Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-01-28

East Saginaw has municipal debt Of

John Globshinsh was killed at Alpena
by the caving of wall.
The jury in the Holcomb case, Hills
dale, has brought in vefdict of mot guilty"
Baldwin is excited over the announce
ment that potter's clay has been discovered
there.
The Osceola Mine schoolhouse has
been destroyed by fire. Loss, about 5000;
no insurance.
Rev. w. w. Wetmore, of Plymouth,
has accepted call to the Presbyterian
Church of Jonesville.
--Faleen, Johnson & Co., Of Ishpeming,
dealers in dry goods, provisions, and feed,
have made an assignment.
"A company with $2,OOO,OOO capital
will commence business at the long idle
Grace Iron Furnace, Marquette.
"A Clinton County man is sreported dead,
at the ripe age of SO, who has buried six
wives, and was living peaceably with the
seventh.
"A meeting of citizens of Bay City has
been held to inaugurate measures in the in
terest of securing additional railroad fa-
cilities to that city.
"A recent Richfeld production was
babe that weighed at its birth thirty-eight
| ounces. An ordinary finger ring was passed
ever its feet and up to the knee.
Thirty thousand acres of pine lands
were sold by Mayor Thurber, of Marquette,
to r. II. McGraw & Co., of New York, the
consideration being 100000 cash.
French & Co.'s Touring mill and ele-
vatOr, containing n large quantity of wheat,
at Middleville, have been burned, entailing
a loss of $4,000, with $4,000 insurance.
| William Gayhart, of Bath, charged
with burning dwelling house in the night
time, has been found guilty by the jury
and sentenced to a life term in the State
Prison.
The Medical Counsellor, a journal with
which Professor Arndt has been connected,
has been taken up by the faculty of the
State University, and will hereafter be un-
der their control.
Miss Laura Cook, of East Milan. while
walking on the railroad track recently, fell
in fit. Samuel Warner, who Glanced
along, removed her about twenty minutes
before train passed along.
IS. r. Morton, of Adrian, died very un-
expectedly, after brief illness of pneumo-
MIA. He was an old soldier and promi-
nent member of the G.. A. r., in which he
has always held responsible official posi-
ton.
B. f. Watts has received and is now
setting up in the University library tower
the Howard clock, recently purchased. 1t
is to cost $4,000, striking the hours, quar-
ters, and twice day rings the Cambridge
chime.
The celebrated breach of promise case
of Nellie Mcpherson against Dennis Ryan,
the knitting works proprietor, terminated
in the Supreme Court by the equal division
of the court, which affirmed the decision Of
the lower court.
George w. Hoffman, an old citizen of
Detroit, died recently in his seventy-sixth
year. His father was a Lieutenant Colonel
in the war of 1925, and his brother was
Commissary General of prisoners during the
war of the rebellion.
George Moore, of Litchfeld, eighteen
years old, while hunting, leaned on the
muzzle of his gun, and, the weapon dis
charging, his left arm was torn off at the
shoulder, and he sustained other injuries
which will prove fatal.
Flint has grown aired of feeding and
housing vagrants and disorderly persons ar
rested under the city ordinances, and the
Genesee County Board of Supervisors have
authorized the city authorities to compel
such persons to work on the streets.
The Hersey House, Blodget Block, and
half a dozen stores ut Hersey were burned
recently, creating a loss OF $35,000, with
insurance of $4,000. A defective fue in
the Postoffice was the cause of the fire.
Hersey is a small town, and this is heavy
blow TO itE business.
"A sensation was created at the Princess
Theater, Detroit, by the Katisha of the Pyke
Opera Company, Miss Grace Atherton, leav-
ing the stage and walking down the center
aisle of the theater, stopping every three seats
to show her badly shod feet, and proclaiming
that the manager had not paid her in weeks,
and would not give her enough 20 buy a pair
of shoes. She told the audience togo away,
as the performance would not proceed, but
was persuaded to return TO the stage and
resume her part.
Thomas Campsie and wife, aged about
sixty, living on Bradish street, Adrian,
were discovered recently unconscious from
the effects of coal gas, having been over
come during the previous night. All efforts
at resuscitation were futile, the wife dying
at three in the morning and the husband in
the afternoon. Indications show that Mr..
Campsie must have taken vessel of hot
water from the stove in waiting upon his
wife, who was an invalid, leaving the fire
uncovered. Both were speedily overcome
by the escaping fumes. Mr.. Campsie was
born in Buenos Ayres, the wife being Scotch.
They leave three married children.
|
DIR. A. G. Taylor, of Manchester, pre-
sentsd bill of $25 for services rendered at
post mortem examination. The bill was
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