The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-07-14
State NEWS NOTES.

dent of Crisp. fell down cellar aud
was killed. He leaves widow AMI
children.
Congressman Sam w. Smith says
that he will talk with his friends be-
fore he makes any announcement re-
garding his candidacy for the United
States senate.
Miss May OFT, Of Marengo, while
driving horse which was attach al
to hay fork, was seriously injur II
The whiffletree broke and she susta T..
ed seven broken IDS.
Jack Collins, Elmer of Wakefield
celebrated the Fourth strenuously anil
overcome by remocse cut his throat
Saturday night, DING shortly after.
war;
The Michigan department of the G.
A. R. has selected he Wabash and the
Missouri Pacific IS the official routa
to the Denver enca ppment AT Sep.
TENDER.
David Taylor was caught while
working about shaft at the Olds
Motor works in Lansing and was badly
crushed about the body, and is in Sc.
rious condition.
Clarence the 9-year-old son Of VIII.
lam Vanderb sc.., farmer living near
Shepherd is minus an eye as the re.
suit of striking a dynamite cap with
hammer.
Silas Hay of Galesburg, Ill.,. has been
arrested in Muskegon on the charge o:
attempting to assault a 9-year-Cld girl
At the jail he was identified by the
girl and her companions.
Jacob Hirscl and Miss Parry Paultz,
Of Chicago were married in Grand Rap.
ids Saturday. Hirch, who is rea!
estate dealer of Chicago, is 7Yyears
old and the bride is but %.
George H. Keyes. of Boyne, 80 year.
old and a veteran cf the Mexican AID
rebellion wars, was buried Monday
He had belonged > the Masonic fra
ternity for 60 years.
Star Love, of Adrian has been sen
fenced to not .ess II an seven and one
half years or NOR. than Is years III
the Jackson pris,.. for an offenso
against his 15-year old daughter.
OF the 200 applicants for admission
TO the United States navy received by
Commissioner Morretl at Detroit, two
thirds of them have been rejected. The
recruiting ship Wolverine is anchored
IL the Detroit river.
Thomas Swaney, a Clinton county
farmer, was before United States Com
missioner Chaplin at Lansing Tuesday
or a charge of sending immoral letters
through the mails. His examination
was fixed for July >26.
Edward Donohue. convicted Of tt.
murder of A. NJ Northrop, Of Benton
Harbor, at Laporte Ind, has embraced
the catholic faith al d will be accomp
anied to the gallo " on July p by n
priest.
Gold dirt in paying qualities has
been discovered on the 200-acre farm
OF George Clay, near Port Huron. Elk
worth $6 ton. Farmers in the vicin.
ity are greatly excited over the find
Street cars are again running at Bay
City with regularity on every line, but
Very few persons are riding, but no at
tempt is made to interfere with pa
irons, employees or property.
Clyde McDermon, the 12-year-old son
was instantly, killed by the falling of a
forty-foot pole while playing on the
grounds where preparations were be-
ing made for balloon ascension.
The two-year-old child of Mr.. AMI
Mrs. William Wells of Midland ate
several patent pills and was taken
with symptoms of strychnine poison
ing. After a long tussle the doctors
pulled the tot out Of danger and recov
cry is assured.
Jonathan Bills, an aged civil war
veteran, was held up in room Of the
Germania hotel at Kalamazoo Tuesday
night while under the influence OF
liquor and robbed Of SIS. Chief of Po
lice Boyles rounded up three suspects
and landed them in jail.
Rev. G. Lau of Bridgewater was
seriously injured in a runaway on his
way to Ann Arbor to marry Miss
Bertha Guenther and Oscar Weig
brecht, but he punctually continued
the journey, performed the ceremony
and then went home and took to his
bed.
At the annual school meeting of dis
trict No. 1, Lincoln township Huron
county, Tuesday night, Frank Marsa
and Thomas Gates started rough
house. William Wellington got into
the fray and is alleged to have stabbed
Gates. Gates is lying at the point OF
death and Wellington is in Jail. All
three are brothers-in-law.
Complaint is made by farmers near
Flint that the English sparrows have
attacked the wheat in their nelds and
pecking the grain out of the heads
One farmer VINO has 90 acres OF wheat
almost ready for harvest, estimates
that the spar 'ows have stolen SO bush.
els from mis- fields
Several wes ks ago Mrs. Jennie Fer
guson OF Flat, was united in MARI.
age to Orson Taylor of Flushing. Tha
honeymoon had scarcely begun when
William Ferguson, who lives near
g..