Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-09-06

THE ID m onth3-0ld son OF II. B. More
! head, OF Edmore, was drowned In Z
tub OF water.
EDWARD CRAFT, Q well-to-do stone
mason at Ann Arbor, took iaudanum
and died In an hour.
MRS. WILLIAM GRAY, OF Mayfeld,
was struck by lightning and badly
buried, but will i6covef. s<,,..
The Ophir gold mine, near the 500,
Is working only twelve mon, but the
wwsekly product Is about 800 worth OF
ORE 49, -~--- =
Att the engineers on the 500 Road
hereafter, will have to appoint their
own foremen and he responsible for
their work. M
500 PEOPLE arostrying to get James
]. Hill to build big summer hotel
for the Northwest and other steam d at
passengers.
CAsEvILLE young ladies will organ
ize ba Sc ball team, with bloomers and
padded corsets, and offer to beat any
team in the State.
EDWARD GRAY, farmer living
, three miles west of Tawas City, lost
! his house and household goods BY fire
Monday night
IoSCo COUNTY last year shipred sew
eral Thousand bushels of potatoes.
This year, owing to the drought, there
will be no shipments.
A FLINT berry-picker left his horse
tied 10 tree. When he got back he
found the valuable animal had stran-
gled itself with the tie-strap.
TIE people of Posen, Pressure Isle
io1 he A
Poles, ore very mad because the name
OF the town was changed to Vincent.
p ID. CHRISTIAN, Sault Ste. Marie
broker and cut-rate ticket man, is un-
der arrest, charged with jumping
bead bills and other alleged crooked
The barn Of Millsn Van Camp, west
OF Croswell, was destroyed by fire
Monday afternoon, together with its
contents. The loss is 1900, with no
insuran @.
PLUMS in Lapeer County a a large
crop this season. One branch from a
Whiting richard contained sixty-four
plums, and the branch was only about
eighteen inches long.
THE Rev. NJ, M. Goodwin is tired OF
his job as naval chaplain. He writes
that 1T Is monotOnous work, and he
would like back his old job as rec tor Of
st. Lulfes Church, Ypsilanti.
WV. G LIVESTOCK, night watchmaa at
kalamazoo express office, awoke ir
great excitement, thinking burglars
were blowing up the safe He found a
keg OF beer yeast had exploded.
A LARGE harm be..snginV "a i,e5rpe
Hough, a prominent Gooiiand farmer
Wes, destroyed by fire rr.day, including
50J bushels of wheat stored in It. The
fire started from I burning marsh.
A Milan girl ran away with an Ann
Afbor railroad man, and was traced to
Owosso by he' brother The girl, who
Is very pretty, broke down and cried,
finally deciding to return to her par
ents.
" csKEGoN County pioneers met at
lake Michigan Park and listened to
reminiscent speeches by ex-Lieut.-
Gov. III. II. Holt, Congressman John
w. Moon and Mayor Newccmb Me-
Graft.
A srx-LEGGED frog is on exhibition
at Mt. Clemens, and some of the bet
ting fraternity are willing to put up
their money that he can jump farther
than any other frog in the Clinton
River.
LYMAN RANDALL, OF Pentecosi, says
be has a dog with a record. Although
Ktf much | rger than a fat reccoon,
this little four-footed hunter has killed
spt assisted in killing, l. zo5 wood
,6hucks.
ANTICIPATING that the State law in
relation to duck shooting is to be
VIC ated, the de uty game warden has
offered q reward of s for information
that will lead to the conviction OF
guilty pa ties.
WHILE Harry German, OF Pc t
Huron, was helping his father, who is
O ectng the Jefferson school-house, he
slipped from the roof and fell a dis
lance of thirty feet. Luckily, how
ever, he was not severely injured.
GEORGE f. AMBROSE, member OF
the Bay City Eoarl of Public Works,
has been arrested, charged with vio-
lating the game avail because he
had eight wild ducks in his possession.
Other prominent people will be prose-
cuted.
A RED JACKET man was awake ned
by loud pounding over his head.
Bang. whir.. The noise got worse
and worse. Scared almost to death,
he investigated, and found huge tom
cat, with fruit can on his head, vain
ly trying to get rye.
A FARMER near Croswell has a
chicken about four months old. which
was evidently intended for boarding
house, as it has one m re leg than Is
generally ailottei t. the feathere5
tribe. The extra pedal is of no special
benefit as it is never up to the scratch.
MISS CHARLOTTE RICE, of Kalama-
ZOO, celebrated her 9lst birthday aa-
nj, ersary BY dining with Mrs. Caro-
line Penfield, who is 50 years old and
who at the same time ce ebrated the
seventy-first anniversary of her mar
riage. The tabl s-cloth use6 on the
occasion was half century old and the
butter dish was an heirloom from the
Washingt, n family. The ladies are in
excellent health and spirits. AT the
evening festivities four generations Of
the Rice famil were present.
AN Adrian farmer drives.a team of
elks. Now the elks hnve bit OF mule
in their nature ana when they made
up their minds they wouldn't. go into
the barnyard they wouldn't d that
was all there was OF it. They were
driven around the block time and time
again and turned in toward the gate
which made them 80 righteously in
dignant that they tore down several
lengths of fence knocked down'a tele-
phone pole. splintered the buggy.