The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-12-09
NEWS OF THE STATE.
Items OF Interest Concerning Our Own
People and Things.

Items OF Interest Concerning Our Own
People and Things.
Claimed that Thetford woman has
been kept prisoner in the second story of
a house in that town for the past fifteen
years.
Parker is the name of Leelanaw county
lad who walks fifteen miles daily in order
to attend school.
s. A. Brown of Kalamazoo was reelected
president of the Michigan Trotting Horse
Breeders association at the annual election
held at Battle Creek.
Olivet college has at last secured new
president in the person of Rev. DIR. w. J..
Sperry of Manchester, ~ II.
Mrs. Julia Wright fell out of her chair
at Flat Rock, and sustained severe in
juries which may result in death Her
age is 95.
Michigan people can now import regis
tered Lincoln sheep free of duty when the
animals are wanted for breeding pur-
poses
NJ. w. Smith, superintendent of the state
reform school of Oregon, was once Michi-
gan farmer who lived near Chesaning.
Many Mason county farmers are still
in the throes of the threshing season.
Grand Haven's rejuvinated glass factory
has gone into commission, with fair pros
poets of a successful career.
The will of the late John B. baking of
WILLIAMSON disposed of Sl50,000 worth of
property, while the estate figured up $780,
600. A lawsuit involving the other 500, 900
is in progress.
j. G. Farrell is an Ovid farmer who had
net return of 500 per acre from his this
years potato crop.
Ludingston's new woodenware fac
tory is ready for business and will turn
out 2,700 different kind of articles. Ash,
beech, and maple are the materials to be
used.
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The crop of old maids il said to be beau
tiful one at Adrian.
Killing two deer with a single rifle ball
isn't as common as it was when Michigan
was practically a vast wilderness; but a
Boyne Falls man accomplished the feat re-
Gently.
A Bay county citizen went down to Ohio
leaving his wife behind, and there mar
ried an Ohio girl Now he's in the bastile
on bigamy charge.
he was under the influence of whisky pur-
chased of the defendant.
Elizabeth Brown claims that she was in
jured $1,000 worth by an assault from
Charles II. Elliott, and has sued for the re-
covery of that amount in the Muskegon cir
cult court
Johnnie Bos is a Cooperville kid of
summers who thought it would be fun to
jump from the roof of his fathers house,
but the pair of painfully broken legs he
has since owned have not been bit
funny.
H. E. Belcher, Vestaburg veteran of
the late war; also served in the Mexican
war, being engaged in every battle during
that hairpull save one.
The Chicago and West Michigan rail-
way company's freight traffic largely ex-
ceeds the business done year ago.
Bedding is the theatre of operations of an
irrepressible clothesline thief
1t is claimed that there is thirty candi
dates for the postoffice in the little town of
Berlin.
Michael Crowley is Muskegon gar
dener who shipped a quantity of cabbage
to Chicago, many of the heads aver
aging more than seventy pounds each.
Within week three deer denizens of the
forest wild were seen inside the municipal
confines of Cadillac.
Buying and shipping 1,27O sheep was a,
weeks work for Marcellus firm.
He was old enough to be wise-45-and
she was coy and sweet ia Leonidas
couple who fled to Canada where mar
riage laws to do not Illustrate foolish
acst
Giving bank checks with no cash in the
bank to meet them has caused the arrest
of a Mason county farmer.
George Engle, a Branch county farmer
is credited with raising the biggest bunch
of grain ever produced from a single plan
tation in one season, in that bailewick.
Twas grown near West Union City and
measured 5000 bushels.
Mrs. w. Ballinger and two children, of
Jackson, were frightfully burned by gas
oline explosion while the mother was try
ing to start the gasoline stove. One child
died soon afterward and the other may not
survive.
Adrian mills have daily capacity of
1000 barrels of -four.
An eastern syndicate is said to have a
business eye on seven breweries at Grand
Rapids.
Eighteen freight cars were piled up in
heap near Milford on the 30th. The
train crew escaped injury.
The average size Of Shiawassee county
farms is trifle less than eighty acres
Twenty-one new cases of diphtheria were
reported at West Bay City the past week.
William Snyder got in the way of fall
ing tree at Leroy and was instantly killed.
Rev. Josiah Phelps has seen thirty-four
years service in the Michigan diocese,
twenty-five of which have been at Tecum-
sch as rector of st. Peters church.
Saranac CANNES must keep off the pub
lie streets for a month"; or run the risk OF
having their pelts perforated by bullets,
all on account of a mad dog scare.
o. M. Johns had an arm badly cut by
saw in Waukegon MILL and the owners
have been sued for 81, 900 worthof damages.
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The demand for men in the northern
lumber camps continues brisk and wages
necessarily continue good.
During the past fiscal year it cost Alpena
county the sum of $7,415. Sc to care for the