The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-04-13


Rasmus home say they found the
house in state of siege, with Mrs.
Rasmus carrying a heavy club. the
children's hands filled with rocks, and
the husband flourishing a revolver.
Sheriff Leo Hare and Deputy William
Oliver were unable to subdue Rasmus,
they said until after they struck him
over the head with the butt end of a
pistol rendering him unconscious.
Charles Street, former record clerk
of the Detroit house of correction,
convicted OF embezzlement, was sen
fenced to from three to ten years in
Marquette prison by Judge William NJ
Heston in recorders court. Street
asked that he be sent to any prison
but the house of correction. He had
4 been found guilty by a jury on the
charge of embezzling $5.131 in fines
paid at the house of correction.
Grant Nj. Hudson, former member
of the state legislature. active in the
enactment of important railroad leg
islation and general primary laws,
during the special session of 1916, and
later state superintendent of the
Michigan Anti-Saloon League. 1918 to
1919. announced his candidacy for
Congress in the Sixth Michigan Dis
trict. as successor to Representative
Patrick H. Kelley.
When a purse snatcher darted out
OF dark corner at Kalamazoo and
attempted to grab her purse, while
she was on her way home from a
shopping trip down town, Ella Slater,
15 years old, gave battle with her
fists, raining several blows on his
face. Without uttering a cry. she
struck at the man until he gave up
and disappeared behind some build
ings.
The Michigan Academy OF Science,
at it's closing session at Ann Arbor
elected the following officers: Pres
ident, r. A. Smith. state geologist, at
Lansing; secretary-treasurer, Profess
sor F. D. Larue, University of Michi-
gan; official librarian, w. W. Bishop,
University of Michigan, and editor-in-
chief, c. P. WEIGH, University Of
Michigan.
An order removing Sheriff Ray j.
Baker, of Lapeer county, from Office
was signed, April 8. by Governor
Groesbeck. Bakers removal from Of
fee was the result of charges made
against him by Representative Charles
w. Smith and several hundred resi-
dents of the county. who signed petit
tions asking his removal.
Mary Hoyt, 80 years old, widow of
Henry E. Hoyt, died at Kalamazoo,
April 1. She had lived there 60 years.
She was the daughter of William
Lewis, tavern keeper in Yankee
Springs township, Barry county,
known in pioneer days, and was an
authority on pioneer history Of
southwestern Michigan.
L. T. Bowers, of Brooklyn, Iowa.
who conducted a cattle ranch at
Ralph, small settlement in Dickin-
son county, few years ago, has de-
cided to return to the district. He is
expected to make his first shipment Of
100 head of cattle very soon. Bow
ers is the owner of three sections OF
land at Ralph.
The conviction OF John Harrigan,
son of a wealthy Crosse Pointe fam
lily, found guilty in Detroit municipal
court of manslaughIer in connection
with the death of Kosta Kiroff, killed
when he was struck by an automobile
driven by Harrigan, has been set aside
by the state supreme court and new
trial ordered.
Michigan Agricultural college fac
ulty and East Lansing business men
dined together in honor of the as
sumption of official duties April l by
President David Friday Nearly 300
men gathered for the affair, planned
as an official expression of welcome
by East Lansing to the new president.
The growth in>the use of wireless
telephone in Michigan is indicated by
the large number of new companies
Incorporating for radio purposes.
Hardy week passes out one OF mOTe
file incorporation papers at Lansing,
and most of these are located In De-
troit.
Mrs. Burritt Hamilton, secretary of
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton, has announced that the annual
state conference will be held in Bat
tie Creek, October 10, IL and IL.
Three Calhoun county officers were
injured in a gun battle with members
OF a Negro whisky ring" staged dur
ing an attempted cleanup of Albion's
Negro district.
More than $4,000 damage was done
to the building and stock of the VII.