The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-09-08

The #. q p. M oar shops are to be
removed from Saginaw to Detroit.
The long continued drouth In the
lower peninsula was broken on Sept. 1.
Frank Ives, of Grand Rapids, the
champion billiardist of the world, is
dead.
One of the largest steam grist mills
In the state will be erected at Pontiac
this fall.
The balance in the state treasury at
the close of business Aug 81 was
Sl,754, 376.4 40.
At Horton on Aug. 2sth 1850 bushels
OF wheat were threshed in one day and
the machine moved four times.
John and Andrew Oliver, brothers,
met by chance at Petoskey the other
day after being separated 46 years.
1t is believed that 500 Oddfellows
from Grand Rapids will attend the
great convention at Detroit Sept. 16
One hundred trained nurses received
diplomas from the Sanitarium Train
ing school at Battle Creek on the 5th.
The dredge, Lisgar, valued at $780,
600, and a crew of seven were lost in
Lake Huron, on the 4th. The loss is
total
The dates for Kalamazoo's street
fair have been changed to Oct. 1920.
President Mckinley is expected to be
present
Reading is now talking Of installing
a waterworks system. Most of the
buildings burned on the Goth will DO
rebuilt.
Grand Haven is at present the great
est rye market in all Michigan and
thousands of bushels. are being mar
keted there.
Stonewall j. DeFrance, the we'll
known convict, has written a novel
called The Great Convention" He
says it is a satire.
Damage suits against the Diamond
Match Co., which aggregate nearly
$1,000, 900, were commenced in the US
circuit court at Marquette on the 5th.
The first car over the new Ypsilanti
~ Saline branch of the D., Y. 81 A. A.
electric road, passed over it on the 3D..
Regular trips will be made hereafter.
The September term of the Jackson
county circuit court contains 90 cases
for trial. Twelve of these are criminal
cases, 80 issues of fact, Q of law. The
remainder are chancery cases, largely
divorces.
Mayor Townsend, of Marshall, sur
prised his friends on the 5th by quietly
marrying his domestic and leaving the
city's affairs in charge of his assistant
while he and his frau took trip to
Niagara Falls
The Portland Water Co. has agreed
to accept $50, 900 for the plant and an
election will be held to decide the
question. The company wanted $45,.
600 originally. The proposition will
undoubtedly carry. &
1t is proposed to build a condensed
milk factory at Ubly, Huron county,
for the purpose of making the dairy In
dustry profitable to the farmers in the
southern part of the Thumb. Stock
raising is taking boom.
The ninth victim to sacrifice their
life by the explosion of kerosene in
Detroit died on Sept. /. The victim
was an old man named Frank Pequig-
not The oil was purchased from the
Standard Oil company on July 20.
The Howard City electric light plant
and Messenger 81 Summers wooden
mill at Howard City was destroyed by
fire on the 4th. Loss on the electric
plant SIS, 900; loss on Messenger 81 Sum-
mers' wooden mill 81, 900; no insurance.
David Turnbull, laborer employed
on the farm of Spencer Clark, near
Wayne, was arrested by a United
States officer on the Goth Oh the charge
of sending obscene letters through the
mail. Wayne young ladies received
the letters.
A special election was held at Holly
on the 5th to vote on the question Of
bonding the village for So, 900, to sink
new wells at the water works. The
election was holly contested and re-
suited in defeat for the proposition
bv vote of 104 to o.