The times., 1892-10-21
NEWS OF TIE STATE.
Items of Interest Concerning Our Own
r.eopie and ThiuAs

pVOiSS NicNii, Odh HtS Dt-
gun twenty-year job at the Jackson
prison for criminally assaulting a young
girl.
George II. Durand, Flint lawyer, has
bee. appointed chief justice of the SUI
preme court, vice Allen b. Morse, re-
signed
ii, A. Brown, a Reading farmer, has ex-
tracted twenty-five pounds of bullets from
trees on his farm, which are supposed to
have been planted during an Indian scrim-
mage.
Elder Berry is the significant name of a
Somerset Centre parson.
The state supreme court decides that
railway employees cannot recover damages
for injuries sustained while on duty if they
fail to exercise reasonable degree of eau
tion in observing the company's instruc-
tions for their safety.
Ole Engen was fatally hurt while wrest-
ling with friend at Marquette.
The school board of Barry county dis
trict wants to deduct days wages because
the schoolma'am was absent attending a
teachers institute.
A Vermontville couple was suitably re-
warded for being married at the Charlotte
fair last week.
Forty new ponds are to be added to che
Worthwhile fish hatchery. The fish eggs
and fry shipped out the past season reach
into the millions
Charlotte gets $4,000 furniture factory
which will employ fifty men at the start.
A $1,000 bonus was what captured the
prize
Eugene Converse, the Battle CT eek citi-
zen who recently completed a five-year
term at Jack OF on an embezzlement
charge, has jus, remarked a former wife
whom he deserted years ago.
A Paw Paw dealer expects to handle the
major portion of the Van Buren, county
bean crop, estimated in the neighborhood
of 40, 600 bushels
Certain Saginaw citizens are said to re-
gale themselves quite regularly on Cana
dian whisky, which is smuggled across the
border and thus escapes the tariff du-
ties.
A Paw Paw man owned a piece of soil
that was so poor the neighbors gave it the
name of desert" The owner finally
planted 5000 grapevines on the tract and
this year harvested nearly 5000 pounds of
fruit therefrom.
While Peter Shafer was quietly sleeping
at North Branch some saucy chap quietly
slipped into his room and abstrated the
sum of So 300 that was nestled beneath his
pillow.
Mrs. Charles Babcock discovered pair of
burglars in her Bay City home andiet go Of
such set of unearthly screams at the same
time that the intruders were glad to make
their escape.
The corner stone has been laid for Ii
brary building for Hope college at Hol-
land. The edifice will be sOxl44 feet, and
accommodate 10000 volumes in addition
to a museum
Il. ID. Howard is a Jonesville man who
proposes to winter LOCO lambs Some Of
them were purchased of a farmer who
cleared about 80 each from a flock of
Shropshire ewes the past season.
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Saginaw is the home of a parson who
has quit his job without assigning any
reason for his action. Perhaps none was
necessary.
Houghton county copper mines now en-
ploy 1,640 men. There have been twenty
one mine fatalities the past year, six
deaths being due to carelessness on the
part of the men.
Delta county citizens will resort to the
ballot method of deciding on the advisi-
bility Of investing in a $4,000 bastile.
Allie Burch is Colon girl of 1S sum-
mers who put in eighteen acres of wheat
the present fall, plowing, dragging and
drilling the soil herself.
The Lima Lake Lumber company lost a
store, merchandise, barn and fifteen
horses by fire, making 5000 hole in the
assets. The company does business near
Good Harbor.
Grand Rapids denizens have invested
more than 81, 900 in new buildings since
the advent of 1892.
After running the Chippewa house at
the "Soo"l for half century the Smith
family will retire and give some one else
chance.
John B. Wenner is an Iron Mountain
man who owned tract of supposed worth
less land six months ago John has Just
swapped the barren land for SS6, 900 in good
clean cash. 1t proved to be mineral
land.
A 200 conflagration wiped out the !
Bigbee saw mill and lumber yard at +,
Morley. 1t was insured for one-half that
sum.
The Bridgman ruralist who claims 10
have raised pumpkin as big as flour
barrel ought to have made a success
of harvesting prizes at the country fairs.
Grape shipments from st. Joseph this |
year are over 150,5 baskets short of last |
years crop
The Michigan supreme court says that a
first wife cannot testify against her hus-
band who may be on trial for bigamy.
The loss of the Battle Greek school seat
factory fire was $50, 1868, as estimated by
the insurance adiusters.
Dudley bullock, a Kalamo man of 49,
has sole charge of a hen dairy of 175 chick
ems.
Cadillac has new stockyards built by the
Toledo and Ann Arbor line.
James Murphy will dwell at the Bav
City bastile until snow flies for stealing
an overcoat.