Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-12-17

Around the state.
A MOVEMENT has been started for
local option IN East County.
FRED RoosT, aged o, broke through
the ice at Holland and was drowned.
JUDGE ARNOLD, of L Allegan circuit,
is critically Ill with heart trouble.
CALHOUN COUNTY proposes to make
prisoners confined in the jail work for
their board
AS A result OF a gambl' ng house raid
In Lansing, fourteen citizens were fined
a total of sos.
JONATHAN BoYcE, OF Mrskegon. has
bought, for S?s, 900, E. Y. Williams &
Co. IS mill below Pay City
MISS MATE LAPHAM, Of Worthwhile,
has purchased and placed $1,000 piano
In the ladies library rooms at that place.
JOHN IERER, 26 year old, who had a
leg run over by Ora d Rapids street
car seven weeks ago, has died OF his in
juries
THREE workmen were thawing out
dynamite at Corunna waen it exp. oded,
killing one and seriously wounding the
others.
JULIA STEWART, who fell on a defec-
tive sidewalk. sued Kalamazoo city for
$5, 000 The jury returned verdict oil
no cause for action.
BENJAMIN HOPKINS disappeared from
HIS home in Douglas last spring. His
remains have just been found in the
bushes near his home
c. B. BUNToN. of Bear Lake, shot a
deer with long ears, short legs and other
peculiarities that made it look like an
overgrown Jack rabbit.
TIE set of blue-law rules recently
adopted by the l.. - & M. 3 will be
modified, being sat sfactory neither to
company nor employees
A CONDUCTOR made a mistake In filling
out his transfer and Lawrence Bors-
was forcibly elected from Grand Rap
ids street car. He has began suit fol
damages.
AT Grand Rapids Timothy O'Brien, a
section hand on the Grand Rapids and
Indiana Railroad, was struck by a train
and every bone in his body was broken.
He was drunk.
THE Calumet and Hecla produced g.
775 tons OF copI er during November,
the Quincy GOO tons, the Franklin 3?e,
the Atlantic 20s, the Albany 11s and the
Peninsula 105A.
MICHIGAN is invited to contribute
1000 of the $500 troops that will be
assembled in Chicago on Oct. IL, 1892, to
take part In the dedication Of the
World Fair buildings.
LITTLE JAKE" SELIGMAN has bought
+. w. Dickerson's interest in the Wes'
selius electric line TO Reed lake, at Grand
Rapids, and steps will be at once taken
to put the road on paying basis
CALUMET men who obtained valuable
pine land homesteads and sold out as
soon as they got their patents are likely
to be called down by Uncle Sam The
fact Of the prompt sale aud other things
connected with the transaction would
make it possible to set up a charge OF
fraud in pretty successful shape.
THE bridge between Grand Haven and
Spring Lake was blown down by a
heavy gale, one of the four men on the
structure at the time being painfully
hurt A freight car was blown from a
siding onto the main track at Grand
Haven and the engine and two cars OF
an incoming ID. G. ii. II NJ. passenger
train we're derailed in the collision that
TO lowed.
WHEN Blanche Thompson, of Grand
Rapids, was two years old she was scald-
ed in tub OF hot water and being care
lessly .traatod her right. arm grow 20 har
side She continued In her crippled
condition until she was Ia, and an opera
tion was performed Skin grating was
necessary a.ter the arm was cut loose,
and seven playmates, the Oldest not
over 10, donated portions of their cuticle
for the physicians use.
ii. II. WHITMAN, agent of a Newark,
n. J., life insurance company, has been
arrested on capias from the Federal
Court at Grand Rapids, on complaint o:
the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Associa-
tion OF New York, which sues for
$4,000 for alleged lible. This is the
company to which the Michigan Masonic
benefit concern proposed to transfer
its risks, and VIII tman is charged with
distributing circulars derogatory to the
company among members OF the Ma
sonic body.
GRAND RAPIDS charity ball netted
S901.6s.
DR. JAMES II. TRACY, Escanaba's s
Oldest practitioner, is dead.
HENLY SMITH, pioneer of Macomb
County, died the other cay at Utica.
THE stage line between Rogers City
and Alpena has been sold by Frank Dag
CART to Dave Neal
WM. Fox, well known as crook un-
der the name Of Foxy died suddenly at
Bay City of heart disease.
THE trustees OF the Methodist Church
at Richland sue John Grover ID recover
the amount OF $40 subscription.
REGULAR bonanza In the copper
line Is said to have loen recently struck
low down in the Franklin mine.
BAY CRY sportsmen, arrested by Kid
ney Cure Warner for alleged trespass on
his island, will sue fer damages.
H. G. PARKER, aged 20, committed
suicide at Vicksburg by taking NOR
phine He leaves divorced wife and
two children.
JOHN WILSON, sent to Jackson prison
from Calhoun County under the indeter-
inmate act. asks for his release In writ
of habeas corpus.
AMONG the distinguished dead eulo-
gized by the Grand Rapids Elks at their
Lodge OF Sorrow were Julius Houseman,
M. II. Ford and ]. M. Case.
NELLIE MCDONALD and Mary Hyett,
aged 13 and IL, runaway South Haven
girls, were arrested In Kalamazoo and
locked mp In the county jail
JoHN FOWLER, demented man, who
disappeared from Saginaw. was found In
an exhausted condition In the country.
He will be sent to an asylum
THE body Of Peter Demarest, who
lived at Picton, Ont, and who froze to
death In the woods near Alger, Mich,
was found by party Of hunters
FRANK BANKS and George B. Wood