The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1916-11-03


tenn, is dead at st. Joseph.
The engine of Ann Arbor train from
the north a. 1880 a. m, jumped the
track at Kurby, and fell over into a
ditch.
Joseph F. Herbst, aged 35, of But
Ter, Ind, committed suicide at New.
burg, by cutting his throat and the
arteries in his wrists.
Mrs. Florence l. Bulson, club
leader, of Jackson, was elected presi-
ton of Worlen's clubs.
At Michigan University twenty cap
tains, with 200 canvassers, have be-
gun the annual University Y. M. C. A.
membership campaign.
Charles Henry Kempf, eighty-five
years of age, vice president of
the Kempf Commercial & Savings
bank, of Chelsea, is dead.
F, On Oct. rs vessels all over
the great lakes were sent hurrying in.
to shelter again by another gale, ap-
preaching in severity that of Oct. 20.
While at Chelsea Fred ]. Hans
man. an unmarried baker, of Jackson,
was killed by fast train in front of
the Michigan Central passenger sta
ton.
Detectives working at ST. Louis re-
covered $4,000 of the $4,000 stolen
from paymaster of the Burroughs
Adding Machine company in Detroit
Aug. 4.
The city council of Bay City or
dered all gambling devices, including
everything from punch boards to pro-
fessional gambling apparatus to be
put out of business.
DR.. Abner Hayward, eighty years
old, of Mount Clemens, one of the
Oldest physicians of the city, died at
his home. He was stricken with
paralysis about a year ago.
Fines Of $40 and costs was the
punishment demanded of Jacob and
John Luana, Herman Maxi and Hen
~ Antilla, as result of the death Of
another hunter, John Tikannen, Oct.
10 in Ontonagon county.
At Battle Creek five young
men, a woman and two small chill
dren were bruised when the driver
lost control of speeding automobile
on the Lake Avenue road and 1t crush.
ed into tree.
j. S. Wilson, rural mail carrier at
Edmore, shot and killed his wife of
eight months, aged sixty-five, and then
after providing for a substitute to
take care of his route, returned home
and ended his life.
Citizens of Clare and vicinity
gave banquet in honor of DR.. Thorn
as H. Maynard, who has just com.
pleted medical practice extending
back fifty years. He was one Of the
earliest settlers of Clare
Chas. Suffer, the drunken father of
Dorr, who shot his daughter in the
back two weeks ago, while he was in.
toxicated, pleaded guilty before Judge
o. S. Cross, and was sentenced later
for assault, with intent to kill.
Rastus Bells, 80, residing at Glen.
wood, who boosted of having been
foreman over John d. Rockefeller
when the oil king was getting his
start as an apprentice in a woodwork
mill at East Hartford, N. Y, is dead.
Search by authorities is being
made in New York for the nineteen
year old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Hattenberg, of iceland, who disap-
peared as her boat neared this coun.
try, with her mother and brothers and
sisters.
Large engineering buildings are be.
ing erected OH the site of old struct-
ures, which housed the engineering de.
partment at the Michigan Agricultural
college prior to the fire, last April,
which destroyed the buildings, with a
loss Of $246,00O.
The city attorney of Kalamazoo
Marvin Schaberg started suit against
the Michigan Light company, officials
of which concern were summoned to
appear in municipal court October 81.
to answer charges of violating Kala.
mazoo's 75-cent gas ordinance.
The plan being pushed by the
capitol employees to get a boost in
oe&ay AAOhi thC hCAt ICSISldtuTc re-
ceived boost when Auditor General
o. B. Fuller appeared before a mass
meeting Of the employees and said he
would support their proposed bill.
Henry Ford. auto manufacturer,
announced after conference with
President Wilson that as the result
Of an inspiring talk" he had with the
president two weeks ago he had estab-
lished the women workers in his
plants upon the same pay basis as the
men.
Mrs. Fred Jasnowski was award
ed by the state board compensation
based on 200 weeks, from the Univer.
sity Of Michigan because of the nc.
cidental death of her husband Janu-
airy 10, 1913, while employed on one
of the university buildings. The com.
pensation amounts to $1,217.50.
The Saginaw fight to make the of.
flee of county road commissioner cleo.
tive, reached the courts when John
Baird, supervisor from Milwaukee,
started mandamus proceedings 20
compel the election commissioners o.
leave a place vacant on the official
ballot for voters to write in the name
of their candidate