The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-05-08
NEWSOFTHESTATE


Ray TAFT a West Bay City lad. t~sed
the experiment OF stealing a ride on the
electric street railway. and his funera
was held two days later
In five weeks campaign at NORTH
Star. the "Cpxsaders" corrailed POO con
verts. tHtAtl
Four dollars per day mag seem like big
wages for common labor, but that's the
figure paid to Menominee lMmber show
ers.
A. M. Randall and r. Merrill are q
couple OF Berrien county tillers of the soil
who raise fifty acres of mushmelons and
tomatoes each season for the Chicago mar
ket And they make the business a re-
munerative one, toe
Ailegan's gas well has been dropped
down into the earth little more than 800
feet without striking any gas regions of
commercial value.
About a year ago thu husband of Mrs.
Elizabeth Grostio was killed by the D.,
l.. and N. cars at Howell, and Elizabeth
is endeav0ring to convince that corpor a.
tion that her loss is worth s25, 900 to her.
The Chicago and Grand Trunk railway
company isn't at all pleased with the q
cent fare bill and will ask the United
States supreme courts opinion of its con-
stitutionality.
Five out of the nine townships of Al
coma county have lady school directors,
advocates of women's rights will please
make a note of this.
Sanilac county Sunday schools have a
membership of Afro. but the number of
boys and girls who go fishing on the first
day Of the week haven't been computed
Whileattendingt the funeral of Congress
man Ford in Grapd Rapids, Mrs. George
H. Oliver was relieved of gold watch.
The Grand Rapids thief is NO respecter OF
time, places or occasions.
Prospect of bountiful fruit crop ia
this state were never better than now.
saith the oldest inhabitant, and that in
diyidual ought to know.
Many Michigan audiences are being en-
tertained these days by that inimitable
humorist, Bill Nye.
For twenty-six consecutive years has
Robert Long melted out justice in Bay
county in the capacity of justice of the
peace.
Battle Creek may be in no special need
of having her face washed. but for all
that New York firm has been looking
the field over with a view to starting a
soap factory in that city.
University students at Ann Arbor are
wrestling with malignant attack of base
ball fever.
Some Monroe boys took an initiative
lesson at smoking and that's the reason
that William Reiger's barn and contents,
valued at 81 600, is now an ash heap.
A cyclone got loose in the vicinity of
Asperl, a few leagues west of the $500"
and blew the breath from telegraph poles
timber in u twinkling, doing much dam
age.
B. Ferrel lives near Hillsdale, but
when he planted charge of dynamite
under big rock and then clambered
upon the top thereof to note the effect of
the explosion, he came near journeying to
the new Jerusalem. AS it is, he'll COM
plete the sojourn in this vale of tears
with a single foot.
Crystal Falls people rejoice over what
they claim to be the finest Jail in the up
per peninsula.
Work on Bay City's public building
has been begun at last, in good earnest.
George A. Lockhardt, a Galesburg resi-
dent of sixty years standing and the in
ventor of a valuable process for harden.
ing picks, which he kept q secret, died a
few days since.
Kalamazoo kids are especially fond of
wedding cake even when they are obliged
to sneak into a house and smuggle it
away while the marriage ceremony is in
progress, as a couple of 'em did 'tother
night, leaving not a taste for the bride
and her guests.
II. r. Morse, an Alpena lumberman,
has been offered 1885,, 900 for tract of Van
couver island pine, but is waiting for
better bid.
An Aztec mound has been discovered
near Edmore. and the villagers are greatly
interested in the skeletons, copper weap-
ons and other relics it contained.
Three or four miles of street pavement
and about two miles of sewerage is the
job that the city of Saginaw will tackle
this season, at cost of more'n 500, 200.
Estimated that nearly 81, SOC, 700 worth of
new buildings will go up in the same city
before another Christmas.
john Leahan, who had covered nearly
century of earthly existence and was
Sanilac county's Oldest citizen, is dead.
st. Clair county has no public debt and
doesn't desire any.
Armada is the postoffice address of +.
d. Cutcher, who's DESTROYS of matching
500 with any Michigan man in an all
round athletic contest.
Judge Montgomery is recovering from
what was at one time thought to be q
fatal sickness at Washington.
Dan Chapman is a Cassopolis lad who
owns dog that can go around the race
track spryer'n any horse in town, and
Dan has refused $4,000 for him.
Mrs. Johannes Lowden, a Grand Rap.
ids lady, was badly burned by her cloth
ing catching fire from pile of leaves she
was burning.
Minnie L. is the name of steamboat,
the owners of which have been sued $10,-
600 worth because John L. Starkweather,
q Romeo resident, fell down her gangway
and hurt himself
Jonathan Boyce had $4,000 worth of
saw logs burned near Meredith by the
fires that are raging in Clare and Glad.
win counties.
Samuel H. Case, Cass county citizen,
must dwell at jackson for a period of
thirteen years because he was convicted
of incest.
Another month will probably see the
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