Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-01-07
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

"A scarcity Ct nickels and pennies is
said to exist at Adrian.
Parties from Bay City have opened q
"bucket-shop" in Pontiac.
1t is believed that an organized party Of
thieves is operating at Flint.
Clinton takes pride in the fact that
there is not vacant store at that place.
During game of poker at Elk Rapids,
Joel Couterie fatally shot Goodley Peter
son.
Charles Morton, mason, fell from q
three-story building at Owosso and was
fatally injured.
"A Jackson furniture company has re-
ceived an order from Los Angeles, CAL, for
a car load of furniture.
There 10 considerable talk of establish
| ING n street railway between Owosso and
Corunna, a distance of three miles.
"A jackson paper argues, from the fact
that 1t obtained eight new subscribers from
one small town, that the interest In the
| Crouch business survives.
| With water works, probable river and
canal improvements, and the proposed rail-
way operations, Sault Ste. Marie promises
TO bo quite lively next year.
The Moffatt Tug Line, of Detroit, is
much embarrassed and practically wiped
out. A. n. Moffatt has resigned the posi-
ton of manager. The creditors may not
get 40 cents on the dollar.
-Ex- Governor and Senator Alexander
Ramsey, of Minnesota, member of ihe
Utah Commission under the Edmunds act,
intends TO settle down to the practice of
law In Detroit when his term on the COM
mission expires.
WIN. Laraway, pioneer OF Kent
County, died at Grand Rapids. He was one
of the first settlers in the county, and was
held in high esteem. Some years ago he
suffered stroke Of paralysis, from which
he gradually failed.
"A newspaper in Michigan is called the
Smiths. Every article in it relates to
member of the Smith family, and it is sim
ply appalling to think of the number Of
corrections" that will daily be demanded
of its unfortunate editor.-Erchange.
Thomas Mayett, of Blackmar, aged
nearly So years, died Christmas Day. He
was born in Buckinghamshire, England,
and came to Michigan in 1884. He had
; lived in Jackson County for forty nine
years. He leaves one son and three daugh-
, ters.
John Fiske, one Of the oldest pioneers
In Kent County. died at Grand Rapids,
, aged 80 years. He built the old hotel at
Reeds Lake thirty years ago, and was many
years its proprietor. He was buried by the
"Old Residents Association" Of VIII ich he
} was an honored member.
The eyes of the scientific world still
, rest on the Hudson COW whose stomach was
) cut open to give her owner chance to re-
, cover two bushels of oats stored therein
The COW still liveth, is getting well, and
/. promises to become quite as healthy as any
. Of her kine.-Free Press.
. The death of Mrs. A. Palmer, the wife
! of prominent merchant in Three Rivers, is
!, attributed to sewage poison, which had
4 contaminated the reservoir Of driven well
4 nearly thirty feet in depth. Mr.. Palmer
a and his eldest son have been very low from
the same cause, but are now thought to be
Q convalescing.
"A curious case of blood-poisoning was
: developed in the case Of Ransom Corey,
0 who died at Quincy few days since. He
was shot in the arm in the war of the re-
!, bellion, and it healed and did not trouble
!, him till about week before his death, when
y il became troublesome and resulted in
. blood poisoning, causing his death.
Q Cards are out for the wedding of Miss
0 Edith Foster, daughter of the ex-MinisteI
} to Spain, to the Rev. Mr.. Dallas, of De-
9 troit, on the 18th of January. The cere-
4 mony will be performed at the New York
Q Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington,
!, by Rev. DR.. William Alvin Bartlett.
n Whatever explanation may be offered
for the numerous and the singular crimes
: in Michigan, most of them pointing tc
d family jealousies and quarrels, it is certain
,, that nothing is so much needed Mt this
. time as the apprehension, conviction and
punishment Of few of the men who have
contributed to these manifold horrors. =
Chicago Herald.
y DIR. Henry B. Baker. Of Lansing, read
paper before the American Health Asso
citation at Washington on "The Relation o
. . Rainfall and Water Supply to Cholera.
Is He showed that cholera always increased
81 during the dry season, and decreased afte
}. abundant rain. The Association discussed
a fully the question of "Hog Cholera,
ID together with the subject of inoculation b.
d Pasteurs method.
~ The wife of Col. O'Donnell, the ney
II member from the Third Michigan District
'k will prove pleasant acquisition TO Wash
- ington society, being graceful in manner, o
~ bright wit, and charming in appearance
ID The Colonel himself was almost as peculia
l. as Gov. Knots aide, with the rank o
10 Mister. He was O private in the army
His title as Colonel was obtained from be
IN ing on the Governors staff Washington
Capital.
y Nineteen years ago Miss Green los
etnA "A Eaola Harhor Mrs Mary Seaman