The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-11-07
NEWSOFI'HES

'' W" 'oJc"'h III the solitary until
ne cools off
Gratiot county's game warden mus
hereafter content himself with annual
salary OF o. or else qLit the business.
Rooster fights have become go common
AT EsseXvllle that the village authorities
nave taken measures for their suppres
sion.
Ironwood is laying itself out for $780,.
600 system of waterworks.
The late Judge Chr stiancy left an es
tate worth $1,000 The judge wasn't a
millionaire
Huron county farmers raised $4,000
bushels OF potatoes in excess of their own
tuber consuming capacity this season.
Geo. Howard, AN Albion farmer, re.
Gently lost =, coo worth of barns and crops.
and nobody seems to know how the fire
started. Insure for 81. 800
A Frankfort father has proved to be a
genuine schemer. Informing his daugh-
Ter that ne had genuine surprise in
store for her when she became "a com /.
petent housekeeper, the fair maiden
pitched into the kitchen work and soon
became proficient, whereupon the sur
priser discharged the hired girl, and the
daughter had a job for keeps.
Jennie Webb. the Pontiac school
ma'am whose relation to the death of
young Cook, pupil whom she punished.
has been undergoing investigation for
the past two months, has been held to the
Oakland circuit court on the charge of
manslaughter.
"A military company has been organ
lzed by the society young ladies of Grand
Rapids, and there isn't spec of war in
sight, either.
The good people of Bay City are inter-
esting themselves in project for an or
phans' home
A Sanliac county lad of 10 summers
wears an ugly looking cash over one eye,
all because he tried the unsuccessful ex-
pertinent OF holding horse by the tail
Robert Neeley, an AuGres ruralist.
sowed IL ounces of onion seed last spring,
resulting in a harvest of 95 bushels of
hrst class tear starters.
Carl Cutter Hastings ruralist be-
came weary of visits from neighbours COW
and shot the animal Now Carl must
answer to the circuit court for his con-
duct.
yoke of frisky steers ran away with a
Pinconning lad, but the latter was fright
ened worse than the steers and dropped
dead of hearG disease.
During the first eight months of this
year Michigan railways report earnings
OF nearly 100000 900, an increase of So 1S0- |
5eS.l2 over the corresponding period of |
1899.
samuel Miller, Kalamazoo county |
sportsman, leaned upon the muzzle of his
gun and lost lung. Samuel has since
been gathered unto his fathers.
John w. Campfield who died at Port
Huron the Other day, was the oldest citi-
zen OF St Clair and a charter member of
the local Masonic lodge. He is said to
nave worked on II shoemaker's bench
more years than any other man in that
county.
A sunday fire emptied local church
at Shelby, and after talking to empty
seats for few minutes, the parson quit
and fastened after the excited throng at
the fire.
Laird and L'Ause are but % miles apart,
and yet it took certain letter six months
to cover the distance between the two
towns
lis claimed that the managers of Mich
igan railways have decided to issue no
more legislative passes. Ii this be true
some OF the perquistes if not the honors,
OF legislative life will have faded away.
Muskegon's lumber shipments for the
season reach the respectable pile of $685.
l4OO0 feet. or this amount, AZ, 0O0, O)O
'eet was shipped in October. The cut is |
away below that of last year. {
A Mosherville lady has plum tree in
blossom, but untimely frosts are likely
o blast all hopes OF second crop. {
The pickle factories at Brooklyn, Ma
,oieon and Norvel paid the farmers of s
heir localities $50 900 for their cucumber !
rops of the past season.
+. w. Wheeler owner of the West Bay
jity shipyards, is one of the principal
projectors of SIS, 900 sash and blind fac
DRY at that city.
About GOO homes were built at Bay City
he past season, while it is thought that r
900 will go up next year. Bay City has ;,
got BOOM
Some Port Huron people think they see r
mint of money in a mammoth Mon tana I,
1utton ranch, and are shaping their T,
lans accordingly. n
The 102 banks organized and doing bus u
less in accordance with the state bank v
lg laws, had $40, 915, 2SS of the peoples W
honey on deposit at the last quarterly re- k
ort. 90
The Muskegon Lumber and Single g
,mpany's mill at Muskegon, was burned &C
4 the 1st. A large amount of lumber W
nd shingles were also burned. Loss, S75.- 81
70: insured for s32, 0O0 W
Wheeler's shipward plant at West Bay 81
ity is being improved 100000 worth.
People who HE away to the northern
ichigap summer resorts-at the proper
ason~in pursuit of health, make no te
istake The purity of the atmosphere d
s1ch that even squashes attain I'M ca
'ual vigor and size, a Traverse City man WI
Owing one that weighs 1876 pounds 1t
Some three or four weeks ago burglars ca
AIDE n raid on the the D., L. e. N. depot al
Fowlerville, but succeeded in securing nj
ly snail amount of DOODLE One TIA
ght, the past week, they tried /: again, or
d, although the company has lot of sn
oxen iron and steel in place of safe, su
Q marauders secured no cash. III
II the farmers roundabout Richmond su
II raise 300 acres of flax another year. WI
flax mill at that place will again 90 ioi
20 commission.
george Rock. n Hastings graduate of !