The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-06-06
NEWSOFTHESTATE

of good many Sanilac county homes.
Good material for circuit court jurymen
seems to be scarce at Muskegon. So
when Joseph Clayter, who had been drawn
on the regular panel, put to sea in yacht
he was pursued by an officer of the law
and a steam tug and overhauled two days
later.
In some sections of Oakland county the
potato bug is already standing guard over
the potato hills, waiting for the tops to
appear Not much advantage in a late
spring, except to the bugs
A Kalamazoo saloonist took a notion
that he could Stake the thirst of the way
farer on Sunday as we'll as any other day,
but $3.50 fine has convinced him that the
business is not as profitable as it other
wise would be.
Ira Verstay, a Grand Rapids man of IS
years. collided with the cable cars in that
city on the Goth and received fatal injur-
les
The United brethren church mt Ogden
seems to be misnomer. The trustees
granted the G. "A. X. post permission to
hold memorial service in the church,
which was handsomely decorated for the
occasion. But some'of the anti-secret So
ton of the sacred edifice and breaking
ciety members couldn't brook this desecra-
into the building tore down the decora-
tions and dumped 'em into the street. A
first-class row has been on tap since this
occurrence.
A Howell lad of IA didn't exactly steal
a railway, but he "cabbaged" handcar
and took trip on his own account, mar
rowly escaping n collision with o passen-
ger train. Not long afterward he hooked
horse and buggy and then the court
gave him three year job at the state re-
form school.
A Grand Rapids man drove in front Of
an approaching train with the usual re-
suit, albeit he himself escaped His sister
in-law's funeral was held two days after
Ward.
A couple of Flint Cinnamon were con-
verified to the Baptist faith and were so
pleased overt the fact that they invested $50
in memorial window for the church edi-
flee.
Harrison ice is being shipped to Ohio
points at the rate of fifteen car loads
daily.
Battle Creeks postoffice war has been
terminated by the appointment of William
HI. Mason, pioneer business man and
veteran of the late war.
Bay City garbage accumulates so rap
idly that the city authorities are looking
for some fellow who's out of job to do
the incinerating act.
John Galligan, a Kalamazoo citizen,
thinks he's been damaged $1,000 worth by
alleged malicious prosecution for viola
ton of the game laws, and has sued the
local game warden for that amount.
The repeatedly published statement
that the Pottawattomie Indians were on
the verge of securing big wad of govern
ment cash proves to be trifle premature.
The bill that passed congress was simply
to enable the court of claims to take up
the case, which means that the money will
not be available for years to come.
Mrs. Barnes, Mason lady of sc sum-
mefs, died very suddenly Of apoplexy |
while on her way to church.
While member of James Lang's house |
hold, at Grand Ledge, was exploring a |
clothes press with lighted lamp, gar
ment fell upon the chimney, the lamp ex-
ploded, and pile of ashes now marks the |
sight of once happy home.
After serving nearly five years of life |
sentence for murder that he never COM |
Iuitted, Darwin j. Mckay, of Barry coun |
ty, has been pardoned from the Jackson |
penitentiary.
Mrs Charles Sumner, a White Cloud |
lady, called on sick neighbor, leaving a
boy baby of IA months asleep in the house. |
An hour later the house was in flames |
and both home and baby were cremated.
A recent case from Clinton county |
taken to the supreme court has brought a |
decision from that body to the effect that
children must support INDECENT parents
when able to do so.
Theodore Landskreener, a Blumfeld |
resident gave his little child $50 gold
piece to play with and then laid himself |
out for nap After firing of the coin the
child dropped it in her fathers mouth,
lodging in his throat. At last accounts
the doctors had been unable to recover the
coin.
When the two wives Zone white and one
black of G. c. Barnard ascertained the ex-
act lay of the matrimonial market, they
made the climate of Lansing altogether too
torrid for his comfort, and G. G.. hied him
self away for more congenial climate.
A Six Lakes citizen was hauled up for
stealing dog, but the court held that
taking your neighbours canine is no theft
and so the defendant was set down again.
John Mahan, Jackson citizen for more
than quarter of century, surprised
himself and the regular theater goers by
attending an opera house entertainment
for the first time, few evenings since.
James McArthur Gratiot county her
NIT, who denied himself the commonest
necessares of life, is dead leaving an sS,-
300 estate with no heirs to quarrel over it,
Charles johnson wants $4,000 from the
Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Railway
company because the gates were shut
down ahead OF him while on Saginaw
crossing last fall, thus giving an APP
train the opportunity of max
ng his acquaintance to the physical detri-
ment of the plaintiff
Ontonagon fishermen are having such a
great run of luck this season that fisher
men from other ports on the lakes are
pulling up and locating there, hoping to
share in the unusually prolific catch.
Professor j. G. Waite, the Ohio chap
who is said to have half dozen wives liv.
ng, with engagements enough on hand to
iouble the number, came to this state for
season but was captured at Chippewa
lake, and returned to the scene of his
=, NJ ri m onial exploits