Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-15

proceedings accordingly. The difference
between the cost and market value Of
the lumber destroyed is about $4,000
PONTIAC, by an adverse majority OF
81, decided against $4,000 loan for
electric light works
VIM Copy received injuries In run
away at Brighton which 1t Is reared
will prove fatal, Richard Northard being
also badly hurt A train frightened the
horse. --~-s.....-a-
EARNEST SNowDEN, of Inlay City,
mail agent, fell between the cars at Arm
Station. Both legs were cut of just be-
low the knee, and he only lived q few
minutes
HORSE from Lodewyck e. Posner's
livery stable at Mt. Clemens ran away
with j. s. Mcdonald, of Chicago, a year
ago last July. He sued for 5000 dam
ages. and the jury awarded him $764.
ALTHOUGH nearly $500 in wedding
gifts were hung np, there wasn't a
couple TO be found In all Alpena County
who would enter for the matrimonial
stakes at the fair. and get married in
the presence of the crowd.
WHEN Willie Morrison jumped into
the Saginaw River at Bay City and
saved Robert McCormick's life, IL made
the third person he has extended that
sort Of courtesy to this summer. Willie
is only 10 years old, but he is good boy
and not afraid OF getting his clothes wet.
SEVERAL young toughs Of Cadillac
have for some months been waging war
generally on the Swedes. Three Of them
have been sentenced to the Detroit House
of Correction, and suspended sentence
hon nj hn q
the Scandinavians now walk the streets
in peace.
THE total receipts of the State Land
Office last year were S135, 500. The
Office sold 1904 acres Of Agricultural
College land for S24, sos and g $50 acres
Of primary school lands for S3O,0O3.
There were 2, 800 acres of land forfeited
to the State during the year.
ARTHUR PATTERSON, aged 10, and liv-
ing near Vicksburg, and a companion
were out buhting in Kalamazoo County,
and while climbing over a fence the
gun of the companion, named Chamber
lain, went off, shooting Patterson in the
hip He died from the effects OF his in
jury.
from Lawrence, Kas., where he went to
Government school there. He expects
that about $4,000 will be paid the
members of the tribc in the southwestern
portion of Michigan by Uncle Sam next
spring, $50 persons dividing the money.
THEY say that Brooks, the hermit
who lives in an old scow on an island in
Black Creek near Lake st Clair, was
once q wholesale fish dealer on the
Mississippi River. His present quar-
ters, which he has occupied In solitude
for many years, are certainly dirty
enough TO warrant the belief that he has
never been anything bit better than
fish-monger
CADILLAC keeps saloon detective on
hand all the time; that is, as soon as one
vanishes another appears. During the
season she has had some from Grand
Rapids and some from Chicago, and each
time the city Golfers have been enriched
by fines. The last shadow man was one
Allen, from Detroit and he, like the
spies in the good book Of old, called on
the females. too, and they received him
In peace. They did not run the liquor
business very openly, but he got two Of
them fined and also trapped three regu-
lar saloons for selling on Sunday.4------
THE new consolidated prison board
met at Jackson. George N. Davis was
reappoiDted warden. and accepted con-
ditlonally that the board allow him
SO, 900 yearly salary. The law desig-
mates the salary at $1,000. One of the
members said: ave are Of the opinion
that the board, with the approval Of
the Governor, can raise the salary to
the required amount, and that will be
DONE" The board. at the request of
the warden, allowed him to use the
paddle" as an instrument OF corporal
punishment He claims he had used IL
already several times with most salu-
tary effect upon both the men punished
and the other convicts" Said q mem
Der: "The warden made the use Of the
paddle as punishment q necessary ad-
junct of prison discipline, and so we
told him to go ahead and paddle them
II necessary" Warden Davis must file
a bond of SIS, 900, which he is expected
to do before he can assume the duties OF
the Office officially.
In a runaway accident Perry Nc
Neal, a prominent farmer of Watertown
Township, Tuscola County, was thrown
from his wagon, striking upon stone.
He was almost Instantly killed.
A THIEF at Carsonville stole COM
mercial travellers trunk. After break
ing IL open MS conscience Smote MIN and
he returned the property intact The
8. was filed with only left foot bro
gans.
AT an Alpena fire Patrolman Mac
donald broke door open before the
fire department arrived. Chief Powers
was angered that rank outsider should
do anything at fire, fight ensued,
and now legal squabble is on.
News is received OF the death OF Peter
Teller, former wealthy Bay City resi-
dent, at Arco'a, Miss
N. ID. GLIDDEN, former Presbyterian
pastor, is building up good business
near Sand Beach, making unfermented
communion wine
JOHN KELLY, OF Pentwater, got his
leg caught between two-inch rope and
the line post Of tug. He was enjoying
himself while the rope was slowly but
surely saving the leg of. when the en- IL