The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-03-16
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Sltyt was bhOt thlOubn tnC iuh6 WhhC
playing war with some playmates and
died an hour later in the Cass City
hospital.
Captain A. Johnson, sixty-seven
years old. and one of the best known
of northern Michigan's lake captains,
is dead at his home at Old Mission, af-
ter short illness.
Picking the lock to the cell block
on the second floor of the county jail,
Leo Baker and Robert Russell, await
ing trial on charges of grand larceny.
escaped at Jackson.
A repetition of the legislative battle
of 1915 over passenger fares is pre-
saged by the introduction of a meas
ure which would increase the rate rail-
roads could charge in Michigan.
J. J. Kelley, manager of the Ann
Arbor Office of the Michigan State
Telephone company, announces that
additions to the value of $4,000 are
to be made to the local exchange.
A campaign to raise 100000 for
preachers pensions was planned at
Grand Rapids by the district super
intendents of the Michigan conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Nearly $4,000 in inheritance taxes
has been determined in Kent county
during the year 1916, according to fig
ures just compiled by Thomas B.
White, state inheritance tax examiner.
Five firemen lost their lives in a
spectacular fire that destroyed Fields
cloak and suit store, in the heart Of
the business district, on Woodward
avenue, Detroit, early in the morning.
Several hundred memberships in a
Flint branch Of the National Red
Cross were pledged at a mass meeting
held in the First Baptist church The
organization will be left to a later
meeting.
Peter Wurzberg, SO years old, died
of pneumonia at the home of his
brother, at Traverse City. He was
deputy state oil inspector. He was
twice elected city treasurer of Ira
verse City.
Strictly fresh" eggs were sold from
downtown iewelry store at Detroit.
Advertised at 3S cents-10 cents I'M
der the market-the jewelers. stock Of
1900 dozen was cleaned out in just
fifty minutes.
James X. Fallon. aged fifty-eight,
one of the oldest BARRIERS of western
Michigan, and one of the organizers
of the present International union. is
dead at his home at Mlskegon after
lingering illness.
The town of Arcadia lost it's only in
dustries when fire leveled the large
plant of the Arcadia Furniture COM
pany and the plant of the Arcadia
Mirror company. adjoining it. The loss
will exceed 100000.
Robert Hill, eighty-six years old,
who died at Sturgis, voted at every
presidential election for sixty-five
years, for the last Whig presidential
candidate and for every Republican
presidential candidate since.
Immediate enrolment of all officers
and enlisted men of the Michigan ma
val reserve corps was ordered by the
navy department in telegram re-
ceived from Washington by Colonel
John S. Bersey, adjutant general of
Michigan.
A $4,000 armory for Muskegon was
practically assured when the board
of supervisors voted $4,000 appro-
priation and Mayor Ellison said that
the city will include a $4,000 appro-
priation in its next budget. The state
will give $4,000 July 1.
Miss Agnes Buckham, of Kalama.
zoo, a teacher in the public schools
at Alma. was married to w. E. Moody,
of Foresthill. Immediately after the
wedding Mr.. and Mrs. Moody were
loaded on the fire truck and taken for
a joyride through the streets.
Fred Ingli, thirty-four years old, a
farmer living near Mayville. was
thrown under the wheels of a fast
freight train on the Saginaw
Port Huron division of the Pere Mar
quette railroad, near Mayville. and
died before he could he taken home.
Because of lack Of evidence, Frank
M. Towner, owner of elevators at Per-
ry and Morrice, charged with negoti.
ating for value an order bill of lading
for a carload of wheat which he did
not possess, was freed. He got 1900
on the bill of lading at the Perry bank.
The board of supervisors of Bay
county, in special session, instructed
Prosecuting Attorney Mccormick to
make demands on County Treasurer
Corliss and former Treasurer Omar J.
Morton and George d. Corbin for the
return of interest collected by them
and not turned into the county.
A mother and two children were
burned to death when their home
caught fire from a kerosene explosion
at Lansing. The dead are: Mrs. Anne
liza Van Epps, thirty years old; Louis
Van Epps, six years old; Everitt Van
Epps, three months old. Wilbur Van
Epps, the husband and father, was
badly burned about the head. but will
recover.
Plans have been laid in Detroit for
the introduction in tho present ses-
sion of the state legislature of per-
sonal rights bill aimed to prevent Po-
lice Commissioner James CouEens
from carrying out his announced plan
Of photogrephirg end Of taking the
finger prints of all persons arrested
in vice and gambling DIS before they