Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-01-26


MT. PLEASANT has tumbled into line.
and the store clerks can now go to see
their girls at 1880. ~
GRAND BLANC schools are again open.
after having been closed for over q
week on account OF scarlet fever.
GEORGE p. SIAs was killed while un-
loading log train at Midland. He was
about SO years OF age and married.
SHERMAN RICHARDS, OF Lansing, at
tempted suicide In Mason hotel. He
was Jailed. He has wife and child In
Lansing.
"A Two-MoSTHs-oLD daughter OF Fred
w. Whitney, OF Bankers. was acciden-
tally smothered to death with some
bedclothes.
KIRK METzGAR, OF Woodbridge,
wouldn't have that ugly wound In his
head II he had not tried to shoot bird
with revolver.
WILLIAM O'CLOCK, well-known
Grand Rapids saloonkeeper, has fled
chattel mortgages aggregating $3.50.
Poor business is the cause.
AT Iron Mountain, John Berreghetto
was convicted of murder In the first
degree for killing his wife. He was
Immediately sentenced TO the Marquette
prison for life. ~
AFTER having recorded 20 degrees be-
low zero every morning for over a week.
every reliable thermometer in Iron
Mountain quit business Saturday morn
ing Mercury froze in the bulbs.
HECTOR BEAToN, while crossing In
dian Lake, three miles west Of Man.
istique, was lost In a snow storm. He
was found two days later badly frozen,
and will probably lose arms and legs.
SOME six weeks ago NJ. p. Carleton,
OF st. Clair. missed hen. The day be-
fore he had unloaded some hay into a
NOW. The other day, when part of the
hay had been removed, the hen crawled
out, still alive.
Now Is rapidly gaining an unenviable
reputation. The record of the last two
years contains four suicides, one justi-
fable homicide, a poisoning case, a
death on the railroad track, and one
man found dead in the woods.
MISS MAUD HICKEY, Lansing
teacher, and George d. Harmon, of Port
Huron, were married. Just before the
ceremony the officiating pastor an
nounced that this was only public
ceremony; he having coupled the two
privately year ago. :
A HEAVILY yelled woman seized two
different Saginaw men the other night
| and attempted to hur and kiss them. In
one case she was successful, but in the
other she came near being captured
herself. Some believes she, or 1t, Is
the old Jack the hugger, in female cos
tune.
FIRE destroyed the residence of Fred
II II
Township, near Bay City. The family
had retired. and when the fire was dis
covered, they had barely time to escape
from the burning building. All the con-
tents were destroyed. A. subscription
paper Is being circulated for the family
at Bay City.
BENJAMIN +. SIMoNs, the Oldest dry
goods merchant in Lansing, filed a chat
tie mortgage for S26. 500. Simons has
been in business since 1860 and his
trouble dates back to 1889, when David
Burnham Il Co., started business. Burn
ham wrote anonymous letters to Eastern
houses where Simons did business,
shaking his credit so that he could not
| get the special rates he had been get
ting and was unable to secure lines OF
| goods his trade required. He detected
Burnham and sued him for $40, 900, get
ting judgment for $4,000.
DUNDEE is hankering after free-de-
livery to her postoffice.
A NEW postoffice has been established
at Kinross, Chippewa County.
SAULT barber shops have fallen in
line with the early closing scheme.
ED SMITH, OF the Sault, fooled with a
gun. The bullet is still in his leg.
BEN KRAMER's tailoring establish
ment at Alpena, had a So, 900 blaze.
DIR. CLENDENNIN, Of Fort Brady,
Sault, was seriously injured in run
away. y
BESSIE ROSE sues Essexville for $10,-
600 damages for injuries sustained on a
defective sidewalk.
JOHN PRIOR, a Milford switchman,
was struck by piece OF lumber ex-
tending over car. He will recover.
THE price OF pork at Carleton has
reached the highest limit ever known.
THE Chamber OF Commerce at the
Sault Is again in state Of "revivica-
tion, and 1t is proposed to place it on a
sound basis for the purpose of securing
manufacturing enterprises for the town.
AT Lansing the session Of the Michi-
gan Engineering Society had spirited
discussion of the subject of good roads.
Papers prepared by numerous engi-
neers. including Prof. r. G. Carpenter.
formerly of the Michigan Agricultural
College but now Of the Cornell Univer-
sity, were read and the question was
discussed in all its phases. The asso-
citation was addressed by James HI.
Kline, OF Kalamazoo, a member Of the
State Commission recently appointed
to investigate and report on this SUBJ
ject. He stated that the necessary
legislation to secure good roads cannot
be enacted under the present constitu-
tional provisions. 1t is necessary to
change from the township to the county
system of road supervision, and In order
to do this constitutional amendment
must be ratified by the people. The re-,
suit OF the discussion was the passage
of a resolution instructing the Presi-
dent to appoint committee to consider
the plans proposed and embody the rec
ommend atoms of the association in n
memorial to be presented TO the Legis-
lature.
s. HARRISON, of Rea, will probably
lose his sight. He was struck over tho
eye with a blacksmith's hammer. He
was a drummer In the civil war and lost
the other eye there.
HENRY ToUsEY, a highly respected
and wealthy farmer, who lives four
miles southwest of Worthwhile, died OF