Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

be opened to the public in spring.
The Iron Mountain Building a Loan
Association has declared a l2t per cent
dividend.
LrLLIE CREIGHTON, young Alpena
girl. froze both feet. Amputation may
be necessary.
The Lansing State Democrat. founded
by Geo. p. Sanford, has been sold TO
III. II. Baker.
A PETITION is being circulated at
Dushville, asking that the name OF the
town be changed.
JAMES j. BROWN, st. lgnace attor-
ney, wants the nomination for Circuit
Judge In that district.
McINTosH Bros, OF Iron Mountain,
made $40, 900 on the Chicago Board Of
Trade In pork last week.
A ST. CHARLES woman who runs a
millinery store announces in a local
paper that she will take farm produce in
lieu Of cash.
FRANK THOMPSON, OF near st.
Charles, was fatally injured, being
struck In the abdomen by board flying
of from a saw.
The Peoples Club, of Battle Creek,
adopted resolution protesting against
$50, 900 appropriation by the Legisla-
ture for the Worlds Fair.
CHARLEvoIx has reading club OF
seven members. Together they SUBJ
scribe for O number OF periodicals and
take turn about In reading them.
JACK ARMSTRONG, who was held at
Escanaba for the shooting OF George
Myers over year ago, was discharged.
Myers died in a hospital several weeks
ago.
ALPENA women gave a mouse party
the other night. but there was nothing
there which in any way resembled
mouse, and consequently the women
didn't sit on tables.
THE Ingham County Farmers Club
doesn't want county officers TO receive
fees. They want every one of them to
depend upon his salary for a living.
They think $500 would be about the
right thing for the Prosecuting At
torney, and about $500 for the Probate
Register.
AT the time OF his sudden death dur
ing a dance several days ago, it was re-
ported that John Hanson, the Michi-
gaumme saloonkeeper. had been poi
soned by his wife, they not having lived
together very happily for some time. A
coroner's jury decided that he died Of
apoplexy.
A BEAR LAKE woman thought the
pump in her cistern wouldn't work. en-
able to repair 1t herself, she took it out
of the cistern and sent it to a carpenter.
Still it wouldn't work. After doing
good deal OF talking she bought a new
pump. but it was just the same. No
water could be brought to the surface.
Finally, some one investigated the mys-
terry and found there wasn't drop Of
water in the cistern.
If reports are true. queer state OF
affairs exists in school district near
Newberry. A certain man is director
and his wife moderator Of the district.
OF course it is, therefore, possible for
them 10 run the school. Each teacher
has to board with them. and from a re-
cent pedagogue they are said TO have
tried to extort a certificate that theirs
was flrst-class boarding house. He
refused TO do so, and now he's in trouble.
JOHN MCGRAw and Thomas Coughlin,
two miners, were fatally injured by the
explosion OF keg of powder in an old
shanty at Shullsburg, Dickinson County.
The men noticed that the powder began
to smoke and tried to escape from the
couple of yards before the explosion oc-
CURED. The shanty was reduced to
kindling wood, and pieces were thrown
distance of three miles.
SEVERAL years ago Charles Lamkin,
OF Ypsilanti. married Ida Chamberlain.
For the past year the two have not
lived together, Mrs. Lamkin having
charge OF their two children. Lamkin
lived in Detroit and desired to get pos
session OF the youngest child, Glen, a.
boy OF some 6 years. The other day
the father Is said to have gone to Ypsi-
lanti, and after getting the boy from
school. to have skipped TO Detroit with
him.
The Hubbard Saw and Tool Works,
of Menominee, had 81, 500 blaze.
MRS. HAMILTON, of Johnstown, sus-.
tanned fatal injuries in a runaway.
JOHN HALMAN was dangerously in
jured by falling tree at Like City.
SoUNDINGs will be taken at Sand
Beach for the new harbor of refuge.
NEAR White Rock an organ is re-
ported to have been stolen out of
church.
FRANK THOMAS, arrested on the
charge OF robbing the Walled Lake post
Office, is again free, having proved an
alibi.
HENRY d. HOFFMAN, one OF Mon
roe's leading young business men,
has given mortgages aggregating &c.
$50 upon his millinery stock and store.
JOSEPH HEITcH, OF Waterford, want
ed to know who "eat dat turkey" which
he fattened for Christmas. Conse-
quently he placed note in the turkey
requesting the receiver. etc. He has
been informed by William Beebe, of
Middleton, Conn.,, that the turkey was
.. X.
A QUANTITY of carp and eels' eggs
were put in the River Raisin a number
of years ago. This winter the Dundee
fishermen are fishing through the ice at
a point where the water is warmer and
1t Is thought the fish congregate, and
have brought out many cells and carp.
The fish are thought to be the result of
the eggs thrown in few years ago.
MRS. ARTHUR BRUER. a well-known
resident OF Lansing, died OF blood
poisoning, resulting from the applica-
ton OF corn salve, which she had pur-
chased from peddler.
MT. PLEASANT dogs are more relig-
ious than the people living there. The
latter generally fly out OF the building
in hurry after the pastor says amen.
but one of the CANNES the other night
STAYED in the building, probably for ST.
lent meditation. Several days later he
concluded that the thing was getting IT,
be chestnut. and barked. When