Weekly Press, The (Newspaper) - November 18, 1909, Saint Joseph, Michigan THE WEEKLY YEAR ST. NOVEMBER TWO OF CITY DADS PAYMENT OF IX VV are remedied by tho company con- the Alderman at the conclusion of the reading of the said he would be adverse to accepting the and offered that the bridge be in view of the recommendations of Davis stated that lie had accepted a position the Georgia Veneer and Package Company at Lumber and would like to sume the duties of his new position as soon as lie was relieved from his responsibilities He declared that die my had gone over his hooks and completed the and would report his records in class The audit was ordered and the books will be turned over to his successor when found O. K. by the Mr. Davis bonds will hold good until the bonds of the new city treasurer are The petition of Stewart Barlow for appointment to the vacancy was read and on motion of Alderman Habel he was chosen to fill the unexpired term of Mr. The vote for Mr. Barlow was although it was understood that two other report in tlle fleld for tlle Mr. Barlow's name was OPENS AT WITH BIG ll I I i after a short to have last report filed with the city and Other a copy sent to the Joliet Bridge com- Allen read an estimate on This will be done at amount due Contractor Bean on the and Vine street the amount due under the engineer's estimate being This is and it was later only one presented at the Sends Two Car Loads Delegates and Will Probably Get Presides Over Will Last for Throe and as the city is still owing the bridge company they iu all make the repairs bridge company they me engineer K in all make the repairs estimate being This is Alarm the suggested at once An of work more money than tlle balance in thel ol the laxes ami wm be done supervision fund and arrangements for a Sagina of an alld bS The Michigan t ot company offered to take of Engin Shows Plenty of Defects in Street Stuart Appointed Cily Nov. Sunday School here TELLS OF SUGAR Account of Fats He Met For Being UNABLE TO GET BACK HIS JOB Reward For His Integrity Was the Hatred of Others Who Were Being Paid For Helping Corporation Cheat the Em- ploye of Refineries Says Workmen Observed Visits of Surveyor to New Nov. I. a former employe of the American Sugar Refining who thinks lie ought to get the credit and also the reward which may go to Richard Parr for uncovering the sugar among other that Surveyor Goes When the matter of the ment of the assessment of the Bit while the Commercial al Bank offered five per cent for of the about j day President J. H. Grant of Manistee A mixed ononis nearly Four taxes and future ter was referred to the finance com- of the seventy acres of land the For the purpose of finishing company owns across the river was work before them at an early brought to the attention of the voices completely filled the huge stage and was directed by Glenn Swan offered to put Tuller the New York ot earth in the fill Elementary bible btu tlie city council last night was called there was a general for the of 7 at least some of them favoring the for 30 cents per while Brunke that was the hour at which they were bate or adjustment as suggested Schultz offered to take the job for supposed to convene aldermen were around when Mayor Allen called the 000 and the taxes collected on that viaduct and the highway missionary wort the Sunday schools occupied t during t being Mrs. but some of the officials of the corporation lump sum of a little less a little negligent in i the last while others wanted than 30 cents per and the con- R and it was half after the assessment to stand at the tract was awarded to the earth A- Ol session to There were several amount the same upon any other important acts of the council before firm or ordinary taxpayers in although tlie citizens The petition from the the to he measured in the The matter of the extension of Hatch street affording access to the beach over the was referred to to take little interest in the Four was read at the request of for at no time dprman and Alderman out the session were there more than ter declared that he believed the persons in the audience. Thanks the Attorney H. F. sel for W. H. addressed tho Big Four should be treated with simple justice and thought that the assessment be or in some manner adjudicated by the giving voice thanks for as the corporation would the committee on public and the bridge committee were in- to repair and put in proper shape the dockage of the now occupying the former D. C. property near the highway The city was given the use of a tion of the dock for the tho action taken in the settlement doubtless bring to the city at of the temporary bridge across of HIP bridge and in future time enterprises and the and were to put it in as council and newspapers I which would benefit the shape as The thank you for your courtesies rather have a big corporation i will be made at once by Contractor this and while we only the Big which is The council then ad- on the settlement a portion of of doing things for the what was and what we and have them with the city Hove we ought .to the and believe thai FINAL ADMINISTRATION that it would be better to the raise in assessment trom tie the controversy in this is I would favor 1 State of The Probate trust I may meet you all again when an assessment and be- 1 come to this not on a business lieve that it is the duty of this but as a I bid til to give it their careful good The little speech said the fourth ward as a reply to the settlement of the highway bridge has been hanging fire for some time owing to the claim for extra charges advanced by the Benton Harbor established a precedent for this and the local council de- Ici mined that the hest thing to do was to settle on the same basis and ghe a check for for payment in full of all Attorney prepared a resolution caring for the proposition and it passed the council by a unanimous The hot I lenient on the highway bridge clears the atmosphere as far as that structure is but the Staff Attorney This brought out a vigorous ob- jection on tlie part ot the city declared that the council for the County of At a session of said held The executive committee held a its most important action being a recommendation that the state association employ a general at the forward movement will be taken up in Nominations for new officers and eight new members of the executive committee will be made There is a strong feeling among the delegates in favor of President Grant for a second Grand Rapids is here in force with two special car loads of gates demanding the golden jubilee convention of the association next which will be the most ant in its history and will probably get it. Lucy Page Gaston is unable to be here and the W. C. T. U. will fill her The the probate office in the City of St. i Association will take a strong stand in said on the 9thI daj of A. D. 1909. Hon. Holland E. Judge of lu the matter of the Estate of August Babette ance thereof and for the assignment and distribution of the residue of said it is that the could not change the assessment at Loeffler having filed in said court this and the only thing her final administration and rould do would be to go clown her petition praying for tlie the pockets of the city and make a donation to a big worth at least can make a present if you fith day of A. D. declared the attorney ten o'clock in the atj that is probate be and is hereby the and it should be for examining and ed near what it said account and hearing said He still contended that on prohibition and will probably ask for more stringent as not satisfied with the passed by the last Last night the delegates hear Hugh Cork of the international and Melvin E. the rescue mission worker of Grand bridge is still causing land on the north side was worth i It is further that public and the report of the engineer last Alderman Rodgers thereof be given by n in the discussion and of a copy of this for Alderman Procter three successive weeks previous to the value of the land and the said day of in the St. Joseph eel value since the construction of Weekly a newspaper printed night brings to light additional facts which were heretofore of Engineer W. M. who was hi i cd by the council to inspect the State bridge made a lengthy report of the condition of the It contained many matters of construction in detail and covered thoroughly every defect in HIP ing of the superstructure by the el Bridge and Iron The cular according to the is while the racks and their component parts are said to be lacking in various and contain broken which should be re- hi the opinion of Engineer Hughes the bridge was never inspected in the shop or tho field as recommended by consulting En- gineer The turn table assembled in the according to the and the is to tho acceptance the State street and circulated in said who one of the to wait on the Big Four officials when the city was trying to get the right to the property for a roadway j to reach the north side when the bridge was also talked HOLLAND E. A true Judge of CLAUDE A. Register of OF concerning the proposition and was state of the probate Court adverse to reducing the on the ground that the corporation asked to be exempt from taxation for the County of At a session of said held upon any improvements nt the Probate office in the City of which might be made upon the St. in said on the 1st way leading through their The council finally decided to hold the matter over until the next lar Treasurer 1'esigiis-. of the structure until ihe in the Mr. City load the having filed in said court nation of Charles C. city and it accepted as ro- The jury in the Graham vs. Habel case retired at 11 o'clock this ing to deliberate upon a When tlie case was called today it was continued with ten two of the panel trying the case having been excused on account ot illness and death in their families and the attorneys consented to go on with only ten men in the They were out two hours and a half before they reached a and at this afternoon re- turned to the court room and an- that they had found in favor of the and rendered a verdict cause for and were excused by the The case was a lengthy having occupied a portion of last and all of this her praying that a certain one for da instrument m purporting 1Jrosecution and grew out of be the last will and testament of a between Edward Graham paid now on file in said day of A. D. 1909. Hon. Holland E. Judge of In tho matter of the estate of i Hartley Mary LESLIE M. Croft who was in office under Collector Stranahan and now is an inspector in Ihe customs called once a week at the refinery in Williamsburg and met Oliver the sugar com- former superintendent of docks who is now under son sugar trust employes con- cluded thai Croft was the man sent from the customs house to collect from the Says was the phrase that Wilbur F. former appraiser used in speaking of Henry C. the assistant sampler on the Jersey who took to Wakeman the money given him by the sugar trust's This was the money that Wakeman took to Lyman J. secretary of the who referred him to H. 0. of- head was chopped off not long after The trust's according to would take pots of sugar dump them out and re- fill them from a hogshead of spoiled One day another employe said to have got your old it's in your I got mine The other man drew out a roll of bills and Corsa put his hand in his pocket and found a similar Shaw Unable to One day George W. named by President took I Wakeman's the next day Corsa was In 1002 Corsa put before lie M. who was then secretary of the a statement of the Shaw consented to hear side of the The discharged man received a letter from Shaw's secretary inviting him to call at the Fifth Avenue three hours the secretary listened to said said at the end of the sea that you are put After waiting for months Corsa heard through Wakeman that Shaw could do In addition to the loss of his job Corsa was threatened with violence by men whose hatred he earned by ing their dishonesty to a court be admitted to and that the administration of said 1'ile be granted to Mary or to some other suitable it is ordered that 'the day of A. D. 1909. at ten o'clock in the at said probate be and is and Frank two farmers ing in Mr. Habel had his neighbor ed for assault with intent to do great bodily but the defendant DEMAND FOR IS BOOST FOR OF Nov. Michigan nurserymen report an un- precedented sale of apple trees and indications to the fact that the immediate future will witness a large and steady ment of commercial in the famous fruit extending through several Fennville orchards year netted their ers nearly and produced a crop of apples variously estimated from to Most of the crop was sold on the Orchards which sold for a song are now valued at fabulous prices and are yielding their owners in many instances per acre and It is reported on good authority that one orchard of SO res in Allegan county was ly sold for and the er expects to double his money in the next five Nov. schooner Mary Alice Cook went ashore near Cedar Mich. The crew escaped in a yawl and landed An effort is being made to release the Grand Nov. The schooner Paisley lost her cabin spars and deck load of lumber which came ashore at Crisp The weathered the gale and arrived safely at Point aux STATES TWO Nov. is feared that the storm bound er William Henry Mack of which went aground on the Bank Point shoals is in a ious Muskegon lake will he a foot lower when the storm subsides and it will be a difficult matter to get the big boat off the sand Nov. the month of October deaths occurred in the state according to the report issued by the secretary of There were births recorded during the which corresponds to the annual death rate of 20.G per cer caused the death of and 156 of the deaths were due to Two deaths resulted from tetanus and one from American to to Commute Sentence 01 American Authorities Special Nov. learned last night from the in dor in Americana were captured in ranks of the revolutionary tii that country and condemned A ble carrying out of tne orders and execution is also although the war took tive measures the ings and save the The American also re- ported to that he had interceded in ot his men and had appeared before dent asking the tence of death be but was met with a refusal on the part of the chief of the nation where the revolutionary bles are now in A meeting between ident Taft and ambassador from Nicaragua for has been and the war department the in- tended execution two ships post haste to the of the It may too late fo any service but the government will have to answer Bam for the action lie American citizens to death a fair and impartial TEARS SAVE 60f FROM PRISON TERM MOTHER OF R. PLEADS FOR Nov. IS. Only the tears of his saved R. F. 20 years from a prison The was fined for petit larceny mother paid the McNess at Watervliet He came to several weeks and two weeks ago stole ing and money from his room He was arrested -ai home of his mother and she returned here with crying all the The er's tears and begging for mercy in court alone young SHOT GUN SHELLS AT HARD SHIP 10-20dtf Girl Sues Doctor Charging He Nov. 38. Marie Guerin has a damage suit for Dr. E. She charges hissed her nud embraced her so fervently that an ab- scess developed ing several INQUIRY ON WIRE MERGER Action on Buying of Western Union by Bell Interests Now report is renl here Special Assistant neys General and Harrison had come to this city to investigate the merger of the American Telephone and was Then he retaliated j Telegraph company with the Western and sued Mr. Habel for malic ions i UTn Telegraph Yesterday afternoon at tho something directly ol HIP long drawn out hotel in front of who were by appointed for hearin awake to tho fact of something said It is further That public and the case ended day with the verdict of no cause for the gentlemen i the attorney drew forth oi drew from out of his This club had just notice thereof bo given by a large A found in the court house and it was tion of a copy of this for I look appeared on the face of similar in every detail to the three successive weeks previous to Cousin of Prince Learned Woman He A VON BUELOW A SUICIDE every and more than which figured most on the faces of tho opposing j in tho former case of conspicuously said day of in the St. vs. eph Weekly a newspaper in an on the facos of tho opposing j in tho former case of People vs. j eph Weekly a newspaper New 0-loans Nov Von and tho plaintiff in the out of which the pending i printed and circulated in said Buelow of Prince Von the case it seemed to HOLLAND E. I Germany committed suicide ol tho jury is who remembered the club in tho A trim Judge of bv drowning because his wife was an II Attorney 0'IIara's way of former that HIP lost was for his manner of The fact that the club was brought the jury to present light after the evidence had all for Defendant in prevented Attorney From out of tho library from introducing it in and court room tho attorney tho best thai could be done by him in a one leg j was io refer to it as being similar to bo stiff and the other to the described by the of him encumbered by es in the CLAUDE A. Register of A Foolish Moat of the men who think the world is against them are so cant that the world has never noticed by drowning because his wife was an He was arrested for ing the law prohibiting such Von came here twelve years ago and in 1802 married a young man who claimed to be a widow with two She was almost Gossip led to the disclosure that the woman was His trial had not taken It is known that the government has been since IMS investigating the telegraph and telephone companies in accordance with a resolution adopted by tho 1'nitod States The belief that the inter- est in the Western Union obtained by the Boll concern would lead to a closer community of interest between those companies and the Postal Telegraph and probably an ultimate of the three was given more color when officials of tha American company admitted thiat the Postal company was the largest single stockholder in their Chapters of the The Bible chapters number of which 929 are the Old Testament and 260 in tho City Can Now Boast of Having Youngest In State Through the action of the city council last evening Stuart Barlow was chosen city treasurer to fill the unexpired term of Charles C. and this city can now boast of having the youngest city STUART treasurer of any municipality in the of Mr. Barlow is barely past his but he has an office experience which makes him thoroughly ble of performing the duties of the office with promptness and At he was the only candidate out for tlie but in a quiet way there were candidates in the and toe matter of Mr. successor determined in a caucus held the regular meeting of the There were only six aldermen ent. Aldermen Harrold being out of the aid when the resignation of was Alderman lifter it had been offered the motion that Stuart Barlow appointed by the council to fill the It was promptly seconded und by a vote ho to fill the unexpired At the of the of Mr. Barlow's communication and ed. is certainly a good and all of aldermen con- curred iu the of the fourth It is ed that the list asking for the appointment Barlow was one of the best ever filed with the and ery one of the were road by Clerk Weher of Alderman 3tr. Barlow will file his bond and hold of work by Thanksgiving nt time Mr. Davis to leave for tho south where Uas accepted a lucrative Will reside the
