The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-01-12
State NEWS NOTES
Cleaned From the Latest Michigan
Happenings.

| sons with intent to wreck the train.
Bread and water diet has been pre-
scribed for hoboes lodging in the
county Jail, by the Ingham county
board of supervisors, which has issued
instructions to the sheriff. The board
is determined to make the lot of the
| tramp who finds shelter within the
| Jail, just as unpleasant AS possible.
| Mrs Mary Linderman Hammond,
, Mason's oldest resident, is dead at
/ the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. F.
Ferguson, of Lansing. She was born
in 1928 in Orange county, New York.
In company with her parents she came
to Michigan in 1886.
Isaac Eagle, OF Salute Ste. Marie.
| who was recently convicted of MUIR
dering his wife, has been granted
new trial The petition was based on
the ground that James Ferguson,
member of jury that gave the YER
dict, is not a citizen Of the United
States.
Bitten in the cheek by a mad dos
11-year-old Leon Hallecl, of Plainwell
has been fastened to Ann Arbor. The
boy was playing in the yard at his
home, when a strange dog attacked
him. Four dogs were bitten by the
strange collie, and all five have been
killed.
The quarterly report of the state
dairy and food commissioner shows
that of 1873 samples of food tested, II
were condemned. OF II samples of
milk tested, 80 were condemned.
H. M. LIQUIDS Sons Co., of which
Congressman Loud is a member, is
said to be preparing to put in an cleo
trio plant on the Au Sable river. They
have secured rights for 10 miles. The
river is constant and has uniformly
high banks.
Joseph Binder, an Austrian, in Jail
at Kalamazoo, may take to wearing
mask. He says his countenance
frightens people, and he was almost
starved when he forced his way into
house to get something to eat.
With 96 trains daily between Bay
City and Saginaw the mail service is
So poor that Postmasters Lusk and
Linden have joined hands to secure an
improvement. Correspondence can be
carried on quicker with Detroit than
between the two cities.
Mrs. Laura A. Berkey, aged So, wife
of Charles H. Berkey, a prominent
Grand Rapids furniture manufacturer,
is dead after several months illness.
She was prominent as a philanthrC
pist and club woman. Fer 10 years
she was secretary Of the woman's
board Of the Union Benevolent asso-
citation, which controls the largest
hospital in that city.
While official confirmation is lack
ing, it is we'll understood among rail-
road men in Jackson that the Michi-
gan Central in the near future con-
templates double tracking the Bay
City, Saginaw and Grand Rapids
branches from Jackson as far as Rives
Junction, village 10 miles north Of
Jackson. Trains On all the northern
branches have to run as far as Rives
Junction on single track. On ao
count Of adding new trains to the sche-
dule congestion has been experienced
on this short stretch of track.
Judge of Probate J. S. Stockwell. of
Oakland county, is in possession of
one Of the most interesting wills that
has ever been read in this city The
following is an extract from the will:
0AnUoIc opd n, pic+orp of orooo dofool
us from the rapacity and solemnity of
the undertakers. But let us have some
OF the dear music, hacks "a, buggies
and wheelbarrows 999, and 1,001 mour-
ners. / iDdorse everything in this
blessed country but undertaKers' fees
and plumbers bills Wave your lofty
tops, We pines. I came to this coun-
try for little fresh air and I got it.
The will was admitted to probate on
November Is, 1881.
Francis Mercier, who gained fame
as an Alaskan explorer, died in Mon
treal Thursday. He was 6S years old.
Soloman S. Groin, Pontiac Jew,
has become a Gentle, having lust
been baptized into the presbyterian
church.
H. E. Shuts, proprietor OF the Oc-
cidental hotel, In Ypsilanti, Is miss
Ing. 1t is said he is a much-wanted
man by several creditors.
A coal war is ON in Saginaw. Citi-
zens can buy the fuel from the Gale
donia mine, conducted by miners, for
So per ton, delivered; former price;
were $3.50.
While butchering hogs, William
Gillett of Warren, fell backwards
headfirst into a kettle of boiling
water, scalding his face and neck. He
Is in a serious condition.
1t now transpires that James Uath-
SIN, a freshman in the literary de-
partment of Albion college, was Sec
reilly married last September to Miss
Grace Whiting, school teacher in his
home town, Hanover. Latham is
only 10 years of age.
Robert Bruce Smith, the man who
promoted the Lansing & Ionia rail-
road, built In 1869, now a profitable