The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-11-01
NEWS OF THE STATE

EMO WI or Michigan physicians, and who Il
mid to have once had the largest practice Of
any man in the state, died at his Lansing
horls at the age of 81 years He had been
q citizen of that city for thirty-five years
The Port Huron tunnel is being crowded
along as fast as 800 men can do it, the work
being prosecuted from both the American
and Canadian ends of the underground pas
sage.
The school and library building recently
burned at the jackson prison, is to be- re-
built.
Miss Carrie j. Bartlett has been or
dained as pastor of the Unitarian church at
Kalamazoo.
Newaygo girl, bora in 1857, and who
has thus seen SO summers, has had marvel
ously varied matrimonial experience for a
lady OF her years, having already had four
.een husbands. Shout she prove to he a
lady OF ordinary longevity and the matri-
monial inclination continue, she'll likely
break the record in this particular line all to
smthereens She now lives in New York
The Child Chair company, of Chicago, and
the Sargent Manufacturing company, CT
New York, have Joined hands and will set
DIP shop at Muskegon with view Of making
a variety of furniture and other useful APP
pliances Employment will be given to 100
hands as a starter.
Kent county's prosecuting attorney is
said to be collecting evidence with view
of prosecuting Ryan and Murphy, the pugi-
lists who had a set-to in his bailiwick a
short time sinca
The annual convention of the state
Teachers association will be held at Lansing,
Dec. 26-2S. Preparations are already in
progress that are designed to make this the
best meeting ever held by the society.
Suel Fisk, the Palmyra chap who as
saulted a 12-y year old girl, is booked to spend
the next quarter of a century at the jack
son penitentiary.
The bell of the Presby terrain church at Es-
canada has been rung for the last time.
Lightning toyed with the church announcer
a few days since and ruined its tone for
ever.
The upsettng OF a lantern in Mrs. Michael
Tenders barn, near Lake Odessa, used up
81, 500 worth of barn, hay, grain and farm
ing tools, without cent OF compensating in
surance.
The dry weather in st. Joe county has
greatly retarded the growth of winter
wheat. Many of the late sown pieces haven't
come up at all.
When the vote was taken to bond Red
Jacket for $3.50 worth of waterworks, not
ballot was cast against the proposition.
Red Jacket folks are unanimous on the
water question, even if they don't ali use the
harmless beverage.
A Ltchfeld lady, who's been married for
more than thirty years, got huffy at her
husband about two years ago and hasn't
N fn eli hat
markable record of feminine resistance to
temptation is this.
A Rolln farmer is the owner of 3-year.
old steer that steers the scales to the $500
pound notch, and the animal is to go to a
Chicago museum, where folks can see what
an ordinary Michigan steer looks like.
The road-cart industry has proven to be
such profitable one at Flint that another
big factory is being talked Off to wheel out
the abbreviated vehicles at wholesale rate.
The order of Good Templars popularity
supposed to be cold water organization, is
said to lose largely from its male member
ship during every political campaign,
which sort O. indicates that Campaign bulge
is peculiarly enticing.
It's not often that Barry county attempts
to furnish an example of the "meanest man"
idea of getting clear TO the front. One of
her citizens, Chilson by name converted his
earthly possessions into cash, borrowed all
the money his wife had, and. taking the fam
lily provisions, skipped out for greener pas
lures, leaving SAID wife and four children
penniless but stern-eyed justice overlook the
skipper at Battle Creek, and socked a heavy
fine on his recroant self.
Engineer Thomas Callahan was fatally
injured by a boiler explosion on the Grand
Trunk neay Hascalls, Ind, while John Had
den, the fireman, was instantly killed. Both
were residents of Battle Creek.
Chambers is said to have secured fatal
foothold among Lowell equines, fifty cases
having been reported.
A Lyons ruralist has been trying his
hand at raising mammoth potatoes, and
shows specimens that weigh nearly two
pounds each, while thirty. six of the tubers
fill bushel basket The grower evidently
knows how to fill vacuum, as he presented
q lot of 'em to the local editor
The caving in of earth at the South Buff
falo mine, near Negaunee, still continues,
and is assuming dangerous proportions.
Nine buildings and the adjacent railway are
among the things that have lost their foot
ing.
A large bed of gypsum has been discovered
near St 1gnace. There's mighty few miner
ais that the upper peninsula doesn't have in
paying quantities
Lansing folks are cogitating over the
scheme Of establishing ribbon factory at
the capital city
Fire wiped out Bertrand g. Co. g saw-mill
at Muskegan, on the 21st, involving a loss
Of S25, 900. Insured for $4,000.
A badly botched up job of liquor legisla-
ton doesn't seem to be the only fruits of the
last legislature. The calendar for the pres
ent term of the Ingham circuit court con-
tains twenty-five divorce cases-Lansing
couples figuring in most of them.
Escanaba is humping herself to reach the
5000, 0OO-ton mark in ore shipments before
navigation closes More than FIVE sixths of
the task has already been completed.
w. E. Bell, log inspector for the Michigan
Central at Pinconning, has been tolerably
busy the past season, having taken an Of
fetal squint at something like 1000, 900, 600
feet of lumber and timber material.
Inmates of the East Saginaw bastile wers
foiled in a nearly successful attempt at a
general Jail delivery ON the 24th Outside
parties had supplied them with the necessary
tools.
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