The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-12-11
STATE GLEANINGS.
Interesting Items of News which Are
strictly Michigan.

100000 worth Of dock aud elevator prop
eii!. A large quantity OF coal, grain and
flour was also destroyed.
Banker G. w; Waldron, who left Hills
dale creditors in the lurch some time
since, and is now getting rich at Fair
haven, WASH. is said to have subscribed
S. 900 for the establishment of a Presbyte-
rian institute in that western city.
The Methodist societies at Three Rivers
and Centreville are in a squabble over a
parson of that persuasion, Rev. ii. III.
Rood The latter society are now in pos
session of the parson, but being good
man and true, the Three Rivers people
are anxious to secure his services and
have invoked the bishops aid IN their
behalf.
Michigan railways were extended just
$50 miles the past year, being a greater
mileage of new track than is shown by
any other state in the Union. Georgia
Is close second, however, with 437
miles
Grand Rapids has great variety Of
manufacturing Industries, which include
three factories that turn out nothing but
wooden shoes.
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An Eaton Rapids family has nineteen
children that gather around the dinner
table when they're all at home. But it
requires regular boarding house table
to accommodate 'em.
One of those zephyrs, known as cy-
clone, swept over a portion or Macomb
county and leveled a forty acre tract Of
valuable oak timber for which the own
err had repeatedly refused a good round
sum. A sawmill is now at work on the
remains
j. L. Chapman was a Kalamazoo citi-
zen who abandoned the struggle for
life after an illness of but twenty min
ntes
Ishpeming has snow shoe club with
eight officers, and these eight people
represent seven different nationalities
Even snow shoe club can be cosmopol-
itan.
The wrecking tug Leviathan was burned
at Cheboygan at loss of 81, 600.
Three counterfeiters, some bogus money
and the necessary outfit for its manufact-
ure, were captured near Cadillac and bas-
tiled at Grand Rapids.
The drowning of l9-months-old babe
in bath tub is reported from Bay City
An Eaton Rapids family has nineteen
children that gather around the dinner
| table when they're at home. But it re-
quires regular boarding house table to
accommodate 'em:
The Saginaw syndicate which purchased
the May flower mill and elevator propose
to grind 500 900 bushels of wheat before
the advent or anoi her Thanksgiving.
Mt Clemens not only has an abundance
of mineral water, but has shipped 5000
barrels of apples to Chicago to satisfy, in
some measure, the apple appetite OF the
windy city.
Military hunors ut the Worlds fair
opening will he performed by $500 mill
| tia. of which Michigan has the privilege
of furnishing an even 1000.
Mrs. John j. Rice, wife of Grand Rap
| ids doctor. alleges that John isn't as at
| ten,ive rs he ought 20 be, and she there
| fore asks for a divorce.
Gerard Palmer. Jr.. Worthwhile lad OF
! 10 summers. weighs 100 pounds, and his
lister, miss Of ID summers, tips the
scales ut 265 pounds. Their parents are
| OF medium size.
The Central City Soap company at Jack
son has sustained 5000 fire loss. In
sured
Michael Gu ter was blown into atoms
while thawing out dynamite ut the Ca
runna coal mines.
The employees of the Worthwhile Globe
factory hold prayer meetings at the shops
alter the days work is done.
Caro- citizens and 200 cows have formed
a com hination cooperation cheese fac
tory.
Smallpox no longer exists in the state
saith the state board of health.
The Crouch murderers, wherein four
jackson county people lost their lives
eight years ago, is still shrouded in the
deepest mystery, nobody having been
punished for the terrible deed.
A Detroit tobacco manufactures insists
that tobacco chewing is or the increase,
that much larger quantities are used
than ten years. and that the "plug" form
of the article is now in greatest demand.
The Michigan Central railway and
Battle Creek electric railway people have
come to an amicable understanding, and
the latter's lines will be allowed to cross
the formers tracks.
Carrie Moyses is an Owosso domestic
who invoked the assistance OF gasoline in
doing washing. with the usual result.
Carrie finds the recovery process, from the
burns received, far from an easy matter.
The dead body Of an Italian was found
In "dead fall" near Spruce Lake, which
had been set for a bear.
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Colonel John Gaebelin, the jackson
man who undertook the job OF eating
thirty quail in as many days, quit the
contest on the eleventh day, having eat
en- quail enough to last him quarter of
a century unless he changes his mind.
Petoskey women mend fish nets and
earn n dollar per day in doing it.
Mrs. Elizabeth Odren, who lived upon
Branch county farm for fifty-six years.
| is dead at the age Of 81. Her husband
died four years ago at exactly the same
| age.
The Lake Superior iron mines shipped
| about 5000 600, 600 tons of ore during OIL
less than two.thirds of the output for the
previous year.
| At the annual meeting of the State Hor-
ticultural society. held Mt Eaton Rapids
recently, 4. T. Lyon of South Haven WAS
reelected president of the association, and
Edwy &. Reed Of Allegan secretary.
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