Crawford avalanche., 1891-10-01

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Events Queer and CommonpIace.
OcEANA COUNTY Is astonishing every
body by her fruit, and now the e.ated
@pomologs" are tickied because they
have secured an outlet 70 the North
west, as far even as Fargo
REPORTS to the State Board of Health
show that there ares5J cases OF typhoid
fever at Iron Mountain, "a at Grand
Rapids, and l2 at Baraga. There are
4s cases OF scarlet fever I'm Calumet
Township, Houghton County, AZ In De-
trolt, and IL In Kalamazoo.
JOHN WENMAN. OF Pipestone. sunk
barrel In moist place to obtain water
for his cattle. His idea was felicitous
one and he obtained an abundance Of
clear, cold, spring water. He was
greatly astonished one day to observe
certain fish swimming In the barrels
transparent contents and scooping them
o 1t found they were trout several inches
long. He has since obtained daily a
supply for his table and an occasional
mess for neighbors. The nearest stream
is mile and.a half away and the who.e
county is wondering how the fish got
into the barrel.
A WOODS near Kalamazoo has been de-
yastated by caterpilars until every leaf
has been devoured. The worms remain
on the trees until, their food being gone,
they become SO weak from starvation
that they ia to the ground. So numer-
Gus are the worms that are thus making
the descent on an empty stomach that
glance through the woods conveys at
first the impression that rain-storm is
i'm progress, while the noise of their fall
on the ground combines into storm
like roar that adds to the Illusion. The
ground Is already covered with cater
pillars, but there seems to be little
diminution In the number on the leaf
iess trees
CHARLES f. ROGERS, of Crystal Lake,
is a yonng man, and during the summer
has made II practice to prowl along the
shore armed with a big telescope and
watch the resorters at long range. One
day he saw Mrs. Stroupe reclining under
tree near the lake shore with a man,
and the next day she received letter
demanding $40 or threatening exposure.
The man proved to be her husband, and
to him she gave the letter and then wrote
Rogers to meet her after dark. when the
money would be paid. The husband and
two officers went to the rendezvous, and
when Rogers arrived the husband gave
rested him Tor carrying concealed weap-
ons. revolver being found on his person.
He was fined for that offense and then
turned over to the Federal authorities
for using the mails for illegal purposes.
He has had several Crystal Springs citi-
zens on the DO ks and there is rejoicing
there that he is out of the way
A COMMITTEE of the creditors will
make close investigation into the
charges OF crookedness in connection
with the Milford bank failure.
New YORK creditors charge the bank
rupt Lustig Cigar Company, of Grand
Rapids. with disposing of their property
before failure, and will institute suit at
Grand Rapids.
ARNIcA and camphor and feather beds
were In demand at Ovid. A picked nine
OF fellows over fifty years old played the
old game of base ball, but found they
weren't "as young. as they used TO be.
CADILLAC has population of 5000,
and they have TO go away from home to
buy cemetery decorations. They want
some one 90 go There und start q regular
sacred to the memory of r. /. p. shop"
COOL patronage guaranteed.
A CROWD of Brown City toughs and
young boys snapped the Sabbath by GO
ing to the woods to practice with their
revolvers Jake Zimmerla practced on
Tom Jones leg and the ball cannot be
extracted. There is danger that coffin
will be wanted.
THE Ovid business men are trying the
"heave. yo. heave" plan on the Scofeld
carriage works again. The factory has
absorbed hard cash for several years,
years, and still when a man in Ovid
finds he has few dollars more than he
knows what to do with, he throws it in.
SECRETARY REYNOLDS of the State
Board OF Agriculture says that warm
weather has placed corn beyond all pos
sible danger of frost, and has done much
to improve the condition of late pota-
toes. although the latter will suffer If
the warm weather should continue much
longer without rain.
--THE Busfness Commfttee or the State
Agricultural Society has submitted its
final report, whereby IL appears that the
total receipts OF the recent fair were
S1s, 537. 65. and the actual expenses of
this years exhibition S15, ,626. 30. which
included Sl,5so paid for row of horse
sta Is erected this season.
AT Kalamazoo, Miss Nellie Frielink,
while In a delirlum of fever, slipped out
of the house clothed only in wrapper
and wandered away. Fears wera enter
tanned that she had gone To the river
and thrown herself In. Searching par
ties were organized and she was found
near Twin Lakes completely exhausted.
MRs. WALTER RICHARDS, wife of the
man who set the spring gun that killed
John Castle, near Bad Axe, left her
husband during the trial which resulted
I'm his acquittal. About w elk ago she
returned to him. During u night soon
after, unknown masked men took her
from her home into the woods. stripped
her and applied an allopathic dose of tar
and feathers
AVERY CHAPMAN, of Gaylord, held for
trial charged With a criminal assault on
his step-daughter, Is at large. having
escaped from the Jail. II Jail being in
the second story, he used blanket for
the descent after cutting hole with a
razor through the coset wall Henry
Taylor charged with similar offense
against young girl, saw fit to remain
In Jail, though neither was locked in
the cells.
ARTicLEs of association OF the snath
trust of the Il ted States were filed at
jackson.
TIKI streets OF CASTOR are mere blaze
ways through the virgin 70 est, and the
first and last resolution of every Village
Council meeting is something about get
ting stumps out of some avenue" or
boulevard" The fathers have just
passed to second reading an ordinance
TO compel prisoners held In the village
all to work on the st eets. They are