The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-12-29
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David o. Smith, resident in the
county for eighty-one years. died in
his home south Of Howell,
Firebugs made two attempts 10 de-
stroy the Pere Marquette railroad
freight house at Berrien Springs.
Matt Pozesky. of Crystal Falls. shot
three. bullets into his wtes body and
then Stfi.' himself by putting bull.
lei into his brain,
kecnn stepped in front of Michigan
Central poEccnger train at Jackson.
and was Instantly killed.
Thomas Peach. aged nine.y-one CT
Pontiac, died at the home Of his
daughter, Mrs. William P. Nesbitt, at
Big Rapids. of pneumonia.
Burglars raided four Ypsilanti
stores. From the till in the mission
lunch rooms they took $40 and at
Micho's candy store they got S.
William Bell, sixty years old. of Biz.
mingham, a carpenter. dropped dead
in Royal Oak just after leaving the
building on which he was 20 work
With preparations completed for an
operation at Nicholas hospital at
Battle Creek, Mrs. Burr L. Weeks.
forty years old. shot herself through
the head.
Mrs. Francis Dedrosh and her six
year old daughter Mary were burned
to death when their home, one and
half miles north of Wayne, was
destroyed.
One of the old land marks of Bir-
mingham was almost destroyed when
an overheated stove set fire to the
James Wooster store, built seventy
six years ago.
DeLacourt Northup, eiehty-two
years old, veteran of the civil war,
dropped dead in the store of Arthur
Fitzsimmons & Co., as he was about
to pay for a newspaper.
While attempting to thaw pipe
with blow torch, Rev. Mr.. Maynard
set fire to the parsonage of the Meth
odist church at Vicksburg and the
structure was destroyed.
Mrs. Winnifred Sebring Clark, for
nine years society editor of Kala-
mazoo newspaper and prominent
Michigan suffrage worker, was hit by
an automobile and seriously injured.
Thieves entered the F. G. Emmettch
machine shop at Kalamazoo in broad
day light and carried off about 500
pounds of loot in wheelbarrows. Resi-.
dents near by witnessed the burglary,
but thought nothing of it.
Collegiate alumnae of Ann Arbor
school have petitioned the school
board to give credits to high school
girls rCr the care of babies. They also
asked course of instruction in the
care o. babies be instituted
Allen d. Sanders, forty-thrac, of the
firm of Gibbs G. Sanders, coal and
wood dealers at Albion, died at his
home. John Woodliffe, seventy-three,
well known farmer of Parma town
ship, died at his home east of Albion.
The Michigan State Grange re.elect-
ed John c. Ketcham of Hastings to
the office of master, Endorsed the Tor
rels land tax bill and adopted resolu.
tions providing for study of the in
come tax as worked out in other
states.
James Schermerhorn, Jr., o. De-
troit, a junior in the literary college,
has won the university peace contest
and the right to represent the Uni
versity of Michigan in the state peace
contest, to be held at Hllsdale this
winter.
Vincent Blomstrom was given
sentence Of life Imprisonment in Jack.
son prison in circuit court at Jackson
on conviction Of assault with intent to
murder. He shot and wounded Tony
Bozaconeki during fight in Little
Poland recently.
James Couzens and David Cray of
Detroit. minority stockholders in the
Ford Motor company. who were named
with Henry Ford as defendants +
the injunction suit started by John
Dodge and Horace E Dodge. filed d
pro-confess order. Withdrawing fror'
the suit
Mrs. George Francis. OF Bentley,
who was accidentally shot 81 her
home near there. is dead Mr.. Francis
in passing cut of their house 70 hun.
rabbits caught one Of the hammers of
his shotgun on the edge OF the door,
the charge of shot SCATTERING his
wife's knee.
William Cloutu-e, twenty.eight
years old, well known Pinconning far.
mer, was shot in the back while driv.
ing his automobile on the Standisn
road, few miles north Of Pinconning.
Henry Otto, sixteen years old, an
Indian, was arrested by DR.. Monroe
Porter, deputy sheriff
Stirred by the $500 reward offered
by Mayor Arnt Ellison for informa.
ton leading 10 the arrest and convic.
ton OF the frebug who has fred six
barns in Muskegon recently. the DO.
lice department and sheriff's force are
sec airing the city. Six horses were
burned in the fires and property losses
totaled 5000.
On evidence which has been Sc.
cured by the prosecuting attorney
within the last three weeks. the ar
rest Of Jonathan o. Strong, of Eagle,
has been made upon the charge of