Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-11-26
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

Western Michigan is afraid of kerc-
sene oil famine.
-Negaunee is making fight to get the
county seat away from Marquette.
Perry Hannah, of Traverse City, de-
MES that he is candidate for the Governor
ship.
Mrs. Evarts, of East Saginaw, who
was burned by the upsetting of kerosene
lamp, died of her injuries.
Patrick johnson (colored) was arrested
at Adrian, charged with having murdered
the infant twins of his mistress.
Charles Pemberton, the seventeen
year-old son of a wealthy farmer near Nor
ley, committed suicide by hanging.
Charles McFadden received fatal in
juries at Negaunee, while attempting to
cross the track in front of an engine.
Numerous deaths in cattle in different
parts of the State are laid to the fact of
their being fed on half-rotten potatoes.
Marquette hunters propose 10 organize
a game protection association and put a
stop to the illegal slaughter of game and
| fish.
Prof. Alexander Agassiz has issued an
order against the employment of Knights
of Labor by the Calumet & Hecla Com
pany.
Captain James, of Detroit, naturally
excites comment whenever he appears on
the street. He is nearly seven feet high
and weighs 800 pounds.
In petitioning Detroit court for di.
vorce, Louis Stewart alleges that his wife
habitually picks up rusty nails old iron and
paving blocks in the street, with which to
fill the house.
Six houses at Hillsdale were raided by
burglars, and amounts ranging from 15
cents to considerable amount in money
secured, besides two overcoats and 5000 in
certificates Of deposit.
lie Yee, a young Chinese laundryman
of Three Rivers, tried to commit suicide by
shooting himself in the mouth because his
uncle whipped him. He will recover, but
says he will try it again.
About 1900 citizens of Saginaw put off
until the last day the opportunity of being
vaccinated free. AS there are but 200 vac
cine points left the 800 who got left wished
they had been Sooner"
A factory for manufacturing patent
medicine is building at Owosso, which will
employ twenty-five girls. II. Wesener is
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Bros. one. Thus the gap created by the
j. T. Hurst, of Wyandotte, has sold to
Eddy Bros, of Bay City, tract of pine
land in town IL, west, on the Saginaw
Bay and Northwestern branch of the Mich
| igan Central, estimated to cut 100000.
The consideration was $45,000.
The highest price in the California
Theater is rs cents, the lowest 25 cents.
The highest price for reserved seat in
Detroit is a dollar and the general admission
half that sum. The price here, however,
is somewhat elastic, depending on the at
traction. This is certainly not dear. In
London and Paris the prices are much
higher, although in most continental cities
the cost of theater- going is less than in
America. Free Press.
Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop, of Michigan,
says the Detroit Free Press, is a star Of
the first magnitude in the brilliant galaxy Of
women who have added luster to the
| Woman's National Christian Temperance
Union in session at Philadelphia recently.
| A teacher in the public schools of Detroit
during the war, at its close she married DIR.
Lathrop, surgeon of the army. A niece
of his has been the only child in the house,
hold, so that she has been able to give her
life to others. She transferred her relation
from the Presbyterian Church to that Of her
husbands at marriage, and was granted
many years ago license to preach by the
quarterly conference.-the her first six ser
mons were preached by invitation of the
pastor Of the Congregational Church Of her
own town.
"Kind Sir, Please, Gp Me Information"
| From the Detroit Free Pressl
Twenty eight impatient people in q half
circle about the stamp window at the post
Office the other day. The twenty ninth
was not an impatient people. She was n
young woman of eighteen. She had q let
ter to post and she posed in front of the
window, spread out her arms and chewed
her gum and said:
| "Will this letter take two stamps2"
Nom"
as one enoughP"
"Yesm."
Then she chawed and chawed.
"Do you take Canada money!"
"No'm."
"You don't?"
"No'm."
Then she chawed and chawed.
"Will it go out this aftemoon?"
"Yes'm."
Probably get there Tomorrow"
"Yes'm."
Then she chawed md chawed.
at isn't foreign letter, you know?"
"No'm."
"Going to Cleveland, you seer"
"Yes'm."
"If you were me-"
The crowd surged up and swept her ten
feet away. She held the letter in one hand
and the stamp in the other, and gazed her
indignation. Her anger seemed to center
on one man-one who had elbowed her the
hardest. He seemed to feel il, and he turned
and bowed, and whispered:
"'Scuse me, maam, but this is no idiot
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