The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-11-23
Cleaned From the Latest Michigan
Happenings.

Sylvester Waggoner, aged GO, drank
poison and climbed into bed at the
boarding house Of Mrs. Augusta Trier
at Saginaw. He was found dead in
the morning.
Election returns from about thirty
Michigan counties received by the Sec
rotary of the state from the county
canvassers show that Atty.-Gen. Bird
will lead the state ticket.
About twenty miles of good roads
have been built this season from a
substantial fund raised by the Midland
Business Mems association.
The largest order for scissors ever
given in Grand Rapids has been hand
ed out by, the board of education 1t
calls for $50 scissors which v i'll be
used by the children of the primary
department in kindergarten work.
Charles Carpenter, aged As pro-
prietor of the Arcade livery at Gay
lord, and q longtime resident of that
city, was stricken with heart trouble
n a hunting camp near the Au Sable
river and died before help could be
called.
The treasury department at Wash
ington has accepted the proposition of
Mrs. Elizabeth Pound for the sale of
Der property, bounded by Mt. Clemens,
Mill, Huron and Perry streets, to the
government as the site of Pontiac's
new federal building.
While helping a neighbor Single a
house, Fred Picard, acrobat, who is
back to Saginaw after a season with
Kingling Bros, slipped and fell twenty
FIVE feet. Juggling a hammer and a
bunch of shingles on the way down,
he turned two complete somersaults
and landed on his feet, uninjurel.
Ground has been broken for a new
theater in Morenci, which will be one
CT the finest opera houses in southern
Michigan. The citizens of Mcrenci
and vicinity have subscribed about S.
900 and e. ID. Stair, the we'll known
theatrical manager Of Detroit, has sub
scribed like amount as a gift to the
town, where he spent his boyhood
days.
Two Japanese, who landed in Port
Huron few days ago to open tenn
porary art store, run up against a
snag in the form of a city ordinance
requiring transient traders to pay a
license fee Of $25 per day. The Japs
leased the Cassilo block, on Huron
avenue, ana opened up for business
bright and early Saturday morning
They hardly had started, however, be-
fore notice was served on them that
payment of $25 day is required
They haven't paid yet and arrests or
A young aNrn killed by a Michigan
General passenger train near the juno
ton az JACKSON Saturday night. has
been identified by Gus Brown as that
of his brother, Fred Brown, a farm
hand.
Burglars Sunday night tulneled
through 2 IL feet Of solid masonry
and entered the vault OF the Orion
postoffice. Postmaster Green says
that SIS in cash and S45 In stamps
were taken.
A panic was caused In the ,Laurium
W. E. church at Calumet Sunday night
by false alarm of fire during the ex-
ercises for the fifth anniversary of the
persons were crushed. Friction on a
helt attacked to the electric motor on
the pipe organ caused smoke.
Young women delegates to the Mich
;gan Young Women's Christian asso.
citation convention occupied the pull.
pits of eleven local churches in Kali
amazoo Sunday. Mrs. ]. w. F.4ney,
Detroit, occupied the pulpit Of the
First Congregational church. Bay
City has invited the association to
hold it's convention there next year.
Mistaking a gasoline can for one
la Wisemsn, of Jackson, aged 20, her
life. She is a domestic in the family
of John Boyle, chief of police. There
was an explosion and the girls cloth
ing was wrapped in flames. Two men
passing the house heard the noise,
rushed in and throwing their over
coats about her saved her life.
Frank Brace, chief OF police OF Pom
tiac, has inaugurated his campaign
against Sunday drunkenness. lie ar
rested seven men Sunday. This
breaks the record for any one cay in
the city's history. Six were fined SIS
each. The seventh, Sam Barnes, was
sentenced tc 65 days in the Detroit
house of correction.
If the plans OF Alexander f.. Fish.
er, of Detroit, do not miscarrJ Mt.
Clemens will soon have another hotel
and sAnitariuMn. He owns 10 acres
Of land on the bank of the Clinton
river and adjoining the city limits Oh
the south with wide frontage or
South Gratiot avenue. It is proposed
to turn the entire tract Of land into
park and pleasure ground for the
new health resort. sThe building is 10
be equipped with 400 guests rooms.