The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-10-05
State Notes.

State Notes.
The large dairy barns owned by George
Kellar of Three Rivers were burned. They
were struck by lightning The loss will
De 5000, with insurance.
William X. Van Doren of Adrian filled
up on whisky and sat down on the Lake
Shore track A train ran over and killed
him. He leaves a wife and five chill
dren.
The last sawmill belonging to w. Sage
g. Co. of Saginaw will start up again next
spring. The mill has been idle for a long
time and the news of resumption is pleas
ing to the residents here.
The Colby mine at Bessemer will be
worked this winter and new shaft will
be sunk. About 400 additional men will
be required. 1t is stated that the men will
receive So per day. No free soup will be
needed.
Clara Plass and Mary Thompson escaped
from the industrial school at Adrian by
tearing off n board of the high fence.
They attempted 20 walk to Detroit, but
were captured before the feat was accom-
plished.
Marcus Peterson of Lansing says the
fur will fly when his new book on the
salary amendment frauds comes out.
He maintains that he will take several
falls out of the present administration.
A new railroad will probably be built
from Buchanan to Boston Harbor. AT
least lot of Michigan Central surveyors
and officials of the road were there and
made statement to that effect
Henry Munger of Flint has been ar
rested on the suspicion Of having set fire
to the barn of William Adams.
William Giberson of Clio has just closed
a deal in Detroit by which he exchanged
his six-legged cow for store property. The
consideration was s., 500.
The 6-year-old son of George Carson OF
Bay City swallowed a pin recently. 1t
lodged in the child's lung and the doctors
say an operation will be necessary which
may prove fatal.
David Reume and Foufle Helletier, two
15-year-olds, of West Bay City, got hold
of bottle of aconite and drank it think
ing the stuff was whisky. The boys nearly
died, but the doctor and a stomach pump
pulled them through.
The habit of cigarette smoking has in
creased TO an alarming extent among the
children of Saginaw. The superintendent
of the schools and the parents in general
sell the coffin nails.
Ten families in Elkton have diphtheria.
1t threatens to become u scourge.
John Bright, a hack driver of Grand
Rapids, got into an alteration with some
passengers and had his nose broken.
T. Il. Luther, an old aud respected citi-
zen of Luther, was seriously injured by n
lever in ~ stump machine.
Beechnuts are attracting largo numbers
of black and gray squirrels along the shore
in the vicinity of Flower creek, in Mus
kegon county.
Ernest Dubois, of Olivet, while operat-
ing a corncutter, fell under the knives
and his right leg was SO badly cut that it
may have to be amputated
There is not single case of contagious
disease in Saginaw and at no time for
some months back has the number of pa
tients exceeded four week.
Belding will have another industry soon.
1t will be factory for the manufacture of
a cash register which has just been pat
ented by Grand Rapids man.
The Isabella county fair was a financial
success this year, having the largest at
tendance it ever had. The races were
prominent feature and excited much in
terest.
William Morrison, of East Jordan, Mich,
has been arrested on suspicion of having
poisoned Mrs. Hannah Holborne, who was
his housekeeper when she died last July.
Strychnine has been found in her remains,
disinterred recently for investigation.
In race between COW and a horse
on the track at Pontiac, Mich. the COW, a
Durham years old, beat mare in n half
mile walk, and then in "a half mile trot,
doing the latter in 1907.
The attendance at the University of
Michigan this year will break all previous
records and pass she 5000 mark by a con-
siderable margin.
Albion's new soap factory will begin
operations at once, the machinery having
arrived.
Just 4S0 scholars arc enrolled on tho
books of the Montague public schools, an
increase of fifteen over the last term.
The October term of court for Branch
county has ten criminal cases on call, with
a total of forty eight on the calendar.
Muskegon county farmers are getting
anxious about their potato crop, as they
are reported to be all rotting on the low
lands
bound to have one. An entertainment was
given for its benefit and now it is an as
sured thing.
Fatal End of Dispute.