The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-01-10
NEWS OF THE STATE

parVlng with some or their wealth and
thereby secure freight car factory. and
they propose to meet the scheme half way.
1t begins to look as il the much talked of
extra session of the Michigan Legislature
would fail to materializs, for which all good
citizens will be devoutly thankful.
A $4,000 bonus has enticed tina CASTOR
novelty works. Of Utica, Pa. to Cadillac
some 2O,OOO,O00 feet of hardwood timber
has already been purchased for the firms
use.
Inc annual meeting Of the four stock as
sociations held at Lansing last week, was
SHINY attended, owing to the refusal of the
railways to grant reduced rates. In effort
VIII be made to secure the passage of a
straight 2-cent fare bin by the next egisla-
tare.
Jennie M. SHETLAND, the Kalamazoo lady
Formerly connected with the county alb
stract office, pleaded gufity to uttering forged
paper and goes to the Detroit house of cor
rection for two years.
Cheboygan mills cut out 127, OOO, 900 feet
OF lumber the past season, an increase of
25,QpO, 900 feet over the output of last year,
and yet some folks predicted that Michigan
pine would all disappear twenty years ago.
F. Christian, a Musllegon county citizen,
rounded out a full century of earthly exist
ence on the 22d.
John LOOMS, a Cadillac farmer tried the
walking on the tracks on the Toledo, Ann
Amor and Northern railway near that city,
and leaves widsw and three children.
Reuben Skinner, frisxy Plainfield youth
OF s. years, has taken orrt license to wed
Angelina Scott, coy maiden of GA summers.
Angelina has laid away two matrimonial
partners to rest in the village cemetery, but
Reuben proposes to take the chances, just
the same.
A Flint woman and her little son were ar
rested and lodged in the bastile for begging
in that city, the woman being in straight
ened circumstances Is this the outcome of
the "higher civilization" Of the nineteenth
centurys"
A Grand Rapids couple agreed to legal
separation, the husband paying the wife the
sum of s., 500 for her share of the financial
assets of the firm The latter seems to pos
sess sharp business eye as she now brings
suit for divorce with alimony.
This may not be an unhealthy winter, but
the Beiden casket factory is being run over
time and even then is behind in its orders.
Michigan salt manufacturing concerns
now number 1Z2, whose saline product is
sufficient to put the globes populace in
pickle.
A Fenton parson has commenced the pub
LEGATION of periodical called The Faithful
Witness In this respect it radically differs
from many of the witnesses whose sayings
are recorded in the daily press.
A eye of Bay City boy was mistaken for
an English sparrow by another Bay City
kid and is no more. The number of acct
dents harvested by sparrow sportsmeu may
not equal the number of birds that are
bagged, but it's enough.
A burglar rummaged and ransacked the
house of a Deerfeld doctor, while the owner
was asleep. The next morning the doctors
jack-knife and keys were gone, but the 500
that he left to snooze in a vest pocket re-
sponded to his "call."
Isabella county's grand jury seems to have
both eyes open for business, judging from
the sixteen indictments returned for viola
tions Of the state liquor law.
An Allendale musician claims the owner
ship Of violin of the mature age of 37o
years, but the neighbors insist that no one
would mistrust it, from the quality of the
music with which they are RECALLED.
The children of Flint's public schools in
vested their Christmas money in big load
of provisions and made many poor family
happy by donating them the edibes.
The annual meeting of the Michigan Bee
Keepers association was held at Lansing on
the Goth. The honey crop of the past season
was very light.
Haines Bros, of Undertook, n. Y, have
contracted to connect Ausable and Oscodo
with street railway.
Alpha has at least one preacher who is
"on" to the ways of the world Not long
since he started out with subscription pa
per and dropping in upon quartet of poker
players secured 500 worth of pledges in
short order.
There's not enough houses to round at
Hastings and measures are being taken for
the erection of 100 additional shelters.
L. d. Chapel, one of the first pale-faced
people to locate in Jackson county, died at
Parma on Christmas, aged so years.
'Tisn't always safe to drive off your neigh
boris team, even when under the impression
that it is your own. A Westphalia gentle
man made the fatal mistake at Fowler, the
team ran away, dumping him in the ditch,
and now there's new-made grave at West
phalia.
Some Shelbyite seems to imagine that he's
deriving pleasure this winter by engaging in
the horse poisoning industry. But the own
ers of the dead eQuines are not happy, and
we doubt if the poisoner would be for any
extended period, were he caught at the de-
stroying business.
Michigan parsons who desire to meander
on half fare railway tickets during the year
of grace, 1890, should hustle their applica-
tions into headquarters without any unne-
cessary delay.
Beware of the green milk ticket. One Of
em was accidentally put to soak in the tea
of Detroit household and the whole family
came near being landed in the soup by the
arsenic it contained.
The Wheeler ship yard at Bay City is such
a fine financial payer that the capital stock
has been increased to $500, 1000. Every por-
tisn of the great steel steamers turned out at
these yards will henceforth be their product.
When stranger comes along and desires
an introduction to your friends to assist him
in selling his wares, it might be just as we'll
to go a little slow in granting his request.
It has just cost Shiawassee county far
ner the sum of $500 and the costs OF law
suit for doing this very thing.
While rchearsing Christmas cantata at
tbe Tildeu school. Detroit, on the afternoon