The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-03-04
NEWS OF THE STATE.
bits of Information Which Concern Our
Own Peonle.

Forty-thrVe lawyers are doing business
in Lenawee county.
Kalamazoo has a social club composed
of a man and wife and their sixteen chill
dren.
William Watts is Leoni ruralist who
will devote $50 acres to the production of
the colicky cucumber for the seed that
they will ripen. A Detroit seed house
takes the entire product.
A Cairo, Ills, lad of summers trav.
eled alone all the way to Saginaw.
The authorities of Bay county find il
necessary to bastile 239 people in the brief
space Of six months
Whisky has sent Grand Rapids resi-
dent to the Kalamazoo asylum and his
wife to the grave. A few years ago they
were prosperous people and had a happy
home.
Mrs. Harriet Burton, the first lady mar
ried at Grand Rapids, was present at an
old settlers banquet held in that city re.
Gently.
John G. Edelman, the man who cleared
the forest from the present site of Saginaw,
is dead at the age of 63.
A Kalamazoo lady owns spinning
wheel which once did duty in the house
hold of Ethan Allen of revolutionary
fame.
The government fishery at Alpena will
have 100000 eggs Matched out by the
middle of the coming spring.
Palo contributes a citizen to the popula-
tion of Ionia's calaboose who cruelty mis-
treated his daughter of years. The child
may die
The lady teacher of a Lansing school
was surprised by youngsters pulling
revolver on her when she attempted to
punish him. An investigation revealed
the fact that thirteen boys of the same
room have been in the habit of carrying
shootin' irons
After a separation of thirty-three years
a brother and sister have been reunited at
Flint. They were separated when and 8
years of age
The roof was completed on a large West
Bay City factory in just a week from the
laying of the first foundation stone for the
structure.
Frankfort is to have boat line to Ke-
waunee, Wis, capable of being operated
the year round, the craft to carry twenty
four loaded freight cars and make the
round trip each twenty-four hours.
A North Riley mink purloined thirty.
seven hens from one coop in a single
night. The animal cons lderately left eleven
fowls for the owner.
The remains of the wife of Congressman
Stout, who died few days since in Wash
ington, have been inferred at Pontiac.
Mary A Rogers, who died at Stock
bridge few days since, was the first white
woman to reside in Ingham county.
jackson invests $40 in poison for the
purpose of fattening English sparrows.
Huxford Goodrich died at Ann Arbor
the past week, aged 65 years. He was
member of the first graduating class from
the state university.
Somebody reported Marquette man as
being insane just because he was an invet-
crate reader Of the Bible.
John Gardner, Muir man, was injured
on the d., l.. & N. railway and has been
awarded $4,4O0 worth of compensatory
damages
The safe and valuable papers of Port
Huron business man have been seized by
the tax collector for the non-payment of
taxes.
A Sunday school dance and pedro party
was recent and very novel attraction
advertised by Grand Rapids Sunday
school.
The verdict of jury, where member
is above the age that exempts from jury
duty, must stand saith the supreme
court.
Mrs. Hebbett is Blissfeld lady who has
not experienced sick day in nearly
quarter of IA century, albeit she is 80 years
old.
George Lord, Bay City citizen, has
just lost 32year-old horse that did duty
in the late war.
According to the report of the slate la
Dor commissioners women wage workers
in the Saginaw valley are paid an aver
age of ~ cents per day.
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Isabelle county assessors have been try
ing to make Indian property owners pay
taxes, and a fight is on in the circuit
court.
The occupants of hack In a funeral
procession narrowly escaped joining the