Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-25

THE Sons OF Temperance have organ
lied a lodge at Oscoda.
J. RUrTENBERG 10 the new Postmas-
ter at Beach.
THE house Of Mrs. j. r. Olds, at
Grand Rapids. was burned.
MARQUETTE schoolma' ans have or
ganized the IS. w. Snow-Shoe Club"
GREENWOOD Is preparing large guam
titles of square timber for shipment to
Australia.
MINNIE FARNQUIsT is organizing a
Swedish corps of the Salvation Army at
Marquette.
AT Grand Rapids, Alexander Hamil-
ton, colored lawyer, has been arrested
on a charge of perjury.
BAGNALL, on the T. A. A. & N. NJ. r.
R., is being plated into village, so
that the lots will be ripe for sale with
balmy spring.
AT Milford, Eddy Kelly, a 7-year-old
boy, was fooling with a revolver, and
shot himself in the leg, inflicting
serious wound.
IT is reported that number of Michi-
gan capitalists have just completed q
deal by which they acquire about 600,-
900, 900 feet of pine in Canada.
COMPANY A, OF Ann Arbor, which was
mustered out Of the service by the Adj
jutant General, has now changed it's
name to the Ann Arbor Rifles.
PROF. STANLEY, of Ann Arbor, has
received an invitation to take the Choral
Union to Chicago in 1893 and partici-
pate in the great musical festival there.
THERE is singing-school wave rock
ing the State. These schools will BIOS
som into glee clubs, the members will
become stage-struck, and will wither and
die, die, die.
WILLIAM RYAN and William l.. Baird,
the two boys who stole a watch from q
boarder at the New Livingston, at Grand
Rapids, have been sentenced to one year
each at Ionia.
DENNIS LAWRENCE, Marathon Town
ship, is In possession of an OK weighing
1900 pounds. He will try to get him to
tip the scales at $500, and then take him
to the Worlds Fair.
THE farmers around Howell raise
large quantities of "culchure" food.
During last year one local buyer bought
$40, 900 worth of beans, and most OF
them were shipped to Bosting.
BERT AIKEN, aged IA, and Stanley
Rodebaugh, aged Is, two young jackson
boys, were arrested at Kensington, ILL.,,
on trip West to exterminate the Indian
population. They will be taken home TO
mamma now.
RAILROAD COMMISSIONER WHITMAN
has issued a circular calling for a more
general observance of the statute Of
1889, prescribing the precautions to be
taken by street-car men before crossing
railroad tracks.
MRS. BLISS, of Saginaw, who was ar
rested at the instance OF her son, charged
with assault and battery, had been sem
fenced to ninety days in the house OF
correction, but Judge Goldsmith allowed
her, at her urgent request and upon good
promises, to remain at home as long as
she behaved. Whisky, however, got the
best of her, and now she will be taken
to the institution at Detroit.
MRS. ANNA SCHULZ, aged 90, who
lived on a farm near Wyandotte with
her brother, John Klump, left about a
month ago, and all efforts to find her
have been futile so far. 1t Is thought
that she had some money and held notes
against several persons. She was known
as Old Lady Saturday, from the fact that
every Saturday she would go to town
and pick up wood, rags, ETC., in the
streets.
A. CREToN was seriously injured by
falling tree at Smiths camp, near
Alger.
A MOVEMENT Is on foot to extend the
NJ. & n. Road from Sagola to Crystal
Falls.
CARsoNvILLE, that for some unknown
reason has escaped the grip, has now
an epidemic of measles.
The first case appealed from the Dick
inson County Circuit Court was an as
sault and battery affair.
SwINDLERs are selling membership
tickets in different mutual benefit ASSOC
Citations in the Upper Peninsula.
ALPENA's Aldermen have just decided
that cows must no longer hold daily
parade on the streets Of the town.
CHARLES KANABY lost an eye in a saw
mill at Au Sable. A saw tooth an inch
and quarter long was taken out of the
wound.
SAND BEACH and Bad Axe are pulling
each other hair over the question as to
which place shall have the Huron Coun-
ty fair.
CAPTAIN MATTHEWS, of the Frank
fort life saving station, who recently
shot one of his crew through the arm,
has resigned.
THE stock OF merchandise in Carl
Schulde's store at Iron Mountain has
been sold, the First National Bank
there holding a mortgage on it for S., 800.
BAY CITY's prominent men are agi-
tating the question of doing something
to prevent the influx Of poor people in
search of work who become charge on
the city.
IRON MOUNTAINS irate citizens are
looking for NJ. Goetzman, young man,
with view to treating him to a dose OF
tar and feathers for leading astray sew
eral young girls.
OVID is not dead yet, by any means.
The postage stamps used by the First
National Bank for the year 1891 amount
ed to $137. SO, and the same institution
paid the sum of ST. AS express charges
on currency shipped in during the year.
But still the travelling public are obliged
to sit on the baggage and waitfor trains.
THE cost of mining pound Of copper
is estimated at 8.55 cents; the cost. OF
concentrating and smelling, 1.25 cents
per pound. Adding 1,98 cents for freight
and commission, the total cost OF
pound at the seaboard Is 11.78 cents.
THERE is war among the freshmen of
the Michigan Mining School. The class
is split into two factions, one being OF a
more religious turn. Of mind than the
other, and each faction is fighting to
maintain its alleged right to elect offi-
GERS. There are now really two officers
at present for every Office. The director
OF the school has been appealed TO for a
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