The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-09-21
NEWS BRIEFS

gone to Fort Dodge, Iowa. Local man.
ufacturers motorized the unit.
The Official flag pole of Camp Custer.
which will stand near the camp head.
quarters, is the gift of citizens Of Bat
tie Creek.
Vice-President and Mrs. Marshall
and party, who have been spending
the summer at Petoskey, have return
Cd to Washington.
More than 100 U. OF M. students
have asked to be enrolled in the ord
nance course to be taught this year
by Leslie F. Merch.
Fred Becker, 70 years old, died at
his home in Rochester of injuries he
received when he was thrown out of
a buggy by a runaway horse.
Carter Curtis, shift boss at the
Breitung hematite mine at Ishpeming,
was killed when his head struck q
beam while he was riding the motor.
Michigan coal miners, who held a
two-day convention at Saginaw adj
journed without taking any action on
the proposed wage increase demands.
v. A. Goddard, 55, who has for a
number of years lived the life of
recluse at his camp, Is miles north
west of Iron River, was found dead
there.
A. A. Prentiss, 35, of Chicago,
met an old friend in the Scott
hotel, Hancock. Lets go and have a
drink" he suggested. AS he turned
to enter the bar he dropped dead.
Declaring that it can no longer pro-
duce gas at the rate of 85 cents
thousand feet, the Port Huron gas
company will submit a proposition to
the voters asking permission to raise
Its rates to 81 thousand feet.
Mrs Gilbert Archambeau, wife of q
farmer near Bay City, after preparing
breakfast went out Of doors to ring
the bell which calls the men to the
house. The bell, weighing 80 pounds,
fell, striking on her head and frac-
turing her skull.
Heavy machinery caused the third
floor of Moulton Grocer Co. building
at Muskegon to crash to the basement
during the night. The damage is esti-
mated at $4,000. The Waterman was
killed. The accident in daytime would
have brought death to many employees.
Ten minutes after he had married
son. Justice Gould of Hastings fined
the man $1,000 for drunkenness on a
charge preferred by the former Mrs.
Madison. To insure a happy honey
moon the Judge made the groom sign a
60-day pledge.
When a maid in the home of C.. B.
Chatneld, Bay City, found burglar
in the house, she tried to call police
on the telephone. The man dragged
her from the phone. Miss B. Schanz,
a telephone operator, heard her cries,
suspected something was wrong and
called the police. The man escaped.
Five unidentified men, believed to
be tramps, were killed at Cedar Lake
three miles east of Edmore, when
Pere Marquette freight train on which
they were riding left the rails and was
wrecked. Trainmen escaped uninjur-
ed, although both engines Of the dou-
ble-header left the rails. The wreck
was due to spreading rails. Twenty
FIVE of the 55 cars derailed were de-
stroyed. In two Of the cars was
quantity of dynamite which failed to
explode The train was en- route to
Saginaw from Grand Rapids.
Eleven officers in the medical corps
of the United States army are at the
state psychopathic hospital at Ann Ar
Dor taking instruction in the determi-
nation and treatment of nervous dis
eases. From here they will go to army
hospitals designed for the care of ner-
vous diseases. 1t Is probable that be-
fore the organization of the new ma
tional army Is completed each canton
ment will have one or more of these
physicians to test nervous conditions
that would be likely to cause break.
down under the strain of trench war.
fare.
Cosmopolitan Detroit. In 1t is rep.
resented practically every known
country and part of the world as
shown by the final compilation Of the
school census just completed. This
year for the first time nationality OF
all children between the ages of and
20 years was recorded. More than 90
different countries or sections are rep.
resented in the divisions OF nationali.
ties. From the hot sands Of Arabia
come 81, Iceland is represented by one
child Macedonia has six, India IA,
Philippines two, Asia six, Malta IL,
South America IL, Asia Minor four and
SO the list runs. The census gives /
total of 1852 children.
The Duluth South Shore & Atlantic
railroad rate case, which has been be |
fore United States Master in Chan |
Gerry Baker for seven years, will be
tried in Grand Rapids November 20
before Judge Sessions, in the United
States district court This is the third |
test of the two-cent passenger fare
law In Michigan made In the United
States district court. The Ann Arbor
and the Pere Marquette cases were de-
n;dad odvoraa1v IN these rom mn Mas