The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-21

gets ten long years at jackson. while j. q
Caffrey, the fellow who swore too hard in
some divorce proceedings, goes up for half
that time on a charge OF perjury.
There's talk of building factories ut Har-
Dor Springs to utilize tho rich iron orc de-
posits of that vicinity.
Seven Battle Creek would-be benedicts
have pledged eace other to commit matri-
mony before the SHOWS of january, shall
fly. They seem to have forgotten that this
is leap year.
Although the secretary of the board of
school examiners for Chippewa county has
a scope of country to look after that's larger
than the sovereign state of Rhode Island,
and the roads through the northern forests
are none the best, he's accepted a reelection
with the munifcent salary of $500 per an
mum.
After paying a fine to a Cedar Springs
justice for waloping his wife, Georg, Thomas
was OF tho opinion that he wouldn't do so
again.
A recent census shows Gsnesee county to
have just one less than 900 old soldiers
Burglars made special tour of Clinton the
her night and found nothing better than
cold vctuals
William johnson, Bay City man with a
morphine appetite, got an overdose that
waited him across the dark river one day
last week.
An /. g. L. NJ. railway conductor was
given rest for thirty days, because he didn't
report his engineer for getting OH an alco-
holic toot. The engineer was given the &. b.
for good.
John Drahner, Hadley farmer, tumbled
into an unprotected excavation for a water
works pipe at Lapeer, and was so surprised
thereat that he asks that city to fork over
$4,000 damage money.
lady stopping at one of the Harbor
Springs resorts astonished the natives the
other evening by quafing schooner of beer
while standing on the sidewalk Of the princi-
pal thoroughfarc.
A Nashville doctor has been taken in tow
on charge of grave robbery. 1t has gener-
ally supposed that the doctors business was
to people cemeteries rather than depopu-
late 'em.
A lot of young men thought 'twould be
fun to charivari n newly married couple at
Jackson. At least three of the party changed
their minds, one being seriously wounded
and two others disabled.
Theodore Moser and wife, Mt. Clemens
people, went a fishing on the Clinton river
on the Goth. Moser finally became tired Of
fishing and went i'm the river for bath, was
taken with cramping and drowned, his wife
being powerless to save him.
David Ross, a Laymouth man, wanted a
pension so badly that he got himself into Jail
on the charge of signing his neighbors names
to pension affidavits.
Capt. Henry Durant, of the schooner
Emma, was arrested at Sand Beach on ac-
count of alleged opium smuggling.
John Brechenfelder, laborer, was killed
by the cars at Monroe while going to his
work. An engine was making running
switch and had just passed when he started
to cross the tracks but was run down by the
approaching cars, which he had not no
ticed.
Mary Barry, "A l2-year-old Grand Rapids
girl, found 500 pocketbook and returned
it to the owner, but some of the local papers
seem to imply that if she had been twice as
old she might have done differently We
wouldn't like to believe there's no honest
Rapids people of mature age.
A couple Of Port Austin boys, aged and
13 years respectively, amused themselves by
swapping revolvers at each other, when the
younger one received bullet just below the
left eye. Another case of didn't know it
was loaded