Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-08-16

county Sunday schco' rally will be held
at Ow0ss0.
DANIEL MCLEIsTER. aged IL, q re-
troit boy, was drowned at Port Huron
while bathing.
WHITE black berries-no an Irish
bull-are Rsipg raised by Gsorge Lew
DUNDEE girls stay out SO late nights
that they carry chisels to pry open
windows whea they get homo.
THIRTY-FIvE buildings, compri sing
the business portion OF Howard City,
were destroyed. oss, $1,000.
THERE are l,45I convicts in Michi-
gan prisons. OF these So are. engaged
In industries that en-. etc with free
labo..
| MAT MCINTyRF, of Sheril al,
thrashed eighteel acres CT wi eat
which averaged thirty-six bushels ID
the acre.
WHEN bright little Owosso girl
was buried the other da six OF her
former playmates acted as honorary
pall-bearers.
SIX Detroit boys, bent on numbering
Indians, were pulled out of freight
car at Adrian. They were taken home
to be spanked.
some day as Battle Creek day, c o,ing
the factor es and stores, so that every
body can take holiday.
In Standish every mill and factory is
running full blast, and new factory
the Star Wooden WOrks-is rapidly
approaching completion.
lis a gave question just now aei-
tatlng the public min of Durand; they
have no cemetery, and yet they have
their full quota of doctors.
THE will man who has te; rorized
Frankfort for seveia months has beer
caught. AS near as ca be made out.
the savage's appropria meme Is jim
Jams.
BRANCH county farmers IRE greatly
worried over the great am )unt of wild
lettuce which covers their iarms. 1t
is rank grower and very Hard to kill
or subdue.
PETER JAMES O'NEILL. a pio eey
merchant of Port Huron, died Monday.
He was born in Dublin, Irel,nd. BY
energy AMI shrewd, Q IS he built up
large business in Port Huron.
IT is row believed thnt w. A. Car
Isle was not drowned at the 500, but
chokel to death b fase teeth. 1t is
curious Theory, scoffe1 at by rela-
tives, but said to be based on facts.
The Corunna Bapti.t church has
become so su ceptible To this drought
that the b.ick veneering is falling
out, nece ssitating expensive repairs.
Nothing but Baptist church would
suffer like that.
]. M. RoBART, who says he is walk-
ing across the continent on a wager Il
$1,000, has reached alamazOo. One
of the condition, is that ne shall beg
his way, yet he manages to put up at
the best hotels.
AT Mosstc wn the other day the girls
proved the better men. There was
fire. and while the onlookers were idly
gaping three of these girls rushe
bravely into the burning houses and
rescued the inmates.
A SMART-ALECk was goirg to thrash
a augsburg merchant because he
was drnned for 81. He laid off his
coat to do it with mo e ease, and the
merchant quietly tucked the coat away
till the m ney was forthcoming.
Two MASKED men entered the house
II Y.
sens Island at midnight, thrust a re-
volver his face, and compelled him
to turn over $lo5 in his desk tuibell
and his wife are over 20 years old.
CHARLES E. GRIFFITH, the Mexican
editor who was mobbed and nearly
killed becau of an article in his pa
per describin the barbarous doings of
the Penitentes, was proprietor of the
1n oil hn
BOVINE society item from the White
Cloud Business: M. A. Porter lost q
good COW Friday last. She was burned
quite badly at the time of the Alleyton
fire. We understand Mr.. Douglas
cow is suffering from burns received at
the same time.
WILLIAM O'CoNNoR, an alleged col
lege graduate, who goe, about incog-
nito organizing A. p. A. lodges among
the labOring men, attempted suicide
in the Kalamazoo Jail by hanging. He
was cut down, but begged piteously for
the privilege of dying.
TIE Prohibit:cnis.s have placed the
following State ticket in nomination:
For Governor, Alfred NJ Todd, of Kali
amazoo: Lieutenant Governor, A. c.
Wi;nsr, OF Athens: Secretary of State,
Charles ID. Schemerhorn, of Reading;
State Treasurer, Robert ID. Scott, OF
Pontiac; Auditor General G. X. Fer
rim, Of Jackson: Attorney General,
John Giferson, of Clare Co missioner
of Land Office, George ROLLS, OF Grand
PaDids member State Board Of Edu-
catiol, Harry B. Hatch, of Marquette
Superintendc mt of Public Instruct n,
Fred M. White, of ,ackson United
States Senator, long term, Pros. Sam
uel Dickey, of Albion; short term,
John Ru sell, of New Haven.
FINE GROVE has huckleberry
swamp AMI everybody, far and near,
knows it. From time immemorial pee
pie have gone huckleberrying and
traversed this swamp from center to
circumference and no one to dispute
tho r right. But now comes Mr.. Ed
Houseknecht and says "Thus far and no
farther" but people do not regard
barbed wire unless they run against it,
ard when they saw this fence in the
swamp they paid no attention to it,
but attended strictly to business and
filed their pals with berries. Now
Mr.. Houseknecht appears on the scene
and politely requests them to donate
to him, as royalty, share OF the gath
cred fruit. In some instances this APP
pears to have been objected to, and
Mr.. Houseknecht appealed to arms to
enforce his demani Tor toll, shooting
one man in the leg and another
through the hat, the bullet clipping
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