Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-12-08

company's liberallty In furnishing them
coal cheap to supply their neighbors.
The Menominee River Boom Com
pany has shut down, owing to the freez-
ing up of the river, after sorting $685.
0OO, 100 feet OF logs during the season.
MERRILL HERRooN, formerly of Lin
wood, Bay County, Is In Jail at North
Madison. Ohio, charged with bigamy.
He married Linwood and then an
Ohio woman.
Mr.. RUssELL-he doesn't drink
claims to have killed two deer with one
shot near Boyne Falls. They stood
side by side and the ball broke the once
neck and penetrated the others heart.
JOHN LESS, an Alpena man, had saved
about $50. Not believing In such flimsy
affairs as banks, he stored the stuff away
In a tin can. It's gone. John suspects
woman of being the thief,
AN Alderman OF West Bay City is go
ing to get married. At the Council
meeting he attended, the other members
passed a resolution OF sympathy and
another asking the man to banquet the
city dads.
MAUD THoRP, q 17-year-old Saginaw,
girl, goes back to the Industrial Home,
from which institution she was released
some time ago during good behavior.
fjhe didn't behave, but took to running
around nights.
IT is rumored that the Schlesinger
syndicate, of Milwaukee, has ordered
the Chicago and Northwestern Road to.
vacate the Escanaba. Iron Mountain
and Western tracks, the syndicate de-
string to operate the line itself.
MRS. AUGUST ANGsTMAN, of South
field, is sald to have entered school
near that place several days ago and
tried to horsewhip Miss Ida Steel.
Most OF the pupils skipped out of the
building, but the disturbance was finally
stopped.
AT the funeral OF Joshua Summers,
of Brown City, the horses ran away
with the hearse. The casket was
thrown out and badly mutilated. A
son and daughter OF the deceased also
had runaway and were badly cut up
and bruised.
PEOPLE at North Woodstock are made
OF the right kind of stuff. A farmer
there was sick and his big crop OF corn
was going to the dogs. The other
morning when the man opened his eyes
he found that neighbors had hauled all
the corn into his barn.
On Nov. 81, 1890, Lester B. Cheese
man, OF Sturgeon Bay, Wis, threw a
bottle overheard near that place, re-
questing the finder to write to him, be-
ing eager to learn where 1t was discov-
cred. The other day Testers aunt,
Mrs. NJ. ID. Pool, found the bottle on the
beach at Pentwater.
EUGENE HUTTON, the Treasurer of
South Bay City Tent, No. 1T, who was
1T L.
tents funds and several of her peoples
money, wired from Fulton, N. Y, that
he had paid the last assessment TO
Treasurer Whalen, of Flint The latter
denies the statement.
MRS. MAX FREEZE, Of Bay City, says
that her husband left home over year
ago to find work in the lumber woods.
Soon afterwards he wrote that he was
going to Detroit Hospital. having re-
ceived some injury while at work. That
was the last the woman, who Is in des-
titute circumstances, heard of him.
AT the next term OF the circuit court
at Mt. Clemens the case of Mrs. Fred
Moore against Jerome Burr, a War; en-
saloonkeeper, will be tried. The wom-
an 8 husband got drunk inIBurr's saloon
last New Years, and on his way home
sustained injuries by falling out Of his
buggy which caused his death in Sep
TENDER. Mrs. Moore wants $4,000 dam
ages. The State Brewers Association
Is said to have taken up the case.
JAMES VLIET's residence at st. Louis
burned.
AsBURY M. E. Society dedicated a
new house Of worship at Saginaw.
MINNIE REED. the young LOOMS girl,
who is said to have eloped, Is still miss
ing.
REV. Mr.. WARREN, a well-known
pastor OF Church's Corner, Is danger
ously ill.
SIX additions, with an aggregate OF
474 lots, were at Mt. Pleasant plated
during 1892.
MRS. JULIA WRIGHT, aged 50, Of Flat
Rock, sustained dangerous injuries ~
falling off chair.
BY the explosion OF a lamp a S5,iUr
blaze took place In Lee Champagne's
dry-goods store at Alpena.
M. w. SMITH, formerly a Chesaning
farmer, is now Superintendent OF the
Oregon State Reform School.
Two CHINAMEN, who tried to sneak
in'o the State, were arrested at New
berry and will be sent back to Canada.
II. w. SAGE's mill at Bay City, at one
time the largest in the world, has. closet
for good. 1t has manufactured over
700, 900 900 feet Of lumber.
SOPHIA MANNING, OF Alpena, was
awarded verdict OF $500 against E. O.
Avery for injuries sustained by having
one of the latter's mill teams run over
her.
JOHN srYLER,,of Saginaw, is trying
to make things warm for Willis Sims,
ventriloquist. He says the latter
causes him much trouble by hypnotizing
him.
THE failure of o. p. Bills 4 Go. in
their Toledo business also precipitated
the failure OF banks at. Ithaca, Alma
and Tecumseh. 1t Is said depositors
will lose nothing.
EMANUEL CUSTER, father OF Gen.
George Custer, the famous cavalry
leader, died at the home of his son..
Neven j. Custer, in Pa sonville, He
was about So years OF age.
THERE will be three iull companies In
the new Fort Brady, near the Sault..
and another will be added next year.
The register Of the Michigan Lincoln
Sheep Breeders Association has been
added by the Treasury Department
to the list of official registers of pure
bred animals entitled to FREQ entry,
when imported for breeding purposes.
H.. G. BARD, q Saginaw clerk, ruined
his dress suit In putting out a blazein
a curtain which he had accidentally set
on fire by moving a gas Jet. At the
same time he blew OFT the gas, but
In frar off III L..