The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-09-14
State NEWS NOTES


Rev ". N. Ferris, of Rochester, has
accepted call to the First Baptist
church in Vassar
Dexer Cushing, well known pioneer
and stock buyer of Dowagiac county,
Cied suddenly Saturday, at Silver
Creek, of heart disease.
The Owosso Paint and Wall Paper
Co., at Owosso, E. w. Beardsiey, pro-
| rrietor, Saturday suspended. The liza
hilities are $4,000 and the assets q
Of goods equal to that amount.
Henry, Frank and Alfred Hanson
burned to death Friday night in a
car in which they were sleeping on
the Chicago & Northwestern tracks
at Bessemer. Both were intoxicated.
The blaze started from one of their
pipes.
With tomato can Louis Sonsmith
sawed deep cash in his wrist in an
effort to commit suicide, but the pain
became so intense he screamed He
was in jail at Saginaw awaiting exam
ination on charge of stealing har-
tess.
Bradford Smith, M. A, one of De-
troit's foremost figures in educational
and philantropic work, died at his res
idence, 100 Maybury Grand avenue, at
o'clock Saturday afternoon. Mr..
Smith, who was sc years old, had
been failing for some time
Manager Spatchett, of the Pontiac
Bending works, is in receipt of an
order for $4,000 sets of wagon rims
from the Mant Wagon Co., of Slough
ton, Wis, which will keep his plant
busy for Is months.
Sand lake has claimed another vic
tim by drowning. Will Mitchell, aged
81, whose home was in Adrian, went
swimming with party of friends.
Mitchell dove, and when recovered he
was dead.
While Postmaster George Dennis.
OF Leslie, was preparing to retire, an
artery of one of his legs burst, and
before the flow of blood could he
staunched, he was unconscious and
near death. He is now out of danger
Though he left his wife near Flint
last July with farm well stocked,
and which insured her future support,
Chester Stevens has been arrested
upon her complaint, and will be ar
raigned on the charge of non-support.
Stevens was located in Crump, Mich.
Endeavoring to oil a huge stone
Crusher while the machine was in mo-
ton, Fred Day, OF Sault Ste. Marie,
was caught by a whirling belt and
drawn into the cogs. His body was
terribly mangled, and he died before
reaching the hospital.
The farm barn of Frank Peterson,
near AllegaE, was burned Sunday
evening, from unknown cause. 1t con-
tanned hay, grain. farm tools and two
good horses, which were burned. Loss
$4,000. new hen house adjoining,
containing 200 fowls, was destroyed.
The largest pay roll ever known in
the Bay City locality for mining op.
erations will be raid out this scale
year, when 100000 will be handed
the miners for wages. This is dIe
to the increased capacity of the cid
mines and new ones recently opened.
Three fatalities resulting from elec.
trio wiring along the streets in one
year, caused the Flint council to en-
gage Inspector A. S. Hatch, Of De
| troit, to make an examination of the
wires. He recommended stringing
telephone and electric wires on sep
arate poles.
Frightened when she came suddenly
upon nest of garter snakes when
pulling weeds in her garden, Mrs.
Sam Glassford, of Elkton, was IN
| conscious IA hours. She says the
snakes crawled over her, entwining
themselves about her limbs and arms.
She was not bitten, but is suffering
from shock caused by fright.
Safecrackers operating at Even
and Matchwood, Ontonagon county.
Monday night got away on hand car
with $1,000 in cash and township or
ders. At Even the saloon Of Frank
| Connolly was burglarized, and at
| Matchwood, distance of six miles,
/ the store of Hugh McQuarry was en-
tered Dynamite was used in shatter-
! ing the safes to pieces
Richard Bolt, aged "a years, who
was arrested in Detroit several weeks
ago. while trying to sell some dia-
monds, which he had picked up along
The car track, and which belonged to
Mrs. George Handy, Of this city, was
arraigned in the circuit court at Bay
| city, Tuesday, and on the earnest re-
quest of the owner of the gems, was
released.
Myron Nye, who conducts q hotel
and saloon at Owosso, is under ar
lest charged with carrying concealed
weapons Saturday night the police
were called to quell family dis
turbance. Nye and his son, George,
| .Ito-aJ houa ottacEad tho