The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-06-05
NEWSOFTHESTATE

Joseph johnson, who had his back
broken by a logging accident near Reed
City, died In the Big Rapids hospital aft
er suffering intensely for three weeks.
A Big Rapids parson prayed long and
fervently for rain but without avail.
Finally a circus came to town and then a
deluge followed.
Detroit capitalists are arranging to
develop Holland stone quarry, with the
expectation of employing 800 men when
things get to running smoothly.
Jacob Traub, Bertrand farm er
charred some fence posts with the idea
that they would he more durable, but
the charring process reduced his ". OOC
barn and contents to ashes.
H. w. Cheever, of Lansing. and A. S
Whitner, of Mount Clemens, were elect
ed president and secretary Of the State
Association of City School Superintend.
ents, held at Lansing the past week.
Allegan's oil well was relieved of four.
teen barrels of oil by the pumping process
in twelve hours, and the earth will be
perforated again in the hope of striking
greasier vein.
N. HI. Brown, a Mancelona man, went
down to Adrian to attend the golden we'd
ding of o. K. Culver and wife, as he's the
only person still living who witnessed theil
marriage half century ago.
The June roses have blossomed ninety
three times since Polite Hoxie, a North
Adams lady, became acquainted with her
parents, but she still reads and sews with
out the aid of glasses.
st. Joseph county pioneers will congre
gate at Centerville, June 10, and indulge
in "reminiscences of We early days, when
the red man and black bear had both eyes
on the advance guard of civilization.
Mrs. Florence Van VOORHEES,, Grand
Rapids Lady, was driven insane by being
made defendant in a divorce suit, and has
been committed to the Kalamazoo asylum.
Saginaw's wealth, as indicated by the
assessment rolls, aggregates little more
than 81, 100000
Unless there is some mistake in the fig
ures, and John Brooks is sure there isn't
that gentleman has seen los birthday an
niversaries. He lives at Waldron.
Members of the Lutheran church in this
state must either renounce the church OF
the secret societies to which they belong,
saith an edict of the synod of thet demon.
ination.
More'n s., 0O0, 600 was paid to the EN-
ployes of Ishpeming mines during the
year of grace, 1890. The figures for 1891
will be somewhat smaller.
The farmers of northern Michigan wiped
out 100000 of mortgaged Indebtedness
by the proceeds of their last years potato
crop.
Joseph and Mary Jerome, a Bay county
couple, admit that they opened letter
and appropriated the $107 contained there.
in, which belonged to another party, but
they've made good the deficit to the right
owner, and will not be jagged.
r. S. Hamilton, an Eckford gentleman.
awoke 'tother morning to find his wife ly.
ing dead beside him. She had been in
usual good health for some time before the
fatal sleep.
Nehemiah Chase, wealthy Kalama,
zoolu, had Luke Cooney arrested for EN-
bezzlement. Luke proved his innocence
too quick, whereupon he turned the tables
upon Chase by securing $2,0S3 judgment
for malicious prosecution.
The schooner Thomas Hume, owned at
Muskegon, went down in a gale on Lake
Michigan, and her crew of seven men found
a watery grave
A Bay City pension attorney is in trouble
for charging 500 fees in a case which the
law says should not exceed SOS.
An association has been formed by Ith.
AGA ladies for the express purpose of car
ing for the graves in the local cemetery.
A 500 citizen named Blake gets five
years in the Marquette prison because he
INDUCED in the expensive luxury of three
wives.
l1Dxf 1o al lN.... zJ..l
will invest $4,000 in club house
Mrs. Caroline Dasher, widow of Fred
Dasher, the Ecorse man who was killed on
the Wabash railwayf year and half ago,
will submit her claim of $4,000 against
the companv to jury.
The ia banks doing business in this
have resources of SOFIA.
$40. The saving deposits of the same in.
situations amount to the snug sum of $2s,.
5S3, 4O5
John and Mrs. Peltier, a Mt. Clemens
couple, are the parents of a baby which
weighed less than a pound at birth TITS |
now three weeks old and bids fair TO make |
a live of it.
A Traverse city jury made the Justice.
before whom the case was tried, guaran- |
tee 'em their fees before they would render
a verdict. m
The timbered lands of the defunct Potts |
Salt and Lumber company, have been pur
chased by Alger, Smith g. Co., of Detroit. |
the price paid being in the neighborhood |
Of $500, 600
The chap who fired into Lake Shore
railway train near Adrian not long since. |
has squealed on himself and now claims
the $500 reward offered by the company for
the detection of the offender.
short sessions and a business legislature
will probably be unknown in this state
while members are allowed but beggarly
pittance for their services, which debars
most men of ability from serving the state
in such capacity" suggests business
man whose success in life gives his opinion
much weight. M
Frank Butler, Milan man, lost a COW
recently in peculiar manner. He had
lifted stumps from pasture field with |
dynamite, and left a cartridge in the field
Along came bossy the next day and tried |
her teeth on the missile, when she went
hence very suddenly.
Rev. Charles johnson, a former super
ntendent of the state reform school at
Lansing, but of late years Baptist par
son at Sorth Haven, dropped dead at
Hartford while returning home from a
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