The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-10-27

~ Is reported that within a year II
least 2,500 more men will be employed
In the copper mines near Calumet II
is said the Calumet & Hecla Co. will
employ no less than /, 500 new men be-
fore the middle of next summer.
An old Indian woman hunting for
ginseng, found the body of a middle
aged man in the woods between Boyne
City and East Jordan. There were a
lot of bones in some clothing. A bot
tie half full of laudanum indicates
suicide.
The total registration of students in
the University of Michigan on the 18th
was 3,1s7. The largest enrolment is
in the literary department, where
1870 were registered; in the law de-
partment, 7s2, and the medical de-
partment, 469.
The remains OF Samuel Horner, of
Niles, was found in the st. Joseph
river, near that village, on the 18th.
When the body was recovered the pocl-
cts were found to contain large stones,
which gives rise to murder theory.
Horner disappeared Oct o.
The secretary of the treasury on the
23d issued warrant in favor of the
governor of Michigan for SEQ, 500, be-
ing the first installment of the amount
due for expenses incurred by the state
in aiding the United States to raise
the volunteer army in the war with
Spain.
Robt McCurdy, who lives near Ann
Arbor, claims to have been fiim-f1am-
med. He was in Philadelphia recently
and paid a big price for a horse that
could trot mile In 2:1G He ordered
it shipped to Ann Arbor. The horse
has arrived and is practically worth
less animal.
A dastardly crime was committed
near the village of Cascade, Kent
county, on the evening of the 18th,
when the 9-year-old daughter of j. w.
Russ was seized on her way from
school and assaulted. The child man
aged to reach home but was in petit
able condition.
Attorney General Oren has been
asked to assist in the investigation of
several apparently fragrant cases of
fraudulent assessments in Roscommon
county, where it is claimed certain
supervisors have been ignoring the law
and favoring the numbering interests
to an unusual degree.
Potato digging has been in progress
in northern Michigan about two weeks,
and the result is very disappointing to
the farmers. The crop is not average
ing more than one-third of the yield of
former years, and in many instances
not more than 30 or 25 bushels to the
acre is being obtained.
John Fl. Adams, of Homer, dropped
about two spoonsfuls of gasoline into
the bunghole of cider barrel, with a
view of burning out the interior. He
then touched a match to the vent, and
has been unable to locate the barrel
since. Mr.. Adams is thankful tn at his
life is spared to tell the story.
The state board of auditors vigor
ously deny that the state pledged it.
self to pay bounty of 81. so per month
to men born in Michigan, who served
in Cuba or the Philippines. A para
graph to that effect is going the rounds
and many ex-soldiers have applied for
blanks so as to obtain the bounty.
The building of the board of super
visors of Washtenaw county have de-
sided to adopt five or six rooms in the
upper story of the county house for
detention asylum for the insane until
the patients can be accommodated at
the overcrowded state institutions.
The Jail has been used heretofore
Men are scarce In Oceana county.
warmers are offering SIS and $1.75
per day to dig potatoes and pick ap-
pies, and can't get help at these figures.
rhe apple season is drawing to a close,
after harvesting large and profitable
'rop, but the potato digging has just
The q uality is good, but
The average yield will only be about
IS bushels per acre, owing to the dry
weather through July and August.
Oct. 22d was the first Sunday since
.he season of quail and partridge
opened, and it Is dollars te doughnuts
here were more men out hunting for
The birds than there was in church.