The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-02-22

MICHIGAN STATE NEWS.


Worthless CANNES used up $4,000 worth
Of Michigan sheep last year. The whole pack
pf mutton slayers were worth at least as
much as one sheep pelt.
A tramp stole pair of boots of Battle
Creek merchant for the avowed purpose of
getting sixtydays in the calaboose, He was
accommodated,
A Mason man owns a factory that turns
out 5000 clothes pins daily. But then, he
don't use 'em all in his own family.
. Saginaw City is humping herself to secure
one of those elastic institutions known as a
rubber factory. The capital stock is placed
at 100000.
A Marine City lady and her S-year-oid son
were enjoying n skate on the st. Clair river
heother evening when both took a plunge
into an air hole. The mother was rescued
but the boy went down into the cold, cold
drink to his death.
Dr. Henry Y. Satterlee, brilliant New
York city parson, has been elected bishop of
Michigan. His acceptance is considered
doubtful
The fines paid to Detroit's transgressors OF
the law goes TO her public library, amount
ing to from $1,000 TO $4,000 per annum.
Lucky library.
A Kalamazoo citizen became impatient be-
cause his coal fire burned too slowly and
poured kerosene thereon to hurry it up. He
succeeded, the explosion that followed scat
tering fragments of the stove all about the
room. He has new stove now and proposes
to take out n heavy life insurance before re-
peating the kerosene-coal combination again.
G.. N Elliott was Spring Lake citizen UNI
til he became bad, bad boy and went to
jackson for four years job at hard labor
His offense was incest, and his little daughter
the victim.
A jolly Kalamazulu named Brown who
was incarcerated in the city bastie on a
charge of being intoxicated, now comes back
at the policeman who took him in tow by ar
resting him for false imprisonment. Brown
claims his breath wasn't unduly perfumed
and that he was as sober as a judge-if not
more so than some of 'em-while the police
man insists that if he wasn't "done up prett
brown" he had some of the most natural
symptams he'd met with in a long and useful
career as peace preserver.
Ovid is bound to have n conveyance of her
own and so has planked $4,000 of her wealth
into buggy factory Go long.
Mutton chop ought to be cheap by and by
II. H. Sevison, st. Joseph county farmer,
is feeding 900 "lambs' of varying ages for the
early spring market.
Saginaw City has one street that won't get
much travel from the ordinary citizen. The
city council has granted to the owners of fast
nags the privilege of racing 'em on said street
to their hearts content.
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place membraneous Group on the list of con-
tageous diseases and subject to the same
quarantine regulations, because SO many of
the country doctors can't tell it from diph
terra
Petoskey Methodists get along first rate
during camp-meeting time, but as that sport
don't last the year round they've concluded
that a new church would be the proper caper
in their case. Operations are to begin when
the spring posies bloom.
The state university turned out an extra
large lot of new doctors at its last commence
ment, and the demands for caslets has in
creased so rapidly that the Owosso factory is
to have its capacity doubled.
The liveliest lyceum in the Mate is said to
be located at Cedar Springs. Its members
are able to dust the cobwebs from almost any
subject they choose to tackle
A Detroit man boards at the bastile ninety
days on account of illegal voting. If all his
conductors were served likewise there'd be an
immense building boom in the prison line.
Michigan drummers have withdrawn from
the National Protective association and
formed one of their own to be known as the
3Knights of the Grip" Albert f. Pealie, of
To l., n -
Grand Rapids, secretary.
Marquette isn't exactly the new Jerusalem
but her streets are being paved with gold
just the same. It's combined with rock at
the rate of 81 per ton, but it would cost more
than that figure to extract the precious stuff
and that's the reason it's being used for paw
ing purposes.
Several members of the Michigan legisla-
ture recently made their escape from the
Jackson prison. They had simply been there
on tour of inspection.
The Grand Haven man who publicly
warned people not to trust his wife might
better have kept quiet, as she gets back at
him by saying that her credit is better than
his, and that she can support herself and
five children without his assistance.
Salt was advanced at East Saginaw cents
per barrel the It'll by the Michigan associa-
ton
The new $4,000 Methodist Episcopal
churh at Flint was dedicated on the 10th i'm
the presence of nearly 400 people. Bishop
Thomas Bowman, OF st. Louis made the
principal address.
Detroits assessed valuation has increased
nearly S200CO,O0O during the past year.
The idea that an insurance company can
fail up without paying its debts has had
setback over in st. Clair county, the courts
having ordered an assessment of 81, 461 on
the members of the defunct Farmers Mutual
for the purpose OF paying its indebtedness
A louisville firm has taken hard con-
tract with the Lake Shore Railway COM
pany, having agreed to furnish that corpora
ton with 5000 carloads of stone i'm the next
FIVE years.
The fifth annual convention of the Michi-
gan Dairymen's association met at jackson
ON the 18th with fair attendance.
Bay City Presbyterians have their hearts
vet on, a brand new 10000 church, albeit
their forefathers were content to take their
gospel in a log cabin.
"Iittle Jake" Seligman, East Saginaw's
well-known business man, has been taking q
trip through Colorado, and while
ut Pueblo, a certain piece of property took