The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-08-03

old, was instantly killed by lightning
three miles southwest OF Lawton.
]. p. Forbes. of Detroit, was appoint
ed official tester of the Kalamazoo
County Cow Testing association.
Governor Albert sEs Sleeper visited
Escanaba to Investigate rumors that
the !. w. w. is active in the vicinity.
The steamer Lynch, upbound. which
went aground opposite Point aux Pins
In fog, was released without dam
age.
The steamer Tomlinson, downbound,
struck some obstruction near Vidal
shoal at the 500 and punctured No.
and No. tanks.
Mrs. Sarah PETIT, seventy-eight years
old, for fifty-seven years resident Of
Muskegon county, died at the home Of
her daughter, Mrs. Mary Morris.
Petoskey has for four days enter
tanned the Kamp-Kee-Mo-Sah-Bee boys,
seventy-five in all They come from the
boys military camp on Mullet lake.
Liquor dealers of the 500 have rails
ed the price of all drinks with the ex-
ception of beer. Whisky and other
drinks were raised from 10 to Is cents
per glass.
Professor and Mrs. Patterson of Ann
Arbor have received word that their
son, Robert R., who is with an Amer
lean ambulance unit in France, has
been ordered to Saloniki.
In an effort to save his two sons
from drowning in BURY park lagoon
at Ironwood, c. o. Anderson, train
master of the 500 line, lost his life.
Only one of the boys was rescued.
A recent decision of the supreme
court, in which 1t was held that the
white slave" section of the pander-
ing law was unconstitutional, may re-
duce the jail population of the state.
Floy, seven year old daughter Of
Melvin Edwards, narrowly escaped
death when a horse her father was
trying to catch, whirled and kicked
the child's face, breaking her cheek
bone.
There should be no let up in the
work of cultivating the potato crop If
growers expect tubers to produce the
biggest possible yields, a press bulle.
tin by M. A. C. potato specialists de-
clares.
"Sterilized racing" was inaugurated
at Detroit Blue Ribbon meet of the
Grand Circuit and for the first time in
the history of that organization no
wagers were laid on the events at the
fair grounds.
The raising of crop of 10000, 900
towards which Michigan growers will
strive during the coming twelve
months, and on August 1 they will set
themselves for the start.
The arrest of Allie Smith, alias John
Gray, In Toledo, caused much inter-
est at Battle Creek, as Smith had
been sought for three years on a
charge of kidnapping Ethel Keene, if
teen years old, in May, 1914.
Rumble Maltas, eighteen, son of Jo-
seph Maltas of Saute Ste. Marie, was
killed while riding his motorcycle On
the Oakbine race track, Canadian 500.
The motorcycle left the dirt track and
skidded into the fence.
What is called an l. w. w. plot to
cause a strike at the Cleveland-Cli
Iron company's plant at Kipling, near
Gladstone, was foiled by the arrest
and deportation of Joseph Karlovich
and Ignar Grunick, Austrians.
When Judge A. B. Titus punctured
a tire on his car, the marriage of Ed
ward Whalin, Kalamazoo printer,
and Mrs. Mary S. Smith was delayed
while the jurist repaired the tire and
the couple waited at the cb~ych
Industrial Workers of the Tbrld agi-
tators came. into Ironwood in force
with $4,000 handbills and declared a
strike was on and that six hours la
Dor and Sc pay with no contract sys-
tenn were the demands of the strikers.
Frank Milton Conroy, twenty years
old, son OF Mr.. and Mrs. John Conroy,
of Port Huron, has been commission
ed a lieutenant of regulars at Fort
Sheridan. He will be twenty-one in
August and 10 the youngest man in
his company.
Indirectly due to an accident Doro-
thy Madalin, two year old daughter Of
Harry Cooley of Ann Arbor, died. She
pulled a tub of hot water over and al
though the water burned her only a
little on the chest and arm, the shock
of the burns is thought to have caused
her death.
Captain Willard Peck, for whose
body Detroit police spent several days
dragging the Detroit river, early in
June, is under arrest in Cheboygan,
Mich, on a charge Of arson in con-
nection with the burning of the power
boat Venetian Maid at her dock, near
the Detroit water works June 5.
Orders for seventy-fve\ complete
equipments for Muskegon's Home
Guards, veterans of the Spanish-Amer-
lean war who will take the place of
Company G., Thirty-second Michigan
infantry, have been placed, local man.
ufacturers agreeing to furnish these
men with the proper outfits.
DR.. d. E. Hills, of Fife Lake, who
captured a live American eagle near
Fife Lake June "a, sent each Of the
allied rulers and President Wilson a
quill pen made from the eagles feath-