The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-10-13

| ed to congress on the Progressive
ticket, has formally accepted the Dem.
ocratic nomination for the same of.
Ace.
With three actions in court
pending, Saginaw county, through its
probe of irregular conduct in the Of
fee of county treasurer, is ahead $10,-
| boo.
A news item says ]. e. Cullen,
of Grand Rapids; John A. Bassett, Yp-
| SLANT, and G. c. A. White, of Port
Huron, have been appointed RAILWAY
mail clerks.
Floyd Hess, mail clerk running
on the Ann Arbor road whose home
is in McBain, was arrested by two
postoffice inspectors, charged with
rifling the mails.
AS the result Of disagree
ment by operators and miners,
of the Michigan district. all mines in
the Saginaw valley are closed, c,AG0
miners being out.
AS he was leaving his home
to see a physician, Frank j. Lee, of
Memphis, sixty years old, president
OF the village of Richmond, dropped
dead of heart failure.
Miss Mary Foresman, aged As, of
Three Rivers, was fatally burned
while standing in front of a range on
which Mrs. w. Dunno, with whom she
roomed, was canning peaches.
Fire at Saginaw caused damage Of
$4,000 when w. e. Laur's grain eleva-
tor, which he was to have opened a
few hours later, caught fire and gain
ed such Roadway that it was total
loss.
A lynx. weighing 20 pounds, meas
uring five feet and eight inches from
nose to tail, was shot on the Mar
quette street car track near the Dead
river swamp by E. j. Moffat of Mar
quette.
Benjamin Salewaski and Michael
Brown, Menominee men, were drown
ed when loading crane boomshaft
overturned into the Menominee river.
George Dumirchelle was saved by
fire tug.
1t is learned that the National Pro-
gressive ticket will have a column on
the general election ballot in Michi-
gan this year and the vignette of the
Bull Moose organization is a picture
of the Colonel.
The first attempt ever made
at recall under Monroe's new city
charter has resulted in the recall of
Mayor E. c. Betz. The mayor re.
ceived 784 votes, his opponent, Adam
w. Graessley. SIT.
THAT VIM. Travis died by shots
fred by Clarence Myers, aided and
abetted by Mrs. William Travis" was
the verdict Of the coroner's jury in
the inquest at Fremont held to in.
quire into Travis death.
The dead body Of DR.. Lafayette
Jones of st. John was found in his
home by his wife, who had just re-
turned from a three weeks absence.
Neighbors had noticed lights burning
but did not force an entrance.
Big Rapids will vote on changing it's
government at the November election,
as the result of a petition signed by
several hundred voters. Big Rapids
has been under the commission form
of government for about three years.
Charging that Geo. Frasee, Riverside,
nephew, shot at him as a result of
family feud, J. E. Hammond, of the
same village, has sworn out war
rant for the formers arrest on a
charge of assault, with murderous in
tent.
John Mclean, Flint, who assaulted
Ernest Schmitzer, Birch Run hotel
keeper, several weeks ago, causing
his death, pleaded guilty to man.
slaughter and was sentenced by Judge
Gage to serve from seven to fifteen
years in Jackson prison.
e. j. Mailer, of Cairo, while at Sag.
NAV, was fined $40 and sent to jail
for sixty-five days for speeding. He
attempted to get away from a motor
cycle officer, but the chase ended
abruptly when Mailer knocked down
two hitching posts and telephone
pole.
dead in the circuit court. Mrs. Har-
ri, wife and beneficiary under poll
cy in the Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance company, sued for the in
surance because her husband disap-
peared in 1906 and has not since been
heard from.
When a Grand Rapids car slowed |
down at Battle Creek, A. M. Breauer
put his head out the window to see
what was wrong. A city car struck his |
head, pulled him out the window and |
dragged him along between the cars,
the impact of his body breaking out |
the windows of the city car.
Fire destroyed the business part of |
village of about 1000 in |
habitants, fifteen miles northeast of |
Three Rivers, in st. Joseph county, |
and destroyed many residents before
L was checked by fire engine rush
ed to the rescue from Kalamazoo. |
The damage is estimated at from $70.
300 to $4,000.
Near Adrian Rollin Chickering, |
Of Chicago. suffered fracture of the
,rm and other serious injuries, and |
Maurice Malarney, of Hudson, Will |
lam Sweeney, OF Hudson, and Hal
of Detroit. were less SER