The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-01-29
NEWS OF THE STATE.
bssssy Gossip Concerning Our own Pss-
pie and Affairs.


some Of the surplus" ia hail VIII,
hey can mt et and exchange s,oIies OF W
olden time
For several years has ID. Il. Trip. "A
Petoskey gentleman, has been erin =
from sciatic rheumatism. Not long 81
several doctors laid the scia &C nerve b
and stretched it, and now Trip is hims,
again.
Miles waterworks plant goes to the
highest bidder Jan. II.
Diphtheria removed three children from
one Detroit household III II single week.
An itinerant sketch artist, who has
worked many Michigan towns, recent I,
secured a divorce from his pretty wife in
an Indiana court and sti .ightway re-
turned to this state, marrying Mottvil'e
maiden twenty-four hours after securing
the decree.
Mrs. Margaret Hammer, one of Michi-
gan's pioneer residents, died at Parkville,
aged 104 years.
Harry Noble, the Galesburg stallion
owned by w. S. Kirby, has been sold Tor
$50, 900 to the Valley stock farm. The
horse has record Of 2:171<.
Whoever will deliver the murderer Of
Cashier Gleason, of the Cleveland Cliffs
Mining company, an Ishpeming corpora
ton, can call upon the company for re-
ward Of $500.
A Grand Traverse county youth Of 10
was secretly married to maiden Of IA
tender years the past summer by justice
of the peace, and the discovery Great s.
much surprise among the friends of til"
contracting parties. The youthful hus-
hav 10 di,,sr ha.
Alpena's spool works are turning out
spools at lively gait-4,0O0 gross per
week.
Three Rivers has seven citizens each of
whom belong to fourteen different secret
organizations. These may be considered
unusual severe cases OF the grip.
The scheme to move Plank's tavern
from St. Joe across the lake to the Worlds
fair city has been abandoned, and it has
been leased for term of years.
William Coulter. living near the 500.
attended a revival held at a country school
house, became converted and publicly con-
fessed to having killed his father without
any provocation.
The Muskegon Boom company claims to
head the list of western Michigan cor
porations in the amount Of money paid its
employees.
Horatio Scott and wife, aged 98 and 80
years, respectively, both died at Oxford
within twenty-seven hours. They were
married nearly sixty years ago.
John Idalski gets fifteen years job at
Jackson for numbering William Hagen,
Hagensville merchant.
Mrs. Mary Calkins, Greenville's oldest
inhabtant, is dead at the ripe old age Of
95 years.
c.. g. Baker was caught by the endless
carriage that feeds an IrOnwood furnace
and thrown into the seething flames, be-
ing cremated to n crisp.
ST. Joe county will have her anti-colic
industry represented at the Worlds fair
by a peppermint still.
The business portion Of Au Sable was de-
vastated by S75, 900 fire on the evening Of
the 18TH Insurance light.
Daniel Mattison, an OtsegO farmer, had
horse bitten by q massasauga five years
ago, but the animal soon recovered. Not
long since the equine manifested symp-
toms of hydrophobia from which it died.
Asa Sharr lives at Morenci and slipped
the other day, dislOcating shoulder
Asa did the very same thing exactly three
years before in precisely the same man
ner.
Rebecca Beaver and Susan Gilbert are
old-time Adrian neighbOrs who live in adj
joining houses with an age record of 80
and "a years, respectively, to their credit.
Joe Smith Is Big Rapids resident-you
may have heard of the Smith family on a
former occasion-who lost a silver quarter
twelve years ago. The other day Joe re-
ceived that self-same coin in payment for
wood with his wife's name inscribed
thereon just as it was the day it was lost.
The combined ages of three members of
one Saginaw family foot up 249 years, or
an average of SO years each.
The 124 state banks doing business in
this state had aggregate assets of S65, 191,-
GRASS on the last day of the old year.
Two Buchanan girls engaged in wood
chopping diversion, one holding the stick
while the other used the AK, whereupon the
holder promptly parted with several fin
gers.
Uncle Sans mail system occasionally
develops some queer incidents. For in
stance: Christian Wesserman, now u
Saginaw citizen, mailed n photograph of
himself to friend nearly nineteen years
ago and has just received the same shadow
from the dead letter office.
Edgar Tyler is q Jasper gentleman who
cut an oak tree which scaled 1911 feet of
log
The warm winters of the past few years
have made Adrian ice dealers charry Of
the weather and they are putting up a two
years supply of CONCEALED ccolness
Saginaw is the home Of woman who
has three living husbands, while Port
Huron man is the proud possessor Of five
wives. Both parties have been jailed on a
charge of bigamy.
Benton Harbor indulged in grand
sleigh riding carnival IT'S estimated
that the procession contained 500 peo-
pie.
A RoscommoD county lad hauls wood
on sled that's drawn by trained sheep.
Charley Hammond is Colon kid who
fell just at time when he had his tongue
between his teeth, amputated the talking
machine in jiffy.
Martin Maier and his daughter, Sarah,
n