Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-23
From Far and Near.


MESoMISEH Danish Lutherans are
building newschurch. -
GEoRsH TAYLOR, Novi man. caught
cold and is now totally blind.
DURING January 1,245. l29 bushels OF
wheat were marketed In Michigan.
LANSING graduates Of the U. OF M.
have organized an alumni association.
JOHN JACKSON, OF Worthwhile, broke
his hip by falling on the Ice. He may
die. ~ -.-
MASON people have petitioned the
common council for an electric light
plant.
PHILETUs b. NARMoRE, OF Lansing,
by mistake drank some carbolic acid.
He may recover.
MILWAUKEE, capitalists, 1t Is said.
Will establish summer resort on Carp
Lake. Cheboygan County.
FoR the first time In many years lum-
bering operations have been entirely
suspended near East Jordan.
AGNES PUMA, the 17-year-old Me-
nominee girl who was seriously hurt In
a runaway, died OF her injuries.
ONE OF the best known travelling men
OF all who visit MichiHen 70 s. Reynolds.
aged ~. He represents q Chicago cut
lery house. ,a.
The Agricultural College has been
allotted space 20x45 feet In the Liberal
Arts building at the Worlds Fair, next to
the exhibit Of Yale.
In Lincoln township, near Midland.
two cows ate their way into a good
sized strawstack. The latter fell on
them and Hugh Kelly now owns two
cows less.
SOME time ago Alger Tent, X. o. T.
NJ, was organized at Au Train, being
named after Gen. r. A. Alger. The
latter has now presented the tent with
complete set Of officers jewels.
AU TRAIN hunters are having excit-
ing times just now catching deer alive.
The animals find 1t almost impossible
to get through the snow, which is over
five feet deep, and hunters pursue them
on snow shoes.
ALEXANDER HAMEL, of Cheboygan,
and a crew OF numbering men were
caught In a blizzard on the lower Che
naux. They finally got into one-room
hut, horses and all, staying there two
days without anything to eat.
LOUIS NEWTON was convicted at Pom
tiac. In 1890 he and VIM. O'Brien en-
tered the residence of Mrs. VIM. Read
ing and assaulted Mrs. Smith, an old
lady boarder. O'Brien is now serving
five-year sentence at Jackson.
AT Escanaba Billy Fuller and Ida
Peterson were married. Ida Will be re-
membered at Jackson, where she re-
sided, not of her own accord, but
because jury concluded she had some
thing to do with the death of her hus-
band at Perkins. An Escanaba Judge
refused to couple the two and advised
them to remain single, but Billy
thought they could be happy, even II his
wife was a convicted murderess.
RETURNS from 740 correspondents,
representing $50 townships, show that
the wheat fields OF Michigan have been
we'll covered with snow since the LIST OF
January. On the 18th ult. the average
depth of the snow in the State was 1919
inches, and on Feb. l it was 1856
inches. The total number OF bushels OF
wheat marketed by farmers in January
was l, 245, 129, and the total number OF
bushels marketed in the six months,
August t. December, was 8, 1856, 744, or
493, 1851 bushels less than was marketed
In the same months last year.
N. MATT was killed at Owendale by a
falling tree.
MT. CLEMENS new s2j, 1000 Presbyte-
rian Church was dedicated.
G.. w. BARROW, of Dundee, fell over
a railroad bridge. He was badly hurt.
EDWARD BROWN was crushed to death
between two logs In Newberry lumber
camp.
LOUIS NEWTON, convicted of criminal
assault at Pontiac. got seven years at
Jackson.
SHEEP are dying in large numbers in
Huron County from a disease known as
grub in the head"
E. o. AVERY has offered 10-acre
tract to Montmorency County for a new
court house at Atlanta.
THERE'LL be few candidates for the
postoffice at Michigamme. 1t is said
that it hasn't paid expenses for almost
a year.
MANY deer are being killed by wolves
in Alpena and adjacent counties. The
deep snow renders them an easy prey to
wolves.
PAUL HoYT, OF Rogers City, sued G..
Mende for $4,000 damages for injuries
sustained in an assault. He got YER
dict for SAT.
ALPENA people are raising serious
objections to meat sent there from Pres
que Isle County. They say 1t is often
half decayed.
AT Pixies camp, near Trowbridge,
during an alteration, Joseph LIE Couer
terribly mangled Robert Ludlow with
an ak. LIE Couer was arrested.
E. G. DAVIDSON, who controls 10000
acres in Chippewa County, near Pick
ford and Rudyard, Is making big efforts
to get Canadians to settle there.
MARY memo. OF Sigel, came near
choking to death while sick with diph-
iberia. A doctor saved her life by in
sorting gutta percha tube, through
which she breathed for 36 hours.
ATTY.-GEN ELLIS says 1t will be nec-
essary to have two tickets printed for
the spring elections, and two ballot
boxes must be provided. The one ticket
will be the regular city or township
ticket, while the other will be the State
and county ticket.
NEsToRIA people are consd rabiy
worked up over reports OF saloon rows
sent from that town, The fact Is that
no saloon license has been issued at
Nestora for over two years.
The mall CARRIER between Newberry
blizzard several days ago. He left
Newberry early In the morning, but In
the afternoon found 1t impossible to
drive any further. Setting both horses
at liberty, he managed to reach farm
house after freezing various limbs.
One of the horses found it's way home.
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