The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-03-30
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| to eat or sleep at Metamora, is dead,
aged SO years. Mr.. Pitcher went to
Metamora in 1889.
The refreshment privilege at the
state fair has been awarded to Jo-
seph O'Hearne, of Port Huron, in con-
sideration of S6,260.
Harvey Warner, of Decatur, who
had started for his farm, six miles
louth of there Saturday, was struck
BIZ freight and instantly killed.
Glen Zimmerman, years old, of
| Owosso, is dead of meningitis, ag-
gravated by falling on the ice while
skating three months ago. An absess
formed ON the back of his head.
Eddie Won Poppering, an 1S-year-
old Grand Rapids messenger boy,
while on a bicycle sustained what are
thought to be fatal injuries Monday,
by colliding with street car. He was
taken to the hospital.
After spending his entire life on one
farm near Ypsilanti, Benjamin Dwight
Loomis, aged 6S years, died Saturday
within fifty feet Of the place where he
was born. In his entire life he has
not worked one consecutive week off
the farm.
Vincent Fowler, Joseph Campbell
and Walter McLane, the three Detroit
boys arrested in Ypsilanti few days
ago as they were starting for the
west, have been committed to the
Lansing Industrial School for Boys
until seventeen years Of age.
Maj. Charles M. Candy, for the past
two years post surgeon at Fort Wayne
near Detroit, has been relieved from
duty at that post and ordered to re-
port to the superintendent of the mil
itary academy at West Point, N. Y,
at the close Of the present academic
year.
A. T. Johnson, the new Boyne City
mayor, has put on the lid and
clamped it down. Every saloon was
closed Saturday night and Sunday.
But one Of the saloons was burglari-
ously opened, and the burglars got
25 quarts of whisky.
Bitten by horse suspected Of be-
ing affected with rabies, DR.. w. ]. By
ers, veterinary surgeon Of Charlotte,
has entered the Pasteur institute, at
Ann Arbor, for treatment. 1t was
learned that the horse had previously
been bitten by a dog thought to nave
had rabies.
Fire Of unknown origin burned three
buildlngs-a grocery store, meat mar
ket and drug store, in Port Huron,
owned by +. F. Gates, Monday morn.
ing. Gates sustained loss of So.
600, partially covered by insurance.
The drug stock was owned by w. l..
McKinnon, whose loss amounts to
$4,000.
The elegant new Willard memorial
library at Battle Creek was entered by
burglars Sunday night. The thieves
broke costly windows and used I'M
necessary violence on the expensive
equipment Their reward was only
$25 in cash, but the burglars caused
more Indignation than the usual $1,000
one.
Elva Cook, the 15-year-old Kalama-
ZOO girl who married Elmer Frye, a
19-year-old boy, with the hope that
she would escape serving time in the
Industrial School for Girls at Adrian,
has been taken to that institution.
The husband is under arrest on a
charge of attempting to interfere with
the law by marrying this girl.
Mrs. Emma Gallagher of Detroit is
suing for divorce. The very sound of
her husbands voice has become dis
tasteful to her. So, through her at
torney, she appealed to the court for
relief from The "gab" of the man she
promised to love and obey. The
judge granted an injunction forbid
ding Gallagher the privilege of speak
ing to his wife.
Snow having balled on the heel Of
his shoe, Louis Haddrill of Oxford
gave his foot a swing, with the in
tention of scraping it off on the end
Of plank He missed the plank and
his foot swung farther than he intend
ed. AS he drew 1t back the pain was
very sharp. When he went to step
he discovered the small bone of his
leg was broken just above the ankle.