The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1881-07-29

Two bOys aged IL, sons or AdrlOn DeDoeI
and Martin Vanderen, Hollanders, were
drowned at Grand Rapids In water standing
In an abandoned brick. yard. They got into q
hole little beyond their depth and could not
swim. Nothing was known OF their fate till
late In the afternoon, when their clothes Were
discovered.
j. M. Rice OF Cadillac is the Republic nomi.
nee for Judge of the 2Sth judicial circuit
The state reform school for girls at Adrian
Will be open and ready to receive occupants
August l.
With the 1886 money order offices TO be e.
tablshed In August, the number in the United
following are In Michigan Bad Axe; Ban
croft; Button; Caledonia Station; Concord +;
Douglas; Milan; Menden; Norway; Ravenna;
ST. Ignace; Sand Lake. Tuscola; Vernon;
Webberville; West Branch.
1t Is proposed to buy and lit up CoOlbaugh
creek In Newaygo county for state flsh
hatchery.
The army worm is going for the oat crop in
Arlington township, Van Buren, county. 1t
also shows liking Tor green corn, eating the
heart from the growing stalks.
Judge Hooker has terminated the Jenkins
burglary case at Charlotte by discharging the
prisoner. The evidence showed that entrance
TO the building was made through the trans0m
over door, and didn't constitute burglary.
The prisoner was Immediately rearrested on q
charge OF grand larceny.
One OF the largest sales Of copper ever made
has just been closed with the Connecticut
manufacturers. They have contracted for
twenty million pounds OF ingOt to be delivered
through the summer months at sixteen cents.
This has taken the surplus of the market, and
| assured the sale of great part of the summer
production OF some OF the smaller mines. The
mining companies now all breathe easier, and
| the price has advanced.
Balfrey's broom factory at Sarnia destroyed
by fire; total loss.
oil Inspector G. q. Luce, has paid into the
treasury 2,420, excess of receipts over ex-
penditures in his department for the year end.
ing June 80.
A large wildcat is prowling about the woods
near Lapeer.
Portland has voted to build new school
building to cost not less than $4,000 nor more
than $4,000.
Any excess of the Yorktown appropriation
for military, over the expense Of transpOrta
ton aud band, will be applied upon the cost oil
| subsistence.
Burglars took Mrs. M. j. Donaher's watch
| AID chain aud other valuables from the room
where she and her husband were sleeping IN
their house at LudingtOn.
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Grand Haven, while playing on the logs ~
Baileys boom fell inland sVes drowned.
Judge 7. M. Cooley is suggested by Wash
| ingtOn cOrrespOndeutsas tho probable successor
OF the late Justice Clifford on the United States
supreme bench.
John Graves of Oscoda had his arm badly
mashed by mill machinery, necessitating am
putatiOn.
The army worm is reported from Ottawa
County.
Presiding Elder Crawford of Ionia is an.
nOunced as q candidate for the position OF
chaplain at the IOnia house OF correction.
Judge Wells of Ionia, recently appointed
consul at Rotterdam, Germany, has left for his
post accompanied by his sister and two SONS
and daughter.
Sanilac county is dissatisfied with her new
county seat, Sandusky, and another war is
imminent The Mt. Clemens Monitor declares
that Sandusky is situated in the middle OF a
swamp five miles from nowhere.
1t is thought probable that the new Sault
canal will be- opened about August 1.
Mrs John Bowler and Mrs. Jerry Sullivan
were injured at Lapeer by being thrown from
a carriage while attending the funeral Of a
lady who died from injuries received ia being
thrown from buggy while attending funeral
last spring.
A man named Henry Mccormick, residing
on farm eight miles from Coleman station,
in Isabella county, has been arrested for the
murder of John Pangman in Simc0e county,
Ontario, June p, 1870, by striking him with a
club at logging bee.
Rev. H. B. Smyth, Of Baltimore, is lying sick
at the house of his father, Rev. w. H. Smyth,
oil Port Austin. His recovery Is not expected.
An empty pig and pail full Of huckleberries
were forwarded by express to Lapeer, and ar
rived an empty pau and pig full OF huckleber-
RES. The company was ready to deliver all
the goods, but the cOnsignee refused to receipt
for them on the ground that the consignment
did not tally with the bill of lading.