The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-09-05
NEWSOFTHE STATE

Charles Doty, the fellow wanted In
Clinton county on the charge of burglary.
led the officers long chase. but Sheriff
Porter, of Montcalum, finally freed him
at Menominee. NF
A Sanilac county farmer lost fourteen
head of cattle by boxing 'ee, up In
freight car and shipping 'em y Port HUI
ron. They smothered.
Something like 6,0O0 folks engaged in
the farmers picnic at Whitmore. and all
agreed that it twas good to chew In uni
son.
One item of daily expense in the con-
struction of the Port Huron tunnel is q
600 three inch bolts that are used to hold
things together.
These be wondrous times. A Chelsea |
inventor put his Incubator at work on |
ducks egg and brought forth fowl with |
| two bills and four eyes TO spy out food for
| 'em.
Whoever has the genius to devise plans
for public building can compete on sag
| inaw's proposed city hall, az no restric'
| tions are placed on residence, age nor
previous failures in that line.
Rev. j. w. Arney, the Sarinac parson
who loves fast horse, continues to re-
ceive letters from far Sand near, but does
not seem to enjoy the peculiar notoriety
which he has recently attained.
The Birmin CHAM Plank Road company
has been sued s., 900 worth because COM
plainant tumbled through one of its cul-
verts.
A Leslie lad converted his mothers
shawl into parachute and took Leap
from the housetop. Twill be some days
before he's in as good condition as when
he made the experiment
Bridget Doody, who died 'tother day at
the 500, claimed to have first seen the
verdure of Erin 100 years ago.
A little Jackson girl dug hole in the
sand and slowed away her still smaller
brother. but the old folks rescued the boy
! before he smothered. Some day jackson
NAV have a lady undertaken, If the symp-
!, toms aren't misleading.
A couple of Holly lads engaged In
squabble and before twas over one OF EN-
had lost an ear, 'tother fellow being In ex-
cellent chewing condition.
The corner stone of Creswelps Catholic
, church was laid with 5000 people looking
, ON to see that the job was properly done.
, Kew Ottoman Fuerbringer, OF Franken'
muth, has seen 81 years, fifty OF which mas
been spent in the ministry. or this hair
century of ministerial experience, thirty
two wears have been derived as pastor oil
the Frankenm uth church.
Oceana countys peach crop isn't as
numerous as the growers could wish, even
! for an "off year." but they've plums and
potatoes enough to freight railway.
Whoever thinks that women are no
good for business should take trip 10
East Tawas. The postoffice, telegraph Of
fee, leading hotel, newspaper ONCE, ana
several mercantile houses are managed py
women, and as we'll done perhaps, az II
any town where the lords OF creation hoio
full sway.
e Holzhay, the bandit confined at the
Marquette prison on life sentence, agar
comes to notice. This time he tried TO XII
himself by bunting out his scanty brains
against the walls of his cell, but beinl
unsuccessful, was placed in straigh
jacket
Something like s, 600 Washtenaw county
Germans propose TO have a big time ant
some lager at Ann Arbor on Sept. %
There's a rich old fellow of 70 summer
i'm Clinton county who never invested
I nickel in a newspaper. And yet all III
u folks will be mad clear through IL he
not given a column obituary one OF thes
days.
Measures are being taken looking to tn
working of the marble quarries in Schoo
craft and Mackinac counties.
p. Eight of the pupils in Van Bure
county school are twins, but the whoi
district can only muster total OF THU
teen scholars.
A Florence chap laid his fingers on ce
tain goods that belonged not unto hin
and forty-five minutes later was serving
thirty days sentence in the bastile. Gre'
hustiers those Florence folks.
A Shelbyville farmer has been oifere
81. 500 for his bean crop OF thirty acre
These are undoubtedly hard times II
farmers, and yet an income OF S6o p
RI acre shows that there's still living to
made at tilling the soil by the man
an brains
DIR. Silas II. Douglass, a former profe
sor of the State university and the old'
man of the ex-professors, died at MS non
in Ann Arbor on the Goth, aged "a year
. He was twice elected mayor of his adopt
city,
During the past year 165 druggists al
100 assistants have been given credentif
\ to mix pills and potions anywhere in {
state. while 1873 have dropped out, leavir
net gain of 149.
The QUO which Gladstone hung
to entice blast furnace that way, is st
in blast though the furnace isn't, a
. some institution that is In pursuit o.
bonus is hereby directed to the pile.
The farmers who held their wheat or
this year for higher prices made {
cided hit as the market has alrea'
-. reached the sl.OO mark in many places.
M The bean crop is an impor tant one
~ Van Buren, county, but this years yi'
~ will only be about one-half of the us'
VI average. Boston will please take mott
Michigan Christians may be genera
good pay, but prominent religious jo
nal intimates that If the parson was p
more promptly 'twould indicate bet
Christian condition.
Kendall Kittridge, the well -kno
newspaper man OF Ann Arbor, il dead
the age of As years.
John Goetz, a jackson butcher. tool
nap in q horse stall with Mexican m
tang, but the fiery steed insisted on &
ing the top side of the bed, aud &c