The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-10-03
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field couple. have been married more'n
half a century and duly celebrated their
golden wedding.
Il. w. Ware is Bangor man who had
the privilege of being DO arded about two
years by the Johnnies during the late civil
fracas. Ware thinks his prison record
longer than that of any other Union SOL
| dier.
| A couple of boarders at the Ionia prison
cut hole through the roof with table
knife and have since been enjoying their
| liberty.
Rev. Charles S. Bullock, Benton Har-
Dor divine. will try his hand ut mission
ary.work in japan.
j. DeMann, the Grand Rapids who man
slew Chris Rickling goes to the Jackson
| prison for a term of fifteen years.
w. l.. Churchill. the Montmorency
man convicted of the killing of James
Lapham in June last, gets fifteen years at
the Jackson prison.
The equine epidemic at Dawson con-
tinues and many faithful steeds are being
added TO the mortuary list.
The suicide craze seems to be develop
ing unusually early in some quarters.
An Adrian youth of 10 years hung him.
self because he became angry while play
ing with his brother.
Michigan railways carried 81 900, 900
passengers and "a, 0OO, 600 tons OF freight
last year. and were paid $50. 600, 600 for do
ing it. We haven't included the odd fig
ures in the totals, but never mind the
change.
A Flint woman of 81 years has been
sent to the Detroit house of correction
because she was caught begging the nee
essaries of life at Saginaw.
A Detroit newspaper reporter and a
Windsor maiden had arranged to be
married, but the girls relatives objected
to the match. Finally, they enticcd the
man to the Canadian side of the river
and had him arrested on a charge of alb
duction. The girl is in Detroit waiting
for her lovers return.
Albion has 260 widows and marriage
licenses are in demand at the county
clerks Office.
The strike of the furniture carvers at
Grand Rapids has been declared off, after
a continuance of five months.
It's rather late in the season for snake
stories, but an Oakland chap slew q water
snake 80 feet in length that was carrying
81 S-inch snakes inside, all of which were
alive.
Thomas Bryant, a Saginaw county citi-
zen; tried to stop a runaway team and
his own funeral was held two days
later
A badger has been stirring up the dry
bones at Colum bias cemetery, in Tuscola
county.
Calumet and Hecla stockholders had to
content themselves with 100000 worth
of dividends las year.
The fall blasts have begun unusually
aarly this season. A St. Clair county man
spoke twenty-eight times in one political
convention, which accounts for it.
A beyy of Grand Rapids boys held a
smoking contest in mill yard of that
city, and twill take 81, 500 to make good
the loss occasioned by the fire that fol-
lowed
Menominee's school board has had so
much trouble in having its lady teachers
getting married off that it will employ
pedagogues of the male gender only,
hereafter, as getting married don't take
this class from the school room.
One of the latest additions to Michigan
journalism is The Lawrence Tyre. OF
course there's nothing suggestive in the
name.
Rev. II. A. Ross has occupied the Con-
gregational pulpit at Port Huron for four
teen years now proposes to give smother
talker a chance.
The young ladies temperance union of
California township, Branch county,
believe that reform should begin at home,
and so have resolved to eschew their
guide of gum.
The thirst for Office may not be on the
increase among the American people, but
Branch county folks have four ticke is in
the field for county officers.
The Grand Trunk Railway company
gets a larrup from Flint coroner's jury
for putting George Hosie off one its trains
on the night Of Aug. 4, when he went un
der the wheels to his death.
Disbarment proceeding have actually
been begun against a Detroit lawyer for
engaging in questionable practices in
certain divorce cases. Verify, the world
do move.
Mrs Frank Leslie has engaged to do
some talking in this state for various
lecture associations, at 500 per talk.
A Croswell citizen recently skippered
eighty tons of cheese across the great
deep to old England
Hon. George l.. Yape, of Mendou, has
Deen CHOSEN Dy the democrats TO make
the congressional race in the Fourth
district.
Thomas Cleland, Marcellus man,
wanted to die, but his desire to go hence
was so great that he swallowed altogether
too big n dose of laudanum and Is still
sojourner in this world of woe.
w. +. Cox is a Grand Rapids man who's
particularly iond of cats, and so whole
posse of his neighbors, each one armed
with cat, called at his home 'tother
evening aud made him a present.
Port Huron's road cart factory has
shipped u carload of vehicles to Dem
mark. Michigan is making wheels for
the earth.
A Bay City citizen with the misnomer
of White, came near being the central
figure of a lynching bee for assaulting %
little girl of 8 years
A Lansing girl VI 10 summers broke
into a house and captured some eggs and
other eatables and then proceeded to cook
the hen fruit in the front yard.
Wilson Ames, Bay City citizen, un-
dertook TO split stick of wood, but was
such n moor marksman that he lopped off