The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-01
NEWSOFTHE STATE


A Big. Rapids dealer in drinks 1.
charged with violating the liquor laws by
selling tanglefoot to a boy of III summers,
and had to give bonds to avoid a sojourn
at the local bastile until the case could
be ventilated in court.
Dancing is an almost universally ia,
vorite amusement but Frank Kassel, a
Lexington dancer, does not enjoy 1t as OF
yore. At recent shin dig he danced SO
hard as to break a couple of bones OF one
leg.
Morencie has parson who ekes out a
meager salary by working up life insur-
ance business. The man who insures nat
urally has a little better chance for a pass
port to a front seat on the other side
when the final farewell is taken.
2 George Lindsay was conductor of a
Saginaw railway car and on recent trip
had his drunken father for passenger.
The old gentleman soon became abusive,
when George tried to quiet him and re-
ceived serious stab near the heart. The
old man is in Jail and sober now.
An American eagle was sailing along
near Atlanta 'tother day, not knowing
that John Edwards and a steel trap re-
sided in the locality, and John now has
the bird of freedom in captivity.
Mrs. Huldah johnson was Colon Lady
who was born in the month of April
Three times was she married, all occurring
in the same month, and few days since
she died. April was star month for
Huldah.
August Wolff, the Ontonagop chap
whose name and nature seem to agree
has been captured and will be tried for
beheading August Smith with an ak.
The Niles boy who sold his fathers best
coat for half a dollar seems to have been q
believer in forced sales when in need Of
cash.
Melbourne H. Ford, congressman from
the Fifth district, died suddenly at Grand
Rapids of apoplexy.
company, the largest of the whole copper
country corporations averages about $500, :
900 per month.
Prospects are good for a largely in
creased yield of the Kalamazoo celery
crop this season. The average value OF
the crop for the past few years has been
about 100000.
Daniel Ferguson, one Of Colo yater's
Oldest citizens, died recently at the adj
yanced age Of IS years.
their loose cash, having decided that they
must have a boulevard.
Wildman Mills, the Croswell man who
faoms 1000 acres and owns 80 00 more,
fell through a trap door and has since
worn several cracked ribs. He's probably
the most extensive farmer of the state.
Antrim county's probate judge is said
to hold court but one day each month,
1nts hA hall Of flS. - H..
cultivation of the soil. Antrim is a
healthy land which makes the probate
work very light.
A brick and stone depot, to cost $l3.-
600, will be planted at the American
opening of the Port Huron tunnel by
the Grand Trunk Railway company.
Fire got away with the council rooms
and engine house at Stanton recently.
The fire engine was saved with great diff
ficulty.
dertakers is in very unhealthy condi-
ton owing to the robust good health of
the people. Nine months withouta death
among 800 residents is trifle discourage
ing to the average undertaken.
After one year more foreign students to
the State university will be required to
Caro- has citizen who claims to have
mania for killing people, and the
impulse is sometimes SO strong that
resistance to it is almost impossible, and
now he asks the sheriff to take restrain
ing care of him.
If the Alpena doctor who made the fig
ures isn't mistaken, that city has 1000
people who are wrestling with the grippe.
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ing up good South American trade for
their manufactured wares. Among the
number is the Pellett Table company, a
Flint concern, which is shipping large
quantities of tables to the south.
A Lexington man had leg broken
while exploring the mysteries of local
secret society, and now his newly-found
brothers are nursing him back to health.
Monroe sportsmen are having lots #
fun in harvesting the wild geese which,
just now, are swarming upon the marshes
in that vicinity.
John Davis. Mecosta county farmer,
spent some good money trying to break
failed. The brother willed $4,000 to a
nephew, and the courts upheld his sanity
in the act.
Ddy lily CitlZtuS CAL navigate Une Walks
of that town in comparative safety once
more, the chief of police having notified
all bicyclers to run their wheels in the
street along with the other vehicles
st. Joseph county hasn't an unusually
large number OF railroads within her
borders, and yet she's the only county in
the state where railway tracks are laid
upon the soil of every township compris-
ing her territory.
Fire damaged the Whitehall manufac-
turing company and the Bell g. Utley
carriage company's works $4,000 on the
sd. Insured.
For the three months ending March Is
the Manistique railway transported over
30, 900 feet of logs.
Will Leslie is Mecosta county youth
of IS Aprils who's been sent to the state
reformatory to grow up with that institu-
ton for tho next four years, because he
robbed an uncle.
The Grand Trunk railway company is
essentially an English corporation, but
for all that Hon, Spencer o. Fisher, of
West Bay City, owns a block of stock big
enough to secure his election as a director
Of the company.
The university glee club has returned
from its annual singing tour, having