The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-01-19
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dent of Gratiot county, is dead at his
farm home.
A. L. Cloman was appointed city
manager and Paul p Maggie city clerk
by the Albion council.
| Plans for better roads in Sangamon
county will be discussed at a meeting
of the township road overseers to be
held the latter part of this month.
The Sunday closing law will be en-
forced in Granite City, it was an
nounced by Mayor Steel. Owners of
der.
Following the discovery Of case
If smallpox at the Genesee county in
Urinary. ninety aged inmates were vac
cinated and the institution quaran.
tined.
The Michigan Central freight Office
at Ypsilanti was broken into and rob-
bed. John Maloney of Chicago was ar
rested on charge of being impli-
Gated
Discovery of the charred body of
Louis Tarcale in his rooms in a ten
ement building resulted in the arrest
Of his roommate, Joseph Cola at Kali
amazoo.
At the annual meeting of the direc-
tors of the State Bank of st. Johns,
Frank L. Thome was elected cashier
to succeed John w. Fitzgerald, who
resigned.
Kalkaska county supervisors offer
ed reward of $500 for the apprehen-
sion of former Treasurer Charles e.
Mahan, who, it is alleged, is short in
his accounts.
Again the arrangements for the an
nual meeting of the Short Ship stew
ards has been changed, and now 1t is
Mt. Clemens that is going 10 enter
tain the horsemen.
Mrs. Temperance Berwick, widow
of the late James Berwick, a pioneer
of Washtenaw county, is dead at the
home Of her sister, Mrs. S. B. Win
ans, of Ann Arbor.
Anna Papeler, two year old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. John PapeIer, of
Muskegon Heights, died of burns suf-
fered when she pulled over a kettle
of boiling water upon herself.
Fourteen young men were arrested
in morning police raid on rooms
over the Tuckerman meat market
where it is alleged a full-fledged poker
game was in progress at Battle Creek.
Because of the extreme shortage of
coal there the Pere Marquette rail-
road has been forced to run local
oh troi IN afh
of daily as fromerly at Traverse City.
The second death attributed to the
blackhand in the last two weeks was
discovered when hunters found the
body Of Andrew Martinissi, thirty-five
years old, two miles northwest of
Flint.
A fall on icy pavements at Grand
Rapids during the Christmas holidays
proved fatal for Mrs. Martin Luther
Fox, wife of the pastor of the Cen.
trail Methodist Episcopal church of
Lansing.
Miss Lena Payette, of Bedford, was
injured internally and an automobile
was wrecked when the machine was
struck by westbound Grand Rapids
interurban car at the Bedford cross
ing in Urbandale.
% Lying for hours Under the runners
of bob sleigh when caught in a field
on his sons farm, Ephriam Sayers,
eighty-cne years old, died of exposure
shortly after his plight was discover
ed by q son near Cadillac.
The heart of Marquettes business
district was swept by fire. The dam
age is estimated at $125, 00O resulting
from the entire destruction of the Fret
building and the Greenwald block and
damage to the Nester block.
Because of the tangled state of ac-
counts in the office of the Kalkaska
county treasurer, following the disap-
pearance Of the former treasurer, Ma
son Odell, the treasurer-elect, has re-
fused to enter upon his duties.
With an artery in his left leg sew
cred and his knee cap shattered, Ser
geant Lloyd Yorton, member OF colu-
pany A. Thirty-third Michigan infan-
try, residing at Flint, is in the base
hospital at Fort Bliss on the border.
The six weeks old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Rowe was smothered to
death at Traverse City. The mother
took the babe to bed with her and
the bed clothing became drawn so
tightly about the child that he suffo-
Gated.
United States Senator Willard
Salisbury, of Delaware, has filed in
the United States circuit court at Mar
quette. bill for an injunction to re-
strain the directors of the Tri-Moun.
tain Mining company from dissolving
that company.
Captain Edgar II. Campbell, regi-
mental adjutant of the Thirty-second,
will be adjutant general of the state,
following the announcement of the re-
tirement of General John p. Kirk and |
the appointment of Colonel Louis G. |
Covell, of the Thirty third. This an
nouncement was made by Colonel Co |
veil.
That food spectators are sometimes
caught and crushed in the profit-hoost-
ing machines of their own devising. |
Is the Interpretation at Worthwhile of |
the case Of the j. D.. McLaren COM
pany, of Plymouth, one of the largest
elevator concerns in Michigan. which
fled a petition in the Wayne county
circuit court for the appointment of n