The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-10-07
NEWS OF THE STATE.
Items of Interest Concerning Our Own
People and Things.


The plant of the Union School Furniture
Manufacturing company at Battle Greek
was fired by incendiaries and totally de-
Btroyea Loss about sa00,000
George IT. Richardson. nominee of the
People party for congress from the Fifth
district, has been Endorsed by the Demo
cratic congressional convention held at
Grand Rapids.
Q. A. Lewis Of rand Rapids mistook a
German citizen Tor woodchuck while out
on a hunting expedition and planted
heavy load of shot in his body. The
wounded man may div.
May White, the Stockbridge girl who be-
gan a long sleep about two years ago,
awakened the other day long enough to
take nourishment and then relapsed into
comatose condition. Her weight has fallen
from 100 to ffty-eight pounds in the two
years.
Charles Wightman and Walker Carr
quarrelled over business matters at Black
River, whereupon Wightman shot Carr
dead. Wightman is now in Jail. The case
is said to be complicated by a woman being
involved in the trouble
Some people fancy themselves aggrieved
on very slight provocation. The Kent
county farmers who've decided to boycott
a toll road because two of the stockholders
thought it not advisable for the Kent coun-
ty fair to make losing show this year,
seem to belong to that class.
Hiram Conkling, Marshall lad of II
summers, has confessed to stealing several
hundred dollars worth of jewelry from the
lady who employed him. Hiram's in the
bastile now.
Annie Bright, a Detroit woman, was
granted divorce recently, and before the
ink was dry on the separation credentials
had remarked
Saline citizens are great voters. At q
political caucus held recently they man.
aged to cast several more votes on every
ballot than the total number of people
present.
Deer are so thick in the neighborhood
of Michigamme that they trot into town
and make social calls, and then HE them
selves back to their native heaths.
Grand Rapids incendiaries continue the
work of destroying barns in that city,
Three of them were recently cremated in
one night.
Henry Grimshaw, discharged rail
way section boss, is in the tolls at Sturgis
on the grave charge of attempted train
wrecking on the Lake Shore railroad last
July
Charles Smith drove a covered wagon
from the Indian territory to Fife Lake,
this state making the long trip in about
two and one-half months.
William Warner, Ludington fruitist,
had 1000 bushels of plums rot on the trees.
The fruit would begin rotting just before
it had matured.
Flint Methodists lost $4,000 church |
by fire.
Mrs. Henry Ware is dead at Battle Creek |
after suffering terribly nine weeks, from |
burns inflicted by an exploded gasoline |
stove.
Detroit ministers are greatly agitated |
because the street paving gangs carry on |
their vocation in that city on the Sab |
bath.
While five lumbermen were chopping in |
the woods, near Covert they got into row |
and slashed each other with their axes I'M !
til two were dead and one seriously in |
jured. The murderers seem to have made |
the cause of the tragedy
The Monroe jury which tried the case
Railroad company, gave the plaintiff a
Judgment of SCI, 5S5 damages. Conway |
was injured in the tunnel collision on that i
road, near Toledo, last winter. About |
100000 worth of other claims are pending |
against the same company
Ann Arbor has a gentleman's musical |
society that's just been organized.
A Fergus resident was so anxious to be |
g.. h.. h. al 4H.4 L., .a1l
animal for 81 on thirty days time.
Judge William Newton of Flint was
nominated by the Peoples party state
convention at Lansing for the position ON
the supreme bench made vacant by the
resignation of Judge Morse. The Repub-
lican convention at Graud Rapids nomi-
mated Juuge Frank A Hooker of Char
lotte for the same position.
The value of farming lands depends
largely on location, but 500 per acre is
considered good round price these days.
David Whitney, Jr., of Detroit, purchased
eighty acres of the Joy milk farm near that
city recently, for which he paid $4,000 per
acre.
A desk that was once owned and used by
General Lewis Cass is now in daily use at
Flint.
Bay City has doctor who won't be eager
to try experiments right away. He was
called to see a lady who had been poisoned
by drinking buttermilk, anu drank some of
the same lot himself to note the effect. He
pulled through, and so did the woman, but
both had mighty close calls for a trip to
the everlasting beyond.
Two race horses and their riders collided
at the Pontiac fair and +. Perault, a
man of about 60 summer was fatally in
jured.
So
Willie Shultz, barefooted 4-year-old of
Manistee, ran into a bonfire and will be a
cripple for life if he survives his injur-
les.
Two Michigan Central freights collided at
Owosso and a car containing a 50, 600 horse
was smashed into kindling wood, but the
valuable equine escaped without single
scratch.
Midland's new heading factory is turn
ing out heads for 5000 nail keys daily.
Lawton grape growers have been ship
ping that fruit at the rate of ninety tons
per day, and still their vineyards are loaded