The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-07-26
Short but Newsy Items.


At reception the other evening rendered
to Mrs. Emma Stark Hampton, past Ma
tional Commander of the Woman's Relief
Corps, by Fairbanks Post of Detroit, she
was presented with an elegant tea set OF
eight pieces and large silver water serv-
ice as testimonial from the post
DR.. J. II. Salter, the original inventor of
the Salter proprietary medicines, and a
practicing physician for forty years, died of
Bright's disease at his home in Three Oaks
recently, aged ffty-five years.
Ground was broken at Lima, O., recently
for railroad which is to connect Column
bus, O., with Lake Michigan at Saugatuck.
There is O polished young man now work.
ing in the northern towns with the old gag
of taking board, getting permission to use
q room for a few moments to change his
linen, and then going through the sleeping
apartments for valuables. He raised $3.50
cash from Swede In Bay City the other
day.
Hon. r. G. Horr, recently appointed
United States Consul to Valparaiso says
that under no circumstances will he &C
cept this appointment.
W. w. Van Antwerp, Camp No. 176 Sons
of Veterans, was formally mustered at
Jackson the other evening with fifty-two
charter members.
A Hambletonian colt, valued at $500, fell
over the rocks at Grand Ledge recently, a
distance of sixty-five feet, breaking its
back and killing it.
Coupling-pins should be declared contra
band in Iron Mountain. An inmate of the
Jail there worked his way to liberty recent
ly with one of those useful implements,
and another knocked the Jail stove to
Al. l.
A private detective visited Muskegon
several months ago. and as result Of his
visit eleven druggists were arrested for vio-
lating the liquor law They all showed
fight, one case had been sent to the Su-
preme Court and gone back, and there is
enough fun left in the rest to last all sum-
mer
Nathan X. Averill, of Jackson, Third dis
trict, has been appointed cadet at West
Point, with Richard J. Fellows, of Jackson,
as alternate.
Mike Higgins and August Johnson had
fight at Marquette recently and Johnson
threw Higgins on to the track in front of
a moving engine which cut off his leg. He
died, and johnson would answer for muir
der.
Eight inches of rain fell at Three Rivers
the other night Dwellings and business
blocks flooded. f. A. Bellman's house was
badly damaged. The street was washed
out and acres of wheat, hay and oats almost
ruined
The Joseph Basch brewery Mt Lake Lin
den was sold recently to an English capt.
talist, the price paid being $500, 600 The
brewery is the largest in the district and
has been in operation twenty years.
The West Michigan Lumbermen's Asso-
citation was organized ut Grand Rapids the
other day by lumbermen from Muskegon,
Manistee. Grand Haven, Cadillac, Big Rap
ids and this city. The object is to secure
better freight rates and promote mutual
interests.
The dry goods and grocery finn of
Steketse and Bros. ut Holland was closed
up the other day by creditors, under chat
tel mortgage. Liabilities about $4,000; as
sets about 81 800
Assaults and robberies have become so
common in Jackson that Sheriff Winney has
addressed an open letter to the prison au-
thorities stating that released convicts re-
main there without money, become des-
perate and commit depredations 1t is de-
sired that released convicts be sent where
they come from
Tive weeks ago william Fisher, a Clare
County man, was bit in the thumb in
fight Gangrene set in, and the other day
he died.
Iosco County spoftsmen are deriving
much pleasure now from catching trout
planted in some of the brooks there three
years ago.
William Van Horn fell from bucket to
the bottom Of well which he was digging
at Stanton Junction recently and was killed.
He Leaves family.
Benjamin J. Duel, Of Grand Rapids, has
been sentenced to Jackson for Ave yeSts
&pr forgery He was young business d11h
OF good family, with o VIZ nd Children
and better things had besh expected Of
him. -