The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-09-14

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Foote, charging cruelty.
Vice President Marshall PAID his
first visit to the famous old Indian set
tlement OF Cross Village. traversins
the famous Indian train along the tor
OF the high bluffs overlooking open
Lake Michigan from Petoskey to near
the Straits Of Mackinaw.
Police are endeavorIng to solve the
murder of Beatrice Epler, seventeen
years old, who was found dead In
bushes near her home early In the
morning. Her clothes had been torn
her hair was unkempt and there were
finger prints on her neck.
I When the fast Wabash freight No,
81 left the track at Britton, near
Adrian, the firemen and head brake.
man were killed. They were crushed
beneath the engine as 1t rolled into
the ditch. The engine and ten cars left
the track. The engineer escaped.
Jack Hoffman escaped from the 10.
| cal Jail by saving out four cell bars,
went to hotel, registered, stayed all
night and next afternoon hired a TAXI
to drive him to Pontiac, ordered the
drive to wait and then disappeared
into the front door of the house and
out the back.
Coal dealers have received notice
of an advance of fifteen cents a ton in
the rate on soft coal by the Louisville
& Nashville railway, effective August
80, which, with a former advance of
fifteen cents, makes higher rate of
thirty cents to dealers, .or 1920 a ton
into Grand Rapids.
Because Otto Singer objected to his
daughters going with soldiers, he is
now in jail on complaint of his wife,
who alleges he created trouble be-
cause she would not forbid the girls
from going with soldiers. Singer has
petitioned the probate court to de-.
eide the issue and the case is still
pending.
Eight women, employed by the
Grand Trunk railroad as crossing
guards in Detroit, have worked SO
faithfully and well that John W.
Woznack, chief Of the railroad police,
who is responsible to the company for
the safety Of the crossings, intends
eventually to make the entire day
force women.
Ike Hallingbeck Of Manistique,
Mich, shot and probably fatally
wounded his wife in the Trout Lake
hotel. Mike Beyers, an innocent by
stander, also was wounded by one of
the many shots fired. Hallingbeck es-
capped, and heavily armed posse of
woods for him.
Held up by two men on his way
home from work on the new course Of
the Flint Golf club, Glenn Fletcher,
forty-six years old, was slashed on
the right side of the face and neck
with razor. He is in serious condi-
ton. A man, who gave his name as
James Thomas, is said to have con-
fessed the attack.
John Walters, who resides On a
farm about FIVE miles north of Niles,
was attacked by bull and was seri
ously injured, rib being broker. and
he also sustained cuts and bruises
about the head. Mr.. Walters was at
work when without warning tho bull
rushed at him and knocked him down.
He fell in pile of straw which prob
ably saved his life
Woodbridge N. Ferris, of Big Rapids,
former governor, will be a candidate
for United States senator If Chase S.
Osborn, of the 500, enters the race.
In little cell in the old cas-: wing
Of Jackson prison, Anthony j. Kloka.
former clerk in the Wayne county
treasurer's office, spent his first night
within the walls of the penitentiary,
which will be his home probably for
four years.
Michigan's big crop of potatoes,
corn and beans now hinges on frost.
A frost between now and September
20 will practically ruin the chances
for large crop, while IL frost stays
away till it's average date, about De-
tober l in the lower peninsula, the
states crop will be "whopper."
Philip Wilmington, of Cleveland, o.,
president Of the Withington
company, while in Jackson, said that
he knew nothing of the reported in
dictment of his company under the
Sherman law, and said there must be
some mistake. He declared that his
company was not involved in any con-
troversy about any matter of the kind.
Fifteen thousand people, nearly half
of the population of Huron county,
celebrated Labor day as a patriotic
day. Governor Sleeper presided at
banquet given by the citizens of Bad
Axe to the Grand Army men. Govern
or Sleeper assured the selected men
that their families and dependents
would be we'll taken care of after they
had gone to war;
ITO get coal to small localities OF
the state is the aim OF the commit
tee," said Henry McMorran, head of
the committee appointed by Governor
Sleeper to probe the coal situation
in Michigan. McMorran further said
that the committee was not going to
investigate prices of coal, but to probe