Crawford avalanche., 1894-05-31

at Ann Arbor.
MANIsrEE is feeling big over her
first patrol wagon.
BELLEvILLE's milk station is receiv-
ing about 1900 pounds Of m Tx daily.
GAYLoRD's local paper says there
are three gambling dens In the place.
Two MORE Jackson mail boxes have
been found broken into, making i've In
all.
A NEW lodge OF knights Of Pythias
was organized at Marshall with thirty
five members.
A TRAMP printer said Insulting
things to a Cadillac young lady and got
ninety days In Jail.
A BIG medical library for the physi-
clans of western Michigan will be start
ed at Grand Rapids.
A DEPUTY SHERIFF attends all meet
ings of the Bay County road commits
sioners to prevent bloodshed.
AN Adrian man, whose tongue gets
the better of his Judgment, was fined
$l5 for using pro!ane language.
MILLAN's HOTEL, at the Wolf Lake
summer resort, near Jackson, burned
with all its contents. Loss, $1,000.
THE rains of last week have flooded
all the farms in the vicinity of Belle
vi Q, and farming is at a standstill.
The Grand Rapids Furniture Co.,
capitalized at So, 900, sold its entire
plant to the Grand Rapids Seating Co.
ALFRED TAYLOR, a we'll known col
ored man and former Kentucky slave,
died at his home In Adrian at the age
of 20.
THREE RIVERS will graduate twenty
one high school boys and girls this
year, the largest class ever known
there.
REV. Mr.. HOOPER. a Presbyterian
divine of Cadillac, was horsewhipped
on the street by Mrs. Miller for alleged
slander.
G. M. OLDFIELD's dock at Port Sani-
lac was damaged considerably during
storm. 1t will be useless until re-
paired.
THE Burns Union Mining Co., with
$4,000 capital stock, has been organ
lied at jackson to dig coal on the
Burns farm.
w. B; MANKIN. aged 25, who came
from Crown Point, Ind, was found
uo1u III 10y SiVy hopOi ii YIN "h o'OA
dCse of morphine.
VIM. MATTS, the driver of the PAGER
Niger Boy, sustained a serious fract-
ure of his left leg in an accident at the
race track at Fenton.
f. w. Moon, a hardware dealer at
Belleville, has sold out his business to
Dodge & Spaulding, of Dundee, who
will conduct it on a larger scale.
THE congregation of the First Pres
byterian Church of Charlottesville,
Ind has released its pastor, Rev. r.
S. Ingles, to accept call to Jackson.
THE Hillsdale Gas Comp any has OBJ
tanned a thirty-year exclusive fran
cnise. The price OF Illuminating gas
is not to exceed $3.50 per 1000, fuel
gas 81.
TwENTY-FOUR society girls of Ypsil-
anti b!ackened their faces, put on
striped clothes and gentlemens dress
coats and gave a delightful minstrel
show.
MRS. LIBBIE SURPLICE, prominent
society lady of Newaygo, was arrested
Monday by United States Marshal
Platt for using Cancelled stamp to
mail a letter with.
LARGE numbers of dead fish are being
found in the Shiawassee River near
Chesaning. The stencil is so great that
nobody can be induced to go within
sixty rods of the water.
The 4-year-old daughter of w. F.
Davidson, the well-known Port Huron
man, pulled a letter press over upon
her. Her skull was fractured, and
doctors fear she cannot recover.
MAJ. WESLEY ARMSTRONG, a Lapeer
veteran, died, aged 90. During the
war he won the ma or's commission by
bravery. His wounds finally resulted
in making him mentally unbalanced.
The L'Anse Catholics have just
raised $1,000 by fair. They expect
t. build new church in the thriving
village. and they think they have done
pretty we'll in spite of the hard times.
The Alma woolen mills aud Tinker
Lancashire q Co.'S sash, door and
blind factory, at Alma, closed for sew
eral months, have started up again,
much to the Joy of scores OF workmeE.
LACK of funds caused the Hand Mill.
ing Company, of Adrian, to shut down.
The mill has capacity of $50 barrels
of -four, capital stock of 800, 600, and
Hartford Conn. stockholders are in
terested.
CHARLES TdoRNE, working for Finn
& Fisher, of Bay City. dropped piece
OF wet lead into molten metal, causing
the metal to fly all over his face and
body. His eyesight will be saved. His
face was badly burned.
The State Board of Health is out
with bulletin on the prevention Of
smallpox, in which chief stress is laid
on the Importance of vaccination. The
rarity of the disease for some years
past has led, the board fears, to a ne
glect of this preventive and an increase
of the number in the State who are
unprotected. Wherefore it urges each
of the local boards throughout the
State to recommend general vaccir a.
tion, and revaccination of all persons
not successfully vaccinated within five
years.
FOSTER, STEVENS & Co., of Grand
Rapids, purcha ed the wholesale and
retail stock and business of the w. s.
Gum Hardware Co., one of the oldest
ins titutions of its kind in the State.
The price paid was $125,00O. At its
last inventory the Gum property was
valued at SlSl zoo, and it had credits
amounting to 1920 Its indebte dness
was $l40,y07. Foster, Stevens ~ Co.
will combine the Gum stock with their
own, and will have monopoly of the
Western Michigan trade. w. S. Gum