The Clio messenger., 1922-05-25

or the Detroit West Side Congress
sional District, has surprised his
friends with the announcement that
he would not be a candidate for re-
election. He stated that personal and
entirely non-political considerations
made il necessary for him to make his
residence in Detroit, where he will
resume the practice of law. Rep.
Brennan at present is the youngest
members of the House. He was 32
years old, April 22 and previously had
been attorney for the State Labor De-
partment, assistant corporation coun-
sci and state senator.
Concluding litigation that has been
in progress in the state and federal
courts of Detroit and Alpena and
Boston, Mass, for nearly half a CEN
tury, Judge Arthur j. Tutt.e. in fed
eral court has rendered an informal
decision, the effect of which will be
to give Miss Marian E. Brown. of
Boston, approximately $360,000 in
money. The settlement probably is
the last chapter in a legal controv-
ersy that began in 1873. The dispute
arose over the ownership and division
OF lands situated in and near the city
OF Alpena.
Harry ]. Meyers, son of Henry
Meyers, Detroit, died at a Mt. Glenn
ems hospital. the result of a playful
accident near the village of New
Haven. Meyers, with other compan-
ions, motored to a farm near New
Haven to visit friends. The young
people say he tried to hang by his
feet from a cross arm of a pole. His
feet slipped and although only a few
feet from the ground, two vertabrae
in his neck were fractured. Though
he remained conscious his body was
paralyzed from the neck down.
A verdict of S400 for the plaintiff
has been returned in circuit court at
Grand Rapids in the case Of William
Collins against former PatroIman Leo
w. Rolfe, who was charged with false
arrest and Imprisonment. Collins
says the officer attacked him so Sc
1erely 1t was necessary TO receive
treatment at a hospital before he
could be taken to Jail and that later
charge of disorderly conduct was
The state and city of Muskegon
oined in paying tribute to the mem
)ry of John O. Ross, for two terms
ieutenant-Governor of the state and
me of the leading figures in the in
lustrial and civic life of Muskegon
Business was practically suspended
n the city during the funeral services
Street cars halted for two minutes
md many Of the business places were
losed.
Mrs. Mary z. Fisk, II North Harri-
ino street, Saginaw, who recently
celebrated her ninety-first birthday,
las been a resident of Saginaw SO
ears. She came to that city from
Detroit when five years old. 1t re-
Iuired II days to make the trip with
Iorses and wagon. Ar that time
here were only five or six families
4 white people living here.
An eight-story fall, in which his
'ody plunged through a glass and
teel canopy to the sidewalk on
avenue, Detroit, ended
he life OF William Blum, a window
leaner, few minutes after he start
d work on his first big contract Al
yhim OF fate saved Blum's partner,
,ewis Murow, for he tainted and fell
inside the building.
Detroit not only has the lowest
eath-rate OF any large city in the
ountry, but within the last year ac-
ually restored to rormaf health 81
( the 100 tubercular babies treated
n the city tuberculosis institution at
Jorthville, according to a statement
1ade by DR.. Henry F. Vaughan, super
ntendent OF health.
"My child was crying for bread. so
made and sold liquor" Louis PuriiNo
old Judge Vanderwerp Muskegon,
vhen arraigned for a second offense.
The Judge said he sympathized with
lin, but ne had already given him a
nance, and sentenced him to six
months in Michigan Reformatory.
The entire underground force OF
20 men at the Bates mine at iron
river. owned by the Florence Mining
company went on strike for higher
wages. The wage scale paid is the
scale, or $210 for surface
men and s2.S5 for miners.
The Leonard -Crossett e Riley Co.,
pleaded guilty at Bay City to viola
ion of the food laws by not having
potatoes in shipment properly tagged
and paid a fine Of $50.