The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-07-27
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DR.. William T. Shaw of Lansing was
appointed deputy state fire marshal.
Capital has been subscribed to erect
a 1875 room hotel at a cost of 100000
at Traverse City.
Harvey Reiss, who died at Vancouv.
er. Washington, is the second Sturgis
boy to die since the war began.
July 10 night Michigan students
participated in the first all-night bivo.
uac ordered at Fort oneridan.
Battle Creeks home guard company
has been equipped with uniforms at a
cost of $4,000, the gift of local citi.
Zens.
Mrs. DIoses Thurtle was asphyxiated
in the bath room at her home at Port
Huron by gas escaping from a small
stove.
Walter E. Finkbeiner, twenty-four,
was killed at Grand Rapids when the
automobile in which he was riding
was wrecked.
Three of the four bankruptcies born
recently to Mrs. Arthur Domain at
Mt. Vernon are dead and the fourth
one is not expected to live.
A dog quarantine was put on all of
Gratiot county by the state sanitary
commission as the result of mad dog
running wild for a few days.
Lieutenant E. w. MINER of Big Rap.
ids has been ordered by Colonel j. B.
Westnedge to take command of the
headquarters company as adjutant.
Anthony j. Koka pleaded not guilty
to charge Of embezzling money from
Wayne county and his bail was imme-
diately raised from $4,000 to SIS, 900.
Women of Pontiac are failing to re.
spond to the call for help in sewing
bandages and hospital garments, ac-
cording to statements of local work.
ers.
Nearly a quarter of the criminal
cases handled at Flint by the prosecut.
ing attorneys Office since the first of
the year have been for local option vi.
olations.
Oscar Bittman, a former employe
Of the Ford Automobile company at
Detroit who was arrested several days
ago on suspicion of espionage was or
dered interned.
Morris SwartZ, forty seven, was ar
rested by the Detroit police, suspected
Of being the murderer of Sidney LIE.
vine, aged six, as the boy slept in his
bed.
Ia John Fethke, fifty-three years old,
the man struck by au automobile
driven by Miss Sybil Peterson and
identified at Mercy hospital, is expect
ed to recover.
The labor situation in the Michigan
Central shops in Jackson, which
threatens to bring about strike of
machinists on the entire system, has
been submitted to the government.
The government has commander.
ed the Grand Rapids School Equip.
ment company, and 6,400 three and
one-half ton wooden truck bodies will
be turned out within seven months.
lester Solomon, forty-seven years
old, general manager and principal
stakeholder of the Home Furnishing
company of Kalamazoo, died at his
Charlevoix summer home. He was
born at Hillsdale
The celebration in honor of Com.
pany A, Thirty-second Michigan ma.
tional guard, was the greatest mill.
tary event ever seen at Coldwater
Laying of the corner stone of the new
| armory, eleven bands and a parade
| were the leading parts of the program
Word has been received at Ann Ar.
Dor that the two University of Mich.
igan divisions of the Michigan naval
militia are the only two divisions al
the Great Lakes naval station to have
| all men pass the government physical
| test.
Governor Sleeper telegraphed to the
| Michigan senators at Washington
protesting because Michigan national
| guard troops have been ordered ia
Waco, Tex, for final training. Govern
or Sleeper urged that the troops be
trained at the state camp at Grayling
The first serious clash between the
authorities and suspected Industrial
Workers of the World agitators was
reported from Mass City, Ontonagon
county. Five men, names unknown to
the police, after shouting "Hurrah fol-
the Kaiser" are held there in connec
ton with an anti-American agitation
on charges of resisting arrest.
Lieutenant Daniel E. Birdsall, the
last of Barry county's distinguished
civil war veterans, one of three mem
bers of Company E, old Third Michi
gan infantry, to receive the 'Kearney
Cross" for meritorious conduct in Nc
Clellan's peninsula campaign, is dead
General Daniel Sickles made the pres
entation on a battlefield on the Rap
pahannock river.
After the third time midnight
prowler knocked at the window oil
Mrs. Marjorie Wright at Traverse
City and demanded admittance, Mrs
Wright shot four times at the peeker
through her bedroom window. Henry
Edwards, eighteen years old, was
found in the General hospital with q
bullet hole through his shoulder and
confessed he was the shootee In the
case.
The following have heen nanad