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


organized at Bay City.
VIM. TUCKER, young Alpena man.
was seriously injured internally In o
lumber camp near Duluth.
UPON his retiring from ONCE, Sheriff
Paddock, OF Ingham county. was pre-
scented with a $50 Montana wolf robe by
Mason people.
DIRHrHERIA is reported. at Warren.
People are kicking over the fact that
the funerals of the victims OF the mall
ady are public.
The lighthouse at Thunder Bay has
finally closed. 1t was kept up later
than usual this year on account OF the
Ann Arbor lines ferries.
The ID. s. s. a. A. Road will hereafter
run through trains TO Detroit via Macki-
nav City, and several new passenger
trains will 60 into commission
BAY MILLS man was found near
the Sault almost frozen to death. He
was lying in deep snow, without shoes
or coat. A good-sized jag was the
cause.
THE largest charter membership
Pythian Lodge ever started of with
was the one organized at Midland the
other day. The membership was
seventy.
1T is now said that several Finland
ers made the significant remark that
Dan Mckay would not live another
year. Dan Is the man who was found
at Whitdale, near Manistique, burned to
crisp.
EDWARD BARK, who lives near Sagi-
nav, celebrated his saith birthday the
other day. He has lived there since
1850, and answered with his own hand
some twenty letters OF congratulation
in one day.
The store known as the Red Store,
at Weldon Greek, Mason County, was
destroyed by fire with all it's contents.
The fire Is thought to have caught from
passing train. The loss amounts to
several thousand dollars.
j. E. FORBES, a former resident OF
Pinckney, has for seventeen years been
troubled with lame leg. Several days
ago physicians took out of his leg seve-
raj pieces of diseased bone and an old
rusty nail an inch and a half long, which
had caused all his suffering.
FARMERS near Holly have for some
time believed that they didn't, as rule,
get the best OF the bargain in trading
horses with a certain firm. The other
day one farmer had his revenge. He
snapped horses and got 81 to boot. AS
soon as one member of the above firm
had taken the horse it dropped dead.
E. H. LovELEss and wife. of West
Branch, fought bloody battle on a
Lake City street the other day. Two
sons of Mrs. Loveless by a former hus-
band also took hand in the fray. The
man was arrested, but upon his promise
to behave, was set free. But he imme-
diately went for his wife again, and then
was jailed again.
w. III. CUMMINGS, Bay City travel
ing man, at West Branch two years ago
lost a woman's fur cloak by theft. Every
time after that he kept his eye open for
the cloak upon reaching the little town.
The other day he heard that certain
woman was wearing new cloak, which
had not been purchased at West Branch.
He called on her, and now he has his
coat again. The woman said she kept
it hidden for two years, fearing some
one would recognize 1t as the stolen ar
ticle.
The recent blizzard sent the mercury
to Is degrees below zero at Magnetic;
two residences burned from overheated
stoves. At Alpena the thermometer
registered IA below; at East Tawas, %
below; at Port Huron a train load Of
ZOO hogs became stalled and all the
cargo frOze to death, involving loss OF
| $25, 900; Oceana County was snow
bound; at Au Train, Mat Lampman per-
ished In the storm and wolves devoured
his body. Suffering and inconvenience
were universal in the State. but the
storm was the most fortunate thing for
| crops next year.
THE Polish population of Alpena con-
| sists of about 500 families.
DIVERS will try to raise the Old In
dependence and her cargo, sunk almost
half century ago In the river above
the lighthouse at the Sault.
MRS. JULIA FIsKE, Of Putnam town
ship, near Pinckney, took Paris green
| with suicidal intent. but will recover.
| She is said to be mentally deranged.
AT Ironwood Gust Norquist, clerk
In the store of Skudd Bros, committed
suicide. The deceased was an exem-
plary young Swede, and was unmarried.
WHEN George Wheeler, of Riverton,
broke his leg some time ago, DR.. Eaton.
| of Scottville, attended to his injuries.
1 Now he sues the latter for $1,000 for al
legged malpractice.
| JOHN HEATLEY, formerly promi-
nent Bay City resident, whotook up his
residence at jackson for embezzlement.
| Is now employed in the blacksmith de-
partment at the prison.
THE Michigan crop report for Janu-
airy shows that during the first half OF
December the wheat plant was wholly
unprotected by snow, but since then
the ground has been fairly well COW
cred. The total number of bushels of
wheat mark ted in December was 1,374,
419, and for the five months, August to
| December, Sill ,615 bushels, it being
| 75S, O32 bushels less than for the same
months in 1891. There Is a decline in
farm products from one year ago. The
following are the average prices ia the
| State Jan. 1: Wheat, sc cents; corn,
| 45 cents; oats, "a cents: and hay, SO. 20
per ton. Fat cattle. 1921 per 100 lbs.
fat hogs, $3.50; dressed pork, 1929.
/ Wheati Is 20 cents lower than one year
ago, corn 2 cents lower, and hay S2.6l
per ton lower.
AT Iron Mountain deal was closed
for the sale OF a large tract OF pine ian
Dickinson and adjoining counties by
the Metropolitan Lumer Company tc
the Ford River Lumber Company. Con-
sideration, Sl50,000.
IN his report to the State Board OF
Health Secretary Baker says that the
predictions by sanitarians that the work
to prevent the introduction OF cholers
would be recompensed through the
lessening VI other diseases has beer
verified in Michigan, where sickness
statistics for the last three months show