The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-10-14
NEWS OF THE STATE.
Items f Interest Concerning Our Own
People and Things.

James l.. Babcock of Ann Arbor, was
married 10 Miss Ella s. Butler of Wauke-
sha, Wis, on the S0th ultimo. Mr.. Bah
cock will now come into immediate posses
sion of II large property left him by the
death Of an uncle, Luther James, in 1889,
on condition that he should marry within
five years. His wife was a former Michi-
kan girl fi+il in
The attendance at Michigan university
will probably exceed 5000 this year, and
thus eclipse the American college record.
The estate of the late Luther Beecher of
Detroit is now estimated by those in pos
ition to know at 100000.
The wife of a Saginaw man has skipped
for greener pastures and 5000 OF her
husbands wealth disappeared at the same
time.
Not far from Pickney there dwells a
woman who shelters sheep on the ground
floor of her house and keeps poultry
above, adjoining her own bedroom.
Ernest Bkgalxie of Jackson, the sole
support of a widowed mother, was killed
by railway smashup in Tennessee
Britton people can keep sweetened this
year, local sorghum mill turning out
1000 gallons of that article each week.
Lightning stripped the clothing from a
that he lived but a few hours. The same
destructive agent did the same thing for
Scion lady, who was still alive at last ac-
lounts.
Mrs. w. N. Winans, Detroit lady,
lost $500 worth of diamonds while she was
walking on n street of that city, 1t is
needless to add she was not an EDITORS
WIFE, A~
Charles Killer of ST. Louis raised a
banana muskmelon this season which
measured TT. in. in length and weighed
eleven pounds. This variety of melon is
said to be of extra quality.
One hundred Saginaw ladies, all of
whom reside in one ward, have signed an
agreement by which they will forego the
pleasures of Sunday shopping.
Only about 35,OO0,OOO feet of logs were
6oated down the Pere Marquette river this
year-less than half the amount of last
season.
Stockbridge dealers shipped away 10
900 pounds of poultry in one day not long
ago. Oqiosr lI.l UHtg-.tl .i9"
Nearly "a, 600 has been raised in this state
by penny collections for the Michigan edu-
cational exhibit at the Worlds fair.
Spencer Beach is a fine old Kalamazoo
county boy who's recently taken d mat
rimonial partner of 16 sweet summers.
South Haven fruitists have been ship
ping Is, 900 baskets of peaches daily, mostly
to Chicago.
S. H. Linn, Ridgeway farmer has dug
four potatoes from field planted June %
which weigh five pounds.
A $4,000 locomotive was received at
Grand Rapids the other day for railway
which, as yet has no existence, except on
paper, not rail having been laid.
Rev. II. S. Gordon. Lansing parson
of the Presbyterian persuasion, married
four couples in one evening last week.
Gordon is hustler of the first water.
Henry Miller, Fairgrove fellow, is
accused of attempting to rob his wife and
must explain matters in court
Saginaw is to have lodge of colored
Masons who will meet upon the level after
the paleface fashion.
Muskegon capitalists have scraped up
$500 900 worth of loose change for the pur-
pose of making sand bricks from the sand
banks that lie around loose at that har-
> Dor.
III e small boy and a match got together
in the home of William Baker at South
Haven, and the dwelling is now a pile of
ashes.
Mrs. Sophia Baily of Grand Rapids,
whose father served in the Revolutionary
war, is dead at the age of 93.
Ypsilanti's first village charter was is
sued sixty years ago.
George Burke, a Woodland gentleman,
had mouthful of teeth extracted in the
twinkling of an eye by kick of a horse.
Rev. p. Forbs, one of the oldest Baptist
ministers of the state, is dead at Flint, aged
Sc years.
Some of Utica's fair young ladies seem to
have never been weaned. They have been
accused by a milkman of emptying his
cans.
Many of the oak trees in Calhoun county
have been stripped of leaves by an army of
worms.
Fred Markham, a Tekonsha young man,
went out on a hunting expedition and
failed to return. An investigation reveal
ed the fact that he had been accidentally
killed, body lying beside his gun.
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Several Battle Creek merchants signed
agreements, the terms of which bound the
parties to refrain from selling goods on
Sunday, and now one of the parties has
been hauled up in the courts for violating
the compact. ,us
George Fraser Port Sanilac farmer,
not only mourns the loss of his big barns
by fire, but also $50 sons of hay, 1000
bushels of grain and a large amount of
other crops.
Nearly year ago it was that four peo-
pie began the task of transcribing the
records for the new county of Dickin-
son, and the end has just about been
reached.
Harry Harrington has caused the arrest
of a sister on a charge of removing his
fathers remains from cemetery near
Fort Gratiot.
Burglars are skirmishing around the bor-
ders of Hastings in great shape nowadays,
or rather, nights.
Manton farmers drive twenty miles to
reach Touring mill, which savors much
of pioneer times.
A. A. Briggs, Romeo resident, had
$1,000 horse and colt ground up by a rail-
way train.
The tragic death of G. e. McDaniels, the
brakeman who was killed at Coldwater