The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-01-26
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| Clarence Hinton, thirty-fivc years
old. was found frozen to death on the
Lake Shore railroad at Hudson.
Stephen A. Eaton, ninety-one years
old, one of the oldest business men
and bankers of the state, died at Hud-
son.
Fire of unknown origin caused $10,-
900 damages to the residences of Will
liam w. Bertles, broker at Grand
Rapids.
B. L. Comstock, resident of Ionia
| for fifty years and in business for
about twenty years, is dead IN Cincin-
| haiti, o.
William II. Hughes, publishe, of the
Michigan Catholic for more than thir-
ty years. died at his home, aged sixty.
| four years.
Jessie Music, five years old, was do
capitated by street car in East
Grand Rapids. The child was chasing
her pet dog and failed to notice the
car.
A contract for the construction of
forty-foot cruiser for the United
States government has been awarded
the Dachel Carter Boat Building firm
of st. Joseph.
Michael O'Malley died after a long
illness. He was formerly prominently
identified with the lumber business as
member of the firm of Woodwork
& O'Malley at Bay City.
Because he sat and watched a house
burn, Angus Mcleod, captain of hose
company No. 6, the first piece of ap.
paratus at the fire, was suspended by
Chief Hudson at Saginaw.
George Fl. Bush, aged eighty-five,
known all over Michigan as a horse
man and starting Judge died at his
home at Flint. He had been resi-
dent Of Flint over half a century.
Farmers in the eastern part of
Genesee county are hunting for
black fox which has been wounded
and is pow giving its pursuers a mer-
ry chase southwark toward Stony
Lake.
Five hundred members Of the
Knights of Columbus from lodges in
Mt. Clemens, Port Huron and Marine
City initiated 100 new members into
the Bad Axe lodge. A banquet follow
ed the initiation.
Michigan's public utilities, which
are taxable for the specific tax for
primary school funds, have been
boosted in value $19,213,900 by the
state tax commission sitting as a state
board of assessors.
Edward R. Allen, engineer on the
Muskegon-Allegan branch of the Pere
Marquette railway, is entitled to the
appellation of veteran engineer" hav-
ing been continuously in the service
since September, 1875
Alderman George w. Welsh, Re
publican, has been elected to the leg
islature, the legislative recount giving
him majority of IT'S over Theodore
VandeTveen, Democrat, who on the
face of the original returns won by
sixty votes.
The official machinery at Washing.
ton has been set in motion by Senator
William Alden Smith and Congress.
man J. c. Mclaughlin to locate Oliver
F. La Fave, twenty-seven years old,
Cadillac youth, who is lost in the
European war zone.
Fred Gayson, negro. fifty years old.
died at Mason of smallpox. He was
buried at midnight. Gayson went to
Chicago on Christmas to help cele-
brate his mothers one hundred and
first birthday and it is believed that
he contracted the disease there.
Expenditures of the Michigan Home
Rule league, the state organization in
the interest of the vets, amounted to
S646,775,56 in the last election. The
donations total up to s489,267.75. leav.
ing an apparent deficit of $157 ,507.81,
according to the figures presented.
Norman Koehler, fifteen years old,
son of William Koehler, of Steiner, six
miles northwest of Monroe, was in
stantly killed in a hunting accident.
when a gun, which was leaning against
a building, fell and was discharged.
The charge entered the boys chest.
The engagement of Miss Frances
Ning, of Alma, to Howell Lewis Reid,
Grand Rapids, whose mother is Gen.
Joffre's sister, was announced. Miss
King is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis King. Her mother has been
president Of the Women's National
Agricultural and Horticultural society
and is a member of the Royal Horti-
cultural society of Great Britain
A. Bird is his name and the dozen
or so Detroit lawyers, who it is
alleged have been adroitly 'nicked"
by him forffrom IS to $25 agree that
he was rightly named my business
is skinning lawyers" Mr.. Bird is al
legged to have said at police headquar-
tiers and among those present at head
quarters interested in the case was
Leo A. Skinner, lawyer, of tho Moffat
building.
A leap from the window of his apart
ment on the eleventh floor Of 1876 Riv-
erside Drive, New York, ended in the
death of Croker Wood, twenty-five
years old, and son of former Demo-
cratic National Committeeman Edwj-
o. Wood of Michigan, who was widely
known in the automobile business at
New York and San Francisco.
He had been in ill-health for a long