Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-04-19
MICHIGAN STATE NEWS

Nearly all the clover in the vicinity Of
Paw Paw has been killed by the recent
cold weather.
"A. d. Clark, superintendent OF Neff's
shingle mills at Harrison, was found dead
in bed from poison.
Capitalists Of Clinton County hold 708
mortgages on Gratiot County farms
amounting to sS63,356.
Marquette wants the General Govern
ment 10 spend $4,000 for the extension
of the breakwater at that port.
Secretary Storrs, of the State Board Of
Charities, has ready for distribution tho
proceedings of the Convention OF the Board
and of County Agents at Alma in Decem-
Der last.
Henry Jeandrevin, of Centreville, aged
about 3years. was playing with o jack knife
Thursd ~ morning, and in some manner
the sharp point penetrated his eye, wholly
destroying his sight.
There will be q reunion of the Third
Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Cavalry,
and Battery 6, Third Michigan Artillery, at
Owosso, April 25, 1888. There will be q
business meeting in the afternoon and O
banquet in the evening.
1t is said by some who have made an
examination that 90 100ths of the upland
mint roots have been killed by the recent
cold weather. This would seem to be al
most welcome news to those engaged in
growing the product who have lately been
obliged to sell their oil at $1.45 per pound.
There is woman in Argentine Town
ship, Genesee County, who has -terrorized
the whole neighborhood. She keeps load
ed arms in her house to shoot any one who
may try to arrest her; her landlord can col
lect no rent, and no one dares refuse her
anything she asks for, for fear that she
will kill them or set fire to their houses.
II. w. Whitney, attorney for Edward
r. Palmer of Alma, who is charged with
numbering his wife, has made motion to
have the case set over to the June term in
stead Of being tried at a special term in
April. The motion is made on The ground
that Mr.. Brown, an important witness for
the defense, is absent,
Seven hundred aud fifty-four wood
chucks were reported to the Town Clerk of
Oxford as having fallen by the wayside dur
ing the past year in that township, and
over one hundred crows have yielded up
the sponge. They evidently had "caws"
to stop breathing. Fifteen cents apiece
was paid for the scalps of woodchucks,
and ten cents for crows.
The Superintendent of the Jackson
vile Qll.) State Institute for the Blind
died recently, and the management have
paid ex-Superintendent McElroy, of the
Michigan Blind School, the high compli-
ment of not only requesting him by letter
to accept the position, but also urged him
by wire not 10 decline until he had fully
considered the proposition.
quette during the campaign of 's6 he
wandered out of barber-shop without
settling his bill. and it was not until re-
Gently that the Senator learned of his care
less trick. He wrote his creditor that
while he was without doubt mighty hard
citizen he didn't propose to shave his BAR
ber. and inclosed bright new 81 green
back.
--Longwell brothers, George and Matt,
have become owners of one-half of the
Paw Paw Touring mill and they intend
TO remodel the property and convert it into
q first class. modern rolling mill. II they
do so, the property will once more become
as valuable and profitable as in the days of
yore. It is a shame that Paw Paw has
allowed almost every village in the county
10 acquire superior milling facilities while
she, once noted for taking the lead in that
regard, has been steadily retrograding.
The Register of the United States
Land Office at Marquette, s. E. Byrne, is
busily engaged in sending out notices to
all persons having applications on file that
the Commissioner of the General Land
Office has decided that the lands in odd
numbered sections within the common linn
its of the grants for the Ontonagon and
State Line and the Marquette and State
Line Railroad Companies, and which are
not covered by claims Of record, are sub
ject to pre- -emption and homestead entry.
These lands are oil in Iron County, and
the applications on file run back as far as
1881.
Two years ago couple with boy and
girl lived in the outskirts Of Ashley. They
went by the name Brigham, and residents
knew but little Of them. They moved
away by wagon, and that is the last that is
remembered OF them. Recently Sheriff
Petit received letter from Howard City
stating that girl there by the name Of Ida
Hall, aged 10 years, was q witness TO muir
der in Ashley. Sheriff Petit went 10 How
ard City and obtained the girl. The story
is to the effect that the man was not mar
ried to her mother, and that one day q
stranger came there and played cards with
Brigham; that they quarreled. and that
Brigham kicked the stranger to death and
hid the corpse under the bed until night,
when he caused her and her brother tohold
q lantern while he buried the body at the
stump Of tree. A few days after they
moved by wagon towards New Haven.
camping out, and deserted the boy near
Kibby Hollow. Sheriff Petit found the
boy near Carson City, and he told precise
Iy the same story as that of the girl. Pet