The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-09-16
AFFAIRS OF THE STATE,
News Notes and Gossip Affecting Our
Own People.

Henry Martin had his barns at West
Giiead destroyed by the explosion OF q
dynamite cartridge which somebody had
kindly Sncked away in bundle of grain
which wax fed to threshing outfit.
II. f. Anderson, of Crystal Falls, is the
newly appointed Iron county agent for the
state board of corrections aud charities
The explosion of gasoline stove on
board of tug at Algonse, which carried
quantity of explosives, gave promise Of
pyrotechnic display, but the cook sue
ceeded in hurting the stove overheard in
time to avert disaster.
Fort Grafton man has applied for adj
mission to the circuit court who wears
suit of clothes used by his father forty
years ago. Two or three lawsuits will
enable him to own smother fellows
wardrobe of more modern style.
Three men with black eyes, one with a
badly lacerated leg, and woman with a
serious scalp wound were the net results
of fight over St. Clair county hen.
Biddie sought setter from the storm by
flying to the forest.
Manistee is to have a new salt block
capable of yielding 800 barrels of the sa-
line product daily.
upper peninsula have signed petitions
asking for the release of Dick Harcourt
who slew the notorious Dan Dunn.
Somebody visited a Hoytville grocery
at the dead o. night and harvested a $2S
hens nest.
Spencer o. Fisher and u. I. Hurst of
West Bay City have contracted for the
harvest of 100000 feet of Canadian pine
the coming winter. The logs will be sawed
by Saginaw valley mills.
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While making the return trip from a
country dance. Nashville couple fell
asleep, but the faithful equine carried 'em
safely to the girls home, where they were
found snoozing the next morning by early
rising neighbors.
jackson carpenters have decided not to
work on buildings where Carnegie mate
rails are used.
Plumbers have the reputation Of ac-
curing wealth, and one at Kalamazoo
has sued for $4,000 damages because of
some structures on the quality Of his
work.
Ben Foorhies, an aged Ypsilanti farmer,
had his feet seriously burned by trying to
stamp out fire that was running in the
dry grass.
The shooting of snake at Lester had
the effect of incr easing the reptile popula-
ton of that region, as twsnty-eight wrig-
lers Immediately crawled out of the gun
shot wound.
Charlotte claims to have 1,056 people of
school age as shown by the census just
taken.
A Sunday crowd at Goquac lake, near
Battle Creek, was RECALLED with balloon
ascension and paracute descent
Peter Heimick, Saginaw blacksmith,
was caught by fly belt and had leg
torn from his body. He was instantly
killed.
Jackson tailors are out on strike be-
cause of unsatisfactory wages.
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Annie Heavy, a Bay City woman, has
been exiled to the house of correction for
three months on a charge of continued
drunkenness.
A small boy and smaller match were
too much for George Kern's barn at De-
catur. Loss, 81, 500.
Will Il. Elliott was the last of Ian
sing family of five people to die within q
year.
The Coopersville cheese factory will
skip over to Tustin and engage in the
milk curdling business in a new field.
Congressman S. NJ. Stephenson of the
Twelfth district has been renominated for
congress by the Republicans.
The management of the business de-
partment of the Drexel institute at
Philadelphia, is now in charge Of H. w.
Rathbun, Bedding man.
DR.. H. o. Walker of Detroit recently re-
moved the entire shoulder of a patient
that afflicted with cancer. The man
bids fair to get well.
A piece of parchment which proved to
be a land grant signed by John Adams in
1890, conveying tract of Virginia soil
was discovered among lot of refuse pa
per at the Palmyra paper mill.
John McCarty was so anxious to get in
side of the Muskegon calaboose that he
attacked policeman and was accommo-
dated.
Miss Jennie Carlin of Greenville has
been presented with a scholarship in the
Florence (Ala.) female seminary by ex-
President Cleveland.
Roses grove, near Coldwater, has been
the scene of a colored campmeeting for the
past week
While crossing a street at St. Joseph
Miss Emma CAST collided with run
away horse and was seriously injured.
Ninety-two per cent. of the books
drawn from the Sage library at Saginaw
during August were taken by women
Saginaw men read newspapers instead of
books, especially when a prize-fght is on
deck
The capital stock of the Chicago and
West Michigan Railway company has
been increased from $6,S00,000 to $685.
O00
Rev. r. T. Lynd, Saranac parson, re-
fuses to prosecute or even divulge the
name of the man who robbed him of va
rious sums of money.
Sand Beach DRINKS are picked up and
carted away to the bastile on wheelbor-
row.
Doing her own homework and teaching
school six miles from home, driving the
distance morning and evening, Is the