Michigan State News on Women Students at State University
Official figures for 1908-09 show 879 women at the University of Michigan amid total enrollment of 5,223. Male attendance rises while women decline by 3 percent from the overall total, with gains across literary, engineering, medical, law, pharmacy and other departments. eight Chinese and two Japanese students noted.
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State University
University of Michigan
Michigan
China
Japan
Clyde Watts 12 Killed by Accidental Shotgun blast
In Stevensville a 12 year old boy, Clyde Watts, was accidentally killed by a shotgun charge while playing with five companions in an old abandoned house near the lake. He stood at the foot of a stair when a comrade’s gun discharged downward, wounding him in the chest and abdomen. His companions carried him outside for help.
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Clyde Watts
Joseph Watts
Stevensville
Young Watts
Clyde
Watts
Old Coins Found Hidden Under Floor in Mason Home
Mrs. Dr. Darrow’s Mason house yielded a box of twenty coins secreted between floor and underpinning. Values range from one dollar to half a dime, ages from 1780 to 1850, with many 1840s pieces unworn. The 1797 dollar lacks a face, bearing only a rib with One dollar, 100 cents. The set includes Canadian silver and various denominations, worth far beyond face value due to rarity.
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Dr. Darrow
Mason, Alton
Carl Jewett
BUILD BOOMS IN U P DURING 1908
Building activity surges in the Michigan copper country with over 2 million dollars spent on new construction besides mining. Expect another similar amount this summer as contractors rush work in Calumet with blocks and an Elks temple, plus hundreds of residences planned in Lake Linden Hubbell Laurium Houghton and Hancock.
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Michigan
Copper
Calumet
Elks’ Temple
Lake Linden
Hubbell
Laurium
Houghton and
Hancock
Battle Creek Murder Over Teasing Ends in Death
A K Mueller killed Frank Ketchum, a Battle Creek boarder, firing through a gauze curtain after Ketchum teased him. Mueller fled after wounding him, returned for more ammo, and was stopped by officers as he prepared to shoot again. A brother runs a large wholesale grocery business in Decatur, Illinois.
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Battle Creek
A. K. Mueller
Frank Ketchum
Ketchum
Mueller
Decatur
Ill
Kalamazoo Boy Missing Sparks Family Fear
Claude Decker a 16 year old Kalamazoo youth vanished from his home while doing chores before school. Relatives fear he is drowned or has suffered a fatal accident, though he was devoted to family and home.
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Claude Decker
Cora Decker
Kalamazoo
Fire destroys O Connor farm house north of Emmett
The three miles north of Emmett residence of Michael O Connor burned after a spark from a defective chimney. None of the contents were saved. Loss partly covered by insurance.
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Michael O’connor
Emmett
Woman Found Dead on Husband's Grave in Detroit Cemetery
Amy Wilkie, 30, widow of a man who died last November, was found dead lying on her husband's grave in the German Lutheran Cemetery, Detroit. A carbolic acid bottle and a small glass lay nearby, suggesting a possible suicide.
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Amy Wilkie
Detroit
Arrest Over Soul Mate Doctrine Sparks Menominee Tensions
Menominee residents protest a proposed soul mate colony as Joseph Klopeck is arrested. Prosecuting Attorney Doyle denounces affiliation with immorality cloaked as religion. Klopeck admits teaching a creed that marriage does not exist in the Bible. Four years earlier he brought a companion from Chicago and settled near Birch Creek, prompting husbands to seek annulments and move their ex-wives there.
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Menominee Wollem
Menominee
Joseph Klopeck
Doyle
Chicago
Birch Creek
Kippeck
District Attorney’s Office
Runaway boy found after brief absence near Cannonsburg
Eugene Rivers aged 14 fled Grand Rapids with cash and jewelry worth 75 dollars using a stolen horse and rig. Sheriff Hurley captured him on a Cannonsburg area farm after a night there. Most stolen property was recovered and Rivers was placed in the detention hospital.
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Eugene Rivers
Grand Rapids
Hurley
Cannonsburg
Young Rivers
Western Michigan rainstorm washes away bridges and more
Terrific rainstorm causes heavy loss across western Michigan on Sunday night. Hundreds of highway bridges were washed away and miles of fences toppled. Roadways disappeared as floodwaters rose to Pere Marquette tracks. Kalamazoo and Black Rivers overflowed, with significant damage near Zeeland and Hudsonville.
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Michigan
Kalamazoo
Black
Zeeland
Hudsonville
Boys Confess Burglary in Marine City Store heist
Two Marine City youths aged 11 and 13 were arrested by Constable J C Darling for breaking into Blood Hart sin Marine City and stealing about 75 dollars in silver. They confessed after confrontation and turned over 30 dollars they had left.
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Marine City
J. C. Darling
Charles Streebing
Blood & Hart
Multiple Michigan News Items From Rochester To Hastings
A Rochester man Leroy Bennett fell from a D C U R car and broke two ribs and injured his spine but will recover. A Par ker farm barn near Aurelius burned, a cow and two sheep died. E C Shields of Howell elected state chairman to replace John T Winship. A Bay City boy swallowed a steel screw and is in serious condition. Ignatius Petoskey, son of Chief Petoskey, dies at 97 near Boyne City. Petoskey named for the old chief. Rev Joseph Sheerin objects to large hats at communion in Detroit parish. Louis E Andrews of Flint fined in Michigan City for bogus checks. James E Curtis held for wandering in rain, in dementia. George Law dies in Menominee at 70 after illness from a fall. Clarkston high school principal George Horton and assistant resign. school closes. William F Mallo, a saloon-keeper, accused of assault. Joseph F Weber seeks damages for nose injury. Leo Brock of Detroit sentenced to 15 years for Hillsdale post office robbery. fourth man jailed. Lightning hits Meade M E Church. five knocked down, Mrs Warren Bliss hurt. Robert B Dawson, Hastings attorney, commits suicide. note reads I fear I am going insane. Mr and Mrs Max Carcoulier of Menominee have twenty children. twentieth boy born Friday. Florence Neiman of Hastings watched after attempting suicide by morphine and chloroform. 22-year-old found in distress on boarding house porch.
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Leroy Bennett
D. CU. R
Rochester
Solomon Parker
Aurelius
Democratic State Central Committee
E. C. Shields
Howell
John T. Winship
Saginawress
Philip Kasemeyer
Bay City
Joseph Sheerin
St. George's Episcopal Church of
Detroit
Louis E. Andrews
Flint
Michigan City
Ind
Costa
James E. Curtis
Cushing
Joseph F. Weber
Weber
Leo Brock
Hillsdale
Marquette
Chester
Jackson
M. E
Meade
Warren Bliss
Robert B. Dawson
Barry County
Hastings
Max Carcoulier
Menominee
Florence Neiman
County Home Rule Bill Aims Wider County Authority
The State Grange and Farmers Club back a county home rule bill pushed by Representative Thomas F. McNaughton of Kent. If enacted the board of supervisors gains powers to ordinances rules and laws for county government and may incorporate villages and school districts with changes requiring a referendum and governor approval.
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State Grange
Legislative Farmers” Club
Thomas F. McNaughton
Kent
The
Grange
Farmers Club
Boards of Supervisors
House Passes Railroad Commission Bill On Third Reading
The House approved the railroad commission bill on third reading with minor technical changes from its author Louis C. Cramton. A key amendment by Detroit's Guy A. Miller sought to strip municipal authorities of power to regulate street railway systems, but the measure passed by a large margin.
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Railroad Commission
Louis C. Cramton
Guy A. Miller
Detroit
Senate confirms Ely as State Highway Commissioner
Former State Senator Townsend A Ely was twice confirmed by the Senate for the State Highway Commissioner post to succeed Horatio S Earle The episode followed a lapse in open session confirmation and coincided with passage of the general highway bill and a change making the office elective starting spring 1914.
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Senate
Townsend A. Ely
Horatio S. Earle
Homer
Abolishes State Land Office and forestry bill substitute
The House committee will report a substitute for the Morrice forestry bill creating a public domain commission with members from the land commissioner auditor general UT af M board of regents agricultural department and an at large mentor. It appropriates $100 and gives supervision of public lands to the commission or abolishes the State land office. The bill seeks to set aside dates acres for forestry parvesees and requires sale of all state lands at each county seal.
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State Land Office
House Committee
UT. Af M. Board of Regents
House amends primary election bill with fighting over fee clause
The House made minor changes to the primary election bill. The fee clause for filing petitions was struck. Representative Dusenberry sought adding state officers to the measure but was ruled out. He failed to reconsider the prior vote 43 to DR. An advisory vote on United States Senators remains, but enrollment time for an independent was struck out.
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House
Dusenberry
United States
Senator Lane bill on publishing rail time tables passes
Senator Lane's measure requiring railways to publish accurate timetables faced a close Senate vote of 33 to 7. Railroads oppose the bill and fought it hard, while still hoping to block its passage in the House.
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Senator Lane
Senate
Railoads
State Borrow $254000 Emergency Loan Proposal
Senator Shields sponsors a bill under a constitutional emergency loan provision authorizing the State Board of Auditors to negotiate a loan not exceeding $250,008 for credit to the general fund, contingent on approved vouchers of any nature.
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Shields
State Board of Auditors
Railway bill status in Senate committee report
The Senate railway committee reported out Representative Heeft's bill repealing the maximum carload short haul rate law without recommendation. A determined effort aimed to hold it for further attention if the railway commission bill failed, but the measure progressed to its regular place on the general order.
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Heeft
Senate Railway Committee
Representative Heeft
Railway Commission
Senate Debates Tariff Bill Prompt Criticism by Republicans
The Senate Thursday saw Republican criticism of the pending tariff bill as too high with Nelson Minnesota and Dolliver Iowa attacking schedules amid gas retorts discussion. Fifty of 102 pages read. House had forty minutes with no census action. Bailey of Texas spoke against protection, asserting impacts on the South and debating income tax and immigration. Senate sessions featured Aldrich and Aldrich Bailey exchanges over protection versus labor, with House adjourned and no conferees named.
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Senate
Nelson
Minnesota
Dolliver
Iowa
Bailey
Texas
South
House
Crumpacker
Indiana
Senator Bailey
Aldrich
United States Steel Corporation
Mr. Bailey
Mr. Aldrich
Disappeared Girls Found With Mother in Haskins
Delight and Marjorie Loos, 10 and 8, who vanished from their Toledo uncle's home, were found last evening in Haskins, Ohio, in their mother's custody. Anna A. Mangano, public school teacher, was shot in the head and killed while en route to her school on 108d Street, New York. A man alleged to have shot her was arrested as he appeared about to shoot himself.
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Delight
Marjorie Loos
Toledo
Ohio
Haskins
Anna A. Mangano
108D Street
New York
Dayton Suspect Held in Slayings of Girls
Elmer Carr, named as killer of Mary Forschner and Elizabeth Fulhart, is arrested in Dayton by State Fire Marshal Hollenbeck and deputy Bert Hullinger. Authorities link Carr to Dona Gilman case and to a house fire tied to Mrs. Middlestetter as more evidence emerges from inquest and testimonies.
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Elmer Carr
Mary Forschner
Lizzie Fulhart
Dayton
Ohio
HI. N. Hollenbeck
Bert Hullinger
Hollenbeck
Hullinger
Carr
Dona Gilman
Carrie Middlestetter
Elizabeth Fulhart
North
West Jefferson Street
Joseph Voges
Eyes on Turkey Show East Question's Global Stakes
Powers debate the near eastern question as the Ottoman Empire teeters. England and Russia square off over influence in Constantinople and the Balkans while Austria France and the United States weigh strategic and commercial interests for the twentieth century.
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Turkey
Europe
Russia
Constantipole
England
United States
Austria
American Cruiser Stops Filibuster Expedition
Captain Benson of the American cruiser Albany in Central American waters halted an alleged filibustering expedition commanded by Captain John Moissant from Nicaragua toward El Salvador. Unofficial reports in Washington say Benson warned of opening fire if the group attempted any action.
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Jim
Nicaragua
Albany
Benson
Washington
John Moissant
Salvador
Labor Tensions and Trade Moves Across Coastlines
Rail contractors rush laborers to Alaska while Pacific coast firms must raise wages to hold crews. Seattle chamber asks Senate to double shingles duty to shield coast lumber, against Canadian competition. Winnipeg builders settle union disputes and expect no strikes for at least a year. Norval D Kemp of Dayton Ohio says a politically active rural farm society is needed in the United States.
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Alaska
Pacific Coast
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
Senate
Winnipeg
United States
Norval D. Kemp
Dayton
Ohio
Roosevelt
Farm Commission
Chicago Trade Improves As Weather Encourages Activity
Dun's Weekly Review notes a rebound in Chicago business with more farm and industry activity. Bank payments rise, money tones firmer, May settlement expectations exceed prior totals, and confidence boosts investment in bonds stocks and improvements. Northwestern settlement of soil, increased output in implement factories, rail and pig iron orders, and near capacity steel mills drive employment gains and steady price trends.
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Northwest
Chicago
Dun's Weekly Review of Trade
Trade conditions and market notes from New York
New York reports little change in trade conditions with irregularity as the prevailing feature across business and industrial lines. Spring results are generally disappointing, but wholesale activity for next fall and winter shows optimism. Pig iron and iron and steel demand increase, yet prices fall as manufacturers seek more business. eastern shoe shipments rise 24 percent versus a year ago, while U.S. weekly business failures total 247. Canada shows 36 weekly failures.
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United States
Canada
Bradstreet
Commodity price listings by city and market
Market quotes from multiple cities include cattle hogs sheep and grain values. Prices cover Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York Toledo and Cincinnati wheat corn oats rye and related commodities with ranges for live cattle hogs and lambs plus dairy and seed prices.
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Indianapolis
St. Louis
Detroit
Milwaukee
Ste
New York
Toledo
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