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sioner or public safety, and Attorney General Merlin Wiley, a detachment of state police was ordered to accompany Dr. George Ramsey, deputy state health commissioner, to Ontonagon with instructions to virtually take over the village government. According to reports that reached Lansing, village administration has refused the precautionary steps the the to take epidengic. in face of a typhoid fever Mrs. Victor Waken has filed suit for against the Standard Oil for injuries to her husband in the loss $100,000 company of herself explosion and which wrecked their farm in Oak home of gasoline Royal township, suit last to De- be cember. This is the fourth field as a result of the accident, which is blamed to mixing kerosene and gasoline in the company's tanks, a total of $278,000 damages being asked thus far. Seven other suits are expected to be filed for $50,000 each. Henry Lancour of Perkins, Delta candidate for the for sheriff, was nomination county, Republican found law of violating the prohibition in federal court guilty by a jury withdraw in from Marquette. If he does not he will have to direct his from the Detroit campaign the race house Sessions of correction, as Judge C. W. sentenced him to serve six months. He was convicted of selling moonshine. have come to your home to die," Barrett told his aunt, Burma, Flint, when arKalman Matthew "I he Burma Mrs. from Chicago. Mrs. he was joking. rived thought The hanging next morning. she found his body in her home. himself with a hanged in an archway towel. children He Bar- had rett leaves a widow and four He was 25 years old and had recently suffered a nervous breakdown. The jury hearing Calvin Jones's Cassopolis for $15,000 from State Savings bank, the claim First at receiver, MarcelIus, now in the hands of the a disagreement six hours. Jones closeted reported after with being other Mercreditors of the Farmers and chants bank, Jones, Mich., that failed, contended the Marcellus bank was the parent institution. The trial of Swan Alfred West, forbookkeeper of the Michigan state branch mer prison at Marquette, charged to with embezzling funds entrusted his care, began in circuit court, with Judge Richard C. Flannigan, of Norway, presiding. The case grew out of an investigation more than a year ago, when 12 indictments were returned. Thomas Bobinac, Lansing, an Austrian who has lived in the United States for 12 years, was given 30 days Judge C. B. in to leave the country. by which Circuit Collingwood first Bobinwho had taken out his papers, ac, pleaded guilty to violating the liquor laws. Stanley, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Solinski, of Bay City, fell from a second story window of a hotel, landing on his head on the cement sidewalk. He was taken to is a hospital where his condition serious. Alleging that a dam, placed in the Pork Barrel Lake, Oakland has caused outlet County, of flooding sued of his for land, Herman Rublitius has an injunction to compel Howard C. Stewart to lower the dam. Ray Witney, 28, carpenter, Lakeside, Mich., was taken into custody by Sheriff Gessner, of Monroe, charged with the possession of 130 bottles of beer. He waived the examination and furnished a $1,000 bond. Henry Hull, 50 years old, and Alonzo Allen, 60 years old, were killed instantly on the D. U. R. crossing near Goodrich when their roadster was struck and demolished by a Flint-Detroit car. The public utilities commission has ordered the Detroit & Ironton railroad station at Scofield re-opened. The station was closed before Henry Ford came into control of the railroad. Seized with a fainting spell, John Popjciaki, 50, Grand Rapids street car company employe, staggered and fell In front of an automobile driven by A. C. Snyder and was instantly killed. Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Zantger, 71 nd 61 respectively, residing at 1119 Johns street, Kalamazoo, are the parnts of a six and one-half pound laughter.