The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-02-05
THE STATE BUDGET.
Items Of Interest Gathered from Here
and There

Port Huron cemeteries were beautified
with more than $4,000 worth Of monu-
ments the past season.
The salary of Rev. w. II. Davis, Con-
gregational parson at Detroit, has been
raised from 81, 500 to 5000.
Hemorrhage, caused by the extracting of
q tooth, may result in the death of a
Mount Morris girl, who is very low from
loss of blood.
The collision OF log and freight train
near Marquette resulted in loss of about
$50, 900 to the South Shore Railway COM
pany.
An Adrian man has dew sed box-mak
ing machine which, it is claimed, will
revolutionize the business of making
boxes.
Some things travel slowly. Forty years
ago did Mrs. Anderson Hillsdale lady,
break off the point of a cambria needle in
the thumb of her right hand. The Incl
dent was forgotten but the hand a5ter-
ward panied her greatly ut times and the
doctors advised amputation. A few days
since the needle point came out at the end
of the index finger and the hand is all
right again.
The capacity of some people is simply
marvellous. Frinstance, a Port Huron
man. admits that he has five living wives.
but insists that he is perfectly able to care
for 'em all.
IL there's no mistake in the figures,
something like nine hundred criminal
cases have been been interviewed by st.
Clair courts in the brief period of six
months.
The N. S. Hull stables burned the past
week at Grand Rapids and $4,000 worth
of valuable horses were cremated.
Monroe's county clerk issued 1926 mar
riage licenses last year. In lab of these
cases one of the contracting parties lived
outside the county.
Mancelona voted $4,000 for, a water
works system, but Minneapolis firm has
taken the contract for 81 900.
Ithaca people declare there's oil and lots
of it beneath 'em. cause they smell it, you
know, and an oil we'll is to be planted
deep down into the cold, damp earth at
once.
The grip has deprived pewamo family
of cat that had attained the remarkable
feline age of IS years.
DR.. Charles p. Stacy, the Hudson dem
fist who removed tn Crestcn. Ia, is having
a heap o. trauble just because he married
a lady by contract and dispensed with
the usual ceremony provided for by state
statute.
The Kelley institute at Worthwhile for
cure of inebriates has forty patients and
more are coming every week.
Uncle Sam has just paid j. A. Collier, a
Pentwater party, the sum of sl02. Is bounty
money which has been due Collier for
twenty-six long years.
Henry l.. Finney, Grand Rapids book
keeper, became respondent because he
could not refrain from occasional sprees,
and so suicided. He leaves wife and
paughter.
A two-head lamb Is the freak which n
Fenton farmer is trying to grow into
museum attraction.
Susan Rice died at Ypsilanti after living
in that town for Go seasons.
Claimed that Manistee justice of the
peace left his court in charge of a 16-year-
old son to try cases while he was absent
from home.
The Grand Trunk Railway company is
laying in supply of Vicksburg ice suffic
lent to cool all its patrons during the heat
ed term of '93.
Houghton furnishes some notable ex-
amples i'm matters matrimonial. One citi-
zen of IS took unto him elf II wife before
he had been u widower two weeks, while
another of 81 married a widow after an
acquaintance of seven hours.
The sale of 600, 900 feet of Canadian
- TO Inn IL oil
to the negotiations of G. McElroy, st.
Clair citizen.
l.. Girardin is n Lexington gentleman
who claims to have invented IL bit that
will cure. the most inveterate balky horse
in jiffy. Such contamination would
probably beat the revival meeting in re-
ducng profanity
Albion college students will engage in
big debate and try their hands at imper-
sonating some of Che heavy guns of the
United States senate at the same time.
Benton Harbor thinks there's some show
of securing mammoth steel plan,
backed by English capital, to give en-
ployment to 1000 or more men,
The Saginaw chap who took his best
girls watch and refused to return it, has
been arrested on complaint of the owner of
the timepiece.
Mrs. Minnie McClosky wants $4,000
from the Michigan Central Railway COM
pany as compensation for the loss of her
husband, who was killed at Rarron lake
while in the employ of that corporation rs
brakeman.
Gratiot county went dry at the recent
local option election by decided major
ity.
Three young bears were discovered near
Kalkaska by party of wood choppers and
taken to town as u trophy of their
prowess.
A Watervliet man is said to have be-
come penitent after the death of the wife
whom he had abused and placed 25-cent
piece in her coffin.
George Warfield, a former Manistique
man, moved down into Indiana and found
talking with the Hoosers such a tax that
he's lost his voice.
f.. s. Houghtaling tried to revive a
slum boring coal fire with kerosene. He'll
let somebody else experiment until his
burned face and hands shall heal.
Battle Creeks school furniture company
has been made defendant to five suits for