The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-08-24
STATE NEWS NOTES
Cleaned From the Latest Michigan
Happenings.


farmers have their guns and pitch
forks ready, and Sunday they gave
bruin merry chase, but he escaped.
Clinton Craig, of Dawson, on his
ninth birthday, was accidentally shot
in the left temple while he and his
cousin, Elmer Craig, were toying
with a revolver. He died shortly
afterwards.
Paul Dickey, the ex-reserve half
back of the University OF Michigan
football team and leading Thespian CT
the Comedy club, has signed up To
play leading part in Robert Edsons
Strong Heart" company.
Bishop Foley, Detroit, returned Sat.
urday from his vacation, which he
spent on Long Island with Cardinal
Gibbons. The bishop took occasion to
deny the report that Cardinal Glib
bons was In failing health
All the most desirable concessions
at the State Fair at Detroit have been
sold, and while some space remains,
it is expected it will be disposed CT
without delay. Preparations for the
fair are progressing smoothly.
When Neil Snyder, aged 20 years,
of North Branch, said he was going
to kill himself, nobody paid any at
tention to him. Later, he went be-
hind a neighbours barn and shot him.
self twice in the head, dying three
hours later. No reason is known.
Mrs. f. G. Cornwell, wife OF the sec
rotary Of the Ypsilanti Paper Co., no.
ticed the odor of gas in her new home
at Ypsilanti, and searched for 1t with
lighted match. The roof was blown
off and the house generally wrecked
by the explosion, yet Mrs. Cornwell
escaped injury.
Rev. Lycurgus Mccoy, OF the Battle
Creek sanitarium, asks the county
clerk at Marshall not to issue mar
riage license to Joseph Clarke, aged
80 years, of Battle Creek, and Mrs
county house. They are feeble mind
ed, Rev. Mccoy asserts. 1t Is sus-
pected they intend TO be welded.
The Vail hotel at Monroe which
has been under the management of
Alfred Lister since May 1 last, was
closed Saturday night to satisfy =
chattel moHgage owned by Frank
Marx Of Wyandotte. The contents
will be sold at public auction Satur-
day morning. Lister came here from
the south and no reason is known foy
his failure.
The Twining Herald, a weekly pa
per which F. L. Twining will estab.
lish nj Twining soon, will be edited
and managed by Miss Ruby Robinson.
She Is but 20 years of age. For the
past year she published the Twining
Siftings. She had never had any ex
perience in any line of newspaper
work previous to taking charge of the
Siftings.
70, of Northport, whose grandfather
organized the Heandel-Hayden society
in Boston, died Monday of cancer. She
was the widow of DR.. S. ]. Hutchin-
son, and had resided in Northport 80
years.
Rev. Louis DeLamarter, presiding
elder of the Lansing district of the
Methodist Episcopal church, who was
poisoned by ivy at the camp meeting
at Long Lake, near Bedding, is much
improved. He is slowly recovering
his sight.
The clerk in Ira G. Curry's hard
ware store, at Owosso, wanted to see
the circus parade, so he locked the
rear door and went out in front.
Thieves kicked in the door and car.
ried away $50 from the cash register.
They didn't touch the money in the
safe, although the door was wide open
The Genesee County Farmers asso-
citation have planned a novel feature
for their annual picnic to be held at
Flint next week on the shores of
Thread lake. A gigantic and hideous
form of Satan will be set afloat oil
the surface of the lake. Inside Is a
time fuse which will later cause his
Satanic majesty to be blown into
atoms.
Prosperity is written all over the
latest statement compiled by City
Treasurer Thompson OF Detroit. show.
ing that at the present time Detroit
has more cash on hand than ever be-
fore in it's history. With the collec
tion Of taxes just completed, the
money placed to the credit OF the mu-
nicipality, aside from the securities in
the strong box, was at the close OF
business Saturday, s5,362, O23.53, an
increase during the last twelve
Saginaw is bad town for fakirs
OF any kind to go to, including sci.
lers of nostrums, novelties and any
thing forming the usual stock In trade
of street merchants. All the business
streets are now strictly closed to op.
orators of the class mentioned, and
they are only allowed on the side
streets, out of the business belt, on
sufferance, which amounts to prohibit
lion. The travelling fakirs became co
much of a nuisance that the police de.
partment was forced to act, and the
lid Is now on for good.