Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-03-29


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"A brick and tile company, with cap
ital Of $4,000, has been organized at
Muskegop.
Duluth capitalists are figuring on start
ing a $50, 200 wooden ware manufactory at
Henominee.
Charles Hicock, of Midland, has in
vented device for the instantaneou.
coupling OF hose.
Helen Fisher, of Detroit, has sued the
Grand Trunk Railway for $4,000 for the
loss Of her husband.
Law and order clubs are being formed
in the local prohibition counties to see that
the new law is enforced.
The Methodists of Muskegon have
completed new church, which cost $751;
OOO ana seats s75 people.
Two million Ievs vr pfuo iu4..Ls. win
be used in the underground workings OF
the Vulcan iron mine this season.
"A lawyer has decided to locate at st.
Charles, and will be received with open
arms by the citizens Of that village.
The Adventists have commenced q
series OF social meetings in Ithaca under
the direction Of Elders Burril and Corliss.
I'm G. A. Weller's III traps along
Grand River were found the other morning
1O5 muskrats, five minks, five skunks, and
q coon.
Joe Beattie, Of Escanaba, has been
convicted of criminally ibeling Editor
McKenna, of the Escanaba Mirror, and
fined $75 and costs.
Thomas Mccarthy, the tramp who
stole team in Alma some two weeks ago,
has been sentenced by Judge Hart to two
and one-half years in Jackson.
The party of explorers which left the
university last summer under the leader
ship of Prof. j. b. Steere, to explore the
Philippine Islands. will return next fall.
During a quarrel in Munger's store,
at Sullivan, recently, Burt Warren stabbed
man named William Hathaway three
times in the back. Hathaway cannot live.
School are looking into the practical
methods of stamping and reducing ores as
exemplifed in the mills of the copper
| range.
Experts state that three quarters Of
the peach buds of the Grand River Valley
have been destroyed by the frost, and
short crop of the delicious fruit may be
expected.
The Romeo Hydrant deals Mt. Glenn
ems fatal blow by publicly stating that
Canada money will not be accepted in ex-
change for poker chips at the mineral
water town.
Nearly every paper in the State tells
how some ambitious young man who few
months ago thought the far West better
place than Michigan, and acted accord
ingly, has quietly returned home.
Young Spencer, whose clothing and
most of his flesh was torn from his body in
the Sullivan saw-mill recently, is still
| alive, but delirious most OF the time.
| Should he recover his shoulder would be
of no use to him.
Recently an intense excitement pre-
vailed at Saline because of rabid dog
| that had run free on the previous afternoon
and was not shot until about dozen other
dogs were bitten. All dogs have been
ordered muzzled or shot.
The work of equipping the Toledo,
Saginaw & Muskegon Railway is being
pushed SO as to make that road ready for
the opening of the spring business. and
put it on footing where it can take good
care Of the business offered.
-Theintelligent compositor, who has had
to bear the blame for countless errors. will
rise up and call the editor of the Homer
Inder blessed. The Inder having spoken
| Of rich feast as rich frost, declares the
badpenmanship of the reporter the cause.
Recently Claire Falls, the 11-year-old
son Of O prominent business man of Te-
cumseh, while at home in company with
several small boys of his own age, pointed
q revolver, which he supposed was not
loaded, at his head. He had his hat on,
and saying he would shoot it, pulled the
trigger. An explosion followed. and Claire
dropped dead, shot through the temple.
His parents were not at home at the time.
They are frantic with grief.
The last monthly crop report sent out
from Lansing is compiled from reports
from 1858 different points in the State,
and may thus be briefly summarized:
Three hundred and forty-two in
the southern four tiers report injury to
wheat. The average depth OF snow in the
northern counties was twenty-five inches.
The central and the southern four counties
were practically bare. The condition of
live stock is slightly below the average.
Five hundred and seven thousand three
hundred and twenty-nine bushels of wheat
were reported marketed during the
month. The total from August to Feb
ruary, inclusive, was S,8lS, ,992 bushels.
Adding TO this the estimated amount used
for seed for the crop of 1888, that required
for family use by the farmer and pro-
portional amount purchased at the mills
and elevators not reporting. there would
still remain in farmers hands for sale
about 100000 bushels Of the 1887 crop.
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Sam Woodford, one-handed colored
man, has been convicted Of assaulting Miss
May widdicomb at Mt. Holyoke Seminary