The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-09-06
short but Newsy Items.

!. G. f. Hale, of Shelby, has contracted his
Crop of peaches on ten-acre orchard to q
Chicago house for &, 900 on the trees.
A. A. Pangborn's mill six miles northeast
OF Mecosta was totally destroyed by fire the
other day.
A crib will be built at Point Betsy to stop
the encroachment of the lake, which threat
ems to undermine the lighthouse.
Early the other morning Bob Matthews
and some others started quarrel on the
street In Petosky. One man tripped Mat
fhews and he pulled pocket-knife and
stabbed Harry Gill fatally in the abdomen.
CHARLES T. Wright, who killed Marshall
and Thauber near Frankfort, was recently
held for murder In the first degree.
Burglars worked the business places of
Colon all one night recently, entering four
places with total gain of eighty five cents.
The Detroit Park and Boulevard Com
mission have resolved to keep black list,
and to employ none but sober and indus
trious men of families.
Elder Edward Swift, an aged and wealthy
man, was trampled to death by runaway
team near Lansing the other day.
fire at Spring Lake recently destroyed
about s3S, 900 worth Of property, with s17,-
$50 insurance.
At Menominee recently John Dickens,
aged seventy years, fell down stairway
in the National Hotel and was instantly
killed.
Three arrests were recently made at
Grand Marais of well known citizens.
They sold bulge without certificate.
II the Marquette people will shell out
1000 Burt Bros will start the carp River
Furniture Company" promising to employ
two hundred men.
Burglars attempted to rob the safe of the
Humboldt Iron Company at Ishpeming the
other night The watch-dogs were poi
soned and several holes drilled in the safe,
but the burglars were scared away before
they succeeded in opening the safe, which
contained several thousand dollars.
David Kyle, prominent farmer of West
Bloomfield, dropped dead in his door-yard
the other evening.
Jacob p. Haynes, of Port Huron offers to
give 81 600 IL canal is cut through from
Lake Huron to Black river.
James Campbell the second white man to
settle in Isabella County, died of heart dis
ease recently, aved sixty-three years.
James Howser had both feet badly
mangled at Three Rivers a few days since
while unloading large safe.
In row at Bob Callahan's saloon In De-
troit the other day John Sterling, team
ster, was nearly kicked. to derth.
George w. Taft and wife, of Novi, will go
to Yokohama, Japan. October l, to remain
ten years They win endeavor to win the
natives to the Baptist idea.
Edward Cartwright, of St Ignace, is after
100000 offered by the people of Buffalo for
an arrangement to utilize Niagara water
power.
Charles Miiler's wife died not long ago at
Reed City and the other day he was found
dead on her grave, a bottle of poison by his
side telling the story.
The saw-mill of Smith a. DAILY near
Cheboygan was totally destroyed by fire re-
Gently. The loss was placed at from $15, 900
to ~, 900; partially insured.
Alex Wilson, Of Oscoda, fell from q
water tank at Potts recently, and was run
over by team He died in about five
minutes
Warden Tompkins had twenty prisoners
in the new House OF Correction ut Mar
lquette recently, and had no fear that there
would be any trouble in filling it up.
The Union National Bank of Muskegon,
with q capital stock Of $780, u0 was or
,ganized few days ago. and will be ready
for business in October.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rourke was walking on
the Michigan Central railroad track near
Three Oaks recently when she was struck
by the east bound passenger and her head
severed from the body. Her home was ct
Avery