The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-11-18
NEWS OF TIE STATE.
Items of Interest Concerning Our Own
People and Things.

was somewhat Swallowed by an arrest
charging him with having led young
lady of the town from the narrow path of
virtue.
Mrs. James Frasier is a Sunfield lady of
81 years who challenges any man in the
county of not less than 60 to a corn-husk-
ing match.
The farmers Mutual Fire Insurance
company of Lenawee county has 6,7S2
members, with aggregate risks of S11 1885,
CAS-
Mrs. John Lee, West Bay City lady,
fell out of the chair in which she was
sitting and sustained serious internal in
juries
Frank Peck, Port Huron young man
who was Tilted 10y his best girl, shot him.
self dead at his boaIding place.
The city of Adrian began her corporate
career sixty-four years ago.
Rev. Il. G.. Abbott, president of the state
Agricultural college for twenty-five years,
died at Lansing, aged 70 years.
Ghosts are agitating the usually quiet
town of Milbrook.
The 500 is wrestling with several cases
of smallpox.
Kalamazoo's handsome new library
| building will go into commission the first
of next March.
The Alger county wolf crop is an unus-
ually abundant one.
Jack McCosh, a Houghton chap, goes
into retirement for ninety days for hug
| ging girl on business street of that
city.
Tom McKeown lives at Jonesville, but
is not always sure of it himself, as he
sometimes forgets his own name.
A wee bit of baby was found bundled
up in the Reed City railway station, and
a Luther woman has been taken into Gus
tody on suspicion that she's the child's
mother.
Alpena has a vacant office, that of GUS
toms collector, and yet offices don't usually
go begging for some one both capable and
willing to hold 'em down.
A Morrice man is real sorry for it now
$75 anyways he paid that amount for
breaking the leg of a neighbours horse that
persisted roaming about his premises
without permission.
William May, Monterey man, had the
usefulness of his right hand destroyed by
the accidental discharge of gun.
Charles w. Burt a Saginaw young man,
gets the presidency of the senior law class
of Cornell university.
Several Colonia people got no sleep
for a number of nights, being obliged
to guard a swamp fire to save their homes
Cloverdale citizens are excited over a
three-legged chicken.
George Sickle is Caro- citizen who
shipped forty-nine bushels of choice winter
apples from one tree.
A Kalamazoo concern will invest $50, 900
in a plant for the manufacture of water
gas.
The city council of Menomnee will
make life a burden for whoever at
tempts to peddle bills on the streets Of that
town.
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Edgar Dell, the Summit City citizen
who was supposed to have been drowned
in the river there some months ago, has
returned to claim the clothing he left on
the river bank.
An exploding oil stove set George
Adams bed on fire at Albion and routed
him out very early in the morning. He
was badly burned.
Tekonsha youngsters are in great glee
because the schoolhouse furnace smokes so
badly that school had to be dismissed for a
season.
1t is sometimes dangerous to own a jaw
breaking name. HI Rylsnider, Bronson
man, fell down stairs and now owns a bad
ly bruised anatomy.
William Leeper and wife of West Cooper
have just celebrated the sixtieth anniver-
sary of their marriage.
The cremating of sparrow heads upon
which Calhoun county paid bounty last
year, cost that bailiwick 500.
An Ovid pensioner who was engaged in
fifty-four battles of the rebellion, is draw
ing s. per week.
The fire loss on the state printing eflice
at Lansing, owned by Robert Smith &
Co., has been adjusted at $5,776.
Iouia people are of the opinion that a
public market would just about fill a long
felt want, and are talking of a $4,000
structure for that purpose.
George S. Moross was shot and instantly
killed in Detroit saloon by George G..
Frederick. The man had not been on
friendly terms for several months.
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While the suit of Kalamazoo man
against his father for the recovery of
wages was in progress, the plaintiff as
saulted his brother and was sent to the
bastile for safekeeping.
| Inc election DeJulnB mania seems TO
have found full vent in the late campaign
Wheeling people about town or from one
town to another, is too common to provoke
comment, while the stalking of money on
the general result occurred everywhere;
but few people, however, staked and lost
their farms, as did Reading ruralist.
DR.. and Mrs. Francis Chase of Kalama-
zoo, and Mrs. Isaac Beesley of Florence,
both celebrated their golding weddings a
few days since. These events always excite
more than local interest, since so few
couples complete half century of welded
life.
The Houghton mining school has eighty
one students, healthy increase over last
years attendance.
A Ypslanti lady of the upper circles
wants the police to send her incorrigible
son to the state reform school at Lam
sing
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