The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-10-05
MICHIGAN STATE NEWS.

opens It's mouth 10 snow Jnat IL uhS tno teeJu
Of young horse, and is therefore valuable
trading property.
An express train on the Saginaw, Tuscola
& Huron railway struck burned section
near Berne station aud left the rails and was
afterwalI entr'ly DESTROYED by fire. Sew
eral bad bruises resulted from the accident
but no one was killed. The smoke was so
dense from tie forest fires of tue vicinity
that one could see but a few feet away.
A lady living at Lexington claims {,
know all about the Crouch murder case that
once caused so much connection ut Jackson
aud that she's able to clear away the mys
terry that has hitherto surrounded that bloody
transaction. We give this as a pointer to
the detectives who worked SO long and un-
successfully on the case.
IT'S claimed that the forgeries OF Miss Jen'
ME Swaziland, committed when that lady
was employed rs a clerk in the Kalamazoo
abstract office, will amount to at least
$1,000. Jennie is now in jail.
II. II. Graves, Detroit builder and con.
tractor. was robbed the other night of
81, O4J N cash. He intended TO use the money
next day "a pay off his men.
Mempas fo,'.s got wee little bit.o0
peep iuto ths future OH recent Sunday and
some gypsy fcutune tells got $780,
M Turner is a Lsansng man with good
farm and lots of fine stock, and he raked in
1879 worth Of premiums at the state fair.
The contract TO-. pspering a Dawson
church was let on recent Sunday, and the
church folks are wondering what's coming
next
A Barry county justice Of the peace was
applied to the other day for dose Of matri-
mony, the groom weighing 100 pounds and
the bride 800. He proved equal to the occa-
sion, and the little man went away with his
big jewel, happy as king.
William Tate, an Ann Arbor man 80
years Old, dropped dead in the hallway of
his hcnIe from heart disease.
The Bellaire Breeze offers to take water.
melons on subscription. The publisher is
lucky to get even watermelon from cer-
tain class Of saiecribers-the don't-pay kind
Girl>, just read this, and then when your
fellow pops the question, do--well, do as
you're a mind TO- A Grand Rapids lady.
married TOO has been lett a large fortune by
Chicago man whom she once refused to
marry.
was gathered to his fathers as even the
Lansing man must do aud his eight big
brothers acted as pall-bearers at the fun.
eral.
And now they claim TO have found rock
at lshpeming that assays more than 500, 600
to the ton. Ii these golden stories keep on
increasing at this rate We'll either have to
stop printing Ishpening items or else buy
new font of figures.
An East Saginaw cry goods establishment
extensively advertised its opening day, and
5000 ladies swarmed through the establish
ment on that occasion. And the lazy, shift
less, sleepy merchant still drawied out tho
old tuns-advertisi ng-don't-pay
Nelson Potter, who was Jeddo's postmaster
for more than thirty years, has taken a trip
across the dark river, at the age OF rs.
Smith Wool, Bronson boy OF 70 sum-
mers, has been gathered to his fathers. He
was an old time resident, and justice of the
peace for twenty-four years, and highly re-
spected, too.
The low water in the Cass river has had
the fleet e angling up over ll,0O0,0N
feet Of logs III that stream.
Muskegon has ia yeais.old dancing mas
ter who steps or us lively AS when, OIL his
younger years he tli st taught "sweet sixteen"
how TO waltz
While the roller skating craZs has petered
nut nearly every where, Battle Creek folks
hang on To their rink and pitronize it too,
which groves the Creek To DC more than
common sort of town.
f. F. Jacobs, the Chicago Evangelist. will
engineer the state Sunday school union ut
East Saginaw, on Dec. 4.
While handling "A revolver Mrs. William
johnson. u Romeo lady, accidentally shot
herself and her husband. The latter may
not recover.
Tho Norway circuit court gave a man
named Taylor twelve years prison job for
shooting his brother's wife, and u chap named
Warren six years for trying to shoot his
own wife.
A Kalamazoo church has boy choir
that sings just too sweet on Sunday, and
plays base ball the balance Of the week. Aud
Ills claimed that the new scheme draws like
n porous plaster"
j. A. Dochessre, a Genesee county farmer,
became tired Of life, aud taking a rope, went
to his barn and ended this earthly career by
the hanging act.
A Flint firm-,leaier i'm wet goods-havo
been arrested for running gambling shop.
The charge was preferred 10y "a woman whose
husband lost 81 90 bucking the tiger, which
Will compel Ter 10 90 WITHOUT new nat TOT
IA whole year io come. No failures among
the local millinery firms are looked for, how
YER
a Barry county editor has bought "A re.
peating shotgun, and after hes practiced
awhile, will start out in pursuit OF delinquent
hubscribers &c he catches 'en all, he's IA
clipper.
Tho courage 81 the Salvation Army seems
80 lie unb Jundei IL has tackled Big Rapids
sinners.
William Levers, Pavilion farmer, DOESN'T
old dogs N very high esteem since they
forty Of his best sheep.
The crop Of hay fever patients at Petoskey
now numbers something more than 800
What IL sneczing congregation they must be.
Mchigan's cranberry crop is unusually |
good And limits what the consumer says
about the price
Sibley a. bennington, East Saginaw lum-
bermen, recently invested 100000 of their
surplus wealth IN 40 OO0, 900 feet Ut British |
Columbia lumber.
Tho Buchanan Windmill company is send
ing its wheels to Cuba. South America.
Australia and several places nearer homo