The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-09-23
NEWS OF THE STATE.
items OF Interest Concerning Our Own
People and Things.


items OF Interest Concerning Our Own
People and Things.
Twice daily are Bay City schoolrooms
fumigated as sanitary measure against
contagion.
One hundred Saginaw citizens char
tered a car and are now en- route for the
Pacific coast. where they propose to take
up government land and max Thorn
selves homes.
Several Charlotte threshing engines and
their owners are now operating in Mime
sofa where machines are scarce.
Oct. 81 1892, has been declared a gen.
eral holiday by Governor Winans on ac-
count of the Worlds fair dedication.
Albert Vincent, a Durand man, has a
Wyandotte hen which lays an extra large
egg on the first day of every week. One
of these Sunday specimens of hen fruit
measures by 81 inches.
A little Ovid boy was attacked by an
ugly dog and so thoroughly chewed that
the beauty has forever departed from the
little fellows face.
One of the "lifers" at Jackson prison
has laid up s., 900 by working over time.
The Continental Trust company of New
York now owns the Lansing electric street
railway, taking the property on mort
gage at a cost of $S5, 900.
An incendiary cremated the $500
home of S. True, an Alpena gentle
man.
Homesickness has driven a German
| woman insane at Port Huron. She left
the fatherland two years ago.
William Harger is Niles man of 80
seasons who recently walked twenty-one
miles in day.
Jane Vice was shot and instantly
killed by Mrs. A. Dalton, at the 500,
while trying to break into her house.
Henry Brassel, the 500 citizen who sued
the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault road
for damages, has secured $1,000 verdict in
his favor.
George Hill, Stirlingville citizen, is
minus a hand that had been bitten by a
snake, amputation being necessary to save
his life.
Joseph HARDWOOD, Charlevoix county
farmer, has sold l,000-bushel apple crop
to Chicago dealer. The apple crop is
good in that region.
About a month ago the vicinity of Hud
son was famed by young cyclone and a
cherry tree was stripped of it's leaves.
Now the same tree is clothed with a full
set of new leaves, interspersed with bios
SONS.
Not many married people live to cele-
brate their golden wedding, but Mr.. and
Mrs. Pangborn of Ionia passed the half
century mark years ago and have just cell
ebrated their 61st wedding anniversary.
Four Hancock kids nearly scared the
life out of boy of that town by essaying
the hanging act The would-be lynchers
will be interviewed by the authorities.
Jackson county's board of supervisors
no longer propose to support aged people
who have children abundantly able to
care for them. Such persons will be al
lowed to remain at the poorhouse, but
their board must be paid for in cash.
The Wayne circuit court is struggling
with a total of 1,4l5 cases, the largest cal
endar in its history.
There may be nothing new under the
sun, but Saginaw church has arranged
to have political voting contest Oct. 8.
Congressional candidates will figure in
the scheme.
The Sebewaing coal fields are doubtless
valuable, as Chicago syndicate is trying
to effect their capture.
Geoge Suook, the Detroit maa who shot
Thomas Ferret last summer, has been ac-
quilted of the charge of murder on the
plea of self-defense.
A Butler boy scrached his face with a
piece of barbed wire and is is dying from
blood poisoning.
Lucinda Shoerswis spending a ninety
day vacation at the Muskegon bastile for
stealing a neighbours lamp.
Bears are very plentiful in Chippewa
county this fall and the sportmen's har-
vest will soon begin.
The local option electian in Van Buren,
county resulted in about 300 majority for
the measure. 1t was adopted by a major
ity of over 5000 at the first election, and
by 1000 at the secoad trial. The dry"
sentiment seems to be on the decrease in
that bailiwick.
Clinton will bond $1,000 worth for the
construction of an electric light plant.
On the very day that George Mcclellan,
Mt. Morris man, was to be married he
was so badly hurt by a fall that the
wedding had to be postponed.
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Henry Blackman, the jackson convict
who murdered William Cuddy at the peni-
tertiary and was transferred to Ionia on ac-
count of insanity, has been returned to the
jackson retreat and placed in solitary con-
fihement.
Diphtheria has taken four children from
one Bay City home in as many weeks,
and three others are not expected to re-
cover.
West Bay City druggists will keep open
shop but two hours on Sunday here
after, one at noon and one in the evening.
BY this arrangement they hope to get
little recreation at least one day in the
week.
S. M. Daniels was struck in the face by a
stranger ON Saginaw street and is now
minus the sight of an eye.
The dress of Cass city girl of 10 sum-
mers ignited while she was playing about
bonfire. Death ended her sufferings on
the following cay.
Nineteen years ago the past week the
steamer Ironsides went down in Lake
Michigan off Grand Haven and about
thirty passengers persisted.
Several shots havd~been fired at Michi-
gan Central trains recently while passinp