The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-03-03
INTERESTING ITEMS.

tus, of Three Rivers, t. kill himself.
Forty-seven inches of snow have
fallen in southern Michigan this win
ter.
Samuel p. Case, one of the foremost
citizens of Saginaw, is dead, aged SO
years.
Clinton owns its own electric light
plant, and has just let it shine for the
first time.
Wayne county democrats have re-
nominated Circuit Judges Reilly, Cart
ner, Hosmer and Brevoort.
John B. Maloney is said to have a
sure thing on the appointment for col
lector of customs at Detroit
James j. Brown, of St. Ignace, is the
democratic nominee for judge in the
Thirty-third judicial district.
Thomas O'Hara has been renominated
for circuit judge for the district com.
prising Berrien and Cass counties.
Michigan democrats are counting on
sending John j. Enright, of Detroit, to
Montreal as United States consul.
Bay City people talk seriously of ex-
empting every new industry in that
place from taxation for five years.
The Estey Wooden Ware company,
of Canada, is to establish a 200-man
power branch at Bay City before July 1.
The Ashland mine near Ironwood
has become flooded from an unknown
source and all work has been. stopped.
Andrew Peterson, whose home is in
Negaunee, was killed recently by a
fall of rock in mine on the Messaba
range.
Heart disease is supposed to have
ended the life of Mrs Thomas Taylor,
who was found dead at her home near
Elmore.
Fireman O'Neal was killed neat
Cadillac by the explosion of a loco
motive boiler on the Toledo & Ann Ar
Dor road.
Harvey o. Carr has been appointed
superintendent of the Grand Rapids
police force, vice William II. Eastman.
resigned.
sThe spring term of the state agri
cultural college has commenced, and
the attendance is larger than it ever
has be en- before.
At Pine Creek, Nathan Rogers, who
forty-two years, died on Saturday. He
was 92'years of age.
There was recently taken from
the Quincy mine piece of copper
weighing nine tons. II will be exhib-
tied at the worlds fair.
Prof. A. G. Gully, of the Michigan
Agricultural college, is to be professor
of horticulture at the experiment sta
tion at saltwater. o. Il.
Death has ended the suffcrings of
Hugh Fitzpatrick, who was badly in
jured by falling tree at a logging
camp near Pembin a week ago.
Because his wife insisted upon be-
coming a member of the Baptist
church, John w. Hover. a farmer liv.
ing near Saginaw, hanged himself.
d. w. Kinney, of Saginaw, owns a
clock that was made by William Logan
at Glasgow in 1770 1t still runs and
does not vary 80 seconds in a month.
j. c. Hill & Co.. of st. Paul, have
bought 22,0oo,OO0 feet of logs on the
Menominee river and its branches.
They will be made into lumber at Me-
nominee.
William Ebert was stabbed by Frank
Vlzneau during a drunken quarrel at
Detroit. lie died of his wounds and
his assailant is locked up on a charge
of murder
A reward of $500 is offered by the
national board of underwriters for
the arrest and conviction of the in
cendiaries who destroyed the Corey
Touring mills at Williamson.
The Belinda street bridge over the
Saginaw river between Bay City and
West Bay City. has been opened for
use. 1t took over six months to build
it. 1t is 1912 feet long and cost S65, 0OO
The comfortable salary of $4,000 a
year will be paid to ex-Congressman
William c. Maybury, who has accepted
the position of managing director of
the Standard Life &c Accident Insur-
ance company.
Gladstone, at present the deep water
terminus of the 500 road, with a popu-
lation of ., 900 souls, is to experience a
boom, if company just organized for
that purpose with capital O. S5,000,-
900 can work it up.
A train consisting of twenty-five
cars laden with between 1900 and l.
600 bedroom suits left Grand Rapids
en- route for San Francisco on Satur-
day. The shipment was made by the
McCord e. Bradfeld Furniture COM
pany.
Residents of Detroit have purchased
an elegant silver punch bowl, valued
at SO, 500, for presentation to the crew
of the new cruiser named in honor of
their city, which has just been COM
pleted at the Columbian iron works in
Baltimore.
In the preliminary examination of
Engineer Tate, charged with being re-
sponsible for the recent terrible acct
dent on the Grand Rapids &c Indiana
road, the evidence was not considered
su fiicient to hold him, and the case
was dismissed
For a New Railroad.
BATTLE CREEK, Feb. $50. p. M.
Huffman, of Chicago, is at the head of
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