Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-12-22

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sAGINAw's Y. M. @. A. Is figuring on
erecting large new home.
THE Michigan central's new depot at
West Bay City Is opened to the public.
JOHN SAMPSON, OF Iron Mountain, got
six months In prison for stabbing com
panion. trY
FREDDIE FRRDRIcKsoN, Of Glad
stone, leads this years list OF drowning
while skating.
OWING 10 the prevalence OF diphtheria
all schools west OF the river have been
closed at ,Alpena.
JAMES JORDAN, a Saginaw butcher.
was arrested on q charge OF using bad
weights and scales.
THE grocery store of Colin ID. Nc
Kenzie, at Alpena, was burned, together
with the stock Of goods.
A SMALL SON of John Smell, of Rea,
was severely cut about the head by an
ugly ram. His recovery is doubtful.
A 5-YEAR-oLD Finnish boy, with an
unpronounceable name, was run over
and killed by train near Newberry.
THE G. a N. w. Road paid $4,000 to
Mrs. Frank Derouin, OF Escanaba, whose
husband was last spring killed by
train.
IT is reported by good authority that
the Illinois Central will extend its line
to the mining section of the Upper. PENN
sula.
DICKINSON COUNTY people will in all
probability vote next spring on the
question of bonding the county for
new jail.
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boast that in that section OF the State it
Is impossible to convict man OF vlo-
lating the game laws.
J. w. WRIGHT tried to jump an SIS
board bill at Saginaw hotel. A mar
shall caught him at st. Louis. He was
brought back, and settled.
BAY CITY's bridge commission has
SIS, 900 on hand. The Milwaukee Bridge
Company and several of the concerns
former employees are suing fol- 1t.
The NJ. Z. Society of Bad Axe cancel
led debt by raising 1916 bushels OF car
rots on a small piece OF land, donated
by a member OF the society. The elder
and his parishioners did all the hoeing.
CRAWFORD BROS minstrel troupe is
in trouble. Charles Sears. head cor ct
him. He is Pinconning boy and the
troupe is at present playing in Michi-
gan.
Mt. CLEMENS taxpayers are conSid-
erably agitated over the announcement
that every cent the charter will allow Is
down on the tax list this year. The
citizens are wondering how future inn
provements can be provided for.
THE West Bay City School Board
held a protracted session over tho
diphtheria question. There was lively
debate, after which the Board author
lied committee to make an investiga-
ton, and gave 1t power to close the
schools IL deemed necessary.
ALTHOUGH but 500 people live in East
Jordan, that village supports four
dIy-goods stores, eight groceries, six
clothing stores, two hardware stores,
three drug stores and four saloons. She
has four churches, all of which have
hard struggle for existence, but she
thinks she could support anothersaloon.
WHILE on the witness-sta at Sagi-
nav one time, Charles A. Gabel was
continually being warned by certain
attorney to tell nothing of which no
was zot absolutely sure. Soon after
the same attorney asked him where he
was born. Charles replied that hc
didn't know, as all his information on
that point was merely hearsay.
RICHMOND merchants have adopted
the early closing scheme.
THE lumber cut at Alpena for the sea-
son up to date Is III, 100000 feet.
H. w. RAWLINGS, Of Denton, was
dangerously injured In runaway.
NEARLY all the mills on the Saginaw
River have now gone out of commission.
JOHN Cox, OF Iron Mountain, had his
skull fractured by falling limb of a
tree.
AN incendary fired 81 500 residence
at Kawkawlin. A church was also
damaged.
JOHN CAsHIN. of Lake City, was badly
crushed, being struck ON the hip by
heavy log.
ARTHUR HILL, of Saginaw, is said to
be mother dark horse possibility In the
Senatorial race.
AN unknown man accidentally had a
horrible cash cut in his neck with an ak
in lumber camp at Sauk's Head.
WHILE trying to carry blazing lamp
out OF the house, May Simmonds, of
Cedar Run, was seriously burned.
PAINE's STATION, near Saginaw, is a
small place, but the railroad Office there
does q 81 ,O00-business per month.
MRS. KUNsTRoN, of Menekaunee,
who was badly burned by the explosion
of lamp some time ago, is dead.
The Bliss Hospital, at Saginaw, un-
der the auspices, of the NJ. E. Church,
has opened II aiming school for nurses.
MATTHEW STRAcHINIA, of the Mans
field Mine, near Crystal Falls, fell a
distance of as feet and was instantly
killed.
The minutes of a council meeting at
Lake City state that certain liquor
bond was accepted although conceded
to be illegal"
CERTAIN Upper Peninsular papers
claim that Fort Mackinac will soon be
totally abandoned as military station
by the War Department.
WILLIE HUDDLEsoN, the Bay City
kid, who stole a lot of stuff from his
benefactress, Mrs. Sova, was captured
near Reese.
A STATEMENT made by the Treasurer
OF Ontonagon County shows that there
are sixty-three licensed saloons in the
county. The number of unlicensed is
by many claimed to be several times as
large.
AFTER mailing fast the door and in
serting in a chimney hole stick, TO
which a rope was attached. Lawrence
Udburg hanged himself in a Baraga
hotel He was not diecovered until ten