The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-06-29
State news NOTES
Cleaned From tire Latest Michigan
happenings.

oetuerS were the principal Diye!s
at the recent delinquent. state tax
sale, which Melted $2l, 600.
George McCarger formerly head of
the Mulliken schools, died in New
Mexico and his body will be brought
to Charlotte for burial
representatives of the reorganized
church OF the latter day saints have
voted to subdiyide Michigan into
three instead of two districts.
Ten thousand six hundred dollars
has been subscribed for a Y. M. c. A.
building at Mt. Pleasant DR.. D. II.
Nelson has offered to donate a val
liable site. -
The body OF DR.. William G. Hare, OF
Bay City, drowned in Saginaw Bay,
by the upsetting of his naptha launch,
last week Tuesday, has been recover.
ed on the beach, 16 miles from the
scene of the catastrophe.
Anton Benson, a reporter on the
Kalamazoo Gazette, has married Miss
Lilah Hutsen, of Jefferson City, Mo.
young woman whose acquaintance
he made at the worlds fair at ST.
Louis. They were employed in ad-
joining exhibit booths at that time.
Mrs. Nancy McEldowney, widow Of
the late Prof James McEldowney, a
cnce prominent Michigan educator,
died at the residence of her daughter,
Mrs. ]. R. Haight, 355 Chene street,
Detroit, Saturday night, from the
weakness of advanced age.
Some of the northern counties gave
large majorities for direct nominations
last week. Kalkaska gave 1862 for and
eighteen against; Delta, 500 for and
thirty-eight against; Gladwin, 800 for
and fifty-nine against; Leelanau, 1856
for and forty-six against.
John Plunkett, an ex-patrolman, Of
Battle Creek, stole $500 worth of stuff
from the Battle Creek sanitarium and
was fined $24.65. Saturday, William
Harris, colored, stole dinner pail and
was fined $500. Plunkett paid, but
Iknrris goes to Detroit for siXty-fve
days.
Charles Wood, OF Flint, who was
convicted last November of commit
ting perjury to secure a marriage IL
cense to marry Florence Newcombe
and sentenced to from six to fifteen
years Imprisonment, has been grant
ed pardon and released from the
ionia reformatory.
ofn IF LOT T,,d
Christiancy, which, as lately made
known, lay in poorlykept private
burial ground, near Dundee, were dis.
inferred Wednesday under orders OF
his son, George Christiancy, and taken
to Monroe, where they rest in Wood
land cemetery.
Richard Drew, of Detroit, who has
been a cadet in the United States
Naval academy at Annapolis for the
past year, has resigned, and the Con-
gresham DENLY has rendered the
place to Gilbert P. Sterlinger, the al
ternate selected at the time the ex-
animation for the cadetship was held.
The Saginaw board OF trade has
taken notice OF the withdrawal from
that city of the engineering corps of
the M. n. G., which has been trans
ferred to Calumet. Postmaster w. S..
Smith says he will confer with Gov.
Warner Snd try to arrange that Sagi-
nav be given some organization in its
place.
Willie Gould, 9-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Gould, Of Burlington,
was instantly killed by lightning in
the barnyard Of his fathers farm
Thursday afternoon. He was playing
with companions, and ran out of the
building to gather hailstones, when
the bolt struck him. :.
Seeking refuge in this country be
cause OF the prosecutions which drove
them from their French convent, Ave
nuns OF the order Of the Holy Ghost
arrived in Detroit Thursday after
noon, and have already taken up tho
work Of st. Mary's Home for Girls, at
Congress and Beaubien streets. Only
two of the sisters speak English.
The Port Huron chamber of com.
merce has closed negotiations for the
removal of the DR.. Perkins Sanitary
Refrigerator Co.'S plant from Battle
Creek to Port Huron. The company
gets a bonus Of $4,000, practically as
a loan to be repaid at the end of ten
years.
For the revolver team contest ar
the M. N. G. shoot at Port Huron,
July 8, William G. Mcmillan will do
nate trophy, to be known as the Nc.
MILAN trophy. The state military
board has received the offer. Col. w.
H. Thielman, of Calumet, donates a
trophy for the individual revoYver con.
test
About so members Of the tents and
hives of the Modern Macabees
throughout the state assembled Sun.
day afternoon In Gerow's hall in De-
troit, and dedicated life bed in the
Children's Free hospital. The exer.
cises marked the closing of nearly
seven years of arduous labor to collect
the $4,000 necessary for the endow-
ment-
The Great Hive, L. o. T. M. NJ, exc
cutive committee has appointed the