The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-01-17
NEWS OF THE STATE

with such force that death came to his relief
On the following day.
Two United States senator's and fifteen
! congressman are graduates of Michigan uni
versity, being larger representation in the
national legislature than that of any other
institution of learning in the world
| The burning of the Filertown furniture
factory at Manistee resulted in 900
loss and the cremation of VIII Chambers, an
employ.
| r. A. Montgomery, the Lansing lawyer
whose legal ability saved the Crouches from
| prison life ut jackson, has obtained a judg-
ment of S703 for his legal services which they
had refused to pay. ,+
The wife of Charlotte druggist took u
double dose OF morphine TO relieve herself OF
pain, and now dwelleth in the land where
neuralgia isn't presumed to have an abidin g
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A lawsuit involving the title to 100 acre )
of Lepawee county soil has, just reached q
| solution in the circuit court at Adrian that
| first came on the docket sixteen years ago.
| 1t had been tried in the circuit five times,
! while the supreme court had inspected the
case three times Although the farm in dis
pute is valuable one, the lawyers fees in
volved in the case represent a bigger wad OF
cash. fa,r Il ffB1t
| A Bellaire man has a pair of pants that
contain 800 pieces of cloth and cost 500.
Just how he proposes to exhibit himself and
the trousers, hasn't yet been made public.
A trio of drunken tramps undertook to
run Three Rivers the other night, but pis-
toll shot fired by the village marshal laid
one of 'em low, when the others surren-
dered and went to the bastie.
A Grand Rapids cabinet maker named
Nachtagal, tired of the society of his wife
and eleven children and changed his resi-
dence to another sphere by the aid of a
shooting iron.
Somebody at Flint exercised himself and
an ak by cutting down lot of fine maple
shade trees The shadow of the chopper
will likely fall on the prison wall if he's
caught repeating the job.
James NJ. Benedict is the significant name
of st. Joseph county youth of SO years,
who recently married 14-year-old maiden
of the same bailiwick. But as James repre-
sented the girls age to be 10 sweet sum-
mers in order to procure the necessary Ii
cense, her people are alter his scalp, and the
Benedict in this instance seems to have got
ten himself into peck o trouble at the
very outset of his matrimonial career
Laundering operations in the pineries arc
at standstill in many places, the men hav-
ing been laid off till the clouds shall roll
back with grist of beautiful snow mo
copyright claimed ON this last exprcssion.l
The fatal diphtheria epidemic at Holland
seems to be on the increase, nota child being
left in many families
Flint's steel gear factory will begin to
grind some time in February, giving employ
ment to something moren 100 men.
A great wave of reform has swept over
Maple Rapids, more'n 50 masculines of the
place having pledged themselves to forego
the pleasure of INDUCING in cuss words for
well, for a season.
The denizens of Jackson are kicking, be-
cause the local milk dealers have been feed
ing 'em too much chalk in their tactical
fluid.
The antipodes have met at Adrian. H. c.
Bowen, Jr., is chief of the city fire depart
ment and also the leading ice dispenser of
the town.
The members of a Petoskey church don't
dwell together in the peace and unity that
brothers should, all ON account of those hor-
rid secret societies. A temporary COM
promise has been effected by which the war
ring factions occupy the church edifice on
alternate Sundays, but the dove of peace
roosteth outside as precautionary measure.
SagiDaw's new electric railroad has gone
into companionship and works so nicely that
the folks over there are delighted with their
latest public acquisiti on.
Gladwin's water-works system is supplied
by a 400 foot artesian well, the water flowing
with such force as to fill the mains without
the aid of the pumping engines except in
case of fire. and the water Is of the very best
quality.
The efforts of Minneapolis syndicate to
form plaster trust by the purchase of Mich
igan plaster beds at Grand Rapids, Grand
vile and Alabater, seems DESTINED to be
crowned with success. The right sort of
plaster applied to all forms of trusts would
be blessing to the people.
A Flint revival has gathered i'm the four
members of Chinese laundry firm. Did
you ever.
The Masonic grand lodge of the state holds
its forty-seventh annual communication at
Lansing, the gavel falling on Jan. 49, The
Lansing brethren are grooming the goat
preparatory o the important occasion.
Manistees city hospital, the gift of gen
erous John Garfield, has been dedicated
Filler Bros. of that city have donated SO
OO0 for the purpose of finishing the build
ing.
Barn fires, i'm which stock are cremated,
seem to be epidemic this winter. A couple
of 'em, the property of Thompson Bros, of
st. Clair county, were destroyed the past
week, and horse, three hogs, twenty-six
sheep, and large quantity of farm imple-
ments and produce were roasted at the same
time.
Grand Lodges chair factory will HE itself
away to Grand Rapids, where additional
capital is waiting to welcome it,
A Pulaski justice of the peace has kept
weather record for the past twenty-seven
years, and finds this to be the softest winter
of all.
A ll-year-old daughter of Martin Brein-
ing, Washtenaw county ruralist, was lead
ing horse with the halter strap fastened
around her waist, when the animal ran
away, trampling the child to death
A Battle Creek citizen lay in drunken
stupor at the city calaboose, while at the
same hour pneumonia and general neglect
removed his wife to another, and tits to be
hoped, better land
The heirs of Cady W. Sherwood, the
Grand Rapids street car driver who was
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