Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-01-14


A JUSTICE court at Kalamazoo decided
that John Grover, of Richland, must
pay the $40 he subscribed toward the M.
Il. Church and defray the costs Of the
suit.
G. @. DURGAN, of Grand Rapids, after
travelling 5000 miles through Michigan.
declares that more single and saw mills
are being erected In the upper peninsula
than ever before.
The 14-year-old son of Farmer Fred
Dankert, living near Saginaw, played
with dynamite cartridge of the sort
used to blow up etumps. He pricked at
at with pin, when Il exploded, maim-
ing for life one hand.
Two-THIRDs of all wrecks on the
great lakes occur within a radius OF a
few score of miles from Cheboygan, it is
said, and 1t Is insisted that dry dock
and ship yard in that town would be a
very lucrative investment.
CAPT. EDWARD BALLENTINE, OF Bay
City, commander of the propeller Elm
mere, was presented at that place with
beautiful medal In recognition OF his
bravery in rescuing the crew Of the
Oswegatchie, of Thunder Bay.
T. w. HAYES, of Ogemaw, got an APP
preciated holiday gift. He built house
on his farm five years ago, mortgaging
the place to his employer, G.. N. Haupt-
man, of Saginaw, for $500. He has new
or been able to pay 1t off, and Mr.. Haupt-
man sent him discharge and receipt In
full the other day, as reward for four
teen years of faithful service.
NAPOLEON people are little suspi-
cious Of anything in the amusement line
that halls from Jackson. A minstrel
show was given at the Town Hall by
Jackson artists. The people turned out
In good numbers, all armed with tin
pans. After the first act there was some
doubt as to whether the troupe or the
audience were giving the performance.
CHARLES FULLER, 16 years old, fired
off his revolver In a Bay City saloon at
IL o'clock midnight, Dec. 81, to cele-
brate the arrival of 1892. An instant
afterward, John Perkins, also 16 years
OF age, property hand at the opera
house, screamed that he was shot. Ex-
animation showed wound in the abdo-
men, and Fuller was arrested. Perkins
may recover.
The State Board of Auditors refused
to allow State Printer Bob Smiths bill
for lettering at 80 cents each those 704
manuals sent out by Dan Soper. As
Mr.. Smith followed the instructions OF
Mr.. Soper when that gentleman was in
vested with authority to give orders In
the States name, he will appeal to the
Attorney General and ultimately to the
courts, IL he doesn't get his money.
TALK about abdominal surgery! A
West Branch cow ate two bushels OF
potatoes at a meal and was about to
give up the ghost with aggravated bovine
dyspepsia, when Veterinary Wilson few
to the rescue. He made an incision to
the animals stomach, removed the con-
tents, sewed her up, and not only res
cued her from the jaws of death, for the
operation proved highly successful, but
saved the potatoes.
TECHNIcALITIEs rule in the litigation
up north. The judge of the Benzie cir
cult was called upon to decide whether F
or not logs banked upon the river and
waiting for the ice to go out are Sin tran
sit, the levying upon them for taxes be-
ing the point at issue. The decision is
that IL banked by the owner they are,
and II banked by others for delivery at .
also hinges the right OF assessment.
MICHIGAN may have gold craze yet.
The Crescent Gold Mining Company
have struck vein where it leads over
the side OF a hill and have discovered
quartz eighteen inches thick and gold is.
plainly seen as far as drilled. The
South Beaver has taken some valuable
yellow from the bottom of forty eight-E
foot shaft. Several hundred tons OF.
rock will be hauled from the Fire CenteIf
property to the Ropes mill in order To
make thorough trial test.
MICHIGAN CENTRAL dividends will
reach 81 per cent. this year, 1t is said.
r. G.. Lyon, general hardware mer
chant of Vassar, has assigned to j. Il
Root for the benefit of his creditors.
THE receipts from Saginaw's twenty
five miles of electric road were $50, 0O0
more during 1891 than during he pre-
ceding year.
A. b. MORSE is now Chief Justice q
Michigan. Judge Champlin retired Jan
l from the Supreme Bench and r. M
Montgomery became a member OF thu
court.
JOHN KLENANE's 10-year-old son shd/
his little sister in the leg with an o
musket, at Oshtemo, Kalamazoo Countyi
and skipped from home.
MOST towns now a days have to puI
on a plaster to draw a factory, but s.
Ignace is to have plaster factory vii
pay roll of 100 without plaster. II
HENRY B. CARR, aged 46, resident Ht|
Jackson all his life, and a grocery ma =. II
fell dead from heart disease. He We
getting into buggy, when death can
instantly.
AFTER Mr.. and Mrs. H. j. McHugh
of Kalamazoo, had cared for lit
waif for fifteen years and she had grow
up to be big waif, the father turned q
and took her away from them.
THE homesteaders near Iron river, WI
object to the cutting of timber by tlE>
Metropolitan Lumber Company, shot
two of the latter's horses, and declares
that they will shoot men IL they are not
let alone. ia t't .l-
AT Jackson, Emery Nye, a 25-year old
convict, suddenly became violently In
sane and slashed fellow convict In the
broom shop with knife, laying open
his arm. Nye will be sent to the Ionia
asylum for criminal insane at once. He
is from Calhoun County.
LOUIS p. TREMPE, register of deeds
and one of the Sault's oldest and best
known citizens, died after long Ill.
ness. Mr.. Trempe owned all the docks
and tugs on the river at one time and
about half the city. He was so years OF
age and leaves but little property.
A NEW YORK syndicate talks of buy
In An O00 aorao ~ land IN Ohfunounro