The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-07-06

AS result of playing with matche,
with a playmate, Willie Hudson, thre,
years old, is dying at Port Huron
The steamer Natronco of Toronto
sank in the Detroit river after a col
lision with the passenger steame,
Eastern States.
Ten enlisted June 81 in the tws
Kalamazoo national guard companies
swelling the total number for the las,
ten days to eighty-four.
A Jail delivery was stopped al Bay
City when Sheriff Schweinsberg dis
| covered two bars of a window of the
county Jail had been sawed through
Michigan Joined the ranks of the
states which have filed their quota
of war volunteers for the regular ar
my, June Is, making the ninth state
Henry Harris, a negro, twenty-five
years old, is dead as result of a fight
with another negro, known as catfish
Jim," in Albion's negro settlement.
The board of regents of the Univer.
sity of Michigan voted courses in
technical aviation to train students
for the United States aviation corps.
Miss Nellie Levoy, a Mt. Pleasant
high school pupil, was knocked down
and run over by an automobile driven
by J. A. Campbell, of Alma. She will
recover.
c. j. Stone, special detective of
the Grand Trunk railway is in Jail
charged with violating che local op-
ton law by selling whisky to for.
eigners in Durand.
One man was shot and killed and
another wounded by a Waterman at
Fortune Lake farm, near Iron Noun
tain. owned by ]. o. Blixt. The men
were mistaken for pig thieves.
Members of the war preparedness
board are inclined to disregard the
resolution of the state board of agri.
culture asking that organization to pay
the new county agent $133 a month in.
stead of 500, as at present.
H. " Randall, of Battle Creek,
jumped from the balustrade of the
fourth floor at hotel at Mt. Clemens
to the Office floor in the court below
and sustained injuries from which he
died at the Washington hospital.
The body of man about fifty years
old, believed to be that Of the person
knocked off the Michigan railway
bridge, was found. A receipt | a
check on the body indicate it may be
that of Sam Reed of Hiawatha, School
craft county.
The Dudley apartment house in the
exclusive residential section of Owes.
SO has been purchased by physicians
comprising the Shiawassee County
hospital association, capitalized at
$4,000. 1t will be remodeled into a
modern hospital
Joseph Nicholai, eighteen years old,
the drill boy who was caught in cave.
in a mile underground in number six
shaft at the Calumet and Hecla mine,
and who was rescued alive without
losing consciousness although badly
crushed, is dead.
John Richards. eighty-siX years old,
holder of degrees from Harvard and
the University of Michigan, and a for
mer instructor in those institutions, Is
dead of apoplexy at the Genese county
infirmary, which has been his home
for the last seven years.
Seven fishermen were fined $3.50 at
Holland. Bert Tding, Herman Kuy.
pers, John Kuypers, Peter Lemer,
George Van Hoven, John Petroelje
and John Holeyk, living in and near
Zealand, were found guilty on the
charge of illegal fishing.
Captain Fales, Detroit recruiting of.
ficer, has mustered into the United
States ordnance reserve corps TWEEN
ty-one University of Michigan stu
dents, sixteen having completed the
university course in army stores, given
by the engineering college.
Worthwhile has organized a home
guard company about Atty strong,
with the following officers: Captain,
Ralph Hotton first lieutenant. T. r.
Darlington; second lieutenant, Ralph
Ryder. The unit was mustered into
the state service by Captain Town.
The first Michigan district paid S..
078,7S3 corporation income tax and
s2,399,695 individual tax. The fourth
Michigan district paid $1,4O5,454, of
which $1,015,936 was from corpora
tons and $3S7,517 from individuals.
The total for the state was $8,SS2, 032.
William ]. Pratt, forty-two years
cid, of Knoxville, Tenn, made an at.
tempt to kill Mrs. Elizabeth Paxton,
Cf Yale, Mich. to whom he had been
aging attention and who spurned his
advances, by cutting her throat with
q pocket knife at La Porte, Ind.
a telegram from DR.. F. A. Roberts
IT Washington announces the author
ization of ambulance company No. AZ
~ the Knights Templar of Michigan.
TT. Roberts will be commissioned |
captain and upon his return the work
CT recruiting will be undertaken. Many |
6 publications. are already on file.
The police and sheriff departments
and members OF the coast guard have
/ cen dragging Manistee lake to re-
over the body of Bernie Mastey, eigh. |
teen years old, who is believed to |
ave been drowned. Nothing has been |
heard Of the boy since he started from