The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-07-20
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,rrien county's strawberry season

| A spotted faun has been seen in a
pasture lot with horses near Big Rap
ids.
Duane Diamond, seven years old, of
Saranac, was killed by an auto driven
by Raula Risin.
| The steamer Manitoba and the
freighter w. S. Mack collided in White
Fish bay in dense fog.
| Mrs. Charles e. Vowles Is the first
woman to have a place on the Mt.
| Pleasant city school board.
William B. Marshall, seventy-two
years old, and Silas McDougal, seven.
ty-six, Eaton pioneers, are dead.
Jesse Mashee, forty-two years DID, a
laborer, took poison at midnight at
! Rochester and died half an hour later.
Fire originating in the dry kiln
completely destroyed the stave mill of
F. 3. Durham at Leota. The loss is
| $4,000.
The button factory at st. Joseph is
at standstill as the result of thirty
! employees striking for shorter hours
and more pay.
Lewis Stafford, sixty-seven years
old, was instantly killed at the George
Hosner farm near Romeo, when he
| fell off ladder.
search for Nellie Sheran, st. Paul,
Mimi, girl, who disappeared from that
city several weeks ago.
George Hudjek, fatally injured in
an automobile accident on the death
curve" near Lake Harbor, died at
Hackley hospital at Muskegon.
George Pell, eighty-three, is dead at
the home of his son at Howell. He was
born in England, but had been a resi-.
dent of the county for sixty years.
Trial of Albert C. Kaltschmidt on a
charge OF conspiracy which was set
for July II in United States district
court at Detroit, has been postponed.
Chippewa county has, in proportion
to population, given more men to the
second officers training camp than
any other part OF the upper peninsula.
Ernest Lager, twenty-five years old,
and married, is under arrest at Flint,
charged with a statutory offense
against a thirteen year old Toledo
girl.
The twenty-eighth annual meeting
of the State Improved Black Top
Merino Sheep Breeders association
will be held at the C. F. Klecker
farm, Howell, Wednesday, Aug. s.
The body of Mrs. Luella Ormond,
forty-seven years old, was found by
her brother, DR.. w. E. Chapman, sus-
the attic Of his home at Cheboygan.
The anniversary Of the battle of the
Boyne was made occasion Of the an
nual state convention of Orangemen
at Flint Large delegates were present
from Windsor and other border cities.
Allen Potter Knight, manufacturer
of Kalamazoo, is dead and X. E. Weir.
ley, representative of the La Sale
Steel company, Chicago, Is dying as
the result of an automobile accident.
Gus Koehler, sixty years old, whose
skull was fractured in a runaway al
most three months ago at Muskegon,
but who recovered, despite the serious
injury suffered, was stricken with
apoplexy.
Seeking his daughter, who disap-
peared from their home several weeks
ago, John Altenberg, a farmer in
Montcalm county, living near Six
Lakes, found her the wife of Ira S.
Ward, of Muskegon.
Endeavoring to blow out a moutnful
of gasoline, igniting it as it left his
years old, was seriously burned at
Muskegon when he failed to expel all
of Vie gasoline before it caught fire.
Disgrunted workmen sought the
life Of Fred Salisbury, a foreman at
the Michigan Central round house at
Kalamazoo, by hurting stones through
his bedroom window. One of the mis-.
siles weighed ten pounds and struck
Mrs. Salisbury, seriously bruising hef.
Three hundred miners from the
Quincy met at Hancock and organized
a home guard" the avowed purpose
of which is to expel l. w. w. agita-
tors from this vicinity and to prevent
their future interference in miners af-
fairs.
Four persons are dead as the result
of Pere Marquette passenger train
hitting an auto driven by George c.
Batson, of Ionia, at Bedding. The dead
are: George Batson, forty-five, of
Ionia Oscar Rasmussen, three, Green
vile; Blanchard Batson, three, Ionia;
James Irving Allen, seven, Ionia.
The steamer Spokane, down bound,
loaded with wheat, while proceeding
slowly into the upper approach of the
American canal, was caught by the
current Of the water power canal and
driven against the south pier smash.
ing plates below the water line and
letting water into her cargo. She be-
gan settling slowly.
Attracted by a can of paris green
under a neighbours porch, the one year
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Van Eyck, of South Dakota, who we're
visiting Thomas Verhuisen's home at
Holland, swallowed big dose of the
poison before she was discovered.
Quick action on the part Of the child's
mother and aunt saved her life.