The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-08-15

Black diphtheria is on the warpath at
Lyons with particularly fatal results.
Bay C.sY has at least one citizen who's
seen the folly of it. He attempted to
brighten away his daughte. IS best beau,
but the fellows fists were backed by so
much sand that the old gentleman was
laid up for repairs for more than a week.
Frank Cooke, the Pontiac boy whose
death resulted from alleged injuries in
flicted by a school logging, was buried
without an inquest. Much local indigna-
tion is felt over the affair.
Holland hung up a 81, 900 bonus and q
( twelve-acre site where il could be seen by
the Montague Woodenware Company,
| and the plant is hers. Two hundred en-
ployes come with it.
A Pontiac thief gObbled a horse and
buggy that was hitehed in front of a store
in that town, and although the transac-
| ton occurred in the daytime neither the
horse, conveyance, nor the chap who took
tem hrve been recovered.
A Grand Rapids editor has made appli-
cation for admission TO the local poor
house. It's not every man who can stand
the poverty of his pursuit.
The life of Frank Rigley, a Saginaw
slater, was saved recently by a hammer.
A scaffold on which he was working,
sixty feet above the earth, gave way, but
fourteen feet below, his hammer caught
on a window sill and Frank held on un'
til assisted from his p~erilous position.
Three Saginaw people partook OF
smoked whitefish and were made so
deathly sick that the doctors had a hard
fight to save 'em. just how this diet
came to be poisonous is not known.
A Fenton deputy sheriff has been
capiased $4,000 worth, charged with bru-
tally beating a citizen of that town.
More'n forty tons of Croswell cheese
were shipped to Montreal, Can, in July.
From there the product will skipper across
the great sea to Liverpool.
j. c. Brown, a Marquette man, is float.
ing n raft containing 5000 600 feet of logs
down to Bay City.
A Saginaw lad of Polish proclivities
wandered out into the woods and couldn't
find his way back, and was clinging to life
on a root and herb diet whsn found.
A fellow mortal who resides at Blacks
Corners, near Lapeer, is particularly
stuck on dark oolors. He drives black
horses, his house is painted the same dark
hue, and he recently got a black eye at the
hands of his own Sol
George Ralph and wife, a Galesburg
couple have dwelt together in peace and
harmony for the past sixty-seven years,
and haven't any idea of dissolving until
the Lord calls. He's past 81 summers
while she's seen two more.
After wrestling with Kansas and Ne
braska chances for earning a living, T..
Banister, u st. Louis citizen, comes back
with the firm belier that Michigan Is a
paetty state to live in after all.
A 6-year-old lad fell off from a Michigan
Central train near Parma, that was run
ming at a forty-mile gait, and when the
train was stopped and backed up to secure
the remains, the boy was found playing
in the sand just as though he'd been ca re-
fully set down for that purpose.
A ventilated barrel is the product of the
brain of a Michigan inventor, but no man
of experience would think of putting 1t
on the market in a campaign year.
There's nearly zoo, 1000 acres of Upper
peninsula land that's still waiting for the
hand of the husbandman. Some of it will
likely continue to wait for several days
yet.
Some whopping big fish stories come
from Whitmore Lake of pickerel being
caught weighing twelve to fifteen pounds
each. 1t has often been noticed that the
skill of many fishermen consisted largely
in their story telling capacity.
An effort is being made to establish O
public market at Bay City. The scheme
is being favored by the business men Of
the town.
+. A. Dewey is n Cambridge citizen and
an old stager of 80 years of solid expert
49, Nall a.-Nv -..r 49, -, o.xA he ArAxyA IN
stage out of Detroit, and can tell many
a good story OF. those early days.
N. Curriston, a Saginaw citizen, tried
the water of an old well, and after a
months unsuccessful effort to get rid OF
its effects upon his system, is satisfied that
it doesn't pay to try too many experiments
in the beverage line.
Ex-Mayor Smith of Eaton Rapids, EN-.
listed in the union army in 1865 at the age
of 1877 years, and claims to have been one
of the youngest soldiers who figured In
what Carlyle called the american hair
pull"
A new atlas will be made of Lenawee
county. The one now in use was incu.
bated Is years ago, and like the boys suit
of clothes, has become much worn and
quite outgrown.
IL udS lOnS peeu suspeCseu JnuC many u
BARRIERS razor was too dull to wear rap
idly, save the customers patience, and
now comes the statement that n Flint
tonsorial artist has q couple that were
made away back in 1705.
Considerable interest has been mani.
tested throughout the country in the con.
test to see which state could show up the
man with the shortest name. Georgia
thought she'd settle it when Asa Low
toed the mark, but Michigan knocked her
out to quick with j. Ug, a short-handled
chap from Eaton county.
Hon. w. G. Woodwork, for many years
prominently identified with Michigan af.
fairs, died recently at his home in Center
vile aged "a years.
One hundred cars Of CONCEALED GOODNESS
are being shipped daily from the ice
houses of the northern portion of the
state.
Several agents Of insurance companies
not authorized to do business in this state
nave been arrested and held for trial for
violation of the state insurance statutes.
The latest case of this kind is that of +.
NJ. Woodmancy, of Vermontville.
1t cost Branch county 81, 143 to get rid
IF 9S 40 Enu1ich eparrovo the mast war