Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-01-29

An Imt0E09NinK Summary Oh tMo HAONo AAM =
portant Doings or Our Neigbbors-W We'd
dIngs and Deaths-CrImes, Casuaities,
and General News Notes.
OF the legislators fifty-six are farm
ers, fourteen are lawyers, three doctors,
one banker, one aloon-keeper and eight
real estate dealers. The balance are
retail, mining experts, inspectors. mer-
chants, etc. The Oldest member is Sam
uel Z. Jackson, Of Monroe, aged 73
years. The youngest member Is Frank
K. Doremus, OF Ionia His age Is 20
years He is also a Democrat. The
aggregate In years OF the one hundred
members Is 4, 733 years, and the average
age of each Is 47M years. The civil
condition of ninety-four is married, five
are single and four are widowers. In
politics sixty-two are Democrats, thirty
four Republicans and four Patrons OF
Industry. Thirty were born in Michi-
gax, twenty-nine in New York, seven in
Ohio, four in Ireland, three in Germany
and twenty-seven in other States and
countries.
JAS H. THOMAS, who killed Michael
Downey at Even Dec. 30, was convicted
OF murder in the second degree and sem
fenced to twenty-five years imprison-
ment.
THE propeller Minnie M. OF Bay City
has no spark arrester and fired pile of
lumber at Cheboygan, causing loss OF
500, ZOO. The owners OF the vessel are
sued for that amount.
NEAR Sault Ste. Marie, J. Van Dusen
was killed by his son In a quarrel.
MRS. JOHN GREAsEN OF Milford sud-
denly died, aged co.
THE German Lutheran Church at Ii
vonia is in fight. Two pastors claim
the pulpit Both preached at once.
KALAMAZOO capitalists propose to
build twenty-one miles OF road to con-
meet with the Grand Trunk at Marcellus.
JOHN BENEDICT OF Kalamazoo had a
wife and a piece of land worth $4, 700.
Now he has neither, as his wife has gone
with handsomer man and taken with
her the selling price of that property.
WIN. O'BRIEN, of Saginaw, dropped
dead while playing with his children.
II. G. ROBBINS, wealthy and respected,
died at Bay City, aged 81
THE death of Frank Bladaut, of Bay
City, was so strange that neighbors
think he was poisoned.
j. d. FLINT, Of Monroe, died instantly
of heart disease, aged as.
THos. BANCROFT, young man oi
Gratiot Center, is In Jail at Port Huron,
charged with felonious assault upon q
1o-year-old girl.
BLACK RIVER will be dredged to a
depth of sixteen feet from its mouth To
the Grand Trunk Railway bridge. An ap-
preparation of 900 will be expended.
Mrs. ALLEN HoAG, who lives five
miles southeast of Mount Pleasant, de-
liberately cut her own throat. Mrs.
Hoag has been sick for some days. 1t is
doubtful if she will live
A YOUNG son of Welcome Lashbrooks,
of st. Clair County, while walking down
hill beside wagon, slipped and fell.
The wheels passed over his neck, nearly
severing the head from the body.
BURGLARS prowIed around for two
hours in the house of Jacob Vaucol-
verden, of Detroit without waking
him. His wife was so scared she could
not move. Loss, $500.
BoNDsMEN have made good the 81, 600
shortage of Supreme Treasurer Krause,
p. of l., at Port Huron.
AT Saginaw the second trial of Al
bert Palmer, for murder, has begun.
EAST Tawas has new savings bank;
capital, $25, ZOO.
THE Thirteenth Michigan Veteran
Volunteer Infantry held its annual re-
| union at Kalamazoo for the twenty
seventh time. OF 925 men mustered in,
only $50 returned from the war.
THE big manufacturers Of Detroit, the
stove center of the world. refused to join
New York parties in trust
JOHN GINNEBAUGH and wife. of Col
| lins, adopted girl from the Home for
| the Friendless at indianapolis a year
ago: the Other evening an unknown
woman kidnapped her, and has not been
heard of since.
THE next State fair will be held the
week commencing Sept. z. No tickets
will be sold, but instead each visitor
must hand the exact price Of admission
to the gatekeeper and be registered by q
patent turnstile.
Mrs. URIAH HURsEN was killed by 0
train at Vicksburg.
FRANK CRAPINsKI, of Bay City, killed
himself while hunting.
FRANK HUNKE, section man, was In
stantly killed by the cars at Detroit.
| AT Saginaw, the sat trust has col
lapsed. A decline in price is expected
The association made 2,S64,000 barrel:
last year, and the sales were 2,771, 25s
barrels, OF which Chicago received 1,206,
619 barrels
THE total Indebtedness of the State
| Fair Association is S1S, ,553.9z
PETER SHoRTREY was instantly killed
| by falling tree near Midland.
BELLEvILLE, Wayne County, has M
tailor
OLIVER BuDD, q rich farmer of Belle
vile, died OF consumption.
PORTLAND is in ferment over tn,
| Postofflce.
RoLLIN POND, of Owosso, shot burg
lar.
DIR f. s. SHURIEY, of Detroit, claims
that his treatment OF consumption will
chloride of gold and sodium, mixed will
| glycerine, is superior to Koch's lymph
because 1t employs no organic matter.
WYLTE Bros. shinge mill and 1900, O0'
shingles burned at Saginaw. Loss, $40,
900; insurance, S11,60o. They will re
build.
THE X. o. T. NJ held reunion a
Kalamazoo.
J. p. VAN NORMAN is arrested at Sag
inaw for trying to sell "green goods"
AT Saginaw, the firm OF O'Donnell
Spencer e. Co., with assets of $500, 00I
and liabilities Of 100000, are tempora
rily embarrassed, but creditors hav'
| given them time.