Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-23


were small crop, comparatively speak
ing, the late varieties bid fair to more
than counterbalance the shortage. Late
rains have given them a prodigious boost,
and the yield will be an extra large one.
Two bodies were found on the beach
of Burt Lake, near Cheboygan. They
had been washed ash ore in storm. The
bodies are believed to be those of two
newspaper men who we're yachting there
and whose boat drifted ashore and was
wrecked. These men were l.. Morey of
the Minneapolis Neps and s. w. Bell of
North Adams.
-Excursionists going to Gull Lake,
Kalamazoo County, should visit spring
of water near the Yorkville depot. The
water is the coolest that flows from the
| earth. It's temperature is thirty eight
degrees, being as cold as any pitcher of
ice water. This spring is only few rods
from the depot.
The Kalamazoo Daily Telegraph has
been sold, Ex-Governor and Congressman
u.
Dingley, recently of the Leavenworth
| (Kan.) Times, being the purchasers, w.
l.. Eaton will retire and spend the next
| two years in South America and Europe.
Tom Burns, of Riverton, is the only
farmer heard from yet whose hay crop
exceeded that of last year. From the
same ground on which he cut seventeen
tons year ago he, this season, gathered
forty tons.
On the plains Of Lake and Mason
| Counties white huckleberries are to be
found in small quantities. They are like
their black brethren in all but color.
! There was scarcely city or village in
this State in which something was not
done on the day of Gen. Sheridan's funeral
to show respect for his memory.
| The third annual convention Of the
State Assembly knights of Labor, in ses-
sion at Jackson, adopted resolutions in
dorsing the Australian system of voting,
demanding that all wages be paid weekly,
in lawful money of the country, that a
uniform system of text books be used in
the schools of the State, and the repeal of
the Baker conspiracy law. The following
officers were elected: Master Workman,
Charles H. Hasse, of Lansing; Worthy
Foreman, Edward Van Wrinkle, of Battle
Creek; Secretary, T. NJ. Sheriff, of Kala-
mazoo; Treasurer, H. 1. Allen, of School
craft; State Statistician, Henry G.
Schultz, of Lansing.
Mrs. Daniel Froost, of Tecumseh, has
disappeared. She left ner home july D,
TO visit friends in Jackson and Ann Arbor.
July 10, she left Jackson, saying she was
going to Ann Arbor, since which time
nothing has been heard of her. Mrs.
Froost is 81 years old and of light COM
plexion. She owns home at Tecumseh
and property in Clinton and other places.
Her domesti relations have always been
happy. She had good sum of money
with her.
Joe Provost, farmers, son living
four miles from Cheboygan, was thrown
from Texas mustang and severely, If
not mortally, hurt. The horse after
throwing it's rider and kicking him,
threw himself repeatedly on his victim,
and had to be driven away with clubs.
Provost was picked up almost dead from
loss of blood. which gushed from his
ears, nose and mouth profusely. His
body was badly bruised and his skull
fractured.
n Mrs. Joseph Fisher, of Altoona Coun-
ty, went into a burning barn to save SET
of harness. She tried to get out on an
opposite side of the barn from where she
entered, found the door locked, had tc
rush back through the fire, and was SC
terribly burned that she died some hours
: afterward.
j. G. Allen, proprietor of the Howard
| House at North Lansing, died from an ill.
: ness which was the result of his stepping
on rusty nail, about the middle of July
; The Lake County officers might at
4 we'll release Doc Andrews from the charge
of numbering julius G. Bailey, the Cold.
water schoolboy. The boy is now q mar
S grown and resides in Chicago. His broth.
a er, ]. w. Bailey, lives at l25 West Jack.
Y son street, Chicago, and another brothe
. is foreman for Boardman & Rose, 'bui
linemen of Kalamazoo. Julius worked
b there in hardware store three years afte
e leaving Lake County. in March, 1881, ant
n two years afterward drove a baggage
Q wagon in Kalamazoo. When he returned
g he said the old man was dead and hi
L widow didn't like him. The death-be'
d confession is merely hoax.
: -Ismi Martin, the sixteen-year-ol,
|. girl forger, was arrested at Detroit on
d warrant charging her with uttering
n forged check drawn by j. II. Wilson i
e favor of ]. ii. Martin, upon which sh
;, procued $l5. A jeweler charges that tn
, girl obtained $50 worth of bracelets an
,r rings from him and pawned them. Othe
d reports of her cunning swindling ar
: coming in from many business houses
is When the officers went to her mother
lt house 10 make the arrest Ismi leaped on
l. of window and ran like deer. IL too
lg four policemen to surround her and tax
r her to the police court. In default c
$500 bail she went to Jail.
n, III. b. Omsby of Ripley has alread
Of harvested one crop of potatoes and is no
le raising his second crop for the season