The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-10-06


struck by a Grand Trunk train near
the village of Penn.
Henry Mass was found unconscious
by the roadside, two miles north of
st. Joseph, injured by fall from a
bicycle.
Ethel Sweet, proprietress of the
Sweet candy shop, and Frank Smith,
of Grand Rapids, were married at Kali
amaZoo.
Almo freshmen won the flag rush
from the sophomores in less than five
minutes. The sophs were outnumber-
ed to 1.
Joe Post, ~, Eaton Rapids, a prom.
inent civil war veteran, is dead at his
home. He had lived in the community
practically all of his life.
G.. S. Brown, Owosso, was reappoint-
ed by Governor Ferris to the state
board of barber examiners. Brown was
president of the board last year.
Up to the first of September there
were 142,550 automobiles licensed in
Michigan, and it is expected the to-
tai will reach 100000 by January 1.
The supreme court of Michigan
has reversed the conviction Of Frank
Lay, Jr., one of the defendants of the
famous Kalamazoo Buggy company
cases.
Mrs. William B. Post, seventy-two,
pioneer resident of Eaton county,
died suddenly of heart disease at her
home five miles southwest of Eaton
Rapids.
Joseph Rinaldi, Highland Park, Az
rested by game wardens on a
charge OF violating the game law by
killing robin, paid fine of $40 and
$3.50 costs.
Edwin F. Sweet has resigned his po-
sition as the assistant secretary
of commerce and left for Michigan
to open his campaign as Democratic
candidate for governor.
A Michigan Central train, the
New York Chicago express, bound
from Chicago to Detroit, was held up
by a gang of robbers near Dearborn,
ten miles west of Detroit.
Saginaw claims that 1t has an
Enoch Arden in w. T. Hall, missing
thirty-three years, but in this case the
family becomes reunited because the
second husband has since died
1t is announced Charles Evans
Republican candidate for
president, will revisit Michigan for a
two-day tour of eight principal cities
outside of Detroit October 20 and 81.
John Lahnala, of Houghton, whose
trial for the murder of his father late
in 1914 was the most sensational case
in years in the upper peninsula, was
granted a new trial by the supreme
court.
Mrs. Margaret Ross, of Hastings,
aged sixty-eight years, is dead from
burns received when, in an attempt to |
save her home from destruction, she |
carried blazing oil stove out of the |
house.
Mrs. Sarah J. Collins, matron of the |
county Jail of Muskegon county, &C.
cused of assisting Joe Bodnar, of De-
rot, to escape, is again at the county
Jail and still retains the position of
matron.
Mrs. Frances Gaffney, who has
been one of Bay county's best
Known pioneers, died at her home at
Bay City. Mrs. Gaffney was born in
Ireland eighty-seven years ago and
zane to Michigan at an early age.
The alienation case brought by Wal
er e. Metz, of South Bend, Ind,
against Will c. Porter, Dowagiac in
'urance man, has been settled out of
court, and all warrants in the case
ire said to have been withdrawn.
Russell Clayton and Levi Foun-
ain who are residents of Deca-
ur, fifty miles from Sault Ste Marie,
we're shining deer from an automobile
nd shot and killed a horse hitched
o a buggy containing Mr.. and Mrs.
oseph Lemieux
Convicted of holdup of Mrs. c. H.
'rantz, at Bay City, as she
7as closing her husbands drug store
or the night, William Sullivan was
entenced to Marquette prison for
rom Is to 80 years, with recommen-
alton of rs years.
A few feet off lonely road
hree miles east of Jackson the body
t Roy Bassett, taxi driver of Ian.
ing, was found by sheriff's deputies.
'wo bullet wounds, one in the head
nd one in the back, indicated that
he man had been murdered.
Joseph Ford, colored, of Grand
'apids, a porter at the Union sta
on. started suit in superior court for
5000 against the F. o. Lindquist COM
any. The latter used Ford's picture
an advertisement and Ford says 1t
as done without his permission.
Mrs. John Carew of Battle Creek,
18th her husband, was speeding on
he race track at the fair grounds on
motorcycle when pedal on the ma
hine hit the ground and Mrs. Carew
i'd a double somersault, landing on
er head. She was picked up with no
roken bones.
Mrs. Charity Charbonneu, a Cadil-
&c woman, fifty-three years old, was
ranted divorce from Alphone Char
ffty-seven years old, and few
inutes later was married to Patrick
'elsh, OF Harrietta, Quebec. Mrs.
charged desertion and