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

Virginia Mulvy of Almo was mar
ried to DR.. w. T. Dodge of Big Rapids
Ferris institute has announced {
raise in tuition rates after August 10
Mrs. Alice Gould. who spent Sunday
attending three church services, dice
suddenly the next day at Port Huron
At Traverse City fruit of all kinds
storm that has hit northern Michigan
this year.
What is intended to be one of Mich
igan's most exclusive summer resorts
is being started on Pine Lake, near
Charlevoix.
At Rochester the Cleaner store
owned by Andrew Robertoy, and an
organization hall at Disco were de.
stroyed by fire.
! James Murphy, the negro who muir
dered Henry Harris, peace maker in a
negro row at Albion, has been cap
tured near Marshall.
| Alice Burns, twenty-five months old
daughter of Charles Burns, was cut in
two by a logging train at Big Bag
when she wandered from home.
The body of Mrs. Samuel Carlisle,
| seventy years of age, was found on
| the floor of her home in the outskirts
| of Hillsdale where she lived alone.
Jacob Horning, seventy years old, of
Freedom township, near Ann Arbor,
strangled himself to death at the
psychopathic hospital at Ann Arbor
At Big Rapids, War Cloud, buffalo
bull, valued at $500, one of four in
Michigan, was killed by lightning. 1t
was owned by c. d. Emott, of Austin
township.
Len Rupert, forty years old, of
Prairieville, was drowned in Pine
Lake when the boat in which he and
Frank Valencourt, of Kalamazoo, were
fishing capsized.
Reports reaching Manistee indicate
that hundreds of acres of farm lands
will have tn be replanted as a result
of the storm June rs, the worst in the
city's history.
The body of Peter Kourmis, a Co.
lumbia township farmer, was found in
a woods about two miles north of
Cement City. There was a bullet
wound in the head.
George Grips had an arm, a leg
and was internally injured when he
fell from the top of house while do.
ing carpenter work
Jack Cummings, twenty-three years
old, an electrician employed at the
JOY aviation field, died at Mt. Clemens
from injuries received in trying to
board a moving train.
Robert Curry, seventy years old,
Clarendon farmer, was struck and
killed by Michigan Central train
Two quarts of whisky remained un
broken in his pockets.
At Bay City q succession of thunder.
storms passed over. A bolt struck the
steeple of st. Johns Catholic church
in Essexville, entirely destroying the
building. The damage Is placed at
$65,000 with an insurance of $4,000.
Or. F. A. Perry, who has been one
of Lenawee's most prominent Red
Cross organizers since the outbreak
of the war, was rendered a reception
by the people Of his congregation. DR..
Perry will leave shortly for Franve,
A Muskegon official, noticing a
large American flag at half staff at a
home on the outskirts of the city.
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householder explained that it was a
signal for the huckster to stop for
strawberries.
The mans body brought to the sur.
face of Muskegon lake near the Good.
rich dock was identified by Coroner
James F. Balbirnie as Tony Shook,
twenty-five years old, of Toledo, o. He
was born in Warsaw, Poland, and reg.
istered June s.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Adamski OF
Bay City we're awakened at 1880
o'clock in the morning to find their
oldest son, Albion, sixteen years of
age, dead at the door, killed while Joy
riding in a stolen auto.
War may be tabooed on the veran.
das and in the dining rooms of north.
ern Michigan's summer hotels this
season, for the majority of the letters
received by hotel managers say EN-.
rhatically that the writer is coming
north to get away from war talk
Neal McAllister, nineteen years old, |
son of d. J. McAllister, superintendent |
of the North Ludington company and |
prominent dairyman, was almost in.
stantly killed when he was struck by |
a southbound Northwestern passenger |
train at the Lakeview crossing in |
Menominee.
Members of the Michigan commits. |
sion which will frame the budget sys. |
tenn for the state were announced by |
Governor Sleeper as follows: Dana H. |
Hinkley, Petoskey; o. c. Tompkins, |
Lansing; George Lord, Detroit; 10.
seph W. O'Brien, Grand Haven, and |
Charles d. Thompson, Bad Axe.
Rewards amounting to $50 are Of
fered for the arrest and conviction of |
the person or persons who placed |
tacks upon the West Michigan pike |
leading into Grand Haven. Holland au-
tos driven to the Elks convention in