The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-15
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Accident items are likely to be numer
Gus, as the Plymouth Air Gun works are
turning ont 1900 weapons daily. and the
small boy is always ain It..
An orakorical contest held at Anu Ar
Dor. and participated In by the North
western colleges, resulted In Austin c.
Gormley. OF Michigan university, taking
the first prize of 500.
Garfield Cole Is a Fowlerville sports
man of very deficient Workmanship. The
other day he espied q w0odchuck in the
yard and fired, the full charge of shot
lodging in his wife's neck. She may re-
cover.
Hargreave e. Co.'s single mill was Gre
mated at Bay City with $4,000 loss.
Insured for $4,000.
A Grand Haven genius has evolved a
gas making machine that Is to revOlu-
tionize the heating and cooking problem
of the age, il the inventors prophetic
vision proves true.
Benton Harhor has been made port of
entry with Capt. b. +. Rounds in conn
mand as collector.
White Caps paid their respects to q
Morenci man who deserted his family
and went back to the MATERIAL protee
tion of his ma. Ths fellow thought best
to heed the warning and is again caring
for his own.
A. c. Bowman, Petoskey's supervisor.
stepped between two freight cars just as
they came together and was crushed, He
was very highly respected citizen.
Several boys who were applicants for
the naval cadetship from the Eighth dis
trict. were rejected on account of heart
troubles caused by the deadly cigarette
habit.
Burglars ransacked the r. and p. M.
depot at Yale without capturing any cash,
and being extra dry lot they tapped bar
rel of whisky and got away with consid-
cradle portion of the contents
jefferson O'Connell' lives at Adrian,
and for the past thirty-seven years has
he delivered parcels for the United States
Express company in that city.
The United States Graphite company is
Saginaw concern which has just been
incorporated with capital stock of
100000
Spirit vendors of Calhoun county have
contributed SIS, 065 license money to the
public treasury.
Croswell has a brick OF an institution
that turns out IA. 600 well made brick per
day, and finds ready sale for its prod
uct.
IT'S very rare that the Salvation Army
let's up on any town it tackles. but Wyan-
dotte was too much for the Army and it
has evacuated
Some sharper is enveavoring to relieve
the farmers of the state of their surplus
change by selling 'em guaranteed
otIa m FOR mr.
exterminate.
An Ann Arbor girl has been arrested
and jailed for trying to pass forged
checks. She was induced to the deed by
her lover, who wished to raise money TO
enable the pair to elope.
The longevity of Eaton Rapids CANNES
is being materially shortened by diet of
beefsteak and strychnine.
Huron county farmers have found plum
culture TO be a profitable industry, and
large numbers of trees are being planted
this spring.
A Bay county jury listened to the evil
dence and gave it as its opinion that Rob-
ert Smith committed murder when he
killed his brother, Jude, last December,
albeit Robert claimed it was case of
self-defense. A life job at Jackson awaits
him.
Few people care to have their milk
skinned, but that same process enables
the Mt. Pleasant creamery to realize %
per cent. dividend the past season.
Mrs. Benjamin Kelley is Holloway
lady who claims to have grown a lemon
weighing twenty-four ounces in the con-
genial cline of Lenawee county.
The Holly Mining company ground
over 90, 000 barrels of flour last year, and
is putting sup q, 900 bushel elevator as
an auxiliary to its steady growing bust.
ness.
The farmers Alliance has forty eight
lodges in Sanilac county, which Indicates
that the farmers of this bailiwick appre-
ciate the value of organization.
The matrimonial market has been very
active at Jackson of late, resulting in a
genuine hired girl famine in the prison
city.
Lenawee claims to be the boss cheese
county in the state. having twenty fac
tories in operation, and every one of them
making money.
Mrs. f. Nye, who lives near Lapeer,
called on a neighbor, leaving 2.year-old
baby, son OF 8 summers, and a revolver
to keep house. When she returned the
baby was dead, shot by its elder brother.
Peter Pegler is Monroe farmer whose
barns were recently burned, and 1000
bushels of corn, 400 OF wheat, and a COM
plete outfit of farming tools were roasted
at the same time.
Mrs. d. b. Whitbeck, the Kalamazoo
lady whose husband was killed on the
Michigan Central last winter, has sued
that corporation for $40, 600 worth OF rec.
ompense. 81
Petosky wants the proposed extension
Of the Chicago and West Michigan rail-
way and has voted $1,000 worth of
bonds to be issued for ''public improve
= ments."
Cadillac is negotiating with Chicago
company for a waterworks system.
William Harrison lost a row of tene-
ment houses at Grand Rapids last fall,
and now another row of dwellings, on the
same foundations, are In ashes. 1t is
thought to be the work of an incen-
diary.
Dagnette, the chap who's trying for
pardon from Jackson prison, is the fellow
who was sent up for thirty-four years for
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