The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-08-01
NEWSOF THE STATE

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A shoe factory that will represent
capitalization of half million of dollars,
may be in operation at Battle Creek before
November's surly blasts shall announce
The approach of winter.
Moor & Co. of Detroit and the Emery
lumber company of Warsaw, each lost
heavily by huge lumber fire at Midland,
Ont, on thel9th.
Kittie Burch, Jackson girl of 32, died
In buggy about ten miles from chat city
while driving to a dance. Heart failure.
While picking huckleberries in a swamp
near Farnell j. G, Lord mistook r. j. Fer
guson for bear and shot him through
the heart. Ferguson left widow and
three children.
A semi-official announcement of Sagi-
naw's census places the figures at 40, l47
souls, gain of SO per cent in the last de-
cade.
The g.. r.. and l. Railway company has
sold 100000 feet of standing pine to
Mitchell & Cobbs, of Cadillac, being one
the largest pine deals of recent years.
A married woman assisted two young
chaps to accomplish the ruin of Lansing
girl Of ID. II the Capital City has many
such women, more's the pity for Ian
sing
Owners of gambling houses at Saginaw
have been notified by the police to quit
that sort of business or take the conse-
quences of legal action.
A West Branch factory that makes
speciality of chair legs, shipped 10000 Of
them the past week.
| w Mills Sapilac coDutv farpnar
moved 900 acres of meadow and has /, 500
tons of hay to show that he made "a good
job of it.
The Grand Trunk Railway company
will sell round trip tickets to the Boston
G. A. r. encampment, Aug. $40, for one
fare.
A s., 900 opera house block is to go up
at Gaylord The upper story will be used
for Masonic hall, and as the brow of
the building will stand sixty feet above
the earth, the supposition is that there'll
be plenty of room in which to exercise the
frisky goat.
The Au Sable lumber company carried
insurance in some twelve or fifteen COM
panies, all of whom accepted the premiums
with annual regularity. Presently a fire
came that way but the companies refused
to whack up. Now the lumber company
has begun legal action in the Bay City
courts to see il an insurance organization
can take its money and still not be liable
| when losses come.
Rev. c. r. Henderson, of Detroit, felt
sure that he wasn't paying his share of
the municipal burden, and 80 insisted on
doubling the amount of his city taxes.
One might search for lifetime without
finding a parallel cvse.
A west-bound express on the South
Shore was wrecked at Ishpeming. The
train was humping along at a twenty-mile
gait, and although the engineer went into
the ditch with his engine, none of the
trainmcn or passengers were injured.
The lady editors of the organized a
Woman's Press association at Traverse
City, electing Mrs. Frank Howard, of De-
troit, president
The Michigan delegation to the Boston
| G. A. r. encampment will exert them
selves to have the meeting in 1891 held ut
Detroit.
Work has been commenced on Bay
City's new electric railway, and the horses
| can take rest in the sweet by and by.
| A call has been issued for a meeting of
the prosecuting attorneys of the state, to
be held at Detroit, Aug. % and 26. An or
| ganization for mutual benefit and the
changing of certain criminal statues are
the objects aimed at.
| Rev. j. L. Patton, late Of GIeenville, but
now of fairer land, did not leave his
widow entirely comfortless. She has
receipted for $4,000 worth of life insur-
ance.
| The owners of Saginaw factories are
wise enough to know that it pays to try
and please their employees, and so they
arrange for an occasional picnic.
The Detroit crematory is steadily grow
ing in popular favor, the incnerations
now averaging about two per week. The
old prejudice against cremation is gradu-
ally fading away.
Lightning got away with $1,000 worth
of buildings for Thomas Childs, a Flint
farmer, on the Gath.
A. Zahn, a Livingstone farmer, thinks
he sold the banner wool crop of the state.
Anyway, it brought 3411 cents per pound,
the top notch of the market, as far as re-
ported.
Those corporations doing business un-
der the state banking law have been
called upon by the state banking commits
sioner for a report of their transactions
up to and including July 10.
Recent developments seem to indicate
the existence Of an organized band of
horse thieves in this state, with rendez-
vous at Flint, st. Johns, Greenville, Lans-
ing, Bedding, Grand Rapids, Lowell and
Kalamazoo.
Grand Haven's big fire occurred ten
months ago and yet some charcoal was
found burning in the debris 'tother day
that was ignited at'that time.
The new Polish church at Bay City will
go into commission next spring at cost
Of $50, 900. Twill seat ], 800 people
The measles are making things speck-
led at the Coldwater state public school,
seventy cases being on tap at last re-
ports.
The State Fair association has hung up
SD, 500 in premiums to attract the farm
ers of the state to the next fair at Lam
sing with their fat cattle, fast horses and
famous vegetables.
Port Austin people have been granted
an injunction restraining the owner of the