The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-02-15
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS

l.. p. Andre, a farmer living near
Hesperia, narrowly escaped death
when he was caught by falling tree.
Run over by his team OF horses
when he slipped in front of them, A.
w, Hurr, owner of hotel at Pent.
water, sustained serious injuries.
Fifty thousand dollars for a new
club house fund was raised in less
than 20 minutes at the annual meeting
of the Automobile Country club OF
Detroit
Mrs. II. w. Mathews OF Saginaw
was badly cut about the head and suf-
fered other injuries which may prove
fatal when she fell down stairs in a
neighbours home.
Duncan Mcdonald, a prominent resi-
dent of Sault Ste. Marie, was choked
to death in hotel here. Frank Lage,
woods foreman is said to have made
a full confession.
Michigan legislatures during the per-
iod-l905-1915-enacted 2,O14 general
laws. During the past Ave years con-
gress and the as states enacted a to-
tai OF $3.50 laws.
Because Hillsdale county went dry
by an overwhelming majority, some OF
the church people at Reading have
tried to stop dancing and close pool
rooms and picture shows.
Two full blooded Japanese applied
at the county clerks Office at Detroit
for marriage license. 1t may have
happened before, but nobody in the
county clerks Office can remember a
similar case.
An order was issued by Judge
North asking why a receiver should
not be appointed to wind up the at-
fairs of the Battle Creek Building &c
Loan association. Hearing was set
for February Is.
Development plans involving the ex-
pendture of $4,000 on Wyandotte's
park site have been filed. Since the
site was purchased four years ago, no
work has been done on it, 1t Is 1000
feet long, 700 feet wide and faces the
Detroit river.
Changes in the Grand Trunk SEIZED.
ule on the Detroit, Grand Haven e
Milwaukee and Michigan Air Line rail
ways, cut off much of the service
which has been given Pontiac. Three
trains a day are removed on the main
line and two a day from the Air line.
The board of education, of Pontiac,
has approved specifications for addi-
tons to be built on the Wilson, Cen
trail school and the high school, and
has directed the architects to ask for
bids. Enrolment in the schools has
grown so rapidly that the additions
will be needed by next September.
Announcement is made OF the pur-
chase by the Olympian Motors Co.
from the General Motors Co. of the en-
tire plant of the Cartercar Co. on the
Franklin Road, at Pontiac. Posses
sion will be given on April /. The
Olympian company is planning on an
addition 100 by 500 feet for use as an
assembling plant.
Recommendation OF Michigan Cen
trail directors that an Improvement
mortgage be executed to secure a bond
issue Of S100,000,000 was approved by
stockholders at a meeting at Detroit.
It is expected that the new financing
will care for a number of subsidiary
Michigan lines which were merged
with the company recently.
While the body of William Payne,
of Flint, was being taken from his
residence to a church in an automo-
bile hearse, ID. u. r. car crashed into
the rear of the vehicle. The corpse
was badly shaken in the crash. The
hearse was carried so feet on the
front of the car. 1t is estimated that
$1,000 damage was done to the funeral
car.
William Rathbone was awarded SILL
900 for injuries received on Detroit
United Railway car bound from De-
troit TO Port Huron in the fall of 1909.
The car hit 12-ton steam roller near
Marysville when speeding along at 65
miles an hour. The verdict was rem
dered against the Detroit United rail-
company In Judge Colds court at De-
troit.
An unconscious man hanging part
way out OF an open window of the Sec
ond-story of rooming house in De-
troit attracted the attention of a po-
trolman and saved the lives of 10 9th.
er men in the house. The officer en-
tered the house and found men in a
stupor lying in every room. overcome
by gas from leaking main escaping
in the house through the water SER
vice pipe.
Traverse City and Petoskey had
their inning before Examiner Laroe,
OF the interstate commerce commits
sion, at the freight rate hearing at
Grand Rapids. Vigorous complaints
against the basic percentage now in
force we're voiced by leading manu-
facturers, wholesalers and retailers,
and attempts we're made to show that
the present rate is discriminatory and
detrimental to the commercial inter