The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-09-26
NEWSOFTHESTATE

than seventy seasons and is still hale and
vigorous, while his brother John has been
strictly temperate. though that may not
account for his feeble health.
Kalkaska has decided to wade in for
SOS, 00) worth of waterworks.
A fat steer and thirty feet of rope made
their escape from a Lapeer butcher, but
The outfit became entangled in the forest
and the steer starved to death.
Thomas II. Crissup, a colored lawyer of
Detroit, has been disbarred from practice
on account of unprofessional conduct.
The fakir fndeth anything but smooth
sailing at Bedding. While one of'em was
holding forth there recently the boys tied
a rope to his vehicle and sudden and I'M
expected yank landed the spouter on a
level with the crowd. The fakir soon
sought greener pastures.
Jackson county has four people who've
been citizens of that baliwick for the past
sixty years.
A bevy of Scripio bridge builders got
away with fifteen rattlesnakes before
completing the span of the Kalamazoo
river. AS local option doesn't flourish in
that region this is doubtless genuine
snake-in -the-grass (not boots) story.
The gold medal awarded Michigan for
her educational exhibit at the Melbourne
(Australia) exposition of 1888. has been
received at Lansing 1t weighs nearly
two ounces.
Patrick Burk and w. II. Norman fool
ishly attempted to burgle the Hanover de-
pot on the Lake Shore railway, and will
dwell at Jackson prison for the next three
years.
If you believe in signs, prepare for a
hard winter as the corn husks are said to
be uncommonly thick this fall.
A Michigan editor, bent on having the
news interviewed bastie boarder and
was accidentally locked in the same cell.
A lusty use of his lungs brought the Jail
sr to his relief.
Talk is cheap and there's been lots of it
about the proposed electric railway be-
tween Ishpeming and Marquette, but at
last contract has been let to Cleveland
firm to do the job.
Muskegon's population is increasing so
rapidly that there aren't enough houses
to shelter the newcomers, while addition
al industries continue to swell the boom.
A Battle Creek politician has been
taken in tow for illegal voting alleged to
have been done nearly six years ago.
Rev. G.. L. Mount, an Elsie parson, has
delivered S3l sermons, married 43 couples,
baptized "a people and attended 81 fun
erals, all ia four years. There are hust-
ling parsons just like other people.
A party of barn burners have been at
work in Grand Rapids, eight or nine
barns having been reduced to ashes
within two weeks.
Saginaw capitalists will invest some
cash in the effort to reclaim large
amount of marsh land near that city.
Saginaw celery is one of the products that
may yet become famous in the city mar
kets..
Some whopping big ice houses are be
ing built at Big Clam lake, near Cadil-
lac, to cool the product of an Ohio brew
ing concern.
Harvey Wilcox and George Palmer,
youthful nimrods of Genessee county,
went out hunting squirrels, when Wilcox
ran in front of Palmer's gun as the latter
was in the act of harvesting fine speci-
men, and was instantly killed.
The State Brewers association held it's
annual meeting at Grand Rapids, eecting
M. Martz of Detroit, president, and
Herman Becker, of the same city, secre-
tary
A w. Kimball, of Ionia, has purchased
the Capital wagon factory at Lansing.
The plant is valued at s95, 000
The Tallahassee Boom company has
survived the strike ordeal and has again
resumed operations.
A couple Of Lansing lovers had fall
ing out and INDUCED in such an I'M
seemly quarrel on the streets that they
were locked up in the local bastile.
Byron G. Stout of Oakland, is the DEM
ocratc choice for congress in the Sixth
and James S. Gormau of Chelsea, in the
Third district.
A Bay county farmer had fourteen
sheep slaughtered in two hours by NUT
ton-loving ours of the neighborhood.
TITS estimated that about $685. 900 will
be required to run the fire and police de-
partments of Grand Rapids for the next
twelve months
The late Carrie Mr.. Brown, of Grand
Rapids, bequeathed by will about $3.50, 600
among her relatives.
A. K. Cole, of Fowlerville, is president,
and John NJ Potter, of Lansing, is secre-
tary, of the Farmers Alliance and Indus
trial union, recently organized ut Lans-
ing.
L. G. Gregory, Coldwater jeweler, has
constructed an engine and boiler SO small
as to be carried in ones vest pocket The
fly wheel is only one fourth of an inch in
diameter, while the piston has but an
eighth of an inch stroke.
Much has been said regarding the fail
ure of the Michigan apple crop, but an
Eaton County farmer refused 81, 100 for his
showing of winter fruit.
Saginaw dudes are in hard luck rs the
laundrymen of that city have agreed to
make 'em pay spot cash hereafter.
The Warren featherbone factory, that
converts feathers into a substitute for
whalebone, is about to be removed from
Three Oaks to Chicago.
The Seventeenth Michigan infantry,
Familiarity known as the "Stonewall regi-
ment," held successful reunion at Ypsi-
lanti
A $4,000 fire made big hole in the
business portion of South Haven. Insur-
ance $4,000.
| Cheboygan marshes produced 50, 600
worth of uckleberries-abou 1900 BUSH
| els--this season.
Sanilac county cheese factories turned
| out over As 900 pounds of that product for