The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-04-08
AFFAIRS OF THE STATE.
News Notes and Gossip Concerning Peo.
pie and Events.

News Notes and Gossip Concerning Peo.
pie and Events.
Two Greenville boys became so home
sick while attending school at Battle
Greek that they footed it home, dis
lance of seventy miles, in single day.
Battle Creeks G. A. r. fair has been
salted with one hundred barrels of saline
preserVative by Saginaw firm.
William Sweet is Muskegon man who
sues Wisconsin doctor for $40, 900 worth
of sweet malpractice money.
Saginaw is to have deaconess' home.
Deacons will be barred.
Playing checkers by telegraph was in
dulged in by Homer man who won the
game.
The strike at Wheeler & Co.'s west Bay
City shipyards has collapsed as the plant
Is being run with full force of new men.
The strikers are securing jobs in other
towns when possible to do so.
Pontiac has $1,000 damage suit on
hand because the town uses so much river
water that there Is not enough left for
power purposes.
Adrian claims to have $40, 900 worth Of
municipal cash on hand with no outstand-
ing debts.
John Mayne and wife, northwest Frank
I'm people, have just celebrated the sixty
second anniversary of their marriage.
Matrimony has been no failure in this
case.
Spring Brooks cheese factory has al
ready turned out lis, 446 pounds of curdled
product this season.
Twelve Saginaw citizens have recently
cast their fortunes with Uncle Sans reg
ular army.
The Wayland saloon keeper who in
sisted upon voting at a prohibition eau
Gus was assessed the sum of $22 for his
persistence.
Calumet has a saloon keeper who gar
nisheed laborer's wages to secure a
drink bill, and now the dealer in wet
goods is defending charge of moistening
dry whistles on Sunday.
Diphtheria has broken out among the
students at the State Agricultural col
lege.
William O'Toole was murdered at the
Halfway house." near Port Huron, max
ing the third killing at that place in the
past nine months.
Grand Rrapids is to have flower show
from April 5 to T.
Lake Odessa will furnish a suitable
building for wooden mill if somebody
else will do the rest.
Henry Gohr, Lansing lad, has gone in
sane from overstudy.
Dannie Hoyt, Ludington lad of II, is
said to be marvelously skillful in playing
the cornet. for his age.
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The average attendance at the Sunday
services held at Jackson prison is said to
be about 300.
Caro- BARRIERS have decided that their
patrons must beehaved on week days or
go without, as the aforesaid BARRIERS are
In for a Sunday rest.
A Hillsdale lad of 10 made the acquaint-
ance of full-grown tarantuia while I'M
packing bananas, but luckily escaped a
bite from the deadly animal.
The output of the Chopin iron mine
Is to be reduced one-thi I'd and 200 men
have been discharged.
William Dodge, confined in the Sagi-
nav bastile on the charge of murder, has
made two attempts to burn that edifice.
Spencer o. Fisher, West Bay City lum-
herman and politician, has invested $780,
900 in 15,OOO,0 900 feet of logs, the property
Of Wyandotte man. The timber grew
In the upper peninsula.
Rev. X. Ryan, Gaylord parson, has
quit the pulpit for bank clerkship.
Two women and twenty-three more or
less prominent Ishpeming citizens, were
found congregated in local dive.
The decision of Grand Rapids judge
permits the saloonists of his jurisdiction
to visit their places of business on Sun
day.
Keeper Parks of the Calhoun county
poorhouse, has been exonerated from the
charges of immortality preferred against
him, by the state board of corrections and
charities.
Congressman Stevenson of the Eleventh
district is the owner of team which re-
Gently drew sleighload of sixty-five logs
which weighed thirty-fve tons.
Gwinn 81 Co.'s store at Delton was fired
by lamp explosion, resulting in a $4,000
loss.
The franchise fees collected by the sec
rotary of state during March aggregate
k9, 1850.
John Full is doing the evangelistic act
at Chaplin with full hand
Grand Rapids will celebrate July by
defeating her brand new courthouse.
It's nearly completed now.
The religious organization known as
Adventists, with headquarters at Battle
Creek, will invade the Orient with tracts
printed in the Chinese language.
Charlotte has citizen who claims he's
the victim of heart failure every time he's
lodged in the bastile for drunkenness.
The Lake Superior soap concern will set
sail at Houghton with an investment OF
e25, 900.
The monthly educational expenditure
at Grand Rapids reaches the respectable
sum of sl5,500.
A Dollarville woman runs poker