Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-11-19


guilty, was committed three miles north
east OF Chesaning. The Dodge and
Shock families. who reside there, on adj.
jacent farms, have Quarreled for many
years. the bitter feeling between them.
amounting almost to a feud Several
cows owned by the Dodges broke into a.
field owned by the Shocks an the latter
promptly locked the animals up VIM.
Dodge and q younger brother located
them after long search and demanded
possession OF them, which the Shocks
refused William carried dOuble-bar-
relied shotgun and threatened to shoot IL
the cows were not turned over to him.
A violent quarrel followed. during which
young Dodge made good his threat He
fired his weapon at Charles Shock, the
load tearing a great hole in his chest and
killing him Instantly The murdered
man was "a years old.
FLOYD GARDENER, of Climax, was.
playing with rubber cord in school and
snapped one end OF IL into Lester FL
wells eye 1t is feared the sight OF the
organ is destroyed.
JOHN Cook, OF Wilmot, was walking
along the road when he met an acquaint-
ance, stopped and shook hands. Cook
began to talk about the weather and
Immediately dropped dead.
MENoMINEE thieves recently robbed
the contribution box I'm the priests
house of sos, and carried of bodily fine
oleander placed in front of the bay win
dow at protestant pastors house.
AT Arthur's Bay, eighteen miles from
Menominee, a sawmill, clearinghouse,
several tenement houses and other struc-
lures, together with large quantity OF
lumber. burned, the loss being $50, 200.
WILL HILBER, OF Groveland, Oakland
County, turned up missing, and the next
day his body was found in a swamp near
his fatheS's place, with the throat cut.
No reason for his suicide is known, ex-,
cept the Inconvenience he suffered from
asthma
IT may be two or three weeks before
further W, rk is done In the matter of re-
covering the cargo OF the long lost Pc
wabic. The Emerald is at Alpena await
ing the arriving Of another deep-sea div
ing suit, the one worn by the unfortunate
Diver Pelky having been ruined when he
lost his life.
WHILE the steamer Griffin was max
| ing a Lake Huron port the other day, the
chief engineer came out of his hot
quarters and put his head out of port
hcfc to see how the boat was progress
| ing. He'll think twice, yes, four or five
times, before he does 1t again. A sailor
| on the deck above let go a fender just.
then which swept down and all but gull
ot;ned, the engineer. The heavy piece
of timber broke his jaw, marred the
beauty of one side of his face, so that
his best girl wouldn't know him, and all
but broke his neck.
| Lone and formidable professions on
| country roads in Kalamazoo county,
which look little distance off like trains
of field artillery, are found on investiga-
tion to be merely parties Of farmers
starting off with no more desperate pur-
pose than hunting the little retiring
home-loving woodchuck in thickly popu-
lated woodchuck districts. They take a,
lot of the tank wagons used to supply
thresher engines with water and drown
the poor little fellows in their holes.
THOMAS II. MILLS, aged 25, Port
Huron druggist, died suddenly of rheum-
atism OF the heart.
WIN. BIGGER, of the West Bay City
branch of the Salvation Army. is under
arrest, charged with not supporting his
wife.
LOUIS AUSTIN was thrown against a
telegraph pole in O runaway at West
Bay City and has not since been able to
talk straight.
Mrs. LECREY, matron of the Bliss
Hospital at Saginaw, has gone to Mani
toDa to take charge of Presbyterian
Indian school.
FITZPATMcK, on the northern division
OF the t.. A. A. x N. M X. r., has
been rebaptized = new name Yuma
Biggest enterprise at present there is
nine charcoal kilns and more to be built.
SHEPHERD horsemen have just dis
covered that there is In the suburbs
splendid piece of land just suited for
whole mile kite track, and an effort is
being made to organize a company to
'WNPfhifE stephen van Rfper, or Onon-
daga, Ingham County. was looking down
into a rabbit or some other kind of a.
hole his gun was discharged, blowing off
his chin and 'one hand and putting out
both eyes. He will die.
A METHODIST pastors wife in Maple
Rapids does the punctuating of thirdly"
and "fourthiy" on the pulpit when the
pastor himself Il under the weather, and
the people are inclined TO think the
"clinging vine" is an Improvement on the
soak"
AT Cadillac social affair VIM. Heath,
the host, invited Charles Turner up
stairs and then kicked him down again.
Turner would probably have been killed,
II he hadn't been intoxicated, aud as IL
is will be lucky IL he pulls through all
right.
THE farmers in several townships OF
jackson County are close up to the
golden stairs They have organized a
vigilance committee, and spotter has
been appointed In each school district to
constitute complaining witness against
Sabbath Nimrods.
SON OF Joseph Dnquctte. pcniteu.'
tiary bird sent to Jackson in 1856 for
the horrible murder OF little child, has
Just discovered the whereabouts of his
father, aud called on him at the prison
the other day. He was born after his
father was sentenced
THE charcoal works at Marion caught
fire recently and the town looked a.
goner. special trains brought engines.
from Cadillac and Clare Now the bill
have got to be paid. and the Marionettes,
having learned lesson, will buy a stop
fire kit of some kind
YOUNG lady at she 'byville. Ind.
having begun Diet OF dog meat as q
euro for consumption. the Ba- City
Tines Press remarks that the remedy Is
not new one and that a woman In that
town was restore TO health bv this
means several years ago. The Saginaw
woman used only the fat. employing IL
as a substitute for col liver oil.
A CLINTON County man, who has
been troubled with bleeding from the