The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-06-02
STATE NEWS NOTES

| II oakland county, and farmers arr
letting them rot rather than sell then
| at that price.
! Thomas G. Morgan Of Battle Creel
has been appointed colonel on the gov
ernor's staff in place of Raymond A
Linton OF Saginaw, resigned.
| While excavating for a sewer at st
| Joseph laborers struck rock which
| revealed traces of gold. There is con
| siderable excitement over the find.
Mrs. Isabella Black of Detroit, aged
80 and deaf, was struck by trolley
car Monday and her face and arris
cut but she was not seriously in.
| jured.
Dewitt Fry Of Dimondale was a.
tackled by an angry bull and so badly
gored that he died within few hours
He leaves widow and several emil
dren.
Mary e. Mcdonald of Detroit dicl
very suddenly while visiting in Santa
Barbara, Cal. The particulars have
rot been learned by her parents at De
troit.
Rev. William Brooks Taylor has re.
signed the pastorate Of the Church of
Christ, of Ionia, to accept a position
In the faculty Of Bethany college, West
Virginia.
Marshall has the least expensive
,postoffice in the United States. the
percentage of cost to gross receipts
being BAL, according to reports from
Washington.
Reuben Smith, an old pioneer Of
Metamora. is dead. He leaves a wild.
ow and two daughters, Mrs. Frances
Jersey and Mrs. Maude Russell Of
Rochester, Mich.
An Alpena dispatch says: Amer;-
can Express Co. drivers on the line Of
the Detroit & Mackinaw railroad ha ye
been ordered to Chicago to take the
places of strikers.
Because his wife objected to him
paying what she thought too much at.
tention to other women at a dance,
Carl Boyer took a dose of morphine
Doctors saved him.
1t has been ascertained that the I'M
known man killed at Greenwood by
logging train was Henry Budd, y
section hand at Alger He is survived
6y widow and two children.
There will be delay of two years
III the erection of the new federal
building at Owosso, to allow Congress
man Fordney to get an additional ap-
preparation of $4,000 or $4,000.
Henry Belfast, of Battle Creek,
opened a closet, and, forgetting be
had gasoline stored there, struck
match to find something. He was SER
iously burned in the explosion which
followed.
To supply the crop for a large can
ming factory to be erected there by
Williams Bros. of Detroit, farmers in
the vicinity of Carleton have contract.
ed large acreage for the raising of
tomatoes.
An incendiary fire at Barron Lake,
four miles east Of Niles, destroyed
three ice houses and contents belong
ing to John j. McMullen, involving a
loss of $4,000. There was an insur-
Cnce Of $4,000.
The trial of Clarence L. Messer, fo--
mer cashier of the Marlette State
bank, on a charge of embezzlement,
which was to have come up at this
term of court, has been postponed I'M
til September.
The coroner's jury in the case of the
death of Maurice Melner, who fell
down a shaft at Boydell Bros factory,
Detroit, returned verdict that he
came to his death through his own
carelessness.
Thomas Haynes, prominent pio-
neer resident Of Niles and old-time 1
railway engineer, Is dead at Ann Ar
Dor, aged 7S years, whittier he went TO
undergo an operation. He leaves
widow and one son.
Saginaw is protesting against tho
proposed mastering out of Company
G. of the state militia. The company
has been in existence thirty-two years
and Saginaw people do not want II
done away with. A protest has been
sent to Gov Warner.
Rev. Henry Beets, pastor OF La
grave Street Christian Reformed
church, Grand Rapids, declared Sun
day that because wickedness was RAM
pant In that city 1t had aroused the
wrath of God, who has visited the city
with a smallpox epidemic.
The Rev. James M. Dayton. a well
known methodist minister, OF Cold
water, died Saturday, aged n. He be-
gan preaching at the age of II, con-
tinuing in the work nearly GO years.
His aged wife, former teacher In
the Hillsdale schools. survives him.
Arthur Porter, aged 29 and married,
employed by the Ann Arbor railroad
sought shelter under a freight car
from a shower, when a switch engine |
moved the train. Porter's left leg was
nearly severed at the knee and will |
probably have to be amputated.
Jack Rowell of Bessemer, deputy |
sheriff and game warden, while out !
hunting last fall, lost gold watch |