Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-14

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city to animals has been organized al
Ann Arbor.
JOHN OLsEN's boat capsized at Grand
Rapids, and. he was drowned in the
presence OF comp mons.
| DAVID STEvER, q pioneer resident OF
Ogden, and for many years its Super
vi or, died Sunday, aged 10.
| JAMES d. LANE, for forty years a
resident of Adrian, fell dead in his
woo dshed. He was 70 years old.
OLIvET professors got up baseball
nine, only to be ingloriou-iy defeated
by the seniors to the tune Of II to 10.
FRANK HER, a 5-year-old boy OF
Grand Rapids. was burned to death
while playing about gasoline stove.
EDWIN LYLE, of Battle Creek. has
been appointed cadet to West Point,
with Albert Wallace, of Bedford, alter
nate.
SAM CLAY, JR., q conductor, while
Litchfield, was held up and relieved OF
$50.
CHARLES LOVE, of Pinckney, is
minus his gold watch and 5000 in
money. Burglars went through his
pockets.
! PROF. HUBBARD, of Lewiston, raised
a pound potato on some of those worth
less pine tarrens" the experimenters
have given up.
THE late frosts have made the leaves
OF the trees wilt in the roads of Antrim
County. The fruit orchards as yet
show no great damage.
| REV. SIDNEY BECKwITH, for fifteen
years rector of Grace Episcopal
Church, in Port Huron, has resigned
to accept call from Marshall.
| SADIE HAsSON, the actress, has at
last obtained a divorce from her hus-
land, J. j. Bowling. Judge Eldredge
granted the decree at Mt. Clemens.
FLINT is full of tramps. Not salts
| fed with stealing cooked meal bodily
from hotel kitchen, they fired barn.
| Daylight burglaries are not uncommon.
The Bay City smallpox patient,
William Roberts, who was at the point
| OF death Sunday. has passed the criti-
| cal point, and is on the road to recov-
cry.
BY the heaviest vote ever polled at
| a special election of Lansing tax-pay-
ers the city voted to bond the city for
$4,000 for needed public improve
| ments.
IN the election for school trustees at
Kalamazoo, S. ID. Gage and Mrs. Emma
Pollard defeated Frank B. Lay and
William l.. Brownell by about 6UJ ma
jority.
HENRY JOHNSTON, charged with
putting an obstruction on the railroad
track near Almont, out of revenge for
having be thrown Off the train, has
been acquitted.
DEPUTY SHERIFF CHRISTLER, OF
| Vassar, went to Otter Lake and al rest
| ed Mark Orrin for stealing horse of
well-known reoident. The boy is not
over ~ years of age.
DURING May 1854, 900 feet OF lum-
Der was shipped on the kes from
Bay City, and 3,775,O0o from Saginaw.
This is less than half the shipments
during the same time last year.
PORTAGE LAKES Marshal was badly
slashed by telligerent Finlander he
had to put in Jail. Although knocked
down, the Finlander broke stove, lamp
and everything else in the cell.
The old Minnesota Mine, near On
tonagon, is likely to be opened again
Miners are DO ing through the side of
the bluff to see If they can strike a
vein Of copper it would pay to work.
MRS. LEROY. pioneer of Otter
Lake, died on Sunday OF la grippe,
aged about 80. Previous to her sick
| ness she was considered unusually
smart. She was a pensioner and much
respected.
THE results of the official recanvass
of the votes on increasing the salary
of the State Attorney General are an
nounced. They show the amendment
to be defeated instead of carried, as
announced at the election in 1891.
MARSHAL GRIERsoN, of Milford, has
made complaint before Justice Mat
thews, of Pontiac. against two Milford
firms for violation Of the liquor law.
1t is said that some of Milford swell
people will be brought as witnesses for
the defense.
CHRIS SHANE, a young married man
of Adrian, met with a seri u accident
at the GilIiland electric works, where
by all the fingers of his left hand were
crushed in the machine he was operat.
ing, AID only the thumb and palm of
the hand remain.
A 6-YEAR-OLD son of George Walker,
Bay City, has been lying at the point
of death from Inflammation of the
brain, brought on by vaccination. The
child had running sore on the head
when vaccinated, and this, 1t is be-
lieved, caused the new trouble.
BEN JOSLYN has been arrested at
Otter Lake for sh citing a. Bradford
Johnson. This is an old deal, and since
The Snow-Lovell counterfeit case has
been on, johnson, who is an old soldier
and get, pension for deafness, claims
he heard Joslyn say he would kill the
fol. 10 lyn presented to the court q
Squirrel he shot when 1t is claimed he
shot at Johns IN.
WILLIAM II. WOODEN, ex-postmas-
ter of Stony Point and Justice of the
Peace for Hanover Township, Jackson
County, left his home FIVE months ago,
and is still missing. For three years
he acted a, agent for q nursery firm,
and it is alleged ne failed to account
for the last bill OF goods ordered,
amounting to 800. His bondsmen
made the shortage good.
FRANKFORT officers caught young
Wilkinson with Judge Ramsdells
horse and carriage, stolen from Manis-
tee. Young Wilkinson is only about
Ii years and seems to have a mania for
horse stealing, having, it is alleged,
run of with two or three in the last
two ears.
HENRY WOODS, Lighthouse keeper
at the 500, disappeared q year ago.