The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-01-27
NEWS OF THE STATE.
Short stories of Events and Breezy Bits of
Gossip.

shooting iron, but the charge "didn't stay
out" but slipped out into the fathers
wrist. Both boy and gun are on vaca-
tion now.
just as Lansing couple were to be pro
nounced man and wife, the officiating
clergyman paused to inform the assembled
guests that the contracting parties had
been married by himself, in private, year
before, and that now he would perform q
public ceremony at their special re-
quest. 1t was great surprise to those
present.
Ludington people don't really enjoy so
much winter as they've had OF late, as they
received no mail for half IA week on account
OF the recent severe storm.
Ionia people are such great water con-
sumers that the supply is said to be very
| limited for fire purposes.
Negaunee failed to sell 500, 900 in AZ per
cent. sewer bonds. but when she raised the
interest rate half per cent. they were
taken in a hurry.
Several business houses were burned
at Sheridan the past week at loss OF
Sl0,00t.
Cremus Smith, Richfield resident, has
been convicted of helping himself from the
flocks of Genesee county farmers, and
sheep owners of that section are greatly
gratifed
Malpractice cases are increasing in about
the same ratio that the mercury is drop
ping. This time Scottville physician
is sued for $1,000 damages on such
charge.
During the year just closed Bay City cit
izens used nearly billion gallons of wat
or. About ninety-four million gallons
were used in the month of July alone.
The Hillsdale Fair association cleared
1000 on its exhibit last fall notwith-
standing the sum of 1890 was paid out in
premiums Liberality in the size of pre-
miums is one of the potent factors of sue
cess.
Ishpeming ladies have formed snow
shoe club and will build a club house as
one of the accessories Of the organiza-
tion.
Kent countys treasurer has less than
s14,0 600 with which to pay a $500 claim
which matured severa ldays ago. That
official is greatly puzzled over the problem
of how to make both ends meet.
The very day that Ludington lad took
unto himself wife he was taken in tow by
an officer ON complaint of betrayal made by
another maiden, and was given berth in
the calaboose.
A Ludington fish firm recently hauled
5000 specimens of brain food from Lake
Michigan at single trip.
The walking is not supposed to be extra
nowadays, but a Jerusalem man walked
over to Ann Arbor, filled himself full of
booze, and was lodged in the bastile, all in
one short winters day.
Hudson's village council proposes to dis
| pense with electric street lighting on Feb.
/. Too expensive
| Remus residents have an idea of indulg-
| ing in a new church of the Lutheran per-
suasion another season.
The national headquarters of the Prohi-
bition party are located at Albion.
A Harbor Springs couple didn't propose
| to let the justice of the peace, of whom
they were in pursuit, get away, and so
| they were married in hardware store
right where they had found the modifying
officer.
~
The Branch county circuit court has
been the theater of 112 criminal cases
during the past year. OF the fifteen
cases of alleged violation of the local OPP
ton law only one conviction has yet been
| secured.
Free Church is the home of a man who
frequently puts himself ontside of twenty
four pancakes at breakfast every morn
. ing
William Chandler, a colored citizen, was
! found frozen stiff at Reeds Lake, Kent
| county.
Not for thirty years has Peter Van Epps,
a Hudson man of 80 seasons, invested a
nickle with the doctors, and his health
continues to roost on the top shelf.
Midland folks think that four hours is
an unnecessary length of time for tele-
| graph messages to wing their flight from
| Saginaw to their town. Electricity is not
| always swift footed.
| that the butter made in their town is used
to grease the palate of the presidential
| household at Washington.
Battle Creek has q mechanics co-opera-
| tive store. 1t starts out with backing Of
100 families, who will obtain their goods at
| COST
The Tittabawassee boom company de-
hvered La, s02 300 feet of logs to Saginaw
sawmills the past season. Since the
company was organized, twenty-eight
years ago, it has handled total of $685.
OH, S43 feet Of logs
Seven children, sick with diphtheria,
were found in bed by an Auburn physician
while another child was dead in the same
room from the scourge. They belonged to
q poor Polish family.
Menominee people can browse in a thir-
ty-five acre park when the grass gets green
the coming spring.
Tom Harris, the Port Huron hermit who
died a short time since, left $4,000 worth
of property.
Dr. l. N. Eldredge,, Genessee county
practitioner for the past half century,
died at Flint recently, aged ~ years.
The state school for the blind at Flint
has eighty-fve pupils.
The measles continue to make speckled
time of it at Adrian-to much to snit the
kids
The Houghton mining school has an at
tendance of seventy-nine students, an in
crease over that of last winter.
A Jackson youth of 16 claims that he
was persuaded into marrying girl 5