The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-22
State NEWS NOTES
Cleaned From the Latest Michigan
Happenings.

Death has removed John j. F. Auch,
Sebewaing's oldest pioneer, the first
white settler in that district.
Isadore Jacobson, Benton Harbor
secondhand dealer chopped up an old
door for firewood and discovered in
a small zinc box $1,000 in currency
and an old German almanac. The
money had probably been hidden
away half century ago.
Ralph Nixon, aged 81, lies at his
home in Linden with a crushed skull
and broken nose, as the result of a
collision with George Whitney while
playing hockey at Byron lake, half
mile from that town. When the men
collided Nixon fell over Whitney, his
head crushing into the ice
Brush street car No. 345 plunged
into hose wagon No. at Brush
street and Adams avenue in Detroit,
Sunday night, and as a result, four
firemen were injured, one of them Jas.
F. Riggs, dying at o'clock Monday
morning at st. Mary's hospital.
While Edwin H. Humphrey of De-
troit and his family were absent from
their home, 522 Congress street east,
sneak thief carried away $3.50 worth
of silverware, money and jewlry, in
Guiding a $500 diamond pin, all val
ued at 1926.
William Unser of Mt Pleasant, AZ
years old, and single, shot himself
in the heart and died In a few min
utes.
Rev. John o. Snider, aged 70, a re-
tired Methodist minister, dropped
dead at his home in Long Rapids Sun
day, while hauling wood.
An order has been issued by Judge
Hamm, committing the wife of Rev.
Robert ]. Chase, of Marshall, to the
insane asylum. Rev. and Mrs. Chase
went to Marshall last summer from
Albion, where Mr.. Chase was attend
ing college.
The Owosso sanitarium property,
better known as Gutes' hill, beautiful
tract of land on the south side of the
city, comprising seven acres Of land,
big hotel and bath house, has been
sold to the Free Methodists Of Mich
igan, who will make Owosso their state
headquarters.
After being out seventeen hours, the
jury in the case of Hattie Berdan VS..
the City Of Ypsilanti, brought in a
verdict Of $1,000 for the plaintiff She
was thrown out of a cutter because
Of an alleged defective approach to a
bridge last January and suffered a dis
located knee cap.
Milford Is making test case under
the new transient traders law which
calls for $40 per day license, with an
equivalent Of $3.50 to $500 fine or 30
days for violation. The chosen ex-
ample" is the representative OF a Day.
ton, o., firm, who delivered 5000 to
800 worth Of ordered groceries in
Milford last week.
Joined by 100 Grand Rapids breth-
rem, Muskegon council, No. 706,
Knights of Columbus, Sunday held it's
annual banquet and initiated so men,
bers, the work being done by the Wis
iting team. Four hundred knights
from western Michigan sat at the ban
quet table. M. II. Carmody of Grand
Rapids was the principal speaker.
Ann Arbor has now a third evening
paper, the Ann Arbor News having
made its appearance Monday. w. W.
Wedemeyer is back of the enterprise,
and Glen Simpson of the Chelsea
Standard has been engaged as editor
Announcement is made at Saginaw
of the wedding of Miss Josephine
Fordney, daughter Of Congressman
and Mrs. Jos. w. Fordney, and Walt
er Lee Stout, of Aberdeen, state of
Washington The ceremony is to take
place Christmas day.
While 7-year-old Earl Dixon was go
ing to the town hall at South Grant
he was shot in the back of the neck
with small rifle, the bullet passing
under the cords and coming out be-
hind the left ear. His 2-year-old
brother was with him and aided him
to doctors office, where the wound
was dressed. There is no clue to who
did the shooting.
Despondent because his young wife,
who left him while on their honey
moon trip to Jackson, made an I'M
kind remark to him on the street as
he says, Henry G. Glassbrook, of
Lansing attempted suicide by taking
laudanum. Physicians hope to save
his life. Glassbrook, who is only 22
years old, married Nellie jenkins,
aged 16 last July