Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-05-12
From Far and Near.

scarlet fever, arrived at New York on
Thursday. Over 100 Of her passengers
are bound for various points in Mich
igan.
A LOCOMOTIVE on the 500 Line ex-
ploded at Whitedale, and Engineer Hub
bard and Fireman Stead were seriously
injured. Both were badly scalded and
the fireman was thrown sixty-five feet
by the explosion, dying later. Stead,
was married, his family living at Glad
stone. t.
ADVERTISING Is quite trade, and
some people will never learn 1t. A
farmer at South Tobaseo has offered
forty acres of tillage land to any girl
who will lead him TO the altar. II he
will add that he will till the land for her,
he will be married man inside OF a
week.
The steambarge Yosemite of San
dusky, owned by Walker and others,
valued at about $40, 900, was burned to
the waters edge while lying at anchor
off Emerson. The Yosemite was built
at Sandusky by Fordham In 1867, and
rebuilt In 1886. She measured 229 tons,
rated A24, and was valued at $4,000.
James Estes and others Of Sandusky
were the owners.
LANsING's Board OF Education has
been shunted upon the right track, and
other boards will do we'll to catch on be-
hind. The Lansing schoolboy has got
to stop poisoning himself by smoking
secondhand tobacco in the shape of
cigarettes, and as 1t Is the nature Of a
boy to do that which is forbidden, the
boards will proceed against the vendors
of the pestiferous vermifuge.
AT Jackson, about o'clock In the
morning, Edward Mcdonald was knocked
down and robbed of about $40, his as
sailant being a short, thick-set man.
The robbery occurred in the rear OF the
Stowell House. McDonald's head was
quite badly cut. evidently with a piece
OF iron. A man named Murphy was ar
rested, but Mcdonald said he was the
wrong man. No other arrests have been
made.
The entire business portion OF the
village Of Chase, Lake County, was
wiped out Thursday night by fire
which started in Ross drug store. The
wind was blowing gale, and In less
than two hours every building on both
sides Of the business street, distance
of three blocks, was In ashes. Sixty-two
buildings were burned, including the
drug strore, four general stores, three
hotel buildings-one occupied-Odd
Fellows Hall, the postoffice, and
score or more small business places.
There was suspicion that the store In
which the fire started was set on fire,
and warrant was issued for Druggist
Ross. He has lately been prosecuted
for violation of the liquor laws. The
loss by the fire foots up over 500, 900,
with but small insurance. There were
plenty of vacant houses in the village
into which the burned-out residents
have moved with what household effects
they saw, d.
KALAMAZOO has a heroine in Miss
Katherine Linehan. On Saturday her
| dwelling caught fire and she risked her
| life in saving that of her invalid father
BAY CITY is very proud Of her fire de-
partment. 1t has a force of forty seven
men, divided into eight companies and
| equipped with engines, aerial truck and
an electric alarm system.
THE Supreme Court decided that cor
porations organizing under the laws OF
| other States were not subject to the
| half-mill franchise tax upon their capi-
tai stock, provided for under the fran
chise law Of 1891. The Court has previ-
| ously held that it did not apply to reor-
| CARNATIONS, and now that It does not to
corporations organized in other States,
so that all remaining is the taxation Of
the citizens OF the State organizing as
sociations, while foreigners escape. The
result will be that citizens will 60 out OF
the State to organize all corporations,
as they now are doing to organize min
ing companies in the Upper Peninsula.
THE annual State encampment of the
| Order of Maccabees will be held in De-
troit Sept IL, and promises to be second
only to the G.. A. r. Reunion In magni-
tude and Importance. There are now
80, 900 members of the order In Michigan,
and 1t Is growing so rapidly that leading
| men of the order confidently predict
that 5000 will be added between now
and the State encampment. There
were %, 900 at Jackson year ago.
THE German Catholics Of Menominee
recently dedicated a $40, 900 edifice.
PHILIP TAYLOR, a merchant Of Now,
took a teacup containing arsenic which
had been left In the cupboard by his
wife, dipped 1t into water in the dark,
and drank 1t. The arsenic had been
used by his wife for her complexion.
She Is now q widow.
The amount of the primary school
money to be apportioned this month by
the Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton has been determined by the Auditor
General to be $457 900. The amount
one year ago was $424 500, and the in'
crease OF $50, 500 Is due to the specific
taxes collected by the Auditor General
much closer than ever before, and some
increase in the amount of specific taxes
received from insurance companies, tele-
graph and telephone companies. The
Increase due to the so-called Richardson
law Of 1891 will not be determined nor
become one until June 80, 1892, and is
not included I'm the figures given above.
The revenues from this source Will be
added to the specific taxes available for
the semi-annual apportionment to be
made next November, and will be large
item. AS all money collected for specific
taxes can only be used under the pro-
visions of the constitution for the sup
port of primary schools the amount OF
money apportioned will be very materi-
ally increased.
THERE were three tickets in the field
at the Pentwater village election, the
Peoples, Democratic and Prohibition.
Sands, independent, was elected Presi-
dent by eleven majority. All the rest oil
the Peoples ticket elected by majorities
of from to 1873.
AN association has been formed In
Port Huron styling itself the Port HUI
ron Land Purchasing and Improvement
Company" capitalized for $50, 900, which
has for it's object the bringing Of abou
$50 acres of suburban property between