The times., 1892-10-28
NEWS OF THE STATE.
Items of Interest Concerning Our Own
ANIL rrhi,i,ns

Items of Interest Concerning Our Own
| People and Things.
Karl Behrische is Marquette tailor
who kept casn secreted in his shop, and
that's where Karl made a mistake Some
/ body borrowed S102 of the wealth while
Karl was at church.
The Crebassa place, u rocky tract OF
fifty acres near L'Anse, has been pur-
chased by Chicago parties for $4,000.
Valuable deposits of brownstone are
thought to be buried beneath the sur
face.
Elmer Wilgus is a DEVILS Lake lad
who planted dynamite cartridge be-
meath huge rock just for the fun of seeing
the big stone jump But things din't work
as Elmer had planned, and the sight Of
both eyes has fled forever.
Somebody sent wad of cash to L. Or
back, Battle Creek citizen, and for the
life of him he can't tell who in the world
did it,
To be secure against the ravages of bur-
glars, "a Greenville woman left man i'm
charge of her home, while she attended
church one evening. But she returned
only to find the house ransacked from top
to bottom, and the man fast asleep ON
couch
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Several Branch county citizens have been
induced to sign agreements To act ms pinno
agents, which afterward turned up as full
fledged promissary notes.
John Palmer was taken from his homo
at Owosso at the dead o. night and given
a severe fiogging by n crowd of mon be-
cause he was given to whipping his wife.
There's Muskegon man who just now
is laid up with broken leg, who'll have to
answer to horse stealing charge soon as
the injured member will admit.
Peter Barber is an Edwardsburg resident
| who owns violin that's squeaked on 200
birthday anniversaries.
Sheriff Baker of Flint is the one public
official in all the state who thinks he re
ceives too much compensation. He recent
ly returned S160 to the county to which he
was justly entitled.
| Chicago parties may establish sanitar-
ium and hospital at Muskegon. The prof.
ect is now in the investigation stage
Saginaw valley lumbermen keep whit
tling away at Canadian pine, another 100,-
100000 feet of timber having been pur-
chased in the Georgian bay district. The
price daid was Sl75,000.
| An Alma man INDUCED in an overdose
of booze while his child lay dead in the
house.
The Jewish residents of Kalamazoo have
organized debating club for their own
| special amusement.
Colonel j. III. Wood, who has figured
prominently in the show and amusement
line for many years, is seriously ill at his
Adrian home.
| Mrs. Wagner, who carried the mail
from Carlton to Hastings and return, has
resigned her position. The state is now
| without female mail carrier.
Lum is the unobtrusive name of Michi-
gan town that's about to have railway
station.
General Benjamin f. Partridge, a gen.
tleman well known in the eastern section
of the state, is dead at his home near Bay
City.
A Petoskey chap finally concluded to
marry the Grand Rapids girl whom he
loved not wisely but too well, after he had
dwet in the bastile for a season.
John E. Burt came near going hence by
blowing out the gas in st. Joe hotel, but
was discovered just in the nick o. time
The floor of an Ashland church gave
way while funeral was in progress pre-
cipitating the corpse, parson, mourners
and people into the basement. Everybody
scared but nobody hurt.
Henry Chapman and his brother live at
Marquette and the two attempted to kill
a hog, Henry holding the animal while the
brother did the shooting, but the shooter
aimed amiss and Henry got the bullet in
one shoulder.
Edward Imerson, a Madison farmer, has
an orchard loaded with choice winter ap-
pies, while mis- neighbours trees are barren
of fruit.
The friends of a Bear Lake man who lost
his only cow by a lawsuit, was presented
with another by his sympathizing neigh
| bors.
Port Huron Universalists have laid the
cornerstone of a new church edifice that is
to be a beautiful structure when COM
pleted.
John Keagle, the Wheatland gentleman
who planted the first apple orchard in
Hillsdale county, is dead at the ripe age
of 94.
Malcom McVicar, Rescue lad of 16, is
dead, his body being no larger than child
year old. He had never been able to walk
a single step.
1t is claimed that an Alegan county
church society sold 400 gallons of beer at a
Sunday blowout, and that none of the par
ticipants had license to sell even ON week
days.
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The two men whom Sebewa parson ap-
pointed to see that the young ladies of his
flock didn't keep company with young men
who smoked cigarettes or drank beer, are
both habitual users of the weed.
Lawrence Merkt was jailed at Saginaw
for being intoxicated, and this made him
so Respondent that he suicided by cram
ming an undershirt down his throat.
Tramps stopped over night at Madison
Center house owned by a lady and then
showed their gratitude in the morning by
burning the structure to the ground
Thirty weddings have been celebrated in
Branch county within sixty days, and the
matrimonial epidemic shows no signs Of
abatement,
Prisoners at the Grand Haven bastile
had planned Jail delivery and were just
about ready to carry it into execution