The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-06-01

DR.. r. M. Olin, state health commits
sioner OF public safety, and Attorney
General Merlin Wiley, a detachment
OF state police was ordered to accom-
pany Dr. George Ramsey, deputy state
health commissioner, to Ontonagon
with instructions to virtually take
over the village government. Accord
ing to reports that reached Lansing,
the village administration has refused
to take the precautionary steps in the
face of typhoid fever epidemic.
Mrs. Victor Waken has filed suit for
100000 against the Standard Oil
company for injuries to herself and
loss of her husband in the explosion
of gasoline which wrecked their farm
home in Royal Oak township, last De-
cember. This is the fourth suit to be
field as a result of the accident, which
is blamed to mixing kerosene and gas
oline In the company's tanks, total
OF s278.000 damages being asked thus
far. Seven other suits are expected
to be filed for $4,000 each.
Henry I.ancour of Perkins. Delta
county, candidate for the Republican
nomination for sheriff. was found
guilty of violating the prohibition law
by jury in federal court in Mar
quette. II he does not withdraw from
the race he will have to direct his
campaign from the Detroit house OF
correction, as Judge c. w. Sessions
sentenced him to serve six months.
He was convicted Of selling moon
shine.
II have come to. your home to de-"
Matthew Barrett told his aunt. Mrs.
Kalman Burma, Flint, when he ar
rived from Chicago. Mrs. Burma
thought he was joking. The next
morning she found his body hanging
hanged himself with a towel. Bar
rett leaves a widow and four children
He was rs years old and had recently
suffered a nervous breakdown.
The jury hearing Calvin Jones's
claim at Cassopolis for $4,000 from
the First State Savings bank, Marcel
lus, now In the hands Of the receiver,
reported a disagreement after being
closeted six hours. Jones with other
creditors of the Farmers and Mer-
chants bank, Jones, Mich, that failed,
the Marcelfs bank was the
parent institution.
The trial of Swan Alfred West. for.
mer bookkeeper of the Michigan state
branch prison at Marquette, charged
with embezzling funds entrusted to
his care, began in circuit court, with
Judge Richard G. Flanagan, Of Nor
way, presiding The case grew out Of
an investigation more than year
g &C. s9;r% Wen IL indictments were re-
turned.
Thomas Bobinac, Lansing, an Aus
TRAN who has lived In the United
States for IL years, was given 30 days
by Circuit Judge G. B. Collingwood
IN which to leave the country. Bobin-
&c, who had taken out his first pa
oers pleaded guilty to violating the
liquor laws.
Stanley, 3-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Solinski, Of Bay City, fell
rom a second story window Of ho-
eel, landing on his head on the &C.
nent sidewalk. He was taken to a
hospital where his condition Is
serious.
Alleging that dam, placed In the
)utlet Of Pork Barrel Lake, Oakland |
county, has caused flooding Of his
and, Herman Rrblitius has sued for
IN E...1nction to compel Howard c. |
Stewart to lower the dam.
Ray Whitney, %. carpenter, Lakeside,
Mich, was taken into custody by |
Sheriff Gessner, of Monroe, charged |
With the possession OF 100 bottles OF
,eer He waived the examination and
furnished a $1,000 bond.
Henry Hull, so years old, and Alon-
10 Allen, so years old, were killed In
SANITY on the d. U. r. crossing near
Goodrich when their roadster was
struck and demolished by a. Flint-De-
roit car.
The public utilities commission has
ordered the Detroit & Ironton rail.
-oad station at Scofield re-opened
The station was closed before Henry
Ford came into control of the rail.
-oad.
Seized with a fainting spell, John
so, Grand Rapids street car
company employee, staggered and fell
n front Of an automobile driven by A.
:. Snyder and was instantly killed.