Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-03
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

beese Lake.
| Over 100 children have died from
diphtheria at Springwells this seasos.
-Litchfeld has hook and ladder COM
pany composed of boys 10 to IA years of
age.
"A number of buildings at St 1gnace
were burned Monday night, the loss reach
ing $4,000.
George w. Chase, one of the cid pio-
| neers of Branch County, died recently,
aged 81 years.
Judge Thomas NJ Cooley has beel
elected to the chair of history in the
Michigan University.
| "A sunfower nine feet high and con-
taining 100 blossoms is in the possession
Of an Ann Arbor man.
Mrs Charity Crosby, the Oldest lady in
Grand Rapids, is ninety six years of age.
She has outlived all her children.
Ferdinand Yahuki. in Jail at Frankfort
Tor murder, committed suicide by hanging
shortly before the hour set for sentence
Indian Pete" living near Nashville,
tells the Mems that his mother died re-
Gently, aged 19O, and that she hadn't giay
hair in her head.
| Are there to be street signs i'll Detroit?
A city of this size might almost as we'll be
without streets as without signs to distin-
guish them.-Free Press.
| -Hillsdale College conferred the degree
of Doctor of Laws on Governor Alger.
The Governor in return recently sent his
check for 5000 for the college endowment
fund.
The infant child of Charles Sullivan,
living in Detroit. apparently diedlast Tues
day, and was prepared for buri Il. Wednes-
day, while the family were gathered about
its coffin, the child suddenly began TO cry,
and is now regaining its health
The Kalamazoo policemen and fremen
had a game of baseball and the "cops"
came out ahead. Now the fremen protest
that the police nine was made up largely of
expert ball players sworn in as special po-
licemen for the day of the game. Free
Press.
Anna Inez McGill, aged IL, CT Tecum-
seh gave some girls an apple. and her
fathers stingy soul was so wrought up over
the matter that he kept her confined to her
room up stairs, only allowing her to go
down to her meals. She dropred letter
out of the window to the Ma. shal which
was found. McGill has been policed for
cruelty to the girl before. .-Kalamasoo
Telegraph.
This is what befel Calumet dog: In
an encounter with porcupine his jaw was
filed with quills, and his master. to get
him out of his pain, took him to the woods,
threw him into pit, put five bullets into
his body. thumped his head with fence
rail, and left him, as he supposed, dead.
But he wasn't and returned after four days
of DEATH slightly hungry, but otherwise
apparently good for long life.-Kdlama-
600 Telegraph.
MIR. Eliot Allis, of the Scientific So
ciety, recently showed us what appeared to
be about spoonful of bottled insect, that
resembled small white flies, but which
were really the newly hatched products of
the seventeen-year locust. They were Just
in condition to begin seeking the ground
for their long burrow in the subsoil, not 10
appear again until the year 1902, when with
good luck their second coming" would be
fulfilled. The miniature locusts were in
lively, squirming condition. and seemed
very anxious to escape from their confne
ment.-Adrian Record.
| Will Carleton "a New York correspond
ent writes) is man of middle age, slender
in figure, and spare in the face, and wear
ing only small "goatee" on his chin. He
does not show trace of the worldly air SO
common among the literary men of the
| day. He does not look sophisticated,
neither has he the slightest atfectation of
awkwardness or roughness. He is simply
a quiet, unassuming American of the Old
school-almost typical "Uncle Sam" in
appearance, who, to judge from his face,
is simply and terribly in earnest He lives
modestly in Brooklyn, does not belong to
the Authors Club, and is never met in the
regular New York gatherings of writer's.
Briefly, he is man of the people, modest,
intelligent. active, and gifted with pecul-
lar power of expressing rbythmically what
| the peonle think and feel