The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-08-21
NEWS OFTHE STATE

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Unless things change soon this season
will be known as the cold summer of 9l.
Frost visited several sections of the state
last week, cutting the crops to the
ground
A Dairson gentleman found white
robin with pink eyes that is considered a
great novelty by local ornithologists
Lightning struck and followed Lodi
barbed wire fence until it came in conven-
lent reach of horse that was grazing in
the adjacent pasture, when it jumped for
the animal with unerring aim and fatal
results.
William Ripke, of Rogers City, is said
TO have confessed to have been one Of q
party who murdered Albert Molitor, a
merchant of that town, about twenty
years ago. The confession duplicates
some of the most prosperous farmers Of
that region.
The statement that the fire in the Re-
public mine wasn't much of blaze has
been entirely disproved by miner clad in
diving armor, who descended and found
the sixth level all ablaze. The loss al
ready exceeds $250,000.
John Goodhouse, who served with Gen
eral Grant in the Mexican war, both men
belonging to the same company, died at
Robinson recently, aged II years.
Whiteley's circus found poor picking in
this state, and finally stranded at Jones'
vile.
Winding 200 dozen spools of silk is full
days work for the average girl, but Miss
Ella Curtis reeled off sos dozens in ten
hours at a Bedding mill.
A baldheaded eagle with q big waist,
measuring ~ feet across the wings, has
been harvested by rifle and huntsman
bold near Mancelona.
Money hid in the coal stove ougfS to be
comparatively safe in the summer -
son, but an Argyle lady wanted lfttfe
/, heat on certain cool August morning,
and $40 went up the caloric fiue.
There's Michigan statute that says sa
loon curtains must not be allowed to OBJ.
truct full view of the bar, and a How
ell man has just been fined for its viola
tion,
= Howell's hot fire wiped out $4,000
factory, with only $4,000 of insurance to
cover the loss.
Colorado potato beetles object to the
society of ladybugs, and as the latter are
numerous in Marion county this season
the former have nearly all emigrated.
The last bank statement shows that the
III 1tate banks of this commonwealth
have made loans of over SO, 00O, 900 and
hold about 500, 600, 600 worth of bonds and
mortgages. The savings deposits amount
to nearly $30,OOO,0O0
A mummy coffin that was made in
Rome during the dark ages, is portion
of the outfit of Saginaw undertaken.
The Ionia reformatory is getting in tn
work of reform on 300 subjects who are
supposed to need it.
Ernest Schinke, sWhite Pigeon hermite
was found lying on the floor of his shanty
dead, with his dog watching the body.
The +. and p. M. Railway company has
abandoned the pay-car system of settling
for services rendered, and returned to the
old check plan of paying off.
Sheriff Bradley of Traverse City took
snooze while conveying a prisoner from
Saginaw to Ionia and taking advantage
of the officers relaxation the fellow
jumped from the train and took to The
woods
Bay City is canvassing the advisabiliyt
of establishing public market. The
scheme has been agitated before but did
not materialize.
Negaunee and Ishpeming are looking
each other over with a view of a munich
pal marriage.
Middling's purifiers may not all be
made at Jackson, as Grand Rapids has or
ganized a 100000 company to manufact-
ure an improvement on the Smith ma
chine. Operations will be commenced at
early date.
Mrs. Mary Parmerlee, a former Michi-
gan lady, came all the way from Cali
fornia to the 500 to marry Detroiter.
The ceremony was performed on the Ca
madam side of the line.
Major Joseph Mckee of Grand Rapids
has been elected commandant of the state
soldiers home, vice Captain c. II. Manly,
resigned.
Edward Girdschinski, Kalamazoo
druggist, has been arrested on charge of
opening his employers letters. Edward
may be all right, but his last name is
certainly against him.
The collapse of SO many western booms
will probably result in the material adj
vance of Michigan real estate in the near
future
EARLY rising seems to be a cardinal prin-
ciple of the adventists. The daily pro-
gramme of their campmeeting at Lansing
begins at 4:30 in the morning and closes at
$50 each evening, at which hour every
body is supposed to be sleeping the sleep
of the just, but tired camper.
Jane Douglas was made cripple for
life some four years since by falling
through defective Bay City bridge, and
the county has just paid her $1,000 in
settlement of her claim for damages.
A sawmill and a large quantity of pine
lumber were destroyed by forest fires at
Bachelor, Manistee county, at a loss of
about $4,000. Partially insured.
j. II. Thomas, sentenced to twenty-five
years of hard labor at Marquette for shoot
ng an Evan citizen, has gone insane from
remorse and been transferred to the Ionia
prison.
Grand Rapids parties are talking of go
ing into the manufacture of paving
brick.
George Washington Clinton cut ten
acres of Clinton oats that harvested al
bushels of grain, and then attended IL
Detroit encampment.
A young man of Plainwell made
sensation by donning a lady's apparel
and riding galloping nag about the