Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-02-15

started.
THOUSANDS of dead fish are floating
ashore at the southern end OF Lake
Michigan.
A BLACKSMITH and wagon shop, q
large wooden structure, was burned to
the ground at Caro-.
THE Rev. J. III. Hammond, Decatur
clergyman, OBLIGATED at thirty funerals
during the last week.
DETOUR people are eating their ham
without eggs this year. The latter
cost 60 cents q dozen there.
THREE tons of brass, at least, have
Teen stolen from the G. g. w. M. shops
at Muskegon. The thieves were boys.
Two CHILDREN of John Ash, of Ran
som, ate black antimoly. and the
younger one died from its effects.
JOHN LUTZ. 6-year-o,d son OF Chris
tian Lutz, of Ann Arbor, was scalded
by hot coffee and died from the effects.
THE employees in the c., J. & M.
Railroad shops at Marshall viii work
only four days week after this. Poor
business
A NEW YORK man said the copper
district OF Michigan was the NEST pros
porous section he had seen during his
recent travels.
AN old lady at Tccurhseh, whose
husband fought in the Black Hawk
war, has recently been granted PEN
sion Of IS per month.
GEORGE SMITH, an employee Of the
paper mill at Tecumseh, caught his
loot between two heavy cog wheels.
He will lose two toes
IN some parts of the lake shore
peach-belt fruit growers fear the con-
tinued mild winter may cause prema-
ture growth of the buds.
FLOYD SCHwARTzMILLER, of North
Star, has lived only fifteen short years,
but life had no pleasures for him. He
killed himself with rifle.
JAMES VALENTINE, of Ovid, is very
proud of lamb with eight legs, four
ears, and two tails. Nature got ex
hausted. The lamb has no wool.
A LESLIE man is in possession of an
interesting relic in the shape of drum
which was used on board Commodore
Perry's ship on Lake Erie in the war
of 1872.
AN oil war between the Standard
and Schofeld companies at iceland has
reduced the price to cents a gallon.
Farmers are riding twenty miles to get
cheap supply.
AT Inlay City, a week-old baby was
left on the johnson House steps the
other morning, and when found and
taken in, one of its feet and one hand
were partially frozen.
The Bedding Manufacturing Com
pany and Hall Bros. Of Belding, have
started up again with about 300 men.
The former Is the largest refrigerator
factory in the United States.
THE fifth annual meeting of the Mich
igan Retail Lumber Dealers Associa-
ton was held at Detroit, closing with a
banquet. The banquet was enjoye d by
$50 members and friends of the associ-
alton.
OF the SAT persons who have re-
ceived aid in Gogebic County up to the
present time, 1,01I are Scandinavians,
S3S English, 742 Firms. 792 Irish, 626
Poles, 39l Germans, 2S3 Bohemians, 254
Italians, PSI French.
ST. MARY's FALLS is rapidly being
harnessed and made to do mans work.
The power is now transferred to the
people are dreaming dreams of what is
coming to pass.
A TAwAs CITY fisherman was espied
on a cake of ice, about four miles from
shore. Boats put after him, and ho
was safely brought to land, although
it was a hazardous task. He had not
noticed when he left his hut that the
ice had broken up.
A GRAND RAPIDS st ok company is
being organized to run the biggest
Il f,xv fs,, fxz< - An%1 n.
will have capital of $4,000, and has
already secured options of 1900 acres
of land north of the city. 1t will be-
gin business with 300 cows.
AT Kalamazoo. Horace Mansfield.
the mulatto arrested on the charge of
numbering Louis Schilling last March,
and Anna Wood an alleged accom-
plice, were both discharged by order
OF the county prosecutor. The story
OF William Acquire, their accuser, was
proved false.
A st. JOSEPH man couldn't see why
everybody in the streets was laughing
at him, and it made him mad. Finally
he discovered that when he left
meat market ball Of string which he
carried in his pocket had caught in the
door, and there he had walked two
blocks tethered to that meat market.
AT the meeting of the athletic board
Of control OF the Ann Arbor university
the schedule OF baseball games so far
a, arranged was reported. Two trips
will be made, one South during the
spring vacation and the other East in
May. The Southern trip will include
games in Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, and
Wisconsin. In the Eastern trip Har-
ward, Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth,
University of ennsylvania, and Uni
versity OF Vermont may be met. No
game has been arranged with Yale.
ADVANCE sheets of the report of In
surance Commissioner Giddings give
the following figures showing the finan-
cial condition and Michigan business
OF the stock, fire, fire and marine, and
marine insurance companies and the
Michigan business of mutual compa-
mes OF other States reporting to his
department for the year ending Dec. 81
last. Deposited capital, $2l ,302.112:
admitted assets, S215,57O, OBS; liabilities
exclusive OF special deposits, 1921, l67,-
099; surplus as regards policyholders,
S94, 402. $3.50: surplus over, S43, Ala 1863;
insurance written, $3l3,64l $40; premi-
ums received, S4,68?,s1i losses paid,
$2,Sl1, 33l; losses incurred, S3,389, 1857.
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