The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-06-08

simon Vanderwall hanged EsnsC
near Grand Rapids through wor: ,
over the war.
Thomas Finch of Spring Lake xii.
ed himself with shot gun due Il
brooding over the draft.
At Manistee Rev. Charles Messner
an Evangelist, was arrested for urgin,
young men to refuse to register.
Federal agents raided the headquar
ters of the Socialist local at Grand
Rapids and seized antidraft literature
Near st. Louis, Mrs. Karlin wes
driven insane through worry over the
possibility of her husband being draf:
ed.
Three persons committed suicics
near Grand Rapids through worry owe:
the coming draft and the prospects CT
long war.
Henry Newton, seventy-four years
old, for half century Identified with
business in Hastings, is dead after q
brief illness of pleurisy.
Lawrence Countryman OF Kalama'
zoo burned several weeks ago when
he threw a match into a can of gaso'
line, is dead of his injuries.
The steamer M. A. Bradley has
been released, the last vessel at Sault
Ste. Marie to be worked on by wreck
ers. The fee condition improves.
Permission to use the selective draft
to fill the ranks of the Michigan ma
tional guard to war strength is being
sought by the military authorities.
Mrs. Clement L. Lingley, forty-hve,
a nurse, was killed and Reed Carly,
a farmer seriously injured WREN the
latter's automobile turned turtle near
Albion.
Bert H. Brady was burned at the
plant of the Harrow Spring COMPANY
of Kalamazoo when 5000 volts o.
electricity passed through hts body.
He will live.
Struck on an Owosso crossing by q
Grand Trunk gravel train. the fifteen.
months old son of James Fischer was
thrown fifteen feet, but escaped with
minor bruises.
Russell Roe, nine years old, climbed
up the storm warning tower at Harbo.
Springs and touched an electric light
wire. He dropped unconscious but no
bones were broken.
At Zealand Martin Brouwer. twenty.
six, married five weeks ago, shot and
killed himself because he feared he
would be parted from his brid,
through the operation of the draft law.
Minnie Dibble Macard, whose fatt.
er, Leonidas Dibble, promoted and was
first president of the Peninsular raj.
road, now the Grand Trunk Western,
is dead at Battle Creek after a hnger-
ing illness.
With two bullets in his body, Joseph
Kito, aged twenty-six, is dying at
Muskegon after his effort to pacify
two fellow Hungarians engaged in
pistol and AK duel over the affections
of woman.
While hurrying to answer a call.
Albion, a nurse, was instantly killed
near Albion when the machine in
which she was riding went over the
DR., lido Vile, Or. c. L. Washburn
and DR.. Harry Malajan. all members
of the faculty of the medical school Of
the University of Michigan, having
received orders reported June 1, at
Fort Benjamin Harrison.
Prosecutor Roy e. Brownell. per-
sonally headed a raid upon alleged
blind pigs and disorderly resorts in
Flint's Chinatown as Waverly street,
one block long, is known. AS a result
twenty-five persons were jailed.
The decomposed body of tiny baby
was found in the weeds near Escanati
by children while picking trailing a
butus. The body was in rough her.
ock box, painted gray, with glass
shutter at it's head.
Michigan women of the cities and |
farms are being educated in the cause |
If increasing and conserving food and |
he development of thrift measures, |
through the activities Of the Michigan |
iivision Of the women's committee of |
rational defense.
The new Canadian immigration act, |
passed in anticipation of the enact |
nent of a CONSUMPTION law, has gone |
nto effect. Hundreds of Canadians |
Who attempted to cross into the Uni |
ed States at Windsor we're held up by |
soldiers who were pressed into service |
o aid in enforcing the act
Violent deaths in Detroit and er.
irons are on the increase, the sta
istics showing that up to and includ- :
ng Monday. May 2S, the first five
months of 1917, the death list num-
'ers 353, which breaks all records.
The violent death list in 1916 in
Wayne county numbered 500.
A romance between a farmer and
lis housekeeper, complicated by the
resence of another man, who, the SUI
IRENE court holds, was an "adven-
urer and a crook" ended when the
ecree of divorce, given Eugenia
young, against Myron Young, Barry
ounty farmer, in which John H. Quill
ot was involved, was upheld.
Captain willard A. Smith, OF
dean of northern Michigan