The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-05-20
MICHIGAN STATE NEWS.

MICHIGAN STATE NEWS.
happenings Which Are Noted for the
Benefit of Our Own People.
Hi Gum is Morenci man who became
incensed at his horse and gouged out the
animals eyes. Then he skipped to avoid
an interview from court of justice.
Fremont Geer is an Eaton Rapids resi-
dent who mlstook strychnine for quinine
but still lives and will be mighCy eau
tious about being his own physician in
the future.
Saginaw saloonists have dropped about
$4,000 into the till of the county treas
urer and will continue the business an
other year.
Hon. George S. Willetts, candidate for
congressman at large in Illinois, formerly
lived at Monroe.
Over 1000, 900 feet of logs made their
escape and set their sail for Saginaw by
the breaking of boom at Flint
The arrest of a tramp at Port Huron on
the charge OF vagrancy, revealed the fact
that he carried diplomas from the great
universities of Cambridge, Oxford and
Soubronne.
Several Kalamazoo people were recently
poisoned by eating pressed meat. The
doctors pulled them all safely through.
George w. Sherwood, Charlotte son
of 20 summers, has sung in church
choir for forty years, and can sing more
than 500 pieces Of music from memory.
Lewis B. Roepke was injured while I'M
| loading timber for the Michigan Central
! az Detroit, and asks that railway corpor-
alton for compensatory damages to the
amount of 5000.
/ An excavation for a business block at
! Alpena unearthed lot of Indian skele-
! tons, tomahawks, pipes, and other relics of
primitive times.
Detroit furnished seventy-six Of the 462
! inmates who now dwell at the state re-
/ form school at Lansing.
Mrs. August Colson, an Oscola county
woman who has been compelled to &C.
cupy sitting posture for the past ten
! years on account of inflammatory rheu-
mAtism, is dead.
For twenty-five years has Grace church
at Mount Clemens been encountered by
debt, but a heroic effort on the part of the
it's discharge.
plant at Ludington burned at loss of
| $l75, 200, and 300 men ere out of employ
ment.
Twenty foreigners, en- route for upper
peninsula mines, have been detained
at New York under the alien contract la
Dor law.
North Plains is the home Of a plump
girl Of Is summers who weighs $40
| pounds.
Negaunee has two-story house, re-
Gently built, without a window. The
| owner is blind.
Washtenaw county teachers held con-
vention at Ann Arbor with over one hun
dred and fifty pedagogues in attendance.
| Ypsilanti will also have an institute for
the cure of drunkards, SAC, $50 having been
subscribed for that purpose.
Manistee county heads the list in amount
of salt produced in April with 121, 1855 bar
rels, Bay comes next with 57,S79, while
Saginaw is close third with 57,8l1 bar
rels.
The three leading brick manufacturing
firms of Grand Rapids have combined
forces on capitalized basis of Sl5O,OO
and will push the business for all there's
In it.
Robert Perry didn't like it because his
wife attended a dance in company with
another man, and so went hence by the
poison route.
Frank Billings, an Adrian son of Adam,
stole pair of gloves and goes to prison
for two years.
Five dollars and the same number of
cents was the sum paid by a Kalamazoo
woman for quart of milk. She mistook
u s. gold piece for penny.
Port Huron's city council has at last
decided to extend the franchise of the To-
cal street car company for thirty years.
Another company made a strong bid for
the privilege.
Quite breeze has been raised at Sagi-
nav over the discovery that several prom
nent church people are numbered among
saloon bondsmen of that city
A Duluth gentleman and a Montreal
lady met the other day at the 800" by
agreement and were married.
The skeleton and antlers of an unusu-
ally large sized buck were recently ex-
humed by some workmen at Atlas.
Almont's village council refuses to &C
cept saloon bonds, and the town has gone
dry
Rhodes is the home Of Gladwin county
woman who dropped in on party of pok-
erplayers and waltzed her husband home
by the coat collar.
The Chicago and West Michigan rail-
way company proposes to build first
class hotel at Chicago.
Wexford county potato growers are I'M
loading the balance of last seasons crop of
tubers at Is cents per bushel.
| Some fellow at the 500 set trap and
caught beaver, but the animal gnawed
off it's fore legs and escaped.
The elecric street car line between Cor
unna and Owosso has gone into commits
sion.
The story is told of Port Huron man
who wore a suit of clothes without chang
ing for the full period of three years.
Now let the name Of the maker be given
as an example of what honest goods and
workmanship can accomplish.
The st. Clair girl who ran out Of gum
and couldn't wait to purchase new sup
ply, tried her teeth on wad Of tar. 1t
made her very l,sbut a DOCTORS skill re-
suited i'm n renewal of her chewing capac-