The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-08-04


acres of mari land In Cambridge town.
ship, Lenawee county, and a cement
factory may be erected there soon.
Since the craze of Chicago parties.
for marrying at it. Joseph commenced,
the records now show that 400 couples
have been married there since July 4
Michael Mcdonald, 70 years of age,
recently arrived in Lewiston, Me-,
from Detroit, In search of his long lost
daughter. He walked most of the
way.
Mrs. Eugene Moore, wife Of pros
porous Amboy farmer, tried to commit
suicide by taking paris green. Domes-
tic trouble Is said to have been the
cause
John Ross, the Ypsilanti representa-
tive of the Ann Arbor Sanitary Milk
Co., committed suicide on the 1st by
hanging himself He was temporarily
insane.
The business men of Oxford have
raised $4,000 for the purpose, and will
make their street fair this fall even
more of ''hummer" than last years
one was
The proposition TO bond the city Of
Bed Jacket for S45, 900 to pay for a new
opera house and city hall, now In pro
oess Of construction, was carried by
majority of ia
The first outbreak Of the disease
called anthrax among sheep in, this
state Is reported from Manchester and
drastic measures are being taken to
wipe out tho soourge.
A canning factory is among the pos
sibilities at Rochesteg. Efforts are
now being made to Organise stock
company with ss5,o0o capital TO oper-
ste such an institution.
Gov. Pingree has appointed F. Van
Of the state BARRIERS commission to
succeed John Wesley Vaughn. Of
Niles, who pesleeted to qualify. -.
Burglars made pretty fair han at
the residence Of Frank Morrow, chair
man of the Republican city committee
at Benton Harbor. They carried of
$500 in jewelry and cash. No clue
Louis ID. Croud, the richest man IN
Constantine, got wheat crop of 8<N
bushels to the acre from one of his
farms'in Porter, while many, Of his
poor neighbEs didn't get kernel
Three hundred men are employed on
the new railroad In Delta county which
will tap the hardwood lands in White
fish valley. High wages are paid, and
yet enough laborers cannot be OBJ
tanned 4a.<.s. 40 4.ss.
Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer, O prominent
physician and surgeon Of Albion, was
found dead in the woods late in the
afternoon of July 90. Dependent be-
cause of ill health caused her 70 com
NIT suicide.
The annual picnic Of the Pioneer az
ISOLATION, composing Fairfield, Madi.
son, Palmyra and Ogden townships,
will meet in Bakers grove, near Fair
field, on Aug. IL A ane program has
been arranged,
While Mr.. Hagerman and his family,
who live just east of lockwood, were
at church July 30th, fire destroyed his
farm house and a large stack of wheat
He carried $500 insurance in the Ma
tional company.
young man of Washington, Ora
tiot county, raised sparrow bounty
order calling for pay for 81 birds 80 as
to make it read 234, but his trick was
discovered and he now has q charge of
forgery to answer.
There is much excitement at ST.
Joseph ouer the discovery of the re-
mains of nine newborn babies which
had been buried In the cellar back of
the National hotel, house that boro q
rather unsavory reputation
A movement Is on foot at EscsSaba
to utilize tho power of the rivsr to run
the city's street cars by building q
dam some distance above the city and !
transmit the powen converted into
electricity. by overland wires 70 tho
city.
There is but one church a. Twinine,
and that Is 50 poorly attended thaA the
small body Of the faithful who keep 30
going threaten 10 discontinue services
unloss the villagers brace up and AZ.
tend more Ngulaxly and In lasRcS
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