The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-10-13
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Orla j. TRACK, or WlllfamSt0n, is act
Ing secretary of the Republican state
central committee.
Jas Crofoot, Bay City, employee OF
the Standard Hoop company, was
killed at Michigan Central crossing
BY majority of 200 Worthwhile de-
cided to sell the municipal lighting
plant to the Edison company for S36.
900.
Prof. Taft, inspector of, orchards
and nurseries, reports that the fruit
crop this year will be about one-half
that of last year.
Mrs. Lillian Carver, who is the
owner of the Exchange MOTEL in ST.
Louis, was shot in the back by crazy
F, foreigner. The woman is in critical
condition.
Burglars entered the Sunfield State
bank and escaped with 1912 in money
and 1929 in stamps, which had been
placed there by the postmaster for
safekeeping.
Mrs. S. S. Briggs, Sc, Monroe, is dead
at the home of her son, Former Sher-
iff Andrew l.. Briggs. She was the
widow of Andrew j. Briggs, former
prominent Monroe county citizen.
With clothes afire, w. A. SHOEMAKER,
nearly exhausted, staggered from his
burning home, two miles south of
Grand Rapids late in the night, carry
ing the last of his three children to
safety.
Mrs. Charles Radda. of Port Huron,
is in serious condition from
razor wounds inflicted by Tony De
Course, of Lansing, at the Radda fruit
store, following a quarrel between the
man and woman.
The body of William Travis, a
renter was found in ditch one half
mile from the James E. Sharp farm,
six miles west of Grant, with a bullet
in the back of his head and another
between his shoulders.
Senior engineering class at Mich
igan Agricultural college wiz rate the
water flow of the Red Cedar river
from the dam opposite the college to
a point about mile east of Okemos,
a distance of five miles.
c. P. Brown, Ga, who had lived in
the home of Cyril De Fevre, was kill
ed instantly when he was struck by
a Detroit, Mt. Clemens interurban
car on the Lake Shore line seven
miles south of Mt. Clemens.
AS she started to descend a steep
flight of stairs in her home, Mrs. Hat
tie Lumrey, seventy-four years old,
fell several feet. Both wrists were
fractured, her chest injured and her
nose cut. Because of her age, her con-
dition is considered critical.
All parties gathered to honor
Edwin F. Sweet of Grand Rapids,
Democratic candidate for governor,
who recently resigned as assistant
secretary of the United States depart
ment of commerce. Party lines were
eliminated at the reception at the
Rathbone hotel
Sheriff Davis of Jackson county has
sworn out warrant against William
F. Kenney, of Newark, N. j., in con-
nection with the murder of Leroy Bas-
sett, the Lansing taxi driver, who was
shot to death on the Michigan Center
road. Just north of Jackson, Sunday,
September "a.
Arrested on a drunk charge by
Flint police Joseph Yopeek, Bohe-
milan automobile worker, aged thirty
FIVE, lay in the county Jail until the
night following, when it was discover
ed he was seriously i'll. He was taken
to Hurley hospital, where he died OF a
fractured skull.
Much interest is exhibited over the
remains of huge animal, discovered
by men who we're working in ditch
near Holt. The bones and teeth, are
large, the teeth measuring four to Ave
inches across. They are perfectly
black, and some of them are still at
tached to pieces of the jawbone.
Members of Michigan M. E. confer.
ence and in fact every Methodist pas
tor in Michigan, will take UP in their
churches at once organized political
work for statewide prohibition as the
result Of specified ruling made by
Bishop Theodore s. Henderson, Of
Detroit, now head of the conference.
A woman calling herself Mrs. e.
of Detroit, pulled roll OF
bills from her hose and deposited
81 500 to guarantee the appearance of
Edward Carlson, George White and
W. J. Morgan, suspected pickpockets,
for trial at Cadillac. The trio failed to
appear and the bonds were forfeited.
While on a visit to her relatives
at Ann Arbor Rose Hannschlager,
years old, of Chicago,
and former patient of an insane asy-
lum, went on sudden rampage, hurl-
ed soup at the members of the family
at dinner, chopped doors and furni-
ture and whipped two of her sisters
and her mother.
Charles Kimbrough, negro Of
Saginaw who is charged with the
murder of eight year old Rose Laun-
dry, on the night of January 8, 1915,
will continue to serve his life sentence
in Marquette prison, the supreme
court having affirmed his conviction
on the appeal made by the defendants
attorney, Robert ]. Curry.
A sensation was created at Battle
Creek when the entire transportation
committee of the Chamber of Com
merce-L. G. Parshall, f. c. Nettels