The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-04-25
NEWS OF THE STATE


Toe ce men Of Lansing, Grand Rapids,
and several other Michigan towns, have
formed trust with view of putting up the
price of concealed comfort Should the old
rule of cool summer following warm
winter hold good This season, this trust may
experience financial fever next fall
By recent order all students at the state
agricultural college are compelled to work
on the college plantation and grounds.
Heretofore such labor has been optional
with the students.
The pathway % fame and fortune via the
newspaper route is being travelled less fire.
quently than formerly. Michigan publca-
tons now number GA, a decrease of twelve
for the past year.
Hon f. j. Penniman, the Plymouth gen.
tleman VINO has celebrated Christmas for
several years by giving every youngster who
callei on him a silver quarter, is dead, aged
80 yeHrs. He had been banker, was an
ex.congressman, leaves a $500, 900 estate and
was generally beloved for his many vir-
tues.
Jackson'S pulp mill was damaged 81, 900
or 81, 900 worth by fire a few evening since.
Rev. +. i. Freeman, "A Muir parson, re-
ceived the munifcont salary of 81 for seven
months services and now retires from the
ministry to enjoy the fruits of his abors
Alexander Cuddy, of Detroit murdered
MS wife with an axe on the 18th, and then
hung himself. The murdered woman was
80 years of age and a second wife, while
Gu DIV had passed 90 summers Domestic
difficulty was the cause OF the tragedy.
Something like 100000 whitefish fry
and 5000 coo brook trout-we haven't had a
chance to verify the fgures-have been
planted in the waters of the state this
spring by the Michigan fish commission.
The intellect of the future ought to be as
sured.
The ate pit to identify the abductors of
Miss Nightingale, of Oscoda, resulted in
failure, nd the parties held therefor have
been DISCHARGED The case is one of deep
mystery. with little prosp ct of it being
cleared up
The Ionia prison had 400 boarders the first
of tn" IN nth, but the spring additions will
mater a..y increase the number.
George j. Smith, the Jackson gentleman
OF purifier fame, has invented a new reduc-
ton and boiling process, calculated to
greatly lessen the cost OF -four manufacture.
The min stry has secure a legal addition
in the person of Alexander Do 60, an Iowa
lawyer Alexander wild try his nand in the
promu CATION of Presbyterianism at East
Jordan, for a starter.
j. l.. MoQuaid is sojourning in the Howell
bastile because he married a Fowlerville
lady when according to current rumor, he
had a lawfully welded wife back in Penn
sylvania.
The Crescent furniture factory ut Big
Rapids sustained an $751; 900 fire loss on the
l6tu; insurance So, 00O The same factory
was badly damaged by fire less than year
ago.
Mrs p d. Annis, a Saginaw lady, has
had S45, 900 added to her possessions by the
death of a brother at Chicago.
Detroit's tax levy for current expenses
for the year 1870 approximates the sum o.
$2,500,0O0.
1t cost Benzie county taxpayers $500 per
day to secure a jury without individual
opinions in the Wright murder case, which
indicates that justice travels an expensive
highway in some instances.
Dr. w. II. Haynes, colored, brought g
$1,000 damage suit against a Detroit res
tauranter for refusing to furnish him
meal Judge Bre oort instructed the jury
to return verdict for the defendant on the
ground that the plaintiff was not a citizen
of this country and also that u restaurant
is not a public inn.
Ishpeming's population comprises 5000
Firms in addition to large number of other
foreign born citizens.
Mis- Clara Amberg, of Grand Rapids, tired
of life on account of illhealth and inability
TO sleep, and so went hence by the bedbug
poison route. She died in great agony.
Troy has Democratic supervisor for the
first time in thirty long years.
Howells new court house has gone into
commission, and cost, all equipped and
ready to grind, a round $4,000.
If additional evidence We're needed in sup
port of the assertion that this is progress
sve age, it was furnished by the Grand
Rapids Presbytery voting unanimously for
a revision of their creed
The Seventh Day Advent convention,
held at Flint, was attended by 500 delegates
from all sections Of the state.
Port Huron is likely to have full-fledged
Chinese citizen, Hop Lee, a local laundry
man, having made application for the neces-
sary naturalization credentials his being the
first case of the kind in st. Clair county.
Edward Little celebrated his Tooth birth
day anniversary at his home near Marcellus.
He has been thrice married and is the father
of twenty-three children.
DIR. Reid, Grand Rapids spirit postmas-
ter" convicted of the fraudulent use OF
United States mails, has been granted a
hearing tor a new trial He has committed
matrimony also since his conviction.
The horses that have been hauling MuslEe-
gon street cars can take rest now, as the
cars are being whirled along by a tireless
current of electricity.
The past winter is universally admitted
to have been mild one, but Fireman Bray,
an Okemos farmer, was somewhat surprised
upon opening pit of potatoes tother day
to find that they'd grown right along since
being buried, showing new tubers of full
average size.
Mrs. Lewis Whit, WILLIAMSON lady, had
the la grippe last winter, resulting in her
total blindness. She continued in this con-
dition until e few days since when her sight
was suddenly restored, and that, too, with
out recourse to medicine or faith cure.
Walter S. Jones, late Lansing resident,
emigrated TO Butte City, Montana, five
months ago, secured a job in the postofiice,
and now word comes from his home that
Walter and 81, 100 worth of postoflice funds
hava disapnaored