The Owosso times., 1881-10-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MICHIGAN.

Mrs. Curtis ~ iapooi, WhiSh wa :.
10 the Eaton county circuit court, has, ai'ei
argument, been continued to Tho zist Oh NOV
The jackson, Lansing brd Saginaw railroad
has been completed to Cneb@gan'
Eber w. Cottrel has been appointed receiver
OF public moneys at Detroit
The Grand Lodge of God Templars met
Grand Rapids Monday AMI had Its principal
business session on Tuesdy the 18TH. The TO
Eprts of officers show onshundred and TWEEN
ty.four new locges Instituted during the past
ysa, and the financial Coalition OF the grand
odxe is all that could b. desired.
The state relief commission has decided that
after Nov. LIST they will send out reiiei IN cash
only. The commission desire that each family
whose dwelling or buildings We're burned shal
be supplied with $500 feet of lumber, stove
bedsteads, chairs, croekery, tables and tinware
bedding and clothing. Agents are Instructed
to make INQUIRY, so that those who have no,
received these things from other sources can
be supplied as quickly as possible. After Nov
Isl il is the intention to distribute money az
follows: Family of man and wife, 81 pei
month; family Of man and wife and two chill.
drsp. S5 per month; family OF man and wife
and three children, So per month; family OF
man and wife and four children,$7 per month;
family Of man and wife and five children, $s
per month; family of man and wife and six OF
more Children, $40 per month. 1t is estimated
that it will cost $4,000 to build houses for the
sufferers; $1,000 for furniture; $4,000 fol
feed and over $4,000 in cash. The Port Huron
committee has resolved to give each suffering
family $10in cash. '
Continuous rains in the southern part Of the
state have damaged the corn and clover seed.
The troops have gone home from Mus.
kegon, and the strikers are quiet. Most of the
mills are running.
Parker, Chief of the Postoffice Inspectors
has started fund for the benefit Of the family
OF Ira Humphrey, the brave mail carrier who
persisted in the forest fires Of Michigan.
The strikers at Muskegon have, most OF them
gone to the lumber camps to work, preferrinp
that to IL hours work per day in the mills
The liquor interest is organizing to fight
the Prohibitonists in the next legislature.
The Universalists Of the United States and
Canada held their annual convention in the
fine new church of sour Father" at Detroit
and voted TO celebrate the first Tuesday in
November of each year as All Souls day.
The Wabash company has leased one-haIl
the grounds of the Union Depot company al
Detroit, and the latter company will at once
build an elevator with a capacity of 100000
bushels.
The executive committee Of the state grange
in session at Lansing arranged for the annual
meeting at Lansing December 19 to Is. The
plaster contract with Day d Taylor was con-
tiuued. The executive committee determined
TO make an organized resistance to the claims
of one Green for royalty on drive-well patent
Bliss6eld, Lenawee Co., has a gas well which
gives sufficient supply to light the village
There is talk of utilizing it.
The board of supervisors Of Calhoun county
has voted to defer payment of $500 jail
bonds, on account of short crops this year.
Charles Weller at Edmore borrowed $25 of
his washerwoman, and refused to pay it back;
whereupon he was arrested and sentenced TO
four years at Jackson for obtaining money I'M
der false pretenses.
A great slaughter of deer is going on in III
northern woods. The carcasses are left on the
ground to rot, the warm weather preventing
their being kept for use.
The Good Templars before adjournment in
stalled the following officers:
Wy ~ IN NhorIaa ID pusoall natroit
q. w. C.-IhOmas H. Bottomley, Capac.
q. w. V. T.-Miss Louisa 2. Rowley, Ypsi-
land.
G. W.S.-John Evans, Bellevue
q. w. Thames II. Hartwell, Hartwellvllle.
G. W. Chap.-Rev. S. w. LaDue, Coral.
q. w. A. S,-Caleb S. Pitkin, Detroit.
Il. w. Winchester B. Jones, East Saginaw.
q. w. ID. M.-Miss K. 4. Cope, Kalamazoo.
q. w. I.G.-Mrs. AIM. Moore, Monterey.
q. w. o. G.--Robert Miller, CharlevOix.
q. w. Mess.-W. T. Hawk, Grand Rapids.
Battle Greek justices have been paying into
the city treasury zines that should have gone
into the county treasury.
Articles Of association have been signed for
the Wilder Manufacturing Company at Mon
roe The capital stock is $4,000, and the
Wilder plow will be the principal article man.
ufactured at present.
A relief store at Forestville has been bur-
glarized, the thieves drawing the staple which
fastened the door.
Fifteen mills are running at Muskegon on
ten hours time -Four are running IL hours
at increased wages. Four have shut down.
The thief Patsey Mcqueen, who twice es-
capped from the Eaton county jail, has been re-
captured.
Look out for fellow who calls himself G.
+. Collins and who sells dress patterns, getting
money in advance. He is a swindler.
The Mutual telegraph company's line will
sOonqreach Detroit from the east.
An examination Of applicants for admission
to West Point from the sixth congressional
district will be held at Lansing on the 10th of
November, at 10 a. m.
Eaton county is lucky in having fair crop
of apples this year. $1,000 to 1880 has been
paid for the apples in each of several orch
ards, by buyers who pick and pack the fruit
The Charlotte Republican thinks the apple
crop will yield more than the wheat crop. Pc.
tatoes also give fair yield and bring a great
price.
Owners of "drivJ wells" in various parts of
the state are resisting claims for royalty. At
Buchanan an association has been formed to
resist the claims of Green, who holds the pat.
ent and is trying to maintain it, All persons
are requested TO forward their
names and address to f. NJ. Carroll, secretary
Of The West Michigan Farmers Club, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, without delay. 1t is claimed
that drive wells were a common thing In the
state Of New York aud elsewhere before the
patent issued To Green