The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-03-02
4 The State Horticultural society met
at Benton Harbor.

l
derman Franz Noe, flfty-eight years
old, is dead at Mt. Clemens of ppeu.
monia.
A spectacular fire swept TIE General
Grocer company's fve-story building
at Detroit. The loss is estimated at
$350.000.
Mrs. Charles Morton. seventy-six
years old. pioneer of II Sale town
ship, Monroe county, IS dead of
paralysis.
Fire destroyed the Frierds' church
parsonage at Ypsilanti during the alb.
sence of the pastor. Rev. Ebert Por-
tbs. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Thomas O. 'Winslow, Cincinnati
travelling salesman, committed suicide
at Menominee by shooting himself. He
left note giving Ill health as the
cause.
The house has passed a bin in.
creasing the salary of Herman O'Con-
nor, United States marshal for the
western district of Michigan from So
600 to $4,000.
Members Of the state military board
have drafted a bill increasing the pay
Of the national guardsmen for at
tendance at summer camps from s1.25
to 81 per day.
After hot debate the Jackson Coun-
ty Dry federation voted to send a COM
mittee Of three to Lansing to inter
cede with legislature in behalf of
bone dry Michigan.
Emmett d. Averill, Muskegon resi-
dent until few years ago, died in a
Montana blizzard while going from his
shack in the mountains to the nearest
grocery, two miles away.
Seven hundred members of the Re-
tail Grocers and General Merchants
association of Michigan were in Kala-
mazoo to attend a three day conven-
ton which opened Feb. 20.
John Kimble. seventy years old, car
penter and resident of Rochester near
ly all his life, was found dead of pa.
ralysis in his shack at Calvain, east
of Rochester. He had lived alone.
DR.. Denike, the buchanan physician
who pleaded guilty to manslaughter,
was sentenced to Ionia reformatory
for from six months to fifteen years,
with recommendation of one year.
Professor c. w. Waid, the Michigan
Agricultural college potato specialist,
Is warning farmers to keep all the
good seed potatoes they have, for there
will be a general shortage Of seed in
the spring.
Leo Markovich, %, and Mike Po-
vich, twenty-five years old. are being
held at Flint pending further investi-
cation of the murder of Daniel Skin
der, uncle Of Markovich, in the north
end factory district.
The man who was found dead on
the tracks of the Detroit United rain.
way near Royal Oak by the crew of
all interurban car has been identified
as Adam Hite, a carpenter, Of the
MISUNDERSTANDING road. Coroner
Farmer has decided not to hold an in
quest
Governor Sleeper will soon present
to the legislature in formal communi-
cation a suggestion that the legisla-
ture appoint commissions to study
what he considers two subjects vital
TO the welfare of the state-the con-
troll OF public utilities and the budget
system.
More than a quarter of million
dollars left to charity is the feature
of the will of Lawrence Price, of Ian.
sing, former president of the Auto
Body company, and candidate for the
Democratic nomination for United
States senator last fay, who died at
Mt. Clemens.
Clarence L. Anderson, president of
Orion village, was arrested on a
charge of cruelty to animals, on COM
plant of H. o. Froberg, special deputy
sheriff and agent of the Oakland Coun-
ty Humane society, who contends An
derson failed to provide proper food
and shelter for horses on his farm.
The supreme court decided a much
mooted question regarding the Michi-
gan primary laws by holding that
where, after the time for filing nomi-
nation papers has passed with only
one candidate filing for an Office on
all the tickets, there shall be no Fri.
mary, and the county clerk shall so
certify to the election commissioners.
Batteries A and B, Michigan artil-
lery, A company signal corps and the
engineers are scheduled to leave
Ell Paso March IA. All guard troops
on border patrol will be called in and
their places taken by regulars. This
will effect troops A and b., Michigan
cavalry, which on February Is COM
menced a fifteen-day detail at Fort
Hancock.
Charles Clark, thirty-five years old,
a farm hand, walked into the Office Of
the county Jail at Cassopolis, exhibit
ed his bloody hands and said he had
been in q fight on the farm of William
F. Matthews, near the Berrien county
line. Later he admitted assaulting and
crushing the skull of Ethel Matthews,
his employers nineteen year old
daughter.
When Ivan Lowe stepped from an
interurban car with two packages at
Flint, said to have contained twenty
four pints of whisky, he made the
mistake Of hailing an automobile from
the sheriff's office, which he thought
was a jitney bus. When he wanted TO