Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-29
short state Items.

county II hlf.
SHERWOOD is building Unitarian
Church. The structure will be COM
pleted this fall.
THREE more smugglers have been ar
rested on the st. Clair River and lodged
In jail at Port Huron.
The sixtieth anniversary OF the or
ganization of the Presbyterian Society
at Adrian was observed with appropri-
ate ceremonies.
THE mills at Hudson have been
obliged to shut down several times OF
late, most of the hands being poisoned
by clinging ivy about the mills.
FIRE destroyed the large barn OF
William Smith, some four miles north OF
Adrian. 1t is supposed TO have caught
| from q lantern. The loss is S2,OO; par
TALLY insured.
SOME malicious or careless person
went into the barn Of William Wallace,
at Clinton. and set 1t on fire. 1t was
filed with hay and oats, and the loss ID
81, 900, half OF which is covered by in
surance.
1T is reported that q Port Austin
angle r had landed a 36-pound speckled
trout, but q member of the health board
looked the fish over carefully, and an
nounced that IL was merely lake trout
with the measles.
THE Union City Law and Order
League two weeks since arrested eight
poker players, and recently took in ten
more, who had been playing cards and
selling whisky. Warrants for twenty
eight more are about to be made out
THE residence of A. L. Johnson, near
Girard, was entered by burglars and So
In money, besides valuable articles or
iewery, stolen. Entrance was gained
by placing ladder against porch and
; taking screen from window In the
second story.
The Stockbridge sleeper, Miss May
White, is steadily improving. Her doz-
ing spells are shorter and she is now
J able to sit up ard eat heartily. She
now weighs only fifty eight pounds,
, whereas when she began slumDerlnS
over year ago she weighed l4o pounds.
THE Lansing City Railway was sold
at receivers sale to Charles ii. Osbond,
representing the Continental Trust Com
pany, OF New York, for $35, 200, subject
to a mortgage of $50, 900, held by Chi
cago parties. The road will be operated
by the trust company.
THE following corporations filed ar
= ticIes of association with the Secretary
{ of State the past week: Correspondents
t School OF Health and Hygiene. Detroit.
: SO, 200; Grand Rapids Lithographing
= Company, Grand Rapids, 1000; Elk
I Rapids Stave Company, Elk Rapids,
9 $40, 900; Chicago and West Michigan
: Railway Company, Grand Rapids, CAPT.
: tai increased from So, 800 900 to s., $50, 900
? CHARLES FUTILE, 12-year-old
!, Saginaw boy, was found wandering
II about the streets. He says he has nc
IS parents and that he has been living with
e a man named Cross at Vassar, but thai
e ill-treatment drove him to shift for him.
:. self.
l. AT Manstique, in the case of Henry
Is Brassel vs.. The Minneapolis, st. Pau
j. and Sault Ste. Marie Railway, the jury
Il brought in verdict for the plaintiff IL
ir the sum of $1,000. Counsel for the de-
% PENDANT were allowed sixty days IL
q which to file bill OF exceptions.
n MICHIGAN PENSIONS: Additional
10 Dean A. Hull, VIM. Matthews, Jas. F
10 Woodring, Hiram S. Race, Stepher
Guess, James E. Albright, Seth B. Rose
~ Wesley Y. Lewis, Nelson d. Gould
Is James S. Hulse, Silas Leanderpyer
lr Restoration and increase-Charles III
st Brown. Renewal and increase-Georg'
w. Wright. Increase-Aaron Sanders
rs Alonzo H. Fowle, Nathaniel A. Halsead
IN Erastus H. Hicks, Jesse Grace, Johl
-. w. Duncan, Holrich w. Whipple, Dolpl
% &. DeWolf, John H. Glassbrook, Gar
ST wood E. Kress. Reissue-Francis I
OF Gleason, Hiram Tubs, Robert Meldrum
w Original widows, etc.-Mary A. Row
er lader. Sarah s. Klingensmjth, Julia n
IL Walker, Philena Truble, Mary A. Shrin
ve er, Mary Mcdonald, Mary Alexande
20 (motherj, Benjamin Munger 6ather)
40 Edgar G. Sparks, Margaret DAILY.
al THIS weeks weather crop bulletin o
IN the Michigan weather service bureau
~ says that tho drouth which has so loni
"a retarded the growth of crops in tn
Vi southern counties was finally broken o.
" the 18th by long soaking rain, whic
es has had the effect of making vegetation
Ii lump. Pastures have become gree
he again, and farmers are talking hopeful.
i'll OF crops they had given up last week
al Corn cutting and shocking has begu
80 and on the lowlands the yield will be u
'"' TO the average. Potatoes still seem I
be a poor crop, but have improved sine
the rain. The ground is in fine condi
:, ton for working, and fall seeding Is 60
" ing on rapidly. In other sections OF tn
NC State the week has been favorable fo
ny farm work, seeding, threshing, and cor
IT cutting having progressed rapidly. Pc
ed tatOeS Will De q DeJLeT crop LndH NJ nrs
a anticipated. The fruit crop Is aboy
ON the average.
VIC ANOTHER copy OF the London Time
'es (England) reached our sanctum Tue
IN day, and under the heading of Amer
,ly can Journalism" Verbated from Ii
an from the Coloma Boomer. unite
Is States.) Copies nearly halt column {
nj the Boomers items.-Coloma Boone
or THE safe in Murdoch & Lacy's saloo
er at Big Rapids was blown open Sunda
he night, and money, watches, ETC., to Ii
ng value of $500 stolen.
n, PoMPEII has decided to endow
IS, 81, 900 creamery, but Herculaneum wi
er blow herself on an opera house, htte
tic up with Uncle Tom scenery.
10 PROF. f. d. WHEELER, of the Ayr
on cultural College, returned from the VI
X per Peninsula with an .tensive an
sc valuable collection of trees, shrub
re plants and seeds for the college exhib
at at the Worlds Fair Not q few OF IL
en- specimens are entirely new 10 botanist
IN and were not supposed to grow
n Michigan. Prof. wheeler spent Il
" summer making the collection, whiC
ay includes many living plants for Il
We botanical garden.
- ONE OF the society events of the Sc
III son was the marriage at Detroit
ms William Z. Bailey, of Seattle, Wash
10 af tho raafdQnQa