The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-09-14
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| 1cBSmen broke open the SAFE VI III
Mattawan postoffice and escaped In al
automobile with $1,000 in money
and postal orders.
George A. Rowland, eighty-thre'
years old, a resident Of Albion To-
forty years, is dead at his home there
His funeral will be IN charge or thu
local lodge Of Masons.
Four persons were injured wher
the team driven by o. w. Bosnia, o
Holland, became frightened and raj
away, throwing Bosnia and his three
small children to the pavement, badly
bruising them.
Blinded by the lights of an APP
preaching automobile, touring Cal
containing Frank Darop, wife anG
three other passengers of Saginaw
| went into a ditch on the Saginaw
road.
Eldon L. Metheany, former mayor
of Cadillac and for forty years Grand
Rapids G. Indiana railway station
| agent at Cadillac, is dead of heart dis
east. He leaves a widow and two chill
dren.
Two thousand persons attended The
Raisinville Grange picnic at Rainsin
vile. John G. Winslow spoke and
Sheriff Cronenwett's deputy sheriffs
defeated Grange baseball team, Is
to 10.
when can we go to town." was the
predominating question among the
drafted soldiers at Camp Custer. Most
of the officers merely smiled, but one
gave an answer: when you begin to
look Ikea soldier"
After untiring efforts Gratiot coun
ty officers are noi nearer the solution
of the murder of Beatrice Epler, sew
enteen-year-old Alma girl, whose BODY
was found in clump of bushes about
thirty rods from the Epler home.
The first contingent of the Wiscon-
sin and Michigan national army will
find Camp Custer ready and all sup
plies on hand on their arrival. 1t is
expected that approximately 1900
men will be In camp by Sunday.
Senator Lyman A. Holmes, owner
of Romeo Foundry company, an
nounced that his concern would erect
a 100000 plant in Sarnia for manu-
featuring castings to be used by auto
concerns having Canadian Branches.
That he was driven insane by her
threats to get divorce unless he con-
tinued to provide for her seven daugh-
tiers will be the plea of Ernest Fol-
berg, Grand Haven township farmer
held for the murder of his wife.
Victor Isackson, apprehended at
naping two-year-old Juanita Isackson,
his adopted daughter, has been re-
leased by Justice w. l.. Landon in po-
lice court. The child was returned to
her fostermother.
James Cow, half a century ago one
of Muskegon's leading lumbermen and
in recent years engaged in the work
of reclaiming millions of feet OF tim
Der lying on the bottom of Muskegon
river and other western Michigan
streams, is dead.
Two Selfridge field aviators, an in
structor named Jacobs and a student
fell fifty feet into an oat field near the
River road. Because of the strict cen
sorship maintained at the Selfridge
field, little real information has been
given out about the injured men.
Charles Hickey, slxty-three years
old, walked in his sleep and fell out
of a haymow on the John Rockwell
farm, Franklin road, near Pontiac,
where he had been working, and was
found by other workmen lying in
pool of blood on the barn floor. He
has broken hip.
Judge Connolly sentenced John j.
Murphy, who admitted attempting to
fire the plant Of the Detroit Socket
company, 834 West Jefferson avenue,
which was working on government
contracts, to two years. Murphy told
the police an Austrian took advantage
of his intoxicated condition and offer
ed him $3.50 to fire the plant.
Edward Hildebrand, former candi.
date for mayor on the laboring mans
ticket, pleaded guilty in. the circuit
court to a charge of grand larceny and
was sentenced to Jackson prison TO
serve from two and a half to five
years, with the recommendation Of
the maximum. Elijah Heath, charged
with violation of the liquor law, paid
a fine of 800.
Robert A. May, a convict brought
to Detroit to be reformed on the So
a day plan, was sentenced to serve
three years for attempting to rob E.
Mack Morris auto supply store. May,
who has served nearly eighteen years
in New York prisons, was caught in.
side the store. "He told me he could
not live on IS a day." Detective Will
liam b. Dresden informed the Judge.
Coroner Leroy and the police are
searching for two men who are said
to have been with Mrs. Belle Fraw-
ley, forty-two years old, who died af-
ter being unconscious several days.
The woman was found in her home in
Grand Rapids by neighbors and sent
to the Detention hospital After her
death II was found she was bruised
about the body in a manner indicating
she had been abused