The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-12-29
State NEWS NOTES
Cleaned From the Latest Michigan
Happenings.

DR.. George II. Granger, well-known
! physician and politician of Bay City,
Is dead of diabetes, aged GA. He was
| member of the state legislature from
| 1877 to 1882 from Tuscola county.
Under the new law Judge w. l.. Car
| penter of the supreme court should
| preside as CHEZ justice, but owing to
| the condition of his health 1t is doubt
| full II he will be able to do so. In this
event the honor will fall upon Judge
| A. V. McAlvay.
B. v. Clark, aged GA, of Buchanan,
died suddenly Friday of heart failure
| He had been prominent in Berrien
county. He was secretary of the
Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. eight
years, and had been master of the
| county grange several years.
To use legacy of $4,000 left him
| by the late Mrs. Julia A. Hackley for
an education is the determination of
Charles Hackley Gibson, the 16-year-
old son Of Mrs. Nellie Kent Gibson, of
Muskegon. He is now junior in the
high school and will graduate in 1907,
when he will go to the University Of
Michigan.
A tale of inhuman cruelty, alleged to
have been practiced upon an inmate
of the Kent county home by former
Matron Mrs. Thaddeus Brownell and
her daughter, is related by County
Physician Clarence B. Herman in an
| interview. An investigation into the
conditions at the home under the re-
gime of Keeper Brownell and his fam
ily Is now being made
Spot, the champion fire and high
diving dog of Jackson, is dead. He
was making a run to fire and
stopped in front of the combination
wagon, being run over and killed. He
was given the title of champion high
diver as the result of dive from the
fourth floor Of building, a distance
of 20 feet, into a life net. He was the
pet of the Jackson fire department
seven years, and his remains will be
mounted.
The estate Of Mrs. Alice D. Hubbard,
one of the wealthiest women of Cal
houn county, and widow of Deville
Hubbard, has been settled in the pro-
bate court. Mrs. Hubbard died last
June, and Attorney William H. Porter
of Marshall, who was appointed admin
istrator, broke all records for quick
settlement of the estate, it being COM
pleted in five months, while the law
allows four months for hearing of
claims.
AS Charles Brink was walking down
Gratiot avenue, in Detroit, about Glib
o'clock, he started to cross Harper
avenue. In doing so he was hit with
terrific force by the west-bound car
and literally ground to pieces beneath
the wheels.
While hunting rabbits with his II
year-old brother, Herman Schwartz,
aged 10, son of farmer near Bay
City, was shot In the hip and the
bone was shattered. The brothers en-
gagged in a scuffle for possession of
the gun, and the weapon was acct
dentally discharged.
Miss Media Sheldon, daughter of
former State Representative G. L..
Sheldon, of Bay City, took carbolic
acid by mistake and had serious
time of it for a while. She is now
out of danger. She got the carbolc
acid bottle and the peppermint bottle
mixed when she went to the medicine
chest.
Rev. Nicholas james, Detroit's old
est colored citizen, is dead. He had
been feeling quite we'll, and had been
planning with the zest of child for
the Christmas festivities. His chill
dren had gathered at his home at 20S
Columbia street east, and prepare
lions were under way for the Christ
mas dinner when the old man sudden
ly collapsed while sitting in the din
ing room.
Two new roll top desks burned on
the cement floor Of the new court
house at Owosso, and the smoke so
hod1v da n1aCnd tha dpcorotionc NJ thn