The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-11-15
NEWS OFTHE STATE

church was cremated, but new one has
since been built and put in commission land
a nice one it is, too.
The leading furniture manufact cries at
Grand Rapids are going to try their hands
at reaching out after South American trade.
| The scheme is to send a competent man
| down there with full line of samples and
show the folks bow much.better, nandsomer
| and cheaper goods he can sell 'em than what
they've been accustomed to getting from
European countries.
A fork of wild geese that were floating
over Mason at eventiie were called down by
| the glare of the electric lights After cycling
| 'em for a time tn, m.gratryo birds seemed
satisfied and resumed their southwark trip.
| Apple picking time is bringing an UNI
usually large crop Of accidents this fail.
George Wheeler met his fate by falling
| from a tree near Three River; one day the
| past week
A four and half foot vein OF soft coal
has been discovered eighty feet down in the
damp damp earth, at Sebawing
| A burglar has been playing to hard luck,
at Holland He spent the sleepiest portion
of a night ransacking half dozen houses,
but failed to find any portable evidences of
wealth that he cared to lug off,
just 23s girls are putting in their time at
the state industrial school at Adrian, learn
| ing how to make themselves useful and re
| spected and members OF society.
A piercing bit of news is liable to hail
| from Nashville almost any day now. A
couple of would-be William Tells are prac-
ticng over there, shooting apples from each
| others heads
After heating up the Goodrich church and
l. - not
uary, an ungrateful tramp came near Gre
mating the house OF the Lord by dumping
lot of live Goals i'm the wood box.
An Eaton Rapids cooper is doing his best
to supply the unprecedented demand for APP
Pile barrels He hoped 10 barrels 'tother
day in just ten hours, and will make it still
better-for a suitable consideration.
A Blissfeli smoker was probably the
most surprised man in the state one day
lpst week. In filling his pipe little bit of
a cartridge-one of the two-for.a-cent va
rietv Slipped in with the tobacco, but
when it went off the smoker thought an
earthquake had fired at him; but when he
came TO and collected his scattered senses he
found that he'd be obliged to carry around
about SO per cent less nose than formerly.
The young man who skipped out with $500
worth of the wealth of The Port Huron
Times was overhauled within "a week, and
had evidently lived like a prince, for the
money had been spent save two lonely look
ing dollars.
Charles Roe Ill, Jr, a young Litch field
man who has lived without a spine because
he was born that way is dead. Having nc
spine he was never able to walk or even sit
up, eating and sleeping being his principal
amusements.
The will of Warren Dodge, the Kalama.
zoo banker who left the bulk of his wealth
to the Michigan Female seminary at his
death, is to be contested interested rela-
tives who seem to think they are just as good
and can appreciate the valus of money as
we'll as anybody's female seminory-os
there.
1t took a Lansing jury sixteen hours to ar
rive at the conclusion that Albert Suther-
land had right to shoot Ellzay Douglass at
Eden last summer, in self-defense, and yet
there probably wasn't a man of the twelve
but that would have done likewise under the
same circumstances.
Harry Durand, the alleged opium SNUG.
gler who made his escape from U. S.
officials while en- route from Port Huron to
Detroit in the summer of 1898, was cap
tured at Royal Lake, l2 miles from Detroit,
politan bastle.
An organization based upon the plan out
lined in Bellamy's "Looking Back ward" has
been effected at Detroit to advance the cause
of the common brotherhood of man.
The deputy county clerk of 1ngham county
was quietly snoozng the snoozs of the just
'tother night--no twas nearly two o'clock in
the morning, when a vigorous knock at the
do oh hooly 70
condition. Hastily dressing, Deputy Squires
repaired to said front door an a found a
Delhi young man and his best girl id pursuit
of a matrimonial permit Squires didn't like
to be yanked out of his home at that un-
canny season, but the couple were DO und to
have the license then and there-had come
all the way from Delhi for that purpose
and they got IL and were made man and wife
soon after the clock had struck for two.
Few Michigan cities have had such a varied
experience in the endeavor to secure WATER
works system as has Adrian. The ball was
set rolling eight years ago during the Reign
of Tom Navin, but the bogus bonds brought
no water. The following year the Holly
system was ontracted for which resulted in
lawsuit, but in this year of grace, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty nine, the
difficulty has been adjusted, the city paying
$l0,Oee per year rental. as per the original
contract.
There's 81, 900 reward awaiting whomso-
ever will catch and convict the burglars who
spoiled the looks of Col. Kings bank safe at
Brooklyn, bat failed TO capture the Doodle,
of which there was fine bundle Gust within
the inner doors OF said SAFE The burglars
were frightened away before their job had
been completed.
Cholera isn't the only thing that can
down a hog. Pneumonia has been getting in
its work on the four-legged kind in Jackson
county, one farmer having already lost
mere than 81, 300 worth of squeaers.
A disastrous fire swept away one-fourth
of the business interests of Luther, entailing
a loss of $4,000 Partially insured:
The annual encampuvent of the G.. A. r
is booked for April 1-3 at Adrian next
spring.
Joseph Gonletto, the Bay City chap con- !
victed of attempted criminal assault on
young girl goes to jackson for eight years.
Rev. Washington Gardner has severed
his connection with the Cincinnati church,
Of which he has been pastor for the past |