The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-03-14
NEWS OFTHE STATE


For long, long time Columbiaville has
had haunted house. The last family to &C.
occupy it were nearly frightened out of
their wits by the ghostly visitants It was
noticed that the chaps in white were always
particularly hilarious on windy nights, so
much so that nobody cared to take the
chances of occupying the domicile. In look
ing over the premises recently, with view
of making necessary repairs, the owner dis
covered some loose clapboards and nailed
'em fast, and not ghost has peeped in that
quarter since.
A Port Huron man went to Kentucky a
few weeks since to try the climate of Dixie
land, but has returned thoroughly satisfied
with this state. He struck locality noted
for its family feuds, where a bullet shower
is liable to happen when least expected, and
is satisfied that even Michigan with all it's
murders is more conclusive to old-fashioned
longevity.
An Oscoda man sued neighbor for $3s,
but the defendant showed that he'd already
paid $44 on that selfsalne account, and SO
obtained a judgment for So. Is and costs.
The plaintiff is wiser man now although
somewhat poorer in purse and spirit.
The first annual state convention of the
Patrons of Industry was held at Flint, the
past week. the delegates present represent
ing 1l50D0 members A. s. Partridge, of
Flushing was elected grand president, and
j.. s. Taylor, of Montcalm, secretary. F.
w. Vertican, founder Of the order, was
present.
A Carrollton young man has been playing
to the hardest kind of hard luck. He at
tended Saginaw theatre few weeks since,
and his sensitive nerves were so wrought
upon by the sensational play that he was
taken seriously i'll. Just as he was recover
ing, word came that the girl to whom he
had been devoted for four years was mar
ried. and this gave him such backset that
the poor fellows chance Of recovery is very
slim.
Alfred Broad the Ionia man who was
charged with a $4,000 embezzlement from
the Steele Packing company, has been tried
and pronounced innocent of the allegation.
A Lowell mans cruelty drove his wife in
sane and then she took his life. That was
several years ago, but the case will come up
in the Kent circuit court at the March term,
and an acquittal is confidently expected un-
der the circumstances.
Rev. X. B. Topper Grand Rapids par
son, has been offered a $1,000 job by Den
yer church, and an assistant will also be
provided tomake his labors less arduous.
Looks like fine financial proposition.
A couple of Flint girls were left orphans
in their infancy, one of them being taken to
New York just before the mother died.
That was years ago, and the girls have since
grown to womanhood. The York state girl
recently hunted up her Michigan sister, and
the two are now enjoying their first visit.
There's talk of $4,000 private insane
asylum at Flint. Properly managed, such
an institution ought to be a financial and
curative success.
The barn of Brighton man was recently
burned, and fifteen horses were roasted at
the same time. The loss is $4,000, with no
insurance.
Henry G.. Hoch, presiding officer of the
National BARRIERS union, has recently taken
up his residence at Adrian.
Manistee and Muskegon mills are said to
be 200, 100000 feet of logs short of the crop
of one year ago, largely due to this peculiar
winter. The price of lumber will likely take
a climb in consequence.
No insurance is carried on Bay City school
houses, although their aggregate valuation
is 100000
A Burton woodsman found half bushel
of grasshoppers nesting beneath pile of
forest leaves, patiently waiting for the glad
summer time and the farmers rake and hoe
handle
Lightning corralled flock of sheep for an
Atlas farmer, the last week in February
The frisky fluid has begun operations early,
this season.
A Grand Rapids lady, who figured as
plaintiff in divorce suit, admitted in open
court that neither herself nor her husband
desired legal separation but that u shyster
lawyer in pursuit Of fee had coaxed her
into beginning the legal proceedings. The
couple are still man and wife, and are likely
to so remain until death doth separate them.
The new order of Patrons of Industry
has 3 900 members in jackson county, and
they will run grist mill of their own at the
county seat.
A couple OF Grand Traverse county citi-
zens had battle over the possession of
woman and Eeg of beer, and one OF the
contestants wears q broken shoulder while
'tother one had a leg nearly severed by an
AK.
This open, thawy winter, has resulted in
an unusually large maple sugar crop in the
southern portion of the state, while the quail
ity is unusually good.
All of the Bellevile parsons were ON the
sick Inst on recent Sunday, but the people
were quite unanimous in the discovery that
the fishing was unusually good on that oc-
casion.
"Rattlesnake Jack" the chap convicted of
a felonious assault on Mt. Morris lady, has
migrated to the Ionia reformatory, where
they'll try and make a man of him during
the next eight years.
A tramp and lighted pipe held q session
on Battle Creek mans haymow, and the
next morning the owner sadly surveyed.a
500 pile of uninsured ashes.
Michigan salt blocks turned out early &c.
900 barrels OF salt during the past month,
and February is an abbreviated business
month, too.
Edward Littell is n Marcellus man, and
April 10 will complete the first century of
his earthly existence, at which time his
friends propose an appropriate Observance of
the occasion.
DIR. Charles Drawn, a Detroit physician,
had nearly completed a ten-years' sentence
at jackson prison for criminal assault on
Greenfield girl, when death claimed his final
release
A revival meeting at Bay City church
eliminated in free fight, the police being