The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-03-21
NEWS OFTHE STATE

tl,UU,UUI his Is one Oh Tue ihrBest cusoS
of the kind ever litigated in a Michigan
court
Calling people names is sometimes an ex-
pensive business. An ithaca man alleged
that one of his neighbors was a chicken thief,
and now the latter retaliates with a $4,000
damage suit.
The doorkeeper at Munith show stopped
young man who attempted to pass without
the necessary ticket, whereupon the latter
pouuced upon the ticket taker and chewed
off an ear. The chewer has been arrested on
a charge of mayhem, and when he gets to
jackson will likely be obliged to adopt
change of diet.
A TeEonsha man was accustomed to fill
himself altogether too full of liquid stimu-
lus, and tho wife didn't like it. So one night
as he staggered into his home she gave him
a vigorous Introduction to rawhide, and
now the drinker is seriously canvassing the
subject of reform. Soakers' wives will please
take notice.
1t is admitted now that English capitalists
have invested $780, 900 in Wheeler g. Co. s
ship yard at West Bay City. American en-
terprises are becoming decidedly "Hinglish,
you know"
In less than seven years four policemen
have been murdered in Detroit, and not a
man is doing time for the crimes committed.
What a commentary on Michigan justice
Emil Gorsch, the Kent county man, sent
to jackson for murder, has become insane
and has been transferred to the Iona prison
for insane criminals.
Out in the country some distance west of
Lansing they have White Cap organization
whose especial business it is to keep an eye
on men who neglect their families. One fell
low has already been "seen" by the reform
alive band and has promised to be better
boy in future
Tekonsha people invest literally in the
Louisiana lottery as we'll as in snide life
Insurance. albeit the returns from both are
particularly precarious.
A Detroit dude who is attending college
wrote back TO his lady friends that he was
almost starved and asked them to send him
something that would keep soul and body to-
gether. The young ladies procured and for
warded bottle of glue as the most appro-
pirate article for the homesick young man.
Kalamazoo claims the proud distinction of
having the oldest ladies literary society in
America.
The $4,000 suit of Hecht Bros, & Co.,
Boston wool merchants, againt M. L. SWEET
81 CO.. of Grand Rapids, for alleged short
age in wool purchases of 1857, was compro-
mfsel by the payment of $1,000. The case
was tried one year age, resulting in dis
agreement of the jury.
Willis L. Potter, Washtenaw county
ruralist, has lived upon the same plantation
for the past fifty three years He's evidently
an old stager.
Old time vigor hasn't entirely departed
from the human race An S0-year-old boy re-
Gently walked from Grand Rapids to Way
land, a distance of twenty-one miles, and
could have doubled the trip had it been
necessary.
1t has transpired that the marriage of an
Oakland county chap was a sort Of CONNER
cial transaction, he paying another fellow
twenty-five cents for the woman he calls ais
wife.
Iron county electors will have the oppor-
tunity of saying yes or no to a $50, 900
court house proposition at the April cleo
tion
Brook trout are being planted in Michigan
streams by the million this spring, the state
fish commission doing the planting By and
by the small boy will be feeding em with
angleworths, ATTACHED to a bearded hook.
, Grand Rapids society doesn't seem to lack
for that condiment known as the spice of
life. A girl of that city brought suit against
a neighborly young man for the support of
their child, but twas withdrawn before
coming to trial because the .plaintiff had
married another fellow and didn't care to be
quizzed by some impertinent lawyer regard
ing past transactions.
A history of Michigan peoples experience
with the grippe is to be prepared by the
state board of health. As it is designed to
cover every township in both peninsulas, a
work OF mammoth proportions may be an
ticipated
Ed Beattie, the Detroit burglar doing a
fve-year job at jackson, has been prrdoned
so that he may die of consumption outside of
prison walls.
Saginaw folks invest $1,000 per month in
the Louisiana lottery, just for the fun of
drawing $500 dividend. Great financier-
ing, that.
Lake Shore fruitst a yer sthat the peach
crop of 1890 will be light one ON account of
the March blizzard.
Jonah Turner, a Saranac citizen, died In
his chair while reading Bible 1t beats all
how the fatal employments do multiply in
this progressive age.
The township treasurer of Fair Haven,
Huron county, has struck streak of rough
sailing. He kept the public funds in
bureau drawer at home, but that didn't pre-
vent the festive burglar from reducing the
surplus to a mighty low ebb.
Arthur Wilson, Sanilac county CITIZEN,
was amusing himself with a loaded gun
when the thing went off, the load lodging in
Alfred Russell's heart.
Marlette's oatmeal mills are being crowded
night and day in order that all the the folks
may have dish of porridge for their break
fast.
The treasury of the Marlette Baptist
church is being replenished by "blue jay" so
Gals given by the ladies. The name prob
ably denotes the condition of the young
mans pocketbook after attending.
The largest load of logs ever hauled by
single team at the Alpena lumber region,
was dumped one day last week. The collec-
ton was 10 feet in height, numbered 20 logs,
which scaled II, $50 feet.
A Weston boy stole three skunk skins from
q Morenci dealer, but the odor of the case
was so strong in court that il cost the lad