Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-02-25

ecariet IeYer mas appssfeo az 1eeum-
sch.
-Ishpeming Knights Of Labor lumber
600.
-Emmet Robinson, court reporter of tho
Free Press, is dead.
-Macinac trout netted in the Strata last
week weighed Al pounds.
The Salvation Army at CSldwater has
been holding crowded meetings every
night. ieaf
Scarlet fever has appeared at Carleton,
ar'd the public schools have closed in con-
sequence.
Miss Rufe A. Jordan, of Coldwster, 10
a student of Yale Law School, and expects
the degree of LII. b.
--Senator Jones, Of Florida, hasnot been
in his seat since last spring. He is SQUIRTING
a refractory Detroit widow.
The work Of rebuilding the ife-saving
station near Frankfort, destroyed by fire re-
ceStly, is already well advanced.
George Ellington, the much married
man, tried in vain to pacify his legal wife
at Ypsilanh with $4,000 farm.
Attorney General Taggart does not be-
lieve Boards Of Supervisors can appropri-
ate money to build county pest-houses.
Tho committee in charge of the PENN
sular Saengerfest have fixed the dates of
the next meeting Of the society at Ann Ar
Dor on Aug. 16, II, and 1s, 1886.
William Campbell, of the planning mill
firm Of Merrill & Campbell, Of Bay City,
dropped dead when about to 60 to con-
cert, caused by the bursting Of blood yes
sci in the brain.
AT the next meeting of the Board Of
Supervisors of Delta County, to be held
next April, application will be made by the
people of Garden to have tho place incor-
porated as village.
"A proposition to introduce a system Of
water works will be voted upon at Escs-
naba March /. There is company wish
ing to supply the city with water, but many
prefer that the city build its own works.
Maud Plemendon, Of Potoskey, aged 9,
was riding on q sled hitched behind large
sleigh going up hill on which children
were sliding. The sleigh turned aside to
let some sleds coming down pass, but be-
fore Maud's sled was off the road 1t was
struck, and she was fatally injured.
The Association of Prosecuting Attor-
neys of Michigan have elected Frank
Knappen, Of Kalamazoo, President; J. E.
Simonson, of Bay, Vice President; Jason
E. Nichols, of Ingham, Secretary; and G..
A. Mcbride, of Ottawa, Treasurer. An
other meeting will be held to prepare the
desired revisions of the criminal law.
L. +. Harter, of the Quartermaster's
Department, Lansing, received over thirty
letters recently from State bounty clain.-
ants. The department has been under .
steady fire from claimants during the last
week. Thus far not one can be allowed,
the writer's not being entitled to bounties
or else having already received them.
An unknown man was killed recently
by train on the Chicago and Grand Trunk
Railroad, just east of Flint. Develop
ments show that he hailed from Chicago.
and was undoubtedly insane, about 25 years
of age, of slender build, average height
and weight, black hair, whiskers, and
mustache. He had scar on the right
side of his neck.
The Postmasters of the Second Michi.
gan Congressional District met at Adrian
and elected as delegates TO the projected
convention at Chicago: w. T. B. Schey-
mcrhon, William McDougal. Jane 8.
Sinclair, A. G. Smith, d. F. Culven, W.
S. Cook, Charles Happy, W. Schaefer,
John NJ. Richards, o. A. Critchett, B. l..
Rhodes, j. U. Underwood, Jay Santus,
Fred Rosecrans.
AT the recent meeting of the Great
Council Of Red Men Of Michigan, the re-
port of the Great Chief of Records showed
there are thirteen tribes, with member
ship Of 1856, an increase Of 142 members.
Tribal receipts, $500; expenditures,
$4,000, mostly for relief; $4,000 in the
and invested in property about
50 800. The Great Council treasury con-
tains 500.
AT the morning session Of the Southern
Convocation EpiscopaD at Ann Arbor
Prof. G. s. Morris, of the University, read
a paper on "Agnosticism, and Rev. J. st.
John, of Clinton, preached sermon.
Bishop Harris was present and presided.
In the afternoon there was q visit TO the
University, followed by business meeting
and paper on "Social Habits of the
Clergy by DIR. A. B. Palmer, of Ann
Arbor.
The annual gathering of the Michigan
State Horticultural Society closed by the
that the semi annual meet
ing would be held at North Lansing in
June. The committee on nomenclature
reported, recommending revision and sim
pli6cation in naming future varieties.
European names are Objectionable, and
fruit with fashy names should be dis
rusted until thoroughly tested. Fanciful
names were frequently used to mislead
and the necessity for reform Is
patent, the present system being incon-
,istent and confusing.