The Gruesome Holmes Castle
What We Pay State Taxes For
Washtenaw Share of State Taxes Nearly $65,000.
U. of M. COSTS $9,320.34
While the Asylums, Homes and Prisons Cost $27,443.87 -- This is Low Year for State Taxes
Washtenaw county must raise $64,395.07 state tax this year. This is the off year on state taxes and they will be less than next year. The following shows the various purposes for which the state tax is raised and the amount Washtenaw county pays for each purpose:
University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,320 34
Agricultural College . . . . . . . . 2,344 59
State Normal College . . . . . . ..2,918 81
Central Michigan Normal . . . . 820 61
Northern State Normal . . . . . . 647 81
College of Mines . . . . . . . . . . .2,294 77
State Library6 . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 35
Soldiers' Home . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,907 29
Home for Feble Minded . . . . . 1,992 90
State Public School . . . . . . . . .761 99
School for Deaf . . . . . . . . . . . .1,887 40
School for the Blind . . . . . . . . .719 79
State Prison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 79
Industrial School for Boys . . . .1,705 69
Industrial School for Girls . . . . 1,377 45
Fish Commission . . . . . . . . . . .726 82
Compiling Record Adjt. Gen . . 29 31
Dairy and Food Commission . .586 15
Michigan Dairymen's Asso. . . . 7 03
Library Commissioners . . . . . . 18 76
National Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,835 76
State Naval Brigade . . . . . . . . 283 81
State Board of Health . . . . . . . 152 39
State Weather Service . . . . . . . 23 45
Michigan Agricultural Society . . 105 51
State Horticultural Society . . . . .35 17
Prisons--Current Expense . . . . 1594 32
Asylums--Current Expense . . . .14,403 25
General Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . 11,722 96
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$62,599 27
Indebtedness to State . . . . . . . . 1,795 80
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Total State Tax . . . . . . . . . . . . . $64,395 07
THE GRUESOME HOLMES CASTLE
A UNIVERSITY GRADUATE'S MURDEROUS CAREER
The Holmes-Castle has Now Been Turned into a Hotel
Chicago, Spet. 25.--Holmes castle, where in 1895 so many of the victims of the arch murderer, H. H. Holmes, met their gastly doom, is to be remodeled and turned into a hotel.
Holmes, who also went under the name Mudgett, entered the Michigan University in '82, graduating with the medical class of '84. When he entered he claimed his home as Maple Rapids.
The history of Holmes castle since its originator was hanged at Moyamensing Prison, in Pennsylvania, reads like a work of fiction. Tenants have been secured for the gloomy building, but their stay was invariably short, and gruesome stories have been told of unearthly noises and apparitions.
Mrs. Charles Hines is the latest victim of the "influence" which is said to pervade the building.
Opening off from Mrs. Hines' room is a shaft or chute descending to the subterranean passages wherein Holmes prowled in the days of his dark career. It is known that down this shaft he lowered the bodies of those whom he slew in the "castle" to incinerate their flesh and prepare their bones for articulation, as was his custom. Since Mrs. Hines, who recently moved into the flat, has slept in this bedroom she has been disturbed constantly by one horrifying dream--a dream which, with unimportant variations, still takes one fearful form--of plunging down the shaft. Strange to say, the dreaded influence does not pass with the night. During the day, though she feels wholly at ease in her living rooms, whenever she enters the bedroom, she says, she is impelled by some irresistible fascination to approach the window opening upon the chute. At the same time, a sense of terror creeps over her, a fear that she is about to fall headlong down that via dolorosa, which probably in the past engulfed the forms of Minnie and Annie Williams, Mrs. Julia L. Connor and her daughter Pearl, Miss Emeline Sigrand and perhaps others of whom no record remains.
STEAM TURBINE AT THE UNIVERSITY
During the summer a DeLaval steam turbine has been purchases by the University and has been placed in position. It represents the highest type of mechanical skill in its construction. It is of 30-horse power, of high speed, the main shaft making 2000 revolutions and the turbine shaft 22,000 revolutions per minute. This turbine is both condensing and non-condensing. It is similar to the turbine which is used in the boat, "Turbina," which made the very unusual speed of 45 miles per hour.
This turbine is designed for power purposes, particularly for driving electrical machinery. It will be used by the students of the engineering department for experimental purposes.
BAD SIDEWALK CAUSES A KICK
BAD SIDEWALK CAUSES A KICK
Residents out on Ashley street, near Felch, are kicking vigorously about a certain piece of sidewalk in front of a residence belonging to James E. Harkins. At the time of the recent flood a number of planks were washed out. Folks in the neighborhood complain that repairs were made in such a makeshift fashion that it is worse than no sidewalk at all. They say that when a passerby puts his foot on the damaged part two or three of planks promptly rise in a disparate attempt to bat him on the proboscis.
"That sidewalk will be repaired just as soon as I get a man to attend to it," said Mr. Harkins to the Argus Tuesday. "I don't want to endanger anybody's life, but it's simply impossible at present to find anyone who can fix it up satisfactorily."
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