The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-03-23
State NEWS NOTES
Geaned From the Latest Michigan
Happenings.

The purchase of supplies for tie
state prison, exclusively in Michigan
is favored by Warden Allen N. Arm.
strong. Chicago houses have the bulk
Of the trade for many state institu-
tons.
William A. Arnold, ex-ccngressman
and millionaire, and one of the bright
est legal minds in the country, died
suddenly at Hackley hospital in Mus.
kegon, Tuesday.
Il have PAIN" gasped Mrs. VIII;
lam f. Stevenson, wife of local Gus.
toms officer, at the hospital of Port
Huron. She sank back dead. A blood
clot in the heart is believed to have
been the cause. She was, talking with
her husband at the time.
The employees of the Buffalo house,
a 500 hotel, found Charles Quick,
whose home is supposed to be in
Grand Rapids, Mich, dead in bed
Tuesday. Papers found on the body
indicate that he was connected with
the Imperial Paper Co, of WILDWOOD,
Ont.
Two notable building improvements
have been announced in Battle Creek
The American Cereal Co. will erect a
large plant near Postum Cereal fac.
tory as a branch OF the Chicago fac.
tory. An out-of-town syndicate viii
build a vaudeville theatre a few rods
north Of the Post theatre.
Abandoned by her husband, whom
she claims eloped some months ago
with Miss Gertrude Wolsey, Mrs. Wal.
ter Cough, of Port Huron, finds her
self and her two children in destitute
circumstances. Neighbors have club
bed together to pay the rent, nov
overdue, and save the family from
eviction.
At a meeting Of the stockholders
and bondholders of the Marine City
Sugar Co. Monday afternoon, the
bondholders voted to turn all their in
terests over to A. G. Dustin, of Cleve-
land, who has been receiver for a yea.
The stockholders have lost everything
and had no voice in the meeting. The
plant may be sold.
The business section of Greenville
was threatened Monday when fire
broke out in the home Of John
Schwartz, over w. Matlock's fur and
hide store, from a gasoline explosion.
After a fierce fight in the high wind,
the fire was put out. having consumed
only the one building. Loss, abouJ
$4,000.
William Doebler, of the firm of Zuhl-
Ike and Doebler, wagon makers, of
Inlay City, was instantly killed Mon
day afternoon while working with a
boring machine in his shop. A piece
of wood caught in a belt and struck
him on the head. He was over GO
years of age and leaves a widow and
five adult children.
The county of Shiawasse is again
and prospects to replen-
ish the treasury are very poor, unless
the citizens vote the 100000 bonds nc
the spring election. The jurors who
served at this term of the circuit
court, and have large sums coming,
cannot cash their orders on the coun-
~ treasury, the banks also refusing
to take the paper, even at discount
The remains of George Bachman,
for 20 years a Grand Trunk trainman
in Battle Greek, were brought
home Monday for burial. Bachman
was caught between two freight cars
at Calumet Park, Ind, and mis- right
knee and shoulder crushed He was
hurried to Hammond, Ind, but died
just as he was being removed from
the ambulance to st. Margaret's hos
pital.
One of the youngest prisoners ever
detained in the Genesee county Jail is
now in the custody of Sheriff thinner.
man, of Flint He is Ernest ranks, a
12-year-old Clio lad, who is charged
with assault and battery upon his So
year-old grandmother. Parks was
sent to bring in the evenings wood
and refused. Words followed, and
ended, it is charged, in his brutally
beating the aged lady. He was ar
raigned on the charge and held for ex-
animation March 81, under 500 bonds