The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-07-01
MICHIGAN ITEMS.
Interesting News of the State Given in
CandensaI Form

or who was fined 500 for refusing to make
sworn statement regarding his taxa
BILE wealth, as required by the state
statute.
A jackson lady has been taken to che
poorhouse who has two sons and three
daughters, all of whom are abundantly
able to support her.
Charles May carried away rope at
Marshall without leave and is now doing
a five-year sentence at the Jackson prison.
A horse was attached to the other end of
the rope at the time of its disappear
ance.
Philip Meyer was seriously injured by
trying to stop a runaway team at Bay
City.
Stanton's common council has decided
that "nightcaps" must be taken before
o'clock in the evening, as the saloons are
ordered closed at that hour, and no fool
ing about it, either.
Dan ID. Sartwell admitted to Port
Huron court that he had been engaged in
twenty burglary expeditions, and he goes
INTO retirement for ten years.
Dan Hurlburt and hoe made short
campaign ut Paw Paw, at the end of
which time a six foot blue racer was slain
in Dams cellar.
Mrs Mary G. Ball fell over a pile of rub
bish which the Michigan Central Rail
road left in its yard at Dexter, and Mary
now brings $4,000 action to cover bodily
injuries then and there inflicted.
Bay City is to have cigarette factory to
be operated by a Russian.
Jonesville had food the other night,
local residents claiming that five and
one-half inches CT water fell. The Lake
Shore tracks were washed out in half
dozen places.
Manistique Presbyterions are in pursuit
of pastor.
Burglars spent an entire night in trying
to open mill safe at Plymouth and then
they did not get cent. Mad lotf You
bet
The attempt to secure jury at Rogers
City in the Molitor murder case was
failure, and they will be tried at Alpena
on a change of venue.
Byron Centre was visited by hailstorm
which knocked out nearly every window
glass in town.
The life saving crew at Grand Haven
restored man to consciousness who'd
been under the water twelve minutes.
The land of celery is keeping up with
the procession. A Kalamazoo lad of q
summers stole horse and buggy and
then tried to sell the rig for IS.
An epidemic of scarlet fever had the eff.
feet of closing Ionia's schools week ahead
of schedule time.
Charles Youngguist, G. r. and 1. en-
ploye, was overtaken by an express while
navigating handcar on that line and in
stantly killed.
Decatur's village council has decreed
that every barbed wire fence within the
corporate limits of the place mnst go into
retirement.
One of the features OF Fourth of July
demonstration at Cedar Springs will be a
fox hunt.
Saginaw captures $4,000 concern
which will manufacture safety gates for
bridges.
Birkett is Washtenaw county hamlet
and the home of widow who dwells in
the second story of her residence, u.s.
ing the first floor of her dwelling for a
sheep shelter.
Cornelius Stoulyiskyk is an inmate of
the Grand Rapids bastile who tried to es-
cape via the suicide route, but his pair of
suspenders weren't strong enough for
successful voyage hence. No wonder the
man wished to escape from such u name,
Alpena was visited by terrific wind
and hail storm which did much damage
leveling crops, trees and buildings, and
seriously injuring several people,
Fred Barr, the Grass Lake burglar who
is engaged on ten years job at the Jack
son prison, petitioned for release at the
hands OF the supreme court on account of
defective commitment. The request was
denied.
Jackson aldermen are fined SO each for
absence from council meetings unless
they give mighty good excuse therefor.
The last annual meeting of the state
Normal School Alumni association, held |
recently at Ypsilanti, was the most large
ly attended of any in its history.
Two strangers called on Water Center
farmer and informed him that one of his
horses was lying dead in the road. While
the farmer went out to investigate, the |
strangers robbed the house.
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A travelling fakir struck q gang of sports !
at Port Huron who feeced him out Of $500, |
and he had to borrow money to make the |
next town.
w. s. Charles, Van Buren, county |
is growing thirty-two acres of on
ions this season.
Tramps lugged off all the clothing from |
q Chinese laundry at Flint, but the
thieves were afterwards jailed by the au-
thorities.
Professor A. q. Slocum of Corning, N. |
Y, is the newly elected president of Kala-
mazoo college,
The state reform school has 235 boys out |
on parole, while 431 still remain with the |
Daniel b. Sinclair, an Adrian man of 81
is the only surviving charter
of the local Odd Fellows lodge.
Muskegon has gathered new curtain
role and fixture factory within her BOOM
ing embrace.
A drawbridge collapsed recently at
Grand Haven over which there's been a
leal of travel, but luckily there wasn't |
q team in sight at the time.
The Michigan Central has with drawn
its Sunday train from the Saginaw
branch on account of insufficient patron
age RtH
Mrs. G. w. Westerman is a Flint won