Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-11-24

Music is now taught In al grades Of
Mason's schools. 4"
WIN. PRATT was arrested ut Saginaw
on charge OF perjury.
ALPENA CoUNTY's new poorhousa
has been formally accepted.
A sEvEN-YEAR-oLD son s. Manor.
OF Newport, sustained fatal injuries, be-
ing kicked by horse.
Mr.. BEAR, OF Brighton, was COM
pletely covered with earth by cave-in
In well. He was extrlcated In time to
cave his life.
MRS. JOHN ANDRICK, of Hope, by
mistake put arsenic In some pie. Tho
whole family was taken sick, but all
pulled through. \
TROUBLES never come singly. Harry
GARNER, OF Tyron, broke an arm some
time ago. The other day it was pro-
nounced healed. Harry stepped OUT
side, fell and broke the other arm.
AN attempt was made to burn the
Hotel Columbia at Norway the 9th or
nieht by saturatlng the basement with
kerosene, but the fire was extinguished
after several guests were almost suffo-
Gated with smoke.
FRANK s. MITCHELL, the Saginaw
forger, has confessed. He Is the black
sheep of prominent family, though but
"a years of age. He got three months
at the Detroit house of correction for
stealing gold watch.
WHILE trying to get the steamer
diego into shelter at Grand Island,
Capt. Fred Woodruff, of the schooner
Monticello fell overheard and was
drowned. He was 30 years of age, his
home being at Loraln, Ohio. .
FIVE years ago, Andrew Duby, OF
East Tawas, was seriously injured, sub
sequently becoming paralyzed. Sew
eral months ago three inches of his
spine was removed. Now he has had
both legs amputated near the hip.
JOHN BRENIFF and Jacob Soderstrom,
two fishermen, left in q small boat to
lift their nets north OF Grand Marias, in
Lake Superior. A storm arose in the
afternoon, and late at night, fish, fish
boxes, and a cap were found on the
beach in the harbor. Later the boat,
which was badly wrecked, was found
on the sandbar between the harbor and
lake. Nothing has been seen of the
men. Undoubtedly they are drowned.
THE low price of wheat which has
prevailed this year has had the effect Of
materially decreasing the area seeded
to that cereal in this State. According
! to the Michigan crop report the decrease
in the acreage seeded this fall amounts
to per cent. in the entire State. With
an average crop this decrease will
amount to nearly a million and half
bushels in next years crop. The con-
dition OF growing wheat averages 81 per
cent. compared with the vitality and
growth of average years. Nearly 90 per
cent. OF the crop correspondents in the
southern counties of the State report in
jury to wheat by insects. The total
number of bushels of wheat reported
mark eted by farmers in October is
2,s66,965. At thirteen elevators and
mills no wheat was marketed during
the month Du ing August, September,
and October 5,4i1.317 bushels were
marketed, which is SO, $50 bushels more
than was marketed In the same months
last year. The corn crop is consider
ably below the average the estimate
being forty nine bushels an acre for the
State. The average yield of clover an
acre was SOTO bushels. The potato
crop is estimated at So per cent Of an
average crop,
DIPHTHERIA epidemic threatens
Plymouth.
LACK of cars Is causing great incon-
venience to Saginaw Valley shippers
MENoMINEE German Catholics dedi-
Gated their large new house of worship.
BY falling off a scaffold, Joseph CAL
lahan, OF Bay City. broke his collar
bone.
FRANK MITCHELL was arrested at
Saginaw, charged with larceny at Bay
City.
The loss of Michigan's salt traffic Is
said to have greatly reduced the income
of the F. Il p. M.
WEST BAY CITY French Catholics
laid the cornerstone for q large, new
house OF worship.
NJ. GARDNER, of Grand Marais, was
dangerously injured about the head and
legs by falling tree.
THOUGH nimrods report shooting a
lot of deer, venison Is said to be very
scarce in Northern markets.
SAGINAW numbering men will cut
about $50, 900, 900 feet of lumber in Ca
madam forests this winter.
s. w. SIMoNs. OF Saginaw, was elect
ed President Of the newly organized
State Grocers' Association. &
OSCAR BERGMAN, aged 4s. an Esca-
naba laboring man, got drunk and then
had both legs cut off by a locomotive.
STEPHEN MALONE, of West Bay City,
a middle-aged man, committed suicide
by the laudanum route. No cause is
known. 3 i.t .-.
AT Blanchard a woman used helebore
instead of ginger in q 9. The whole
family was taken sick, one member
coming near dying.
THOUGH the number OF cases are in
creasing local physicians believe that
there is no danger Of a diphtheria cpl
demic at Bay City.
ONE OF West Bay City's swells was
arrested on a charge OF forgery, but of
course, being OF a prominent family,
his trouble was adjusted in hurry.
BROWN CITY elected the present
officials on the strength OF the state
menJ that they were all anti-saloon
men. Now the good people want some
reason for the alarming increase OF
drunkenness In that town.
EDDIE NEADUE Is an Alpena incor-
r.gible who has gwen his family and the
police lots Of trouble. He Is locked MP
regularly about once in so often. The
other day, when returning from serving
his second term in the house OF correc-
ton, he was drunk-yea, as dead drunk
as the man who Is trying to drown his
sorrow over the late election in wine.
Eddie was promptly jailed again.
MRS. MARY GORDON Of Bay City, died
from the affeota Of falling down atairo