The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-02-09
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NEWS B!RLEESI

Marie, died OF injuries received whel
large crane fell.
Alexander Tomson, seventy-fouI
years old, hanged himself in his son
in-law's barn at Hudson.
Dan Oberdine and Romadan Obdul
were struck by an automobile at Jack
son and were badly injured.
Henry C. Whitley, seventy-eigh
years old, for fifty years a business
man of .Coldwater, died of burns.
Rabbit hunters in Hampton stumbled
over the body of Robert Patchell, SIX
teen years old, son of r. S. Patched
of Bay City.
Governor Sleeper has appointed DIR
J. G. Arnold of South Haven as O
member of the state board of dental
examiners.
| George Buttress, a member of the
House of David colony on High island
Ave miles north. of st. James, has
been given up for lost.
Clement L. Lebate, fifty-eight years
old, state organizer and district dep
rty of the Catholic Mutual Benefit as
| ISOLATION, is dead at. Grand Rapids.
Edward Wilcox, sixty-five years old
an ice cutter, was found dead in a
tool shed, on the banks of the Hud
son river near the Argo dam at Ann
Arbor.
the big paint shop of the Michigan
Central cars shops has burned with a
loss of $4,000. The blaze has started
new agitation for motor fire ap.
paratus.
Mrs. Genevieve House Weber, nine.
ty-two years old, is dead at her home
in Sylvan township, Washtenaw coun.
ty. She was the widow of the late
Simon Weber.
Plans are being made to sell the
property of the industrial school for
boys, to obtain more suitable proper
" Cor the institution somewhere away
from the city.
1t will be necessary for State Treas.
urer Odell to hire additional clerical
help to handle the increased work in
his department to administer the
teachers pension law.
Senator Charles w. Foster of Lam
sing will introduce bill providing for
the establishing of courts of appeals,
which would stop many cases of minor
Importance from going to the state su.
preme court.
The Michigan Railways company
has in addition to its regular payroll,
disbursed between $4,000 and $780,.
900 in back pay awarded employees by
the board Of arbitration in the recent
wage dispute.
Motion pictures will be used to
teach Michigan farmers how to i'm.
prove their methods of filling the soil
at the Farmers "Round-U Up" to be held
at the Michigan Agricultural college
March to H. ...,,
Carl Harju was buried in a pocket
containing soft coal at Mill Mine juno
ton for more than an hour and was
discovered when a locomotive stopped
for fuel and he was shot into the ten.
der of the engine.
Charles Shuebel, fifty-five years DID,
wealthy shoe merchant and prominent
in Lansing commercial and social cir.
cles, was beaten into unconsciousness
and robbed in Central park, apparent
ly by two or more men.
Credits toward a state normal school
certificate will be given for all work
done at the summer school at the
Michigan Agricultural college, accord
ing to an advance bulletin The credits
may be used toward a county normal
certificate or a degree at M. A. C.
Holding up three men at the point of
a revolver, Frank Theiser forced them
to march to his home at Jackson.
where he lined them up against the
wall and told them that he wanted
them as witnesses to the murder of
his wife, according to officers. His
wife fed.
j. r. Dean, of Boyne City, attempted
to transport Peter Boyer and a party
of funeral mourners across the ice of
Pine Lake at Charlevoix and became
lost in blizzard and wandered about
for hours half frozen, until he and the
party at last found themselves at their
starting point.
Heirs in Michigan to the number of
forty-three will receive $27,187.12 from
the Sylvia Ann Rowland estate Of ST..
100000, if the report Of the trustees
in connection with proceedings for
the distribution of the estate is ap-
proved by the probate court of Bris.
tol county, Conn.
With the left portion of his jaw car
ried away by bullet from a 45-cali-
Der revolver, First Sergeant Paul
Coogan, Company L, Thirty-third Mich
igan, lies in critical condition at the
base hospitai at Ell Paso following the
accidental discharge of his revolver
while cleaning It,
With the ceremony of mastering
out of federal service, Michigan troops
that have been or now are on the Dor.
der will come under the operation of
the new federal militia act, and as
soon as the required inspections are
completed, will begin to draw the new
scale of militia pay.
Rev. w. A. Dawson, pastor of the
Grand Rapids Chestnut Christian
church, has received a telegram an.
that his son, Herbert Daw.
son, of Texola, Okla, was found muir.
dered in his store at Benonine, Tex.