Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-05

Muskegon factories are running.
SHERIFF DAVID WALKINsHAw, OF
Marshall, has bsen deprived Of his PEN
sion.
HOLLY has lost one OF its saloons,
and will try to peg along with only
three.
MT. CLEMENS Democrats nominated
A. I. Donaldson In place OF the pres
emit incumbent.
THERE are now thirty members Of
the altruist community at Gibsonville,
Genesee County.
THE Government fish wardens have
planted 100000 whitefish in Lake
Michigan, near st. Joseph.
The dry goods house of G. w. Stone
in Ionia has been closed on q chattel
mortgage by Strong, Lee q Co., of De-
troit.
A HAMLIN man cut his initials on q
turtles back ten years ago. That tur-
tie has been found three times since
then.
IT is believed that the House will
appropriate $150,000 for Hay Lake
channel and $300,000 for St Mary's
River.
DIPTHERIA of the worst form is rag
ing In the township OF Buel, Sanilac
County, but so far only one death is re-
ported.
BELLEvILLE physicians report q
great deal of sickness in the surround
ing country, measles being the most
prevalent.
THERE are 52S fraternity men in the
State University. They live in houses
by themselves and go through lot OF
flummery.
THE Adventists and Episcopalians
are very thick at Bedford. An advent
ist preached at the Episcopal Church
the other day.
THE Congregational Society OF Lake
Odessa, with Rev. j. w. Arney as pas
tor, has just ended big revival. About
l6O were converted.
COREY LAMBERT, an Edwardsburg
farmer. was fined $25 for cruelty to
animals. He left his horses for several
days without food or water.
MRS. URSULA BURPEE of Owosso, is
accused of pouring boiling water into
her adopted sons boots, then putting
him out in the cold to starve.
GEORGE GETTY and George Smith.
of Shelby, were fooling with a self
cooking revolver. Getty was shot in
the abdomen and may not recover.
THE creamery at Yale, st. Clair
County, which was built year ago at
a cost Of $1,000, has been sold to David
Newstead, of Greenwood Township,
for $780,
FINE strings of black bass are being
taken from Thornapple Lake. The
other day two young men in few
hours caught string weighing over
1OO pounds.
ALL of the teachers in the Inlay
City schools, with one exception, have
been re-engaged; the salary of the SUI
perintendsnt, Geo. r. Brandt, has been
Increased.
JOSEPH CUMMINGS threw himself in
front of the Erie Express at SCOTS.
His body was frightfully mangled. 1t
is clear case of suicide, but no cause
is known.
PEACH buds were reported killed at
Milford. To prove it wasn't so an old
lady took a twig. placed it in water,
and has been rewarded with an abund-
ance of blossoms.
A NEW town is elbowing itself into
existence. 1t is situated on Elbow
Lake, near Gladwin, and is to be known
as Elbowtown. 1t is on an elbow OF the
Michigan Central.
GILT-EDGE society at Tecumseh is
Mortified by one of the leading ladies
having confessed to shoplifting and
"coughed up" $500 to compromise with
the dry-goods merchants.
The hotel, hardware store, barber
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stores were burned in Burlington, Cal
houn County. The town was without
fire protection. The loss is about Sl0,-
600.
A CLIO youth who wanted to see the
world clandestinely put on a false face
when he left for Chicago. The officers
pulled him at Durand, thinking he was
a burglar bold, and now he's home
again.
THERE is war in the United Brethren
Church at Waldron. A radical brother
tried to prevent F. B. Smith, a liberal
ist, from entering the sanctuary. A
fight with fists ensued, and Smith was
badly used.
JAMES KELLEY, who was wanted at
Gaylord for embezzlement and escaped
from his captors at Bay City, went to
Sarnia, Ont. He was fooled into cross
ing the river and Port Huron officers
nabbed him again.
MRS. HATTIE HEINEY, OF Kalama-
zoo, attempted to commit suicide with
laudanum. She had separated from
her husband and was in such dire pow
ertv that she sold her clothes to buy
food, being too proud to ask for char
ity.
FRANK FAIR, an old bachelor of Ma
pie Ridge, Arenac County, had 500 in
an old stocking and hid in the cellar.
He hasn't got 1t now, though, as some
one unknown broke into his house
while he was absent and appropriated
the 500, stocking and all.
GEORGE w. JONES, of Otsego Lake,
postmaster. was taken to Bay City to
answer to the charge Of alleged embez-
element OF 81, 900 of Government mon
ey. Jones waived examination and
was held in 81, coo to appear before the
Grand Jury. Frank Buell., of Gaylord,
and Chas. s. Brink, of Otsego Lake,
were Jones bondsmen as postmaster,
and they have settled with the Gov
eminent. The latter became Jones
bondsman for his appearance before
the Grand Jury. jones promises to
make good the amount his bcndsmen
have paid. The discrepancy was dis
covered by the postoffice inspector on
March z.