The Yale expositor., 1919-03-20
State
Happenings

st. Helen-Andrew Scochetas, mern.
Der of Company c. 339th infantry, has
been killed in Russia. it is officially an.
nounced
Croswell--Citizens are after better
drinking water and have petitioned the
city council to move the power house
to pump from spring.
Saginaw-Wilbur Mcneil. s years.
old, was critically injured by being
run over by an automobile while he
was playing in the street.
Marshall-Christian Steve. 55 years
old, prominent farmer of Marengo,
was killed instantly when he was
thrown from load of hay on his head.
Martin Krolczyk, bache-
lor, was found dead in his home OF
poisoning, resulting from drinking
denatured alcohol He was SO years
old
Standish-The Michigan Central is
cutting ice near here to fill ware
houses in Bay City, Saginaw, Niles,
Detroit, Chicago, Mackinaw, Grayling
and other points.
Bessemer-Fire which damaged the
building of the Finnish Mercantile
company here suffocated two children
of John Sillenpaa. The children are
believed to have started the fire N
their play:
Kalamazoo-After waiting an un.
usually long time for a consultation,
patients in the office of DR.. K. H. Win.
ton, 70 years old, entered the private
Office and found the physician dead
Death was due to heart disease.
East Lansing of the late
start in debating at the Michigan Agri.
cultural college this year, M. A. c. has
decided to join with Purdue in with
drawing from the annual tri-state de-
bate of these schools with Iowa.
Poniac--Announceme has been
received by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Beebe.
of Holly, of the death of Sergeant
Laverne Beebe in hospital in France
from nephritis. Beebe was the first
Holly youth drafted into the army.
aw-Representative J. w. Ford
ney now chairman of the ways md
means committee and writer of the
next tariff, returned to Saginaw. His
elevation to the important chairman
ship is Of great interest to his sup
porters.
Lansing-Fire in the finished stock
room at the Prudden Wheel company,
caused an estimated loss Of from So
900 to $4,000, when eight water heads
on the sprinkler system let go and
soaked large quantity of kiln dried
wheel spokes ready for use.
Dowagiac-Russell Cook. so, promi-
nent retired farmer at Pokagon, near
here, was instantly killed when the
automobile he was driving was struck
by Michigan Central flyer. T. X.
Carroll, travelling salesman, riding
in the car with Cook, escaped almost
unhurt.
Manistee-August Schmidt. scaler
for the Sands Salt & Lumber com
pany, of this city, was found dead by
railroad employees in the way car of
Manistee & North Eastern freight
train from the north. He was work
ing in one of the northern camps and
was taken i'll with heart trouble.
Authenticated of auto trucks be.
ing sent by the government from De.
troit to Chicago going through this
city daily have reduced to a swamp
like condition three miles Of almost
impossible road between this city and
Parma The road is cut to pieces
from fence to fence. One machine
was two nights and day making the
II miles from Jackson to Albion.
Port Huron-Mrs. Britain Clarke
was burned and scalded to death when
she fell across a hot stove in a faint
ing spell. Her face was immersed in
a pan of boiling water and part of her
body rested on the stove, when she
was found by her husband a veteran
member of Port Huron police depart
ment. Mrs. Clarke was dead when
found. She had been in i'll health.
Ann Arbor--Brigadier General s. A.
Winter, of the medical staff of the
regular army, will be the commence
ment day speaker for the senior
medics, who graduate this year on
March 80, instead of in June. This
change is possible because the medi-
can school was kept open continuously
from July 1, last summer, without va
cation periods. II was a war time
measure.
Lansing-In a bill introduced by
Senator Herbert Baker, of Cheboygan.
and now In the judiciary committee
OF the senate, the number of judicial
circuits in Michigan is reduced from
40 to 10 and the number Of circuit
judges cut from 56 to 43. In the BILL
which IL passed by the legislature can
not take effect before January 1, 1929,
the salary of each circuit Judge to be