Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-09
From Far and Near.

several hundred dollars. He will now
start up saloon.
THE men who were arrested for
charivaring Mr.. and Mrs. Brancheau, OF
Newport, have gone down into their
pockets and settled the case.
A wELL-KNowN Bay City man has
received white-cap letter warning him
to leave town. He didn't scare worth
@durn. for his conscience was clear.
SEVERAL detectives from New York
city are in western Michigan looking for
the people who recently sent three
diseased head OF cattle to Liverpool.
AGENT WILCOX, Of Newport, Is a very
M. S. railroad, leader OF church choir,
drum-major OF the band and head man
in the Maccabees.
MRS. IDA Z. CRoGHAN, OF Evergreen,
says Maggie Sheridan sold the formers
husband some liquor He became drunk
and was seriously injured. About 5000
Is what Ida wants.
l.. T. VAN WINKLE, of Mt. Pleasant.
Is making preparations to erect huge
summer hotel at Crystal City, Benzie
County, on the T., A. A. Il N. M. rail
road. 1t Is intended to be retreat for
Toledo tourists.
DIR. STRUD GEoN, a Port Huron char
actei. was at Fort Gratiot the other day
with petition for his appointment as
collector OF customs. The petition was
signed by such famous men as Ole
Olson, Jesse James. etc.
THERE are 164 lodges Of United
Workmen In this State, with member
ship of II 1914. The banner lodge Is In
Detroit, with a membership OF 2,710.
Peninsula lodge, also of Detroit Is Sec
ond, with membership OF 1929.
SOME time ago. at an expense Of 5000,
Midland built shed for her road ma
chine. Now, all winter, the machine
has been out in the snow, simply be-
cause the shed has been too lazy to
move itself and cover the machine.
JOHN FEETE, of LaSalle, stole S..
from the pockets Of Jesse Dussic. He
was arrested by Marshal Lemer on q
Lake Shore train going north. He
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
fifty days in Jail. He has served four
years in the reform school, and Is Is
years old.
A PORT HURON youth returned
marriage license to the County Clerk,
saying that his girl had Tilted him, but
as he had two OF them he, after six
days hard work, had persuaded the sec
ond to marry him. He wanted to ex-
change the license for a new one, but
had to hand over another dollar.
ARNOLD SoPH, ex-Superintendent Of
the Poor at Port Huron, Is being made
victim for many mean and despicable
tricks by young toughs on account of
his feeble condition and the loss of his
memory. The other day several boys
painted his face black, but the old man
forgot all about it and walked around
| town without restoring his face to its
natural color. 2
ACCORDING to the statement OF the
Railway Commissioner the earnings Of
Michigan railways for the month Of
| September, 1892, were $40, 800, 422. Is,
and for the corresponding month of
1891, SO, 1873, 1896, an increase of ST.
30l ,68S.51. The total earnings from
Jan. /, 1892, to Oct l, 1892, were $751;
642, 1916. 81, and for the same period of
1891. 500, 623, 1898, an increase OF S10,-
| 019, 1858. AZ.
DURING one week there were in
pected at the Port Huron customs Office
684 Americans, 10 Austrians, s Bel
gians, 500 Canadians, 20 Englishmen, z
Firms. 80 Frenchmen, II Germans. Ia
Hollanders, IL Irish, 81 Italians, 10
Norwegians. Pole, l Portuguese, l
Russian, 20 Swedes, 3 Scotchmen and 5
Swiss-a total of 1859. During the
same time seventy-flve pieces of bag
gage were examined and disinfected.
EAsTPoRT and Central Lake will have
telephone connection with the rest OF
the State.
p BRUNDAGE, of Kalamazoo, was
seriously injured by runaway team at
Ireton, Iowa. or,
The search In the hut Of the Pagan
brothers at Holly has so far brought
S14, $50 to light.
AT Central Lake there is an elm treo
with diameter of 8 feet at the bottom.
1t Is estimated that it will scale $4,000
feet of timber
HENRY NowACK, q little Menominee
boy, who was badly burned some ten
weeks ago while lighting a Christmas
tree, last week died of his injuries.
JAS. L. FARMER is what his name in.
dicates. He lives at Superior. He tried
the experiment of feeding his stock on
wind pudding Ten dollars and costs.
SAD scene was enacted in the West.
ern penitentiary at Pittsburg several
days ago. A young prisoner, whose
name was withheld, was received some
time ago to serve a twelve-year sem
tence. He told pitiful tales Of his de-
sertion of home and of his subsequent
hardshipg, but refused to reveal his
identity further than to state that he
was from Michigan. The other day the
warden of the prison received letter
from the boys mother at Lansing, to-
gether with photo of the prisoner.
asking whether it was true that he had
been sent to the penitentiary for long
term. The prisoner denied all knowledge
Of his mother, saying that she had died
long ago. When the warden, however,
read the letter aloud, and reached
paragraph in which the mother stated
that she was on her death bed. dying Of
broken heart on account of her sons
conduct, the latter broke down. He fell
upon his knees and offered up a fervent
prayer that his mother might live until
he had been given a chance to make
amends for the past and could once more
soc her.
WESLEY GAss, by the accidental dis
charge of his gun, had his hand terribly
shattered. He is Sault boy, and this
is the second time this winter that he
has been shot with the same gun.
JOHN HOOVER, a farmer living near
Sebewaing, committed suicide by hang
ing himself in his barn. Dissatisfied
with his wife for joining the Baptist
church, he forbade her 10 return home.
She stayed with her daughter several
days at Akron, when Hover got her
back But he could not GET over his