The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-10-27
STATE NEWS NOTES

Instant death. in the ruins Of his
own engine was the fate Of Engineer
Edward Miller at Shepherd Saturday
A rear-end collision was the cause.
There was a head-on collision of
two Pere Marquette freight trains at
Webberville Saturday night, and Fire.
man Ames of Grand Ledge was killed.
The accident was due to the leaving
open of a switch.
William Perry, a farmer living west
CT Vanderbilt, was instantly killed at
one of the crossings Of the new D. c.,
G.. & A. r. r. by road train. He was
On his way home from Boyne City
with load OF grain.
Gov Warner has rendered to Ed
ward G. Human Of Battle Creek the
appointment as member of the state
beard of education, to succeed James
II. Thompson, who will become state
tax commissioner.
Oakland county will raise $4,000
in county taxes this year, which
means rate Of s342 per $1,000 valu-
alton. The state tax rate for the coun-
ty is $2.47. The increase in the coun-
ty appropriation this year Is to take
up a considerable deficit which has
s. own this year and to pay off $4,000
of the county building bonds.
Attorney-General Bird has filed in
the Ingham circuit court a bill for a
receiver for the Michigan Live Stock
Insurance Co. Of Detroit. The com
pany has been doing business just one
year, and it is claimed that under the
new law regulating such companies to
create a reserve equal to so per cent
Of the cash premiums on all policies
in force, the company is insolvent.
William Southland, aged 70, fell from
the stairway in the rear Of saloon at
Bay City and broke his neck, dying
instantly.
Charged with criminal offense,
Gottlieb Bethka, farmer near AL
pena, has been Released on $1,000 bail
pending his examination. The com
plant is made by Bethka's 17-year-old
daughter.
William A. Neale, son of one Of Bat.
tie Creeks most prominent pionee:
merchants, is under arrest on q charge
Of forgery, Thomas II. Butcher, ar
other merchant, being complainant.
Neale has borne good reputation.
George II. Butts, Battle Creek ar.
dealer, is under arrest charged with
violation of the game laws. John TAFT,
contractor, claims Butts shot pigeons
in the vicinity of his home within the
city limits. Butts will fight.
Most of the sugar factories are run
ming full capacity, and the Bay City
plant is slicing 700 tons day. The
rains have not injured the beets AMI
they are al of good size and of good
sugar percentage.
Traffic on the Ann Arbor railway is
greatly impaired as a result of about
200 feet Of track sinking fifteen feet
near Temple, eighteen miles south of
Cadillac. 1t is an old sink hole that
has been filed in, and the constant
rains caused the sinking.
The masons of Kalamazoo, who are
planning the construction of a fine
temple in the near future, have Sc
cured an option on one Of the most de-
sirable sites in the city, located be-
tween the government building AMI
the public library. The value of the
property is placed at $4,000.
Frank Merrenge of Marine City re-
Gently invented an improved acetyline
sts light which he has just sold for
the neat sum Of $4,000.
A man recently buried as an I'M
known at Reed City has been identi-
fed by relatives as Joseph Spooner of
Augusta.
If you haven't the time to exercise
regularly Doans kegulets will prevent
constipation. They induce mild, easy,
h althful action of the bowels withm {
gripping. Ask your druggist for them,