The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-07-07
STATE NEWS NOTES

A number of years ago Mrs. James
Carrier left in trust to the Genesee
Congregational church at Flint $500.
Now the church has dsbanded and
heirs will receive the money.
For attacking a strike-breaker, Will
lam Cowharj Of Bay City, who was
arrested for violating Judge Shepard's
injunction, was convicted Of contempt
OF court.
While respondent Mrs. Frank Alex
ander, aged 67, of Saginaw, took car
bolic acid shortly after dinner and was
found unconscious lying upon her bed.
Her life was saved.
The Michigan Press association
landed in Boston shortly before noon
Thursday. The party split and it be-
came a go-as.you-please race. The
bulk Of the excursionsts will remain
in Boston until Saturday.
Because Battle Creek has a hard
time trying to get someone to act as
official dog catcher, small boys are be-
ing paid 25 cents for every collarless
dog brought to the pound.
Mrs. Arson Tomlinson, wife Of a
leading photographer of Pontiac, has
wandered away from home in a de-
mented state and the police of Detroit
have been notified to watch for her.
Burglars entered the residence of
p. T. Jaundice, wealthy manufac-
turer Of Muskegon, while the family
was away Tuesday and secured jewels
amounting to considerable value, a re-
volver and $26 in money.
A unique entertainment was given
by the children of the Michigan Home
for the Predetermined and Epileptic at
Lapeer this week, when the opera,
Dame FREELY" was presented clever
ly in three acts
Nothing having been heard of Ar
thur Hum since his strange disap-
pearance from his home in Port HUI
ron June %, foul play is now feared.
He had but So with him at the time,
and it is not thought he left the city.
The present whereabouts of E. L.
Page, president of the suspended Elk
change bank at Vicksburg, who was
taken to Oak Grove sanitarium at
Flint two weeks after the closing of
the bank, is a secret. He was taken
away by his brother.
Tuesday night as John Davis, Mus
kegon resident, was out walking he
was accosted in a lonely spot of the
city by five masked men and relieved,
at the point Of revolver, of So in sill
yer. Three of the guilty party were
arrested and have confessed.
B. l.. Prier Of Tekonsha has Inherit
ed $4,000 from an uncle who recently
died in the west. Prier, though young,
has been a hardworking chap at his
business Of merchant, and now intends
TO take long vacation. travel about
and see bit Of the world.
The jury in the Staley flogging case,
in which mother sued Staley, super.
intendent of the Coldwater schools, for
$4,000 on a charge of having caused
her boys death by giving him a whip
ring, failed to agree and was dis
missed.
Owing to the immense crop of hay
and grain this season, farmers near
Three Rivers are experiencing difficult
ty in getting help to care for it. AL.
ready as high as $3.50 day is being
offered and still the demand for help
exceeds the supply.
Two tons of boiler plate fell on Rob-
ert Corcoran's left leg at the Ann Ar
Dor railroad shops in Owosso, dislo-
eating the ankle and breaking the low.
err leg so badly that both bones pro-
truded through the flesh. Amputation
will probably be necessary.
Oil and gas have been discovered in
the townships of Conway, Handy,
Howell, Cohoctah, Brighton and Mari.
on, in Shiawassee county. An expert
Ohio oil man says the whole Shiawas-
see river valley is an oil field yet to
be developed.
Claiming that her husband has lost
his sense Of love, work and duty, as
the result of the railroad collision at
McCord's station, Kent county on Dec.
&c, 1903, Mrs. Keken of Muskegon has
commenced suit against the Pere Mar
quette Railroad Co. for $4,000.
A lighted cigar stub started a fire
at night at Macatawa park, damaging
the bathhouse and skating rink On the
lake front and destroyed 200 life pre-
servers. Cottagers in their night
clothes, many barefooted, formed
bucket brigade, and with the aid OF
few chemicals extingulshed the blaze.
Harrison West, minor of Ann Ar
Dor, has begun suit for $1,000 by next
friend against the Detroit, Ypsilanti,
Ann Arbor &c Jackson electric road.
He claims that on Dec. II, 1903, hs
boarded a car at Chelsea and was
beaten by the conductor and then
thrown from the moving car.
AS the result of her face being
pierced below the eye with an umbrel.
la rod Matilda Alt, aged is, of Cad
lilac is dead. While playing in the
park few days ago one of her play
mates accidentally pushed the rod of
an umbrella into her face, causing a
fracture of the nasal pharnyx.