The Owosso times., 1917-04-06
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J0nn Boyle, SeVenty-SeVen years Olu
former chief of police of Jackson, died
suddenly of paralysis.
Charles H. Rickard. prominent in
Democratic politics of southwestern
Michigan, died at st. Petersburg, Fla.
Word has been received at Adrian Of
the promotion Of George McElroy to
rear-admiral in the United States
navy.
Falling from freight train, o. f..
Jeffers of Port Huron. a conductor,
was badly injured about the head and
body at Lapeer.
While in a school yard in a school
district northeast of Quincy, Ernest
Zeller, son of Louis Zeller, was struck
and killed by lightning.
John Dunn, thirty-eight years old,
had his left foot badly crushed when
1t was run over by a Detroit United
railway car south of Birmingham.
The thirteen year old daughter of
Mrs. Nose Myers, of Hylas, Dickinson
county, died of burns she received
when the house was destroyed by fire.
]. L. Starkweather, of Romeo, we'll
known in legal and social circles
throughout the state, died at the resi-
dence of his son, p. r. Starkweather,
at Detroit, aged seventy-three years.
The body of an unidentified man,
supposed to be Detroiter, was found
in the Huron river one mile east of
Ypsilanti by Russell Gault A signet
ring bore the letters "McA to c. D.,
1899"
Work has been started on the Che
boygan Greek drain after years Of
litigation and the desired outlet for
drain waters from a large territory
in three counties will be obtained be-
fore summer.
Mrs. Anna Olinger, forty-fve years
old, has been missing from her home
her daughter, Mrs. Albert Parker, has
asked the police to make a statewide
search for her.
John DoenZer, of near Arbela, a far
mer, has been bound over to the
Tuscola county circuit court for a ser
ious offense on a charge made by Iva
Carl, fifteen year old girl, of the
same township.
Mrs. Clara L. Murray, fifty-fve
years old, of Lansing, locked her
daughter, Mrs. John H. Chapman,
with an infant granddaughter out of
the house and killed herself during a
fit of melancholia.
For four months Clarence Burke
eluded the police of Detroit and AL
bion, and then, two hours after he en-
tered Louisville, KY, his home town,
he was arrested for Detroit police on
a charge of forgery.
1t was necessary to graft skin on
the hands of Superintendent of
Schools w. A. L. Willard, who was
badly burned while carrying an oil
stove, which had exploded, out of his
residence at White Cloud.
Governor Sleeper sent telegram of
coincidence to former Governor Wood
bridge N. Ferris at Big Rapids. on che
death of Mrs. Ferris, and appropriate
resolutions were passed by both
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Emery LeveauX, twenty-three years
old. who is reported lost on the tanker
Healdton, was the eldest son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Leveaux, for many
years residents of Ludington He was
engine oiler on the tank ship
Temporary insanity caused by five
months separation from his wife,
drove Cornelius Denboer, sixty-three
years old, to murder his wife, fifty-fve
years old, at Kalamazoo and to at.
tempt the death of four others.
Mrs. Virgil Bodell, or Pearl Helms,
known to Grand Rapids public as
Lady Anomar." balloonist, who made
many ascensions at Ramona park, will
spend the next nine months in the De-
troit house of correction for bigamy.
Two men were killed and one was
probably fatally injured when a wall
of building adjoining the Coliseum
theater In Detroit collapsed. The two
men killed were Joseph Hunt, fifty
two, and Thomas Rigney, twenty
eight, both of Detroit.
Albert B. Miller, of Miller Bros.
Hundred and One Ranch, states he is
negotiating in an endeavor to get the
depcsed Gar of Russia for next sea-
son for vaudeville and movies. He
says the czar can command q better
salary than Charlie Chaplin.
Arthur "A. H. Hopkins, ffty-six years
old, former librarian at Pittsburgh.
Louisville and Ann Arbor, Mich, died
at Kansas City. Mr.. Hopkins was
graduated from the University OF
Michigan in 1892 and at once became
assistant librarian at the university.
Mystery surrounding the disappear
ance OF Christopher Deppert, a well
known butcher of Detroit, last De-
cember, was cleared up when Jacob
Wuerges and Matthew Baker, both
lifelong friends of Deppert, identified
the body found in the Huron river.
near Ypsilanti, as that of Deppert.
Detectives are investigating the fire
which threatened to destroy the plant
Of the Imperial Furniture company 10.
Gated at Grand Rapids. While the fire
was discovered and extinguished with
the loss OF not more than 81 900, It is
the seventh nre supposed to be of an
incendiary origin In the last twelve
months causing a loss OF more than
$4,000.
While at work with a wrench on
top of traction engine, Fred Baker,