The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-08-24
State NEWS NOTES
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Happenings.

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action, a site was purchased for S.
500.
William Knight, aged %, was seized
with cramps and drowned Monday
night while swimming in the lake at
Marine City. Companions tried III vain
20 rescue him. A widow and a two
weeks-old child survive.
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Bailey of
Richmond, have sustained broken
ribs and they were injured internally,
Mr.. Bailey critically, it is thought,
when they were thrown against a
tree, their horse becoming frightened
at an automobile.
A heavy loss to the peach crop of
Oceana county was sustained during
a two hours rain and thunder storm
Sunday night. Seven houses were
struck in Shelby, the Independent tele-
phone lines crippled and several
houses struck in Pentwater
| J. r. Beardsley, farmer living two
miles west of Edwardsburg, was
standing in his barn door during a
thunder shower Monday afternoon,
when lightning struck the barn. He
was killed and the barn was burned.
He leaves wife and two small chill
| dren.
| George Pierce, of Chicago, made an
attempt to drown himself in the st.
Joseph county Jail, Wednesday. He
| flooded his cell by turning on the fau-
Get in the solitary cell where he was
confined. The turnkey found the man
standing in three feet of water. Pierce
was being held as an insane person.
Fire destroyed the parsonage, barn
| and horse of Rev. w. A. Shelley,
| Evangelical minister at Keswick, on
| Sunday night. The church was slight
| ly damager. Loss $4,000; only a
small insurance. The fire was started
in the barn, it is supposed, by tramps.
The church was saved by the bucket
| brigade.
| Miles S. Curtis, recently appointed
postmaster, at Battle Creek, has an
nounced that he will not be cardi-
| date next October for reelection as
| keeper of the records and seal OF the
Michigan GRIND lodge. He has held
this position II years, and he says he
thinks it is time the job was passed
| on to some other person.
Some person who evidently had a
grudge against Harry King, a Flint
teamster, brutally hurt one of his
horses by tying it with short dog
| chain to its manger. When the ami
| NAL tried to free itself it fell and was
almost strangled t~ death before re-
leased. It's neck painfully LAGER
| ated.
| Harold Randall, years old, adopted
son of of s. j. Randall, a prominent
citizen of Midland, was drowned Sat
urday evening while bathing in the
Tittabawasse river The youngster
was carried down stream some dis
lance, but his body was recovered. He
had gone beyond his depth.
julius Shengul, Kalamazoo tailor,
| ia under arrest on charge Of
cruelty to his wife. 1t is said, Shen-
gu drove his wife and baby from the
| house and forced them to Sit on the
porch all night and the next morn
| ing he is said to have beaten his
| wife.
Miss Lottie Terrier, of Ann Arbor
whose jaws became locked on account
| of an anaesthetic which she took dur
| ing teeth extraction three years ago,
| is getting better. Her jaws can be
pried open and plate will be made
to keep them apart so that nourish-
ment can be administered.
Wellington J. Barrett, a we'll known
young man of Grand Rapids, has dis
appeared. When the troops of the
Grand Rapids battalion left some ten
days ago for Camp Harrison, he was
with his company. Friday he disap-
peared. The gas company says his
accounts are straight. He has wife
and little boy.
Clusters" Michigan cavalry brigade
will hold it's sixth annual reunion at
Allegan Sept. 10. The program in
cludes addresses by H. F. Thomas.
Judge Frank H. Williams, William O.
Lee and l.. l.. Thompson. The bri-
gade was organized Dec. IL, 1862, and
participated in 81 battles. The total
enrolment was 7,465, of which only
remnant Is left.
Acknowledgement Bird in an opinion
handed down on the primary election
law, rules that where the names of
more than one candidate appears on
county or legislative ticket, it shall
be obligatory for the voter to mark
the name of each candidate for which
he wishes to vote. This decision ap-
plies to the primary to be held Sep
TENDER A.
The bullet which Thomas Roach,
suicide and attempted murderer, OF
Jackson, Mich, fired at his wife last
week. traversed course eight inches
in length between her scalp and the
skull 1t was DETECTED by hair
comb The bullet finally lodged in
the muscles of the neck, and will be
cut out Mrs. Roach is thought to
be out of danger.
Struck by Train.