The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-03-11
MICHIGAN MATTERS.
News Items of Interest Picked Up Here
and There.

Jne lncredSeu business anu mas porio"Su :"
| few locomotives to help out the regular
| service.
Two cans of fruit, said to have been
| sealed thirty years ago, are proudly shown
by Brookfeld farmer.
Flint desires to control the distribution
| of water among her citizens and Is nego-
tiating for the purchase of the local water
works plant: for which the owners want
$685. 900.
The Hudson man who refused to tell
where he obtained the whisky that made
him full, was kept in the bastile Tor
week.
piled for theatrical positions within tie
past eighteen months.
Certain Benton Harbor parties propose
to sell l40 lots at $500 each on the lottery
plan. A $4,000 hotel will be put up on
one of the lots. and when 40 numbers
have been sold the holders will draw to
see who gets the big prize.
George Warren, an Ithaca man, lost
barn and 5000 horse by an incendiary
fire.
A Howell man recently sailed out upon
the street clad in an Overcoat and straw
hat. He was just recovering from the
grippe.
Vicious dogs are making pedestrianism
hazardous at Negaunee.
Port Huron's street commissioner LETT
pile of dirt in front of a business house
last fall, and now the owner introduces
the municipality to a damage suit there
for.
William Faulkner, the Grand Rapids
man who sued the Western Union Tele-
graph company for $4,000 on account OF
injuries received while in the company's
employee accepted the sum Of 81, 534 as
compromise OF his claim.
Mackinaw City had an $1,000 fire 'tother
night in which the MERCER hotel was the
central and flaming figure.
VIM. H. Plumb, 81 years old, and Mrs.
Amanda Bently, lady of 20 summers,
were married at jackson few days ago.
Rev. j. w. Arney, the horse-racing par
son, has just closed revival at Freeport,
his second successful effort in that line
for the season.
Readings four parsons have dwinded
down to one, and the town is so moral that
even he may be compelled to seek other
pastures
Thomas Barnes, Lapeer man confined
in the Ionia prison, made his escape with
only two months of his sentence un-
served
Michigan has 523 graded schools and
1920 school DISTRICTS including 1921 of the
fractional variety.
The natural death of Lyons OK was
found to be due to the eating of too many
10 penny nails.
Michigan Prohibitionists meet in state
convention at Grand Rapids, March II
and 49,
While in pursuit of a horsethief at Flat
Rock j. Olmstead was waylaid and robbed
of $40.
The Michigan Equal Suffrage associa-
ton holds it's eighth annual meeting at
Battle Greek, May and 5.
The painting, "Christ before PLATE" or
naments Bad Axe ballroom.
~
David Arnold, we'll known in the west !
southwestern portion of the state as a |
member of Hull q Arnold's famous orch |
estra of former years, is dead
A Roscommon fire of recent date dam |
aged the Hodgman manufacturing plant /
to the extent of $4,000.
Bay City's big Masonic fair Melted the .
projectors about $4,000.
G. G. Colby, a prominent citizen and
manufacturer, died at the Battle Greek .
sanitarium few days since.
The clothing of little Eva Savoy, blind |
girl of Flint caught fire from a stove, re-
sulting in her death.
Cadillac only had fourteen deaths in
three months out of d population of about
five thousand people
The Three Rivers Y. NJ. G. A. goes out
of business because the patronage received
wouldn't pay expenses.
Mrs. Mary Douglass, Jackson lady in
destitute circumstances, has fallen heir to
$1,000 by the death of brother whom
she had not Sen since he was u small boy.
The advent of the scaly fish story indi-
Gates the near approach of spring. Two
st. Joe fishermen aver that they've al
ready captured n 240-sturgeon.
Adrian's kindergarten goes into commits
sion on May Day.
Athens wants firstclass clothing store
and the claim is made that there's good
opening for such institution.
Grand Rapids dealers have shipped So
600 barrels of gypsum to Chicago to be
uSeu III une COusUruCUlOn Oh inc great fair
buildings.
Ann Arbor people voted down the S25, 900
sewer scheme by majority of 203, and
the town will therefore remain wet for an
indefinite period. But Hilisdale, Branch
and Eaton counties voted on the local on
ton proposition the same day and decided
to try the dry side for season.
An Ishpeming boy of less than 8 sum-
mers INDUCED in crying fit and choked
to death.
Miss Helen Pixley, Munith maiden of
81 years, lives within one hundred rods of
the railway station, but has never in
dulged in ride on the cars
Oceana county's Jail has been pro-
nounced n. g. for the sixth time.
The mothers of Big Rapids desire that
the city council should spring an ordi-
nance on their young sons requiring ,em
to seek the home perch at 8 o'clock each
evening.
Ed Baldwin, an Altoona county citizen
paid $50 fine for the fun of hunting deer
ut a time when the law said it WASN'T law .
full.