The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1882-01-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MICHIGAN.


There Is war in Adrian over the proposition
TO remove the postoffice from its present place
In the Masonic temple to south Main street.
Capt A. ID. Perkins, an old lake captain and
resident of Monroe, died Monday morning,aged
o8.
Samuel Retterstroph, near Lexington, was
arrested on Monday for fatally stabblng Henry
Goodman, who died the evening Of the same
day. They had an alteration at Smyrna on
Friday In which Goodman bit of a piece Of
Retterstroph's nose. and in which knives were
used freely.
The Grand Council Of Royal and Select Ma
sons of Michigan met at Masonic hall in Flint
on Monday; M. K. G. NJ. r. @. Hathaway pre-
siding.
near Cedar Springs, was burned Sunday night
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
At Detroit, Jan. 10, Hugh S. Peoples, was
arraigned in Police Court for the murder of
Martha Whltla. He plead not guilty, and his
case is set down for FEBRUARY Is, Justice Min.
or said he had no power under the constitution,
to bail him.
Ternes in Detroit in December last, aud who
confessed the crime, was on Tuesday sentenced
by Judge Swift to the States prison for life.
The SANDER case OF Mrs. Hazlett vs. Hon.
Jacob Sawyer was discontinued in the circuit
court at Adrian, Tuesday.
j. N Cross, alias Nathaniel Hewett, was
struck by passenger train near the depot at
Iad
Leman Smith, Of Alma, was run over and
fatally injured by train on the Chicago,
Saginaw d Canada road, Tuesday.
A. A. Jones,of the firm of Messenger q Jones,
Spring Arbor, died at Saranac, on Monday, aged
So.
The grand council Of royal and select masons
OF Michigan, in session at Flint elected the fol
lowing officers to day:W. G. Hudson, of Ludiug
ton, M. /. grand m ister; George H. Greene, Of
Lansing deputy grand master; George H.
Stevenson, of st. Johns, G. P. G. Of W.; H.
Shaw Noble, of Monroe, grand treasurer; and
G. B. Noble, of Detroit, grand recorder.
On Tuesday night, farmer from Pittsfeld
named William Guthekunst returning from
Ann Arbor, was thrown from his cutter and
had his neck broken.
Tuesday night the safe In Mi. p. Bryne's lum-
Der Office, in Hillsdale, was blown open. Mr..
Bryne was robbed on the streets last month.
w. @. Fitzsimmons q Co., proprletOrs Of
"The Peoples bank" Of Tecumseh, have made
an assignment to Z. B. Wood, OF recumseh.
Fitzsimmons, who is the colonel Of the First
regiment NJ. S. T., is now in Central America.
In natn In, ha int IF
Grant and vanderbilt's railroad schemes.
The liabilities of the Peoples Bank, Tecum-
sch, are put at $4,000, It's assets $4,000.
Much blame Is charged on FitzsimmOns whose
absence has dissolved all responsibility on Dut-
ton, Woop, the assignee says 1t is an utter fail
ure.
The Supreme Court has granted writ OF
habeas corpus, directed to Sheriff Clippert, and
of certierari to Police Justice Miner, returna-
bic next Tuesday, to determine whether Hugh
s. Peoples was legally arrested and confined.
In the case OF r. nj. Donald, charged with
embezziDg 81 800 from the Wood package and
basket company, the jury at Muskegon brought
in verdict Of guilty An appeal will be taken
At Kalamazoo Capt. r. o. DenisOn leaned OF
the shoulders of w. r. Coates, as matter o.
joke, but Coates suddenly stepped aside, byiwa!
Of joke, when DenisoD fell, dislocating wris
and breaking one Of the bones.
Thomas Crocker of Clayton township sho
his wife, while intending to shoot Charles Ban
ming, whom be found locked up in room will
her. He had suspected undue intimacy, ant
being refused admission to the room, fret
through the door, wounding Mrs. c. in thu
groin.
At private house near Bird geville Mrs. Ben
jamin Kelly shot in the neck, fatally, 1t is sup
posed, Adelbert Rathbone Mrs. Kelly and he
husband are both in jail at Ithaca.
Eighteen cars of log train were thrown
down an embankment on the Harrison branch
Of the Flint q Pere Marquette railroad.