Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-01-12
News Of the state.

LOUIS SMITH, a Saginaw Alderman,
wants TO be postmaster.
SAGISAw's fire record during the year
has been smaller than for fifteen years.
GRAND RAPIDS business men are be-
ginning war on transient merchants.
MIDLAND women collected enough
money to build new house for a poor
woman.
A CHICAGO firm has ordered 10, OOC
views OF the Sault, for sale during the
Worlds Fair.
THE residence Of Will Jackson, OF
West Fort, was destroyed by fire, with
all contents.
MR.. AND MRS. r. CRANDELL, OF Cor
una. several days ago celebrated their
golden wedding.
PErBARRY, of Carrollton, has fallen
heir to $40, 900 by the death Of a rich
relative in Ireland.
BURGLARS at Milford entered Weaver
Watkins store. The got $40 worth
of cigars and tobacco.
THE project of obtaining her water
supply from Saginaw Bay is again be-
ing agitated at Saginaw.
The number Of marriage licenses is
0uOo Al uidCOulO SOunbJ 6lHC0 TIC uGM
law went into effect is 1.341.
MRS. GEO. CoNuERRE. of near West
Bay City, was fatally shot by a boy
who was fooling with gun.
WHILE out hunting near Carson City
Orson Baldwin accidentally shot and
killed Bert Savage, aged 20. H
THE Common Council OF Mt. Clemens
declared that no more sparrows shall
be shot inside the city limits.
A YOUNG man named Bountin was
frightfully burned in a coal mine near
Corunna by the explosion OF twenty five
pounds of powder.
JAMES MACKIN, of the Sault, the other
day for second time broke his leg in
the same place. Being so years of age,
he died Of his injuries.
THREE Cinnamon captured at the
Sault while trying to sneak into the
country, have been. taken to San Fran
cisco, and will be returned to the Celes-
tial Empire.
THE putting in of water meters is
proving an expensive thing to big water
consumers at Mt. Clemens. One hotel
used million and quarter gallons In
month and paid 500. 80
THE Shore Line railroad project is
again being briskly agitated at Mt
Clemens. President Loss says that as
soon as the right OF way is secured the
money is ready for building the road.
NEAR Detroit bob" containing a
sleighing party Of thirty was run into
by freight train on the Grand Trunk
railroad and wrecked Five of the
party were injured, one of them, Henry
Stoned, seriously.
MISS MARY LOOMS, of Shepherd, Is
dead. Christian science could not save
her. She was Ill for many weeks, but
would take little, II any, material medi-
cine. She believed most profoundly
that faith would cure her, so she prayed
and trusted. Finally she became, liz
sane. Miss LOOMS was the daughter
of wealthy farmer. She was a girl of
more than ordinary ability. She had a
religious temperament and was imbued
with faith that seemed to take posses
sion Of her body and soul.
VIM. ]. CRoN deserted his wife and
three children in London, Ont, In Oc-
tober, 1888, and went to Saginaw and
engaged in business. Recently he filed
application for divorce, claiming his
wife had deserted him. The wife in
and went to Saginaw. A warrant was
sworn out and Cron arrested on his
way to the train, he having got wind of
the wife's presence. Later settle
ment was effected, Cron paying all ex-
penses and giving his wife check for
several hundred dollars.
ABOUT 8 o'clock Monday morning
Mrs. Layton Leetch, wife of farmer
living a mile and half from Durand,
was found In the doofyatd with the back
Of her head shot away. A short time
later her husband was discovered in the
basement of the barn with two terrible
gashes in his head which had abeen in
fiicted whitman ak. The farmer died and
there are but slight hopes for the recov-
cry of his wife, from whom the facts
were learned. She states that the
tragedy occurred the night before
about o'clock. A young man
named Burns, who had been en-
ployed around the farm for several
weeks past, called Mr.. Leetch from the
house and knocked him down with an ak
and left him for dead, The scoundrel
then called Mrs. Leetch, and when she
stepped from the door into the farm
yard he'shot her, then Knocked the I'M
fortunate woman down and rayished
her. Twenty-Five dollars were taken
from Leetch's' pocket by Burns. who
then escaped. Mr.. Leetch is "a years
old and his wife q year or two his senior.
The couple bad been. married but short
Inn .