The Owosso times., 1881-12-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MICHIGAN.

bushels OF Oais cutter and farming tools, was
burned on Saturday last. Loss $2,OOO-insur-
ance $1,000.
TheJ ackson common council urge The school
board to admit no unvaccinated child into the
schools OF the city after January first, and also
urge employers to insist on the vaccination OF
their workmen.
The house of Mr.. Huss, uninhabted, two
miles east of Three Rivers, was burned on
Saturday.
watch was stolen from policeman, John
Champ, OF Muskegon on Friday evening; miss
ing 1t, he started after his suspected man, and
found him with the watch in his hand He
for the Jail with them, bystander taking the
other. On the way the men suddenly pr0duc
cd a revolver and fight occurred, but the OF
fcer and bis assistant succeeded in landing all
three in Jail. They gave their uamss as Pat
rick CullOn, Thomas Michael and Henry Har
ris. CullOn was fined $3.50 which he paid.
The other two were held for examination on
charge of pOcketplcking.
Allegan Journal: The supervisors allowed
the oounty's contract with the Detroit work
house to expire and 30 culprits liable to be sent
there must be kept In the county Jail instead.
Thursday morning, Alonzo Benedict was
knocked down and robbed Of $500 on the road
between Muskegon and Lakeside by two men.
The following despatch to the editor of the
Bay County Examiner, stopping in Detroit,
was received Tuesday morning: To M. A
Dowling-West Bay City, Dec. ~, 9:l5, opera
house, Office and four or five buildings In ashes.
w. j. Ward.
Amos Forbes, deputy of Roscommon county,
was, on Saturday, fatally shot by Robert Titus
whom he was trying to arrest.
Fire consumed tho stavefactory of Wood Il
Goats on Saturday, causing loss of 49,
600.
The Captains Ryerse are succeeding in the
work Of raising the cable laid In the Straits of
Mackinaw, at cost of two cents per
foot.
Dan z. Easement, OF the we'll known firm OF
Easement Bros, railroad builders, is dead.
On the 10th inst, Mrs. John Evans Of Sheri-
den went to a neighbours, leaving two small
children one OF thsee years and one of eight
months, locked up in the house. In her abb
sence the house caught fire, and the children
were roasted alive.
malignant form of small pox is decimating
he Indians at Northport and other points on
Traverse Bay.
Agents of the Michigan Central Railroad are
forbidden to ship the high explosives or re-
csive Them at their depots. Ordinary gun pow
der and cannon blasting powder may DO re-
ceived, plainly marked, "Gunpowder."
The furniture store Of Buck d Hoyt, Battle
Greek was fired by an incendary Tuesday
night. Damage $500.
Harvey j. Fleck of OkemOs jumped from
west-bound Chicago, Saginaw Canada train,
near East Saginaw on Monday, and was in
staDtiy killed.
Jackson has become nervous over the prev
alence OF smallpox in the west and orders
children attending schoolsto be vaccinated free
of charge If INDECENT
Buck d Hoyts furniture store in Battle
Greek suffered Loss Of $1,000 by fire Oh
Tuesday night, kindled by an incendiary. In
sured.
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Truth thinks che is old enough 10 make will
and accordingly bequeaths her properly In
Battle Greek, worth three or four thousand
dollars, TO her three daughters residing there.
Two children, one four and The other seven
years old OF John Evans Of Sher-
idan burned to death were on Tues
day. with the building in which they
were left by the temporary absence of the
mother.
B. Mathews was killed by the falling of
tree on Saturday, at Copey's lumber mill near
Cadillac.
Gale Brothers have obtained verdict
against the village Of Homer OF $500 for
wind nall sold to that corporation some years
since.
John Turblot was killed by the fall of tree
near Big Rapids on Tuesday, limb OF the
tree penetrating the eye and passing through
the head.
Deputy Sheriff Hovey arrested at vassar,
two brothers, Fred Vail and Wesley Vail, at the
depot of Detroit and Bay City railroad while
they were waiting for the train "Wednesday
morning. They confessed to stealing from The
store Of p. L. Varpum, and are held for trial
The Quincy Herald asks us to believe that W.
II. Cole has shown it parsnip In his garden
which he raised which is four feet five inches
I'm length, and 1t triumpbantly asks any other
paper in the state to tell bigger one
jackson proposes to have a new opera hous
occupying a whole building, including the
ground floor, with two gallery tiers.
The safe of William Flumer Il Co. at Mt
Clemens was blown open Tuesday night by
burglars, but there was only 81 In the safe aud
the burglars missed that. The burglars left
pair of mittens for clue.
The fire at West Bay City on Tuesday orig
mated In the Shepard Il Aplin block and de-
stroyed property to the amount OF $4,000.
The losses are, 90 far as known, summarized as
solIows: waldbauer & Szysperski, stock, ST. |
500; I. +. Shepard, block, $4,000; I. F. Shep- |
ard, barber shop, $500; ]. F. Street, stock, g.,
800: A. Cunningham, furniture, 800; W. Mum
shaw, furniture, $500; s. O. Fisher, block, $22- |
600; Phelps 4 Co.,. stock, $4,000; Emery Bros
(estimated), $500; city, $1,000: H. Weber
stock. $4,000; w. w. vedder, block, $1,000; W.
w. vsdder, stock, $4,000; G. h. Frances, fur
niture, 800; M. A Bowling, material, $4,000.
The total insurance is about $35,OOO.
A train on the Lake Shore d Michigan
Southern road was badly wrecked near Elk
hart Tuesday but no lives were lost.
Governor Jerome and party Of railroad
men are on tour northward, inspecting the
Detroit, Mackipac & Marquette railroad. The
marty crossed the straits OF Mackinac on the |
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