The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-04-14
TIE STATE Al LARGE.
A Batch OF Newsy Items Gathered from
Many Points.


masons is still on.
Big Rapids $40, 900 industrial school
is to be built at once.
Mrs. Beal, aged 20, dropped dead from
heart disease at Adrian.
The state fremen's convention will
be held at Grand Haven in May.
st. Louis has just completed its new
high school building at cost of s1a, 600.
The chair privilege at the worlds fair
has been secured by a Grand Rapids
| man.
| Heart disease was the cause of John
Patterson dropping dead near Hastings
recently.
The grand council of Michigan Royal
| Arcanum will be held at Muskegon
April IS and 10.
James Brownell, of st. Charles, was
accidentally shot and killed while duck
hunting recently.
| Congressman Burrows will examine
candidates for the naval cadetship at
Battle Creek, May 2.
! Mason county's new courthouse, for
the erection of which contracts have
been let, will cost S3S,275.
A painter named Thomasu Macbeth, n
resident of Detroit, dropped dead from
heart disease on Thursday.
English sparrows are injuring the
| prospects of the pear crop in Berrien
| county by eating the buds.
| 1t is said that DIR. w. III. Miller will
be deputy collector of the port of Mus
1xepOn under u q Watson
In runaway at Mt. Clemens Post
master Jenney was seriously injured by
being thrown from his buggy.
Rev. DR.. Chapman, the evangelist,
J has been holding series of very sue
cessful revival meetings at Saginaw.
Farmers in Branch county are greatly
| in need of help for the season. The sup
| ply of farm hands has already given
| out.
Lightning struck the residence of f.
Walters, near Leesburg. Mrs. Walters
had her foot split open by the electric
fluid.
William Reece, who died in Muslxegon,
recently, was buried in coffin made of
special design under his own supervision
over year ago.
On Friday, April 81, the examination
| for candidates at his disposal for tho
| West Point cadetship is announced by
Congressman Linton, of Saginaw
Discouraged by continued ill-health,
| $. Is. Granger, prominent resident of
Grand Ledge, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head.
Charles Mum, of Detroit, jumped out
of the second-story window of his resi-
| dence while crazed through religious
| excitement. He was not badly hurt.
Daniel Ellicl1, Grand Rapids SOM
! nambulist, walked out of the second
story of barn while asleep the other
night. 1t is believed his injuries will
| prove fatal.
At the worlds congress of stenog-
graphers, to be held in Chicago in July,
| Charles III. McGurrin, of kalamazoo,
will read paper on the general use OF
typewriting for all purposes.
Anna Nero was shot and badly
wounded at Big Rapids by her lover,
George Jaeger, whom she refused to
marry George then shot himself. He
will die, but Anna will recover.
Fred Lindblom, recently elected city
clerk of Muskegon, cannot qualify be-
cause it has been discovered that his
father, native of Sweden, had never
received his final citizenship papers,
Michigan farmers are expecting that
big increase in the price of poultry
and eggs will follow the opening of tho
worlds fair, which will create an enor
nous demand for these commodities.
William Watson, an old resident oil
Tekonsha and q pioneer of Michigan
committed suicide by cutting his throat
with razor He was 81 years of age
and was subject to fits of dependency
Near Francisco Edward List, OF
Jackson, was found lying unconscious
beside the Michigan Central track Sun
day morning. Both legs were cut off
He lived three hours after being discov
cred.
The next meeting of the Michigan
State Plumbers association will be helt
in Grand Rapids in March, 1894. At the
session in Jackson, just ended, james
Meathe, of Detroit, was elected presi
dent.
|
was given verdict of $4,000 agains
the Consolidated Street Railroad
company by a superior court jury. She
alighted from a car and, falling, in
jured her hip.
Col Chester Hinsdell has been appoint
cd quartermaster of the soldiers hom
at Grand Rapids. Maj. Long will b.
retained as adjutant by Commander
Graves, who will assume the duties o
his office May 1.
The Flint Sc Marquette Railway com
pany has voluntarily given Thoma
Tonl1in, of Mount Pleasant, check TO
$4,000 for injuries received while thu
recipient was under the company's pre-
, lection as a passenger.
William III. Kitchen, of Rogers City
\ was candidate on the republican tict
) ct for supervisor, but was defeated
This fact, together with domesti
troubles, caused him to swallow dos
j of carbolic acid, thereby ending his life