The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-01-05
State NEWS NOTES
Cleaned From the Latest MICHIGAN
Happenings.

hSnt. Inc loss is estimated at about
100000.
A telegram has been received at St
Johns announcing the death at Hong
Kong, China, of Fred M. Lyon, aged
81 years. Lyon was chief quarter
master on the United States battle
ship Wisconsin. He formerly lived in
st. Johns.
Unlocked for news has been receiv-
ed in letter by G. F. Wilcox, a Mus
kegon merchant, that his son, Law
renee, had been married to Miss Clio
Hollenbeck, in st. Paul, Mimi, Christ
mas day. The bride is daughter of
wealthy glove manufacturer of that
city.
Albert F. Meyer, motorman In the
employ of the Detroit, Ypsilanti, Ann
Arbor & Jackson Railway Co., recent
ly recovered a substantial Judgment
for injuries received while operating
car in Detroit. The supreme court
has reversed the judgment and order
&c new trial.
Charles w. Gordon, wife and son, of
South Saginaw street, Pontiac, mar
rowly missed death from asphyxiation
by gas from coal stove. Mr.. Gordon
awakened in the morning and was
barely able to crawl to the door, where
milk man had just stopped. The milk
man sumoned a doctor and the three
lives we're saved.
Searching parties were out Saturday
night at Muskegon looking for Willie
Zeitenheimer aged 10, and Carl Schro-
eder, aged IL, who left home in the
morning with their skates. While a
night of distress was being passed
by their relatives, the lads were sleep
ing peacefully at the home of friends
in Ravenna, where they were located
in the morning.
A mail pouch, containing about 500
letters with drafts valued at $4,000,
and a number of valuable registered
packages, were either lost or stolen
from the dray of the Henderson-Ames
Co., at Kalamazoo, while the driver
was on his way to the postoffice Sun
day afternoon. Payment on the drafts
has been stopped There was no mon
ey in the letters. The police are work
ing on the case.
Fire Monday evening did $4,000
damage to the Michigan Automobile
Body Co., located in Detroit.
Marshall wac dry all day Sunday.
The lid was down good and tight, and
sitting on it, figuratively speaking, was
Rev. DR.. p. A. Baart, who caused the
arrest Of a saloonkeeper for keeping
his place. open the preceding Sunday
An explosion of kerosene when she
was attempting to light her kitchen
fire, nearly cost the life of Mrs. Mary
Lowery, of Battle Creek. The flames
caught her clothing, and before they
We're extinguished had burned her legs
and arms severely. She will recover.
The finding of a boys coat and over
coat in deserted barn on the farm
Of Orie Van Vleet, three miles from
Grand Rapids, and some cartridges in
an empty nearby house, has worried
farmers in that section, and Sheriff
Carroll is trying to solve the mystery
believed to surround the case.
Mayor Codd Of Detroit sets a new
example in New Years receptions, in
place of the flowing bowl of real
punch, and the secreted bottle Of spir-
itous liquors usually in evidence dur
fitr Off nf &c Tn ie,
now the plain, harmless, thirst-quench-
ing glass of lemonade.
A New Years party at the home of
Stephen Szchta, 633 Perry avenue,
Detroit, was rudely broken up early
Monday morning, when a 38-calibre
bullet was fired through a window,
striking Miss Mary Hoinacki, aged IS,
one of the guests in the face. The
bullet evidentaly came from the revol-
yer Of an outside merry-maker, eel
ebrating the incoming of the new year.
The young lady's wounds will not
prove fatal.
The annual statement of the Grand
Rapids & Indiana road show that the
road during the past year did the
largest amount of business Of any year
in its history.
Geo. Haviland, assistant in o. M.
Martins undertaking. establishment,
at Ann Arbor, was badly injured by
the upsetting of a buggy Tuesday. One
side of his body is paralyzed.
Geo. l.. Stephenson, Of Richmond,
the young school teacher who went
insane while on his way to attend the
state teachers institute at Lansing,
is no better and small hopes are en-
tertained for his recovery.
Fire at o'clock Tuesday morning,
destroyed the barn of Flint p. Smith
oa East HERSHEY street, Flint. A driv-
Ing team and an automobile, carri-
ages and all the contents were burn
cd; loss $4,000.
Shippers in Kalamazoo and other
towns east on the line Of the Mich
igan Traction Co. and the Michigan
Central are warmed up over a raise
IN freight rates. The rise averages
fully rs per cent an recKoned from
copies of the new tariffs.
While rushing to his hen coop at
tempting to catch a chicken thief, at
night, John Dieterle, a German in
structor at the University of Michi-