Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-10-27

In Bay City inside OF the past ten days.
GEORGE LAKE was placed behind the
bars at Saginaw on a charge OF passing
counterfeit money.
GEORGE SCHULTZ, a noted crook, re-
celved sentence OF five years for
grand larceny at Saginaw.
DEcKERvILLE would like to talk with
any man who has Touring mill and no
place to put 1t. They have the place.
OLIVER VAN ALsTYNE, farmer liv--
ing three miles west OF Dearborn viz
lage. had nine cows and one horse poi
soned, and he cannot account for It.
THE Saginaw police are on the look
out for l6-year-old daughter OF Milo
Sutton, OF Wheeler, whom he reports as
having ran away from her homo ten
days ago.
AT jackson, G. H. Plummer secured
a verdict against the Michigan Central
for 500. The suit was on trial in the
Circuit Court for eight days and was an
action to recover $40 900, claimed to
have been sustained by Plummer by fire
in his lumber yard which was caused
by sparks from passing locomotive.
The Universalists, like most other
Christian churches. have their young
people sdenominational society. Ameet-
ing OF 1.-THE State Association of the
Young Peoples Christian. Union was
. held in Lansing. There are nine socie-
ties in the State, with a total member
ship Of 1913. Avery interesting meeting
was held.
AT Lexington. Mrs. Merrill, wife OF
A. w. Merrill, travelling salesman for
the American Eagle Tobacco Company
of Detroit, and niece OF the Hon. Arthur
Nj. Clark, died at her residence of
Brlght's disease. Mrs. Merrill was a
woman loved and respected by all who
knew her. She left husband, son and
daughter.
SAGINAW VALLEY lumbermen are in
vesting heavily in Canadian pine. ID.
Hardin closed deal for the purchase
of over 100, O00, 900 feet in the Georgian
Bay district, from John Charleton, OF
Lyndock, Ont, the consideration being
S175,C00. Several Saginaw Valley fin
have crews OF men looking over Cana
dian timber limits.
ELIAS LYON, of Ray, Macomb Coun-
ty, counted his sheep the other day and
found an unaccountable shrlnkage in
numbers. That is, it was unaccount-
able until he began 10 look around in
the fence corners. The missing were
eighteen, and he has found portions OF
six Ct them. What Ray now wants is a
hunting match for supper, with dogs
counting 10000 each.
SOMEWHAT OF a social sensation was
caused at Monroe, when Mrs. Mary +.
Beaubien commenced suit against Will
lam Roman for damages in the sum OF
$40, 900, for breach of promise to marry.
The parties are we'll known to nearly
every one in that city: having lived there
all their lives, and are highly respected.
Mrs. Beaubien is about Al years of age.
and the defendant about As.
ST. HELEN officers are investigating
an affair that has an ugly look. A Pole,
named Bouchey, drew $50 and went to
Beaver Lake. There he made the ac-
quaintance of two strangers, also
Poles, and, after spending the day in
drinking, they purchased a jug OF
s.shisLss-as,d- t.s1-- hattlass>f lA@.as.- n nd
started for st. Helen. The next morn =
ing train ran over Bouchey's body on
the track. The whisky and beer could
not be found, and there was not cent
of money in his pockets. 1t is thought
by many at st. Helen that Bouchey
was dead before the train came along.
THE first annual meeting OF the Great
Camp X. o. T. Nj. Sick, Funeral and
Saginaw Saturday. The laws of the
association were amended to provide
for a double certificate, whereby mem-
Der OF class b can receive double
benefit by paying q double assessment.
The member ship of the association Is
l ,477 and is increasing rapidly. The
reports of the officers showed the asso-
citation to be on a good footing, and that
the affairs are ably managed. Follow
ing are the officers elected for the ensu-
ing term: President, Arthur Bassett.
Detroit; Vice President, II. w. Carey,
Manistee Treasurer, David Swinton,
Saginaw; Secretary, F. M. Pomeroy,
Port Huron; Chief Medical Examiner.
DIR. w. C. Stevens. Detroit. The next
annual meeting will be subject to the
call of the President.
FIRE was discovered in the basement
of the printing establishment of Robert
Smith a. Co., State printers, at Lansing,
which proved a stubborn one be-
fore it could be subdued. The loss
is confined principally to the base
ment, which was occupied for press and
stock room. The damage to stock Is
chiefly from water, and to the building
from fire in the basement and front OF
the main floor. Smith a Co. estimate
posed 10 have originated from spon-
taneous combustion. The following in
surance companies are involved: On
the building, National, OF Hartford.
81 500; Hamburg, of Bremen, $780,:
Royal, So 1000. On stock and material.
American Fire, OF Philadelphia; Phoenix
OF Hartford, German American, Queen
OF America, Commercial Union, Con-
necticut Fire and Insurance Company,
and North American, $1,000 each; Ma
tional Of Hartford. and Continental OF
New York, 81, COO each; Michigan Fire
and Marine, and Phoenix OF Brooklyn
So 900 each, and Guardian, of London,
$1,000.
The Oxford Cornet Band has been
reorganized, and Prof. r. G. Shaw has
been secured as Instructor.
FRANK WALKER, a young Fergus man
Of an investigating turn OF mind, was
picking dynamite cap with a pen,
when il exploded and split his hand open.
In September, 1891, the Nicholson &
Harrison Lumber Company, of Gray
ling and Bagley, owners Of large
| tracts of hardwood timber in the west
ern part Of Montmorency County, de-
| cided to locate a saw-mill there TO cut
il into lumber. The mill was COM
pleted in April, 1892, six months ago.
and IL is now in the village of Lewis
| ton, on the banks OF Twin Lakes,
which has three hotels, 100 dwellings,.
500 population, railroad, pos.office,
daily mails, two lumber mills, all man
ner of stores and shops, q $4,000