Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-16


Ogemaw County Court House and Jail
and Sheriffs residence Mt West Branch are
nearly completed, and will soon be ready
for the brick.
Owen Hankcrd OF Henrietta, had
ninety-thiee sheep killed by lightning
tho other night. When found in tho
morning they all lay in piles under the
tree, which was n small one, with the ex-
ception of re, which was about ten rods
away. lie had also 100 more sheep in the
same field, which were all right in the
morning. lie thinks they were not under
the tree, as they were rot affected in the
least
The Evangelical Church on East Wes-
ley street, Jackson, is nearly completed,
and will be reody for dedication Sept. 2.
Bishop Bowman, of Chicago, will deliver
the dedicatory sermon.
An increase of 400 baths in the month
of June over last year in a single bath
house, and almost as great an increafe in
July, says the Mt. ClemeAts Presa, doesn't
look much like poor summer for bust
ness at the springs. The fact of the city
spreading out over moro territory, it,
boarding houses and hotels Low being
widely scattele |, makes things look le Is
lively around The public squa than in
past years, but the fact remGias and the
business of the blth houses pIoges i,
that there are more people in Mt. Glenn
ents to-day taking the mineral baths than
oae year ago.
The girls who struck at Hargrave,
Haven d Co. Is mill at Bay City for $l2j
per day, have had their wages sltisfactor-
lily adjusted and everything is now running
smoothly.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, at Ann Arbor, has announced its de-
cision on complaint of the Kentucky and
Indiana Bridge Company against the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com
pany. The commission holds that the
is common carrier, and the
defendant is bound to give equal facilities
for interchange of traffic with others.
Commissioner Schoonmaker dissented
Opinions will be filed in the case here
after at Washington.
"A man who was known 10 his fellow
soldiers of Company ii, Thhd Artillery,
now stationed in Washington, d. c., as
Fred Mccullough, was prostrated by the
heat and died sh yrt while after. An in
vestig ltion made by the police is said TO
have disclosed the fact that his real name
was Philip living Thurber, and that he
came originally from Detroit, where be is
said TO have been well connected All
that the members OF his company gener-
ally knew of him was that he enlisted in
the West, was man of education and
gentlemanly demeanor, and that on ac-
count of his fine handwriting he had been
made reeimental clerk. The story as told
to the police is that Thurber up to six
years ago held a sronsible position in a
banking house in Detroit, which he re-
signed 10 so 10 St. Louis Here he fell
into evil habits, became short in his ac-
and finally killed man. though
he insisted this last act was in self-de-
fense. He escaped from that city without
being suspected of the killing and enlisted
in the army, his term of service expiring
last February, since which time he has
been acting as clerk for one of the local
steamboat companies of Washington until
\ few weeks ago, when he was discharged
for drunkenness.
Tho Rev. DR.. Samuel S. Harris,
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East
ern Michigan since 1879, sailed abont six
weeks ago, i'll company with his daughter,
for Europe to spend a few months there
in recreation. A cable dispatch has been
received at Detroit by tho Rev. DR.
Blanchard, rector of st. Johns Episco-
pal Church, from London, England, in
which Herbert G. Park of Detroit in
forms him that Bishop Harris has been
stricken down with paralysis in London.
The other members of Bishop Harris
family arc sojourning at Mackinac Island.
The Lake County officers might as
we'll release Doc Andrews from the charge
Of numbering Julius. c. Bailey, the Cold
water schoolboy. The boy is now man
grown and resides in Chicago. His broth
er, j. w. Bailey, lives at l25 West Jack
son street, Chicago, and another brother
is foreman for Boardman e. Rose, bus
linemen of Kalamazoo. julius worked
here in hardware store three years after
leaving Lake County in March, 1881 and
two years aftcrward drove q baggage
wagon in Kalamazoo. When he returned
he said the old man was dead and his
widow didn't like him. The doath-bed
confession is merely hoax.
-Ismi Martin, the sixteen-year-old
girl forger, was arrested at Detroit on
charging her with uttering q
forged check drawn by J. H. Wilson in
favor of j. II. Martin, urol which she
procued SIS. A jeweler charges that the
girl obtained $50 worth of bracelets and
rings from him and pawned them Other
reports of her cunning swindling are
coming in from many business houses
When the officers won't 10 her mothers
house to make the arrest Ismi leaped out
of q window and ran like deer. II took
tour policemen 10 surround her and take
her to the police cout. In default of
$500 bail she went TO Jail.
The wheat crop in Huron County has
argely been harvested and is about the