Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-18

cieIy mas now TAKEN nOlu OF the maCter.
THEY must do things up funny In
jackson households. During the rush
of the last canning season a dish-cloth
suddenly disappeared from the table OF
a Washington street family. The other
day they were to have tomatoes for
dinner, and when the can was opened,
behold! the dish-cloth was found in it.
JAMES KIRK, Of Fair Grove, Tuscola
County, died of la grippe, having lived
at his present home 81 years. For q
number of years he was a member of
the Board of Supervisors in his town
ship, and in 1890 his Republican friends
elected him representative to the squaw-
buck legislature. He leaves large
number Of relatives.
DAVID S. MAGILL, who went to Novi
eight years ago and began his career as
a produce dealer, and who ia undoubtedly
the second largest individual produce
dealer in Michigan, has concluded to
become a member of the commission
firm of E. A. Lacey q Co., of Toledo,
Ohio, and will handle the car load" end
of the firms business. Now will need a
produce dealer In his place, and there is
splendid opening for the right man.
IN the opinion handed down by the
Supreme Court in the case of James
Rowley against Victor and Frank Col
liau, Detroit manufacturers, the court
passes upon the interesting question Of
contributory negligence. Rowley was
in the employ Of the defendants, and
was holding heavy iron bar against q
section of boiler iron while another en-
ploye was holding a steel punch against
the other side, and q third employee was
striking the punch with a sledge-ha
mer. A piece Of steel from the hammer
few off and struck Rowley in the eye,
destroying the sight. In the declaration
in the damage suit, it was alleged that
the defendant should have provided safe
tools. The Circuit Court gave a verdict
for the defendants, and now the Supreme
Court upholds this decision. 1t is held
in the opinion that the defendants were
not responsible for the fact that the
hammer was unsafe. All the other ham,
mers, as far as could be ascertained by
close examination, were ut for use, and
an inspection of the hammer in question
would not probably have shown that IL
was in defective condition. The de-
PENDANTS kept an employe in the shop
whose special business it was to repair
tools, and, moreover, each employee
could use any sledge he pleased. The
long uso of hammers is liable to make
them defective, and Rowley, being an
experienced workman, knew this as we'll
as anybody else.
In Michigan sixty men are receiving
maple sugar bounties.
EsCANABA's w. G. T. U. has raised
81, 1880 for new building.
SOME one is showing bogus one dollar
bills through Livingston County.
HoMEsTEADERs are looking up great
deal of land in Ontonagon County.
The Fremont Avenue M. Z. Church,
of Bay City, will erect new place of
worship.
The X. o. T. MS, Of Pinnebog,
Huron County. win build a 50, 600 hall in
the spring.
EscANABA people want their postoffice
moved, as saloon will be opened in the
next building.
THE Jackson Citizen denies a pub
lished statement as to the sad condition
of factory girls in Jackson.
QUITE a number of cities and town
ships in the upper peninsula have ex-
tended the time for paying taxes.
BESSIE CARR, a st. Ignace girl, froze
her foot so badly while out skating that
she may lose the use Of it altogether.
GEORGE MoRENcY, Of the Grand
Pointe life saving station, has been APP
pointed keeper of the station at Frank
fort.
JACQUES & LAFRANCIsE, grocers of
Escanaba, assigned to George Gallup;
liabilities about S3,40O, assets about
$4,000. Most Of the creditors are Mil
waukee firms.
PINCKNEY had blaze the other day
again, and now she is scared for good
and will buy some kind OF a second
hand fire-fighting outfit and hold straw
berry festivals over it when tho time
comes.
REV. NJ. d. ROGERS, the pastor Of the
Disciples Church in Shepherd, who wars
discharged so unceremoniously before
he could get an attorney to defend him,
has moved to Clare and will polish up
the sinners in the mission camps OF
Harrison County
LESLIE people have discovered ju-
venile chicken-thief organization, and
three members, IL years old, have
skipped the country.
THE grip is raging in Newberry and
vicinity, ana medlcal men are kept busy
day and night. Very few cases have
terminated fatally so far.
AT Thompsonviile, Laura Despare was
married to Ralph Sparks. Michael Hen
ry, wedding guest, becoming intoxi-
Gated, insulted the bride, whereupon the
groom assaulted him, causing his death.
Sparks is in Jail and his wife Is pros
trated.
The Tuscola County bridge, at Guam
icassee, has been I'm state Of dilapida-
ton for some time, but the Supervisors,
believing i'm home markets, refused to
make repairs, as the farmers were kept
from trading in Saginaw. Business men
OF Saginaw are now raising $500 to help
the farmers TO build new bridge.
LAPEER had two fires the other morn
ing. George Donaldson's barn In the
town OF Oregon burned with nine
horses, six head OF cattle, hay, grain
and farm Implements The loss is
$1,000; insured IN the American OF Phil
adelphia. Martin V. Houghtons house
in the city burned with part of the con-
tents. The loss Is 81, 200; insured in the