The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-08-22
NEWSOF THE STATE


A Bancroft boy. old enough TO have
known better, went to dance, warmed
himself up on frewater and then mean
dered out upon the railway track for a
rest Not long afterward he was inter
viewed blythe pilot of passenger en-
glne and although he made fast time for
the other shore, he'll recover.
Some fellow went prowling about the
premises of Dr. Wagner at Sand Beach,
and that gentleman promptly gave the
chap dose from his shotgun. The next
day the doctor was both surprised and
amused TO receive call from his victim,
but he quietly picked out the shot and
took his fee, meditating meanwhile ON the
compensations of this life.
Farmers in the vicinity of Greenville
will soon be feeding potatoes to the starch
factory at that place If this dry weather
let's 'em have any crop.
So much cash is wrapped up in the Sag
nav lumber trade just now that the local
banks show decrease of 500, 900 in de-
posits.
Grand Ledge doctors recently got their
heads together and decided that there
wasn't any fun in treating people who
don't pay, and hereafter this class must
medicine bottle
Dr. Slaght, Grand Blanc physician,
had accumulated little money, but his
knowledge of human nature made him
suspicious and he would trust the cash to
the banks. Not he. But he'd keep it in
the house where 'twould be safe from
Canadian trip. Tother day a burglar
came that way and the doctor has since
go h. 81 ~..fI 81
his cash.
Some bad, bad boys were stealing pears
from the tree of Battle Creek woman
when that lady promptly turned the hose
on 'em and thoroughly soaked their
hides before she'd let 'em down from their
perch.
Abram Wosd, Saginaw citizen, is said
to have fallen heir to an English estate of
$4,000, 900.
Ionia has invested 100000 in her water
works plant, but the system is said to be
less efidient than the service Of other
towns at a cost of one-fourth of that sum.
The value of public property, like that of
the individual, depends largely on the
way it's managed.
Three Rivers has been sued for 0,00O
Lewis Emery, Jr., averring that he's been
damaged that amount by the city's water
works plant.
Saginaw'e proposed car shops haven't
footed yet nor turned wheel; in fact the
signs of life manifested by the project
month or two ago have about vanished.
A new Lathrop lad of IA years died a
few days since because he had been fatally
injured by the kick of calf.
This Irx xyaot bar Sc not op1,
corn and potatoes look sick, but is drying
up the log crop also. 1t is estimated that
100, 900, 900 feet of pine logs are hung up
on the Thunder Bay river alone.
The Bay City young man who pummel-
ed his best girls father because the old
boy ordered him to leave the house, has
paid fine and costs of S33.
Wenona Beach Is fast coming to the
front as a popular resort, a recent Sunday
crowd comprising IL, 200 people from Sag.
NAV and Bay City.
IT'S thought that the twenty-foot wall
being built about the Marquette prison
will make it a trifie more difficult for the
prisoners to effect their escape when they
become tired of prison life and try to take
to the woods.
The chap who stopped Flint lady and
demanded her pocketbook was so sur.
prised by the unearthly shrek that greet
ed his ears that he took to his heels and
fed.
The peoples" church has gone into
commission at Lansing with Rev. J. Z.
Weed in command.
Hon. Levi L. Barbour of Detroit, and
FIR. Frank O'Brien, of Kalamazoo, have
been chosen by Governor Luce to repre-
sent the state at the national prison con-
gress which meets at Cincinnati Sept. 90.
Bay City eluines are said to be enter
tanning several well-defned cases of CLAN
ders, and the state veterinary surgeon is
making an investigation.
Chicago Baptists are making arrange
ments for camp meeting resort on Ira
verse bay. No lack of water there.
Two years ago M. f. Van Dusen, Reed
City citizen, was badly injured by saw
mill accident, and although he was once
awarded a 50, 900 judgment, the case has
been continued so long that he now ac-
cepts 81, 800, goodly slice of which goes
for lawyers fees.
Uncle Sans pension buread did good
thing when it remembered Frank Dem.
ming. Lake Odessa veteran. with
stipend of $40 per month. He's been
blind for ten years.
Some pretty large rattlesnake stories
come sailing in from several of che coun-
try towns, notably those that have local
option provisos in their charters
Four children were taken from the
home of John Murphy, Flint citizen,
within week by diphtheria, while it is
thought that two more can not live.
Michigan's insane are being cared for as
follows: Pontiac asylum, 900; Kalamazoo,
900; Traverse City, 6s7, making total of
2,646 This Is an increase of 2e7 over the
number of year ago.
The demand for the WEIGH folding be-
has become so great that the Sparta con-
Germ that makes 'em must double its ca
pacity to keep up with the orders.
A Muskegon couple made an overland
journey for health and pleasure, driving
single rig 400 miles in two weeks. No
better way of getting glimpses of the
country and enjoying ones self at the same
operation than with horse and buggy has
yet been devised-if you're not in hurry.
Just $3.50 Sanilac county farmers have
mortgaged their possessions during the
past 10 years. the indebtedness represent
ing 10 per cent of the conntv's assessed