The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-02-23

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respondent because of blindness, hang
ed himself at Saginaw.
BY vote of n to the house pass
ed the Diagneau bill repeating the
presidential primary law.
Librarians OF Sanilac, Macomb, La
peer, Huron and Ssi1t Clair counties
convened at Port Huron.
Fruit growers report that twenty i.e-
low zero at Benton Harbor may have
slightly damaged the peach crop.
The Republican caucus at st. John
adopted a resolution that all party
feeling should vanish anu all citizens
stand by President Wilson.
A general closing of industries and
widespread suffering from cold is
threatened in practically all Michigan
cities, due to coal shortage.
j. w. Ash. seventy-one, one of the
best known residents of Jefferson
township. prominent Mason and
granger, died at his home in Osseo.
Representative Walsh introduced a
bill providing for the creating of
courts Of domestic relations in cir.
cults having two or more Judges
Two out of party of one hundred
drivers enroute from Pontiac. Mich.
to Chicago with Oakland autos were
detained at Benton Harbor with
| frozen feet.
Gust Koshabofski, forty-one years
old, dropped dead of apoplexy at a
dance at the home of Anthony Kerns
at Port Huron. At the time Koshabof-
ski was Waiting with young lady.
While returning from the funeral of
Ernest Dale, his brother-in-Iaw, John
Hoerl, sixty years old, of Flat Rock.
was killed by Pere Marquette freight
train. He was walking on the tracks.
An early morning fire destroyed one
| OF the few remaining frame buildings
in the business section at Battle Creek
| with loss of $4,000 The Red Cross
Pharmacy stock is total loss at
$4,000.
Property settlements amounting to
more than 100000 are provided for
in the divorce decree granted Ella r.
Bryne from John T. Bryne by Judge
John H. Mcdonald. The case was rot
contested.
Company commanders of the Thirty
| first regiment, Michigan national
| guard, are preparing to bring charges
of desertion against members of the
| company who have enlisted with Can
adam regiments.
The Thirty first regiment, a Detroit
organization, returned from the Dor
| der several weeks ago and has been
mustered out. 1t is reported that twen-
ty-seven members of the regiment
| have enlisted in Canada.
A bill to abolish the state tax com.
mission with its field force of 100 en-
ployes has been prepared by Repre-
sentative Milton Smith of Monroe and
creates new board of assessors to
be appointed by the governor.
The tnree-story brick residence of
Patrick Hurley, of Bay City, caught
| fire early in the morning and with the
| thermometer registering twelve below
zero, the members of the family were
forced to seek safety in their night
| clothing.
Two years ago Mrs. Norman F. Rus
sell was the star witness in the trial
that resulted in her husband being
sent to Jackson prison for from ten
to twenty years for shooting her. She
is now circulating petitions to have
him released.
Because Julia Catharie, a domestic,
refused to marry him, Godfrey Han
sen, thirty years old, former coast
guard at Pentwater, after trying to
force her to drink carbolic acid from
bottle, which he said contained beer,
himself took poison and died soon af-
forwards at Hart.
A squad Of eighteen county, city and
special officers directed by Prosecutor
Cooper and Sheriff Mallory raided
twenty houses in Albion's foreign set
Element for alleged local option law
violators. The booty included ITO
cases Of beer and 30 gallons of liquor.
Nineteen arrests were made.
After a chase of more than two
days, four fox hunters of Standish
captured large female gray wolf, the
mate of which eluded its pursners and
Is still being sought in the hills near
Mollasses river William Arbuckle,
William Mclean, Chancey Wood and
Robert Arbuckle, the hunters, will col.
lect the bounty of s25.
Dow Wineland, Hillsdale lad, aged
between fourteen and fifteen, accom-
panied by Carl Spaulding, aged seven.
teen, were returning 70 Hillsdale on
the rods of New York Central train
at Hudson. Young Wineland was
caught between the bumpers while
trying to alight and his back was bad
ly injured. He may die.
John Gerow, a well-to-do farmer,
fifty-six years old, was killed when a
binder chain of load of logs that he
was driving to mill broke, throwing
him to the ground and the logs upon
him at Cheboygan. His son John is in
hospital In London, Ont, having re,
Gently returned from France, where
he served a year in the trenches.
Jonas House, an Indian from Oneida
reservation in Wisconsin, gave him
self up to authorities at Escanaba fol-
lowing an attack on his squaw. Flor
ence Sullivan, Menominee Indian,
whom he attacked with an AK when
No found her In the comnany IF