The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-12-23
MICHIGAN LOCALS.
Items of Interest which Concern Our own
People.

shut down for short period, having ex-
hausted its supply of material for manu-
featuring purposes.
William Ford had a barn, a span of
horses, and COW cremated soon after
! ejecting a tramp from his premises at
| kalamazoo.
S. @. Van Buren, is a Montcalm county
ruralist who owns a pair of turkeys which
weigh fifty pounds.
Somebody dropped 5000 wallet on a
Big Four train and the employe who
| found it turned the cash over to the rail-
I way officials at Benton Harbor.
| Wexford county farmers raised 100000
worth of potatoes the past season.
The state license tax paid by Ingham
| county saloon keepers the past year
amounts to the respectable sum of $685.
S25.
Laura Slocum, Mt Clemens girl of II,
was shot and instantly killed while play
| ing with boy of Z summers. Twas SIM
| ply another case Of the effects of the "un-
loaded" gun.
The Beckwith Memorial building, now
! nearly completed at Dowagiac, will be
dedicated by Colonel G.. Ingersoll on
| Jan. 10.
j. K. Geiger is Jackson drayman who
expects to assist in harvesting $3,000,-
600 estate just left by his grandfather in
Cuba.
Ypsilanti is being deluged by lottery
circulars despite the fact that these COM
panies are shut out of the United States
mails.
George Parker's saw mill at Sugar
! Grova 10 in aahas tho Work of an ipcap-
diary.
The Lenawee circuit court has begun to
grind after rest of several months, the
lawyers having been too busy during the
presidential campaign to give personal at
tention to court matters.
Hinted that Fort Mackinac may not be
continued many moons as a military sta
ton by Uncle Samuel.
Abe Whitney is the oldest inhabitant of
Adrian. He has lived there sixty years,
and attributes his great longevity to the
fact that he retires at sunset with the
chickens. Mr.. Whitney owns the finest
private genealogical collection in the
state.
Mrs. Frank Derouin, an Escanaba wom-
an, has been remunerated for the death of
her husband by the Chicago and North
, $500.
Muskegon is to have a new dock and
freight sheds 1000 feet long. upon which
work has already been commenced.
Saginaw river sawmills lhave generally
ceased to hum, but will begin again in the
spring.
Large shipments of hay are being made
to the New England states by the farmers
of Manistee county.
John G. German, an Oakland county
farmer, lost an 81, 800 barn by reason of an
exploding lantern.
Mason county farmers are preparing to
engage extensively in onion culture an
other year.
One of the recent transactions of the Cal
umet and Hecla Mining compay was the
sale of 10, 000, 900 pounds of copper.
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Ten years age Huron county was laid
waste by the terrible forest fires which
ragged for several weeks. This year thrifty
farmers will sell S40,0O0 worth of winter
apples.
Christopher Smith is an Alganoc sports
man who captured Ill ducks in single
day, provided there was no mistake made
in the count.
Arthur Wilcox, Harbor Springs brake
man, had hand crushed while coupling
cars at Petosky.
There are 100 Michigan firms that manu-
faeture salt, their plants having a COM
bined capacity of turning out 5,425 600
barrels of the saline product annually.
Marion people decided that it would be
good policy to exempt the plant of a pro-
posed stave mill from taxation as an in
ducement for the owners to locate there.
George Koerner lives at Fowler and is
such poor marksman that he planted the
contents of fowling piece in an ankle.
Twenty-one represents the number of
drunk fines assessed against a Saginaw
citizen since two years ago. He's evident
ly of age.
Some of the rural people who've been
attending the protracted meetings at Deer
field have been greatly annoyed and an
gered by the loss of buggy wheels and
other kid antics during services.
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Cora Van Dyke is a miss of IA who in
dulged in intexicants 80 freely that her
residence for the next seven seasons has
been transferred to the Adrian industrial
home for girls.
The contribution of Traverse county sa-
| loonlsts to the public treasury In the shape
of license fees amounted to $10,250.O3 for
the past year.
Ore shipments for the year from Lake
Superior mines are but little short of s.
SOC, 100 tons, a gain of about 1000, 900 tons
over the business of 1891.
Fennville fruitsts are trying the ex-
pertinent of free use of lime in the peach
orchard with view of heading off that
destructive disease of the peach tree-yel-
| lows.
Frank Cook is Speaker farmer who
drove whopping big load of wheat over
to Yale and exchanged it for 1921, putting
the cash in trousers pocket. While do
ing his chores that night some sinner
knocked him senseless and skipped with
the cash.
w. III. Roche has sued Grand Rap
Ids man for $4,000 worth of damages
because of an alleged assault, which is
said to have occurred two years ago.
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Richards gets the congressional plum in
the Fifth district, the state board of can
vassers awarding him the certificate OF
| election The recount in Ionia county