The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-04-29
MICHIGAN STATE NEWS.
Happenings Which Are Noted for the
Benefit of Our Own People.

Benefit of Our Own People.
Kinrass was recently visited by frisky
streak of lightning which struck barn
owned by Hugh Cameron, killed a dog,
goose and horse and then skipped over
TO the house and dropped the chimney.
Muskegon people are building "a wig
wan, capable of seating 5000 people, TO.
the accommodation of the Democratic
state convention.
Two inspectors of election in Clare
county have been arrested on charge of
tearing up several ballots on election
day.
Thieves relieved the home of G. M.
Braddish at Augusta of $500 worth of val
uables while the owner was attending
dance.
The Algonac girl who proposed and was
accepted, carried the leap year business to
n legitimate conclusion by paying all of
the wedding expenses
Colonel Thomas Saylor, former post
master OF East Saginaw, has just received
Sl7 from the government which was due
him seventeen years ago.
Herman Goeschel, German lad of z
summers, made the journey from the
fatherland alone, reaching Manistee last
week.
The Kalamazoo Street Railway COM
pany has adopted Scent fare and its pa
irons are pleased.
st. Joseph is to have the highest water
works tower in the state.
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Kalamazoo people held $2O0, 900 worth of
policies in the collapsed St. Paul insur.
ance company.
r. b. Carnes, an Essex farmer, has
taken thirty-two and three quarter pounds
Of wool from the back of 2-year-old
sheep.
Mrs. A. b. Travis died at Oxford few
hours after the demise of her husband
and both were buried in common
grave.
Theodore Sterile, an Ann Arbor gentle
man, Toasted on canned salmon, was pois-
oned, and is dead.
r. G. Smith is Galesburg lawyer
who has obtained more than 100 sets Of di-
vorce credentials for his clients.
A Mrs Wagner is engaged in the mail
carrier act at Carlton
Rockford people are having set-to with
an epidemic of sore eyes.
The Clinton chap who INDUCED in the
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is whacking up at the rate of $40 per ca
nine to save prosecution.
Twelve hundred pairs of boots are be-
ing turned out daily by the Hastings Felt
Boot factory
George Berk, Blissfield balloonist, was
banged against house chimney during a
recent ascension with force enough to
give him visions of the Judgment day.
Micbinap ralxyavo ooptinna IN 10 II,
the cash, their January receipts amount
ing $7,759, 1885, being we'll along toward
100000 in excess of January of last
year.
Large quantities of maple logs are being
shipped from Benzonia to Wilmington,
Del
Tom McHugh got mixed up in fight
at Crystal Falls and somebody Toasted
upon the larger portion of his lower
lip.
Mrs. Samuel Rodley AYERS that Muske
gon saloonist sold her husband whisky
when he shouldn't and has asked the
courts for $4,000 damages.
The fellow who stole napkin ring from
Schoolcraft hotel didn't think he drew
a prize when he paid an IS fine.
William Colby pleaded guilty to the
murder of Richard Cook at Marine City,
on the 10th and was Immediately given a
20-years lay off at the Jackson prison.
Justice is not always halt or blind.
The fish harvest at st. Joseph contn-
ues good, 1,400 pounds of brain food
being taken from forty nets in one day
Teachers are scarce in Calhoun county
and many districts are minus spring
term of instruction owing to the short
crop of pedagogues.
Johnny Griffith lives at Arlington and
went fishing t'other day with a gun. Es-
plying an unusually large fish he poked
the muzzle of the gun down into the
water and fired, losing three fingers and a
part of leg. The fish is still in the
SWIM
Three Bellevue women and a man har-
vested nineteen specimens of the early
spring variety of snakes in couple of
hours. This quartette may achieve dis
tinction before the season is over.
About $4,000 worth of gristmill, eleva-
tor and grain were burned at Flint on the
18th. j. +. Burroughs and G. A. Goth
rain are the principal losers. Insured for
$4,000.
Thomas Jarrett, for many years an
inmate of st. Marks home at Grand Rap
ids, is dead at the age of " years.
| Jerome Pitcher is a Bangor man Of 55
! years who must stand trial on charge of
assaulting a little girl of summers.
The commencement day address at
Orchard Lake military academy will
be delivered by Secretary Of War Elkins in
June
Muskegon is the home of man who
was arrested on the day his wife died
! for borrowing money she had saved for
funeral expenses, and then getting drunk
with the cash.
! An Adrian man took drive in the
country on a raw spring day and carried
along small dog which he used for q
footstone. Upon arriving at his destina-
ton he found that the canine had not
been idle, two or three sections of his
pantaloons having been devoured.
Edward Stewart sued the Chicago and
West Michigan Railway company for per-