The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-06-22
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Registration card scalpers have
sprung up in large numbers. A mum
Ger are under arrest.
At a meeting of the Alma college
board Of trustees, it was decided to
continue the million dollar endow
ment campaign.
Eleven persons have been arraigned
at Grand Rapids on disloyalty charges
including Rev. Daniel Roy Freeman
pastor of All Souls church.
Charles E. Jacobson, fifty-three
years old, and for nearly a quarter of
a century well known merchant at
Muskegon, died from heart disease.
Arson plots for insurance money
were exposed at Muskegcn in confess
sions of Hiram Collier, automobile
driver. who implicated several citi-
kens.
Ten thousand men are card-indexed
and ready to leave factories and re-
turn to farms in Michigan if their
help is needed in harvesting the
crops.
William Lewis, fireman, and John
Oberlin, conductor were hurt when a
Belding-Freeport local and a freight
train collided head-on four miles south
of Lowell.
Fred c. Weinberg and William Bell
were both instantly killed at Ann Ar.
Dor when they drove their automobile
on to d. U. R. track in front of
fast approaching car.
Robbery of the Millen company's
coal office was prevented when Cash
Bowers, clerk at the coal yards, enter
ed the office about $50 o'clock and
found two men at work on the safe.
Harry Andrews, alleged to be the
man who made away with $4,000
worth of jewelry from a store in New
York during the holiday rush last
December, was arrested at Detroit.
The steamer City of Cheboygan, re-
Gently purchased by Henry McMorran,
will be renamed the Sarnia and will
be placed in commission on the ferry
route, between Port Huron and Sar-
mia.
Commercial deposits in Michigan
banks have increased s58,452, 43551
end savings deposits S68,47S,S4225
during last year, according to the
statement of the banking commits.
sioner.
The first action of a determined
campaign headed by Chief of Police
M. L. Phillips, of Muskegon Heights
John Kloss, twenty-six, an Austrian
was arrested for failing to register
June 5.
Corporal Henry Miller, member of
Company L, national guard unit, died
on guard duty at Escanaba. Illness
dated back to service on the Mexican
border, where he was operated on at
a base hospital.
Word reached Rochester of the sud-
den death of Mrs. Marietta Brownson
Parks, of Lima, Peru. She was the
wife of Harry Parks, superintendent
of gold mining interests there and a
graduate OF Rochester.
In accordance with instructions
from Governor Sleeper to arrest all
men eligible to CONSUMPTION who have
not registered Jackson police took 3 !
men into custody, Otto F. Hoover and
Melores and Marie Southland.
The exports from the District of |
Michigan for April again established |
a high record. The total value was
200 Q17 100 IN incraaca 30 60 oon onn |
over the highest previous total and of
s12,300,000 over the total for April, |
1916.
Michigan leads the country for high |
est percentage of registration above |
census estimates. The Wolverine |
state, according to figures issued by
he provost generals office, scores
1876 per cent. Ohio Is second with |
1873 per cent Of the estimate.
Refusal to register for selective
lraft has brought two Ann Arbor stu
tents under the hand of the law, Max
Nrocht and Elwood Moore. Moore,
Who is twenty-seven years old, is a
high school student and Frocht, a
Russian, is a sophomore at the univer-
ity.
Richard Jackson, eighteen years old,
he adopted son of the Rev. Grover
Jackson, chaplain of the Jackson
tate penitentiary and secretary of
iillsdale college, was arrested on a
sworn out by Ruth Brother
on, seventeen years old, charging at
ack in local park.
The Ann Arbor branch or the Red
ross has voted to abandon its pro-
osed part in the campaign for a mil
lon dollars for war relief, which is
DON to be launched nationally, partly
4 view of the stupendousness of the
ask 1t is facing in that county be.
ause of the tornado.
Lester Swizer and Miss Priscilla
!uirk, Belleville high school students,
ad a narrow escape from drowning
hen the automobile Quirk was driv.
lg crashed through an iron railing
t the foot of Race hill and overturn.
d in an old mill race, covering both
of the machine.
Charged with conspiracy against the
nited States in FIVE counts by talk.
,g, printing, publishing and distrib.
ting, or causing to be distributed.
terature of an anti-draft nature. Rev.
laas Oosterman, pastor of the Gland