
been found.
Suit for $500 has been nled against
Percy Peck, Of Grand Rapids by Dean
Victor G. Vaughan of the University
of Michigan for services in connection
with the case of DR.. Arthur w. Waite,
who was convicted OF poisoning his
father-in-law, John Z. Peck, million
aire druggist. Dean Vaughan says he
was promised $1,000 for making the
analysis of Peck's stomach.
DIR. b. B. Garfield Of Ann Arbor, has
been asked by the state Industrial
board to testify In the Arthur Bevans
case In which Bevans claims damages
because a horse sneezed in his face.
DIR. Garfield performed an operation
on Vevans after the sneezing incident
which the Battle Creek man claims
was made necessary by distemper con-