The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-09-29

Aheoe 10 foAoou oy uirecb tak tlib year.
The oath annual reunion of the Goth
Michigan infantry will be held Mt
Chelsea, Oct. 18th. Out of about 1 100
originally in this regiment 400 are now
living.
Williams Brothers q Charbonneau,
of Detroit, will locate large branch
pickle factory at Plainwell, providing
the farmers will contract to raise 400
acres of cucumbers.
1t is said the Big Four system will
build 100000 swing bridge at st.
Joseph, extend the line to that city
and thence along the south lake shore,
tapping the fruit belt
The little village of Coloma has made
its main street into fine boulevard.
The street is very wide and In the CEN
ter is row of fine old maple trees
with driveway on each side.
A syndicate of Detroiters headed by
Clarence A. Black has been granted q
S0-year franchise to build an electric
line at Monroe. The line will ex-
tend from Toledo to Trenton.
Frank Temple, who entered the res
dence of A. f. Wilcox at Royal Oak,
and was shot by Mr.. Wilcox while
leaving his premises, has been sem
fenced to 20 years Imprisonment at
Marquette.
DIR. ID. Milton Greene, one of the best
known physicians of Grand Rapids,
has been arrested on the charge of
criminal assaulting his 9-year-old
daughter. Feeling against the pris-
oner runs high.
Never before in the history of the
Marsh company, of Monroe, have there
been so few ducks in that vicinity at
this time of the year. There are
hardly any ducks flying and there is
no shooting whatever.
Keeper Geiger of the Huron county
poor farm, reports that the 200 acres
of county land have this year yielded
798 bushels of wheat, s75 bushels Of
oats, 203 bushels of peas, 800 bushels
of potatoes, and much corn.
The first snow of the season fell at
Calumet on the morning of the 25th,
quite sprinkle of the beautiful COM
ing down. The thermometer regis
tered away below freezing and did
great damage to farm produce.
David Watlin, a farmer of near Lam
sing, was fined 500 for killing and
selling for food COW that was suffer-
ing with a cancer on its jaw The
meat inspector discovered the carcass
before any of it had been eaten.
Gen. r. A. Alger has been invited to
be one of the guests on the occasion of
the splendid banquet to be rendered
at the White House by President Nc
Kinley to Admiral Dewey on Oct. 8.
The general has signified that he will
accept.
Ten hogs, owned by George and AL
bert Schwanebeck, of Fenton town
ship, Genesee county, took refuge un-
der tree during heavy rainstorm on
the Gath. The tree was struck by
lightning and every one Of the porkers
were killed.
The union men of Grand Rapids are
contemplating building a home of
their own. They had surplus of
5000 from tina Labor Day receipts, and
propose to use it as a nucleus of q
building fund for the erection of q
labor temple.
Sportsmen In different parts of the
state say quail were never more plen-
tiful than they are this year. Every
wheat field and wood pasture is alive
with them and the young birds are
now full grown. The coming season
of shooting will be the best in years.
The October term of the Washtenaw
county circuit court will be a record
breaker. There are 104 cases on the
docket. Twenty-one are criminal, in
Guiding eight cases from Ypsilanti for
violation of the liquor law last Fourth
of July. Fourteen dissatisfied mar
ried persons want divorces.
One of the features of the fair at
Reed City was the work of hypnot-
list, who placed an assistant under his
influence and buried him. The man
was under ground for 4s hours. While
he was in the grave some miscreant
dropped a stone down the 8xS-inch air
fue and the mans nose was broken.
Frank Phiscator, the Michigan Klon-
dixie king, for the third time returned
to his home at Baroda, Berrien county,
from the gold fields on the 26th. Mr..
Phiscator sold claims discovered dur
ing the previous two visits to the gold
fields to London syndicate for $780,
900. During his last visit of five months
he is said to have discovered claims
valued at $500, 900.
Freeman Hodges, who was sentenced
at Paw Paw recently to two years i'm
prisonment for chicken stealing, built
a fire on the floor Of the Jail in the
hope that he could make his escape in
the excitement. The jailer's wife,
who was alone in the building, told
the other prisoners they could put out
the FIRE or burn to death, and they
quickly extinguished the blaze.
j. Ullerg, a farmer residing near
Niles, sold several cattle to q butcher
and took the money home with him.
The first night he became frightened
at the thought of robbery, got up and