Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-01

struction OF q large stove fa;tory at
Gladstone.
DICK LAWSON, Q negro foreman. was
shot and killed by . stevedore, Thomas
Grace, In quarrel at Detroit
The Eelden people are suffering from
. scourge OF typhoid fever, having had
sixteen cases aud two deaths.
]. WESLEY DAVIS, OF Liberty, died
from the effects of the accidental dir
charge OF his gun. Davis was 40 years
old and unmarried.
Mrs. WILLIAM NEWTON was burned
to death at West Bay City by the ex-
plosion OF lamp at the tent ser ices
OF the Latter Day Saints.
JOHN BODEwIG, who, It IL claimed,
was chief conspirator and. leader in
the Ora d Trunk wreck, went to jail
in default OF 81 200 bail
NATHAN ABBOTT, aged So. one Of
the Oldest pioneers In Bate Creek,
and for fifty years an Odd Fellow,
diel. Mrs. Ell zabeth Iden, aged Us,
III, died.
Bythe bursting OF q fy-wheel /, q
Manistee salt we'll drill house John
Fauser was hurled against the side Of
tn building and had his arm fright
fully crushed, ne es,itating its ampu-
tation.
AS RAY and Lee Brotherton, Els.
canada boys of IL and . years OF age
respectively, and sons of A. broth
ert n, were playing with a revolver
Ray shot and Instantly killed / ee, &C.
cidentally. not kn.wing that the gun
was loaded.
F. b. ID sAxF, general manager of
the { incinna'i, jackson and Mackinaw
Rail Dad. ha' submitted a definite
p OPPOSITION to the ackson citizens for
the extension of the road from Addi,
son. BY this route Jackson can secure
its coal from the Pennsylvania coal
fields at same prices Detroit gets.
CAPT. HENRY A. FORD, an edu-
! Gator and newspaper writer OF State
reputation. fell dead at Detroit, while
about to board car. Apoplexy wa
the cause. Capt. Ford enlisted as
Second Lieutenant of the Nineteenth
Michigan Infantry at the breaking o t
OF the wa. He was 50 years of age
and leaves W dow.
CHRISTIAN F. WETzEL. an employe
of the Michigan I urniture Company,
Ann Arbor, was working at q ripsaw,
when piece of wo d few out and hit
him in the head, eau ing almost in
slant death. The deceased was Ger
man. 80 years Old and had been in the
service Of the company for the past
twenty years. Mr.. Wetzel leaves q
widow and four sons, three of whom
are graduates OF the university.
In 1850 the general government
granted to the State of Michigan all
OF its swamps a.d overAowcd lands.
and a survey and plat was made. but
the government continued to issue
patent, until the number OF acres thus
issued amounted to 500. This has
been the basis for a claim pend ing for
many years, and not until now adjust
ed. The state Land c mmissioner
has received rom the Secretary OF
the Interior an indemnity certificate
Tor 5000 acres, which is estimated to
yield the State at least SIT. 0o0
THERE was commotion at the De-
trOit House OF direction when Health
OF GER Sh lite diagnosed the sickness
OF an inmate as smallpox. The man
had been serving In prison eleven
months and the authorities cannot see
how he could have caught the disease.
Capt Nicholson at once ordered a gen.
eral vaccination and had the man re-
moved to the city pesthouse, where
there are et present thirty-four small
pox patti, nts. The p isoners soon
learned that they had been exposed to
contagion and were almost thrown in
to panic through fear
AT Iron Mountain Game Warden
Brewster, OF Gran1 Rapids, an Sher-
i'll Catlin arrested F. Knighthert, C.
II. Ballinger, j. S. Cha:6eld, /. w.
Freeman NJ. A. Hand, Thomas Mich
OILS. John Whiteleree, J. II. Freeman,
aud Henry w. Leonard, Hunters from
indiana and Ill nois, charg with vio-
lating game laws in shipping venison
out of the State. All pleaded guilty
before Justice Miller and were fined
so and costs. Over q TIN of ven son
was captured. George A. Kendall.
agent of the United States Express
Company at Sagola, was al,o arrested
for having guilty knowledge of the
shipment.
FARMER ALLEN. of Arlington, lest
his ba n ind holse the other day by
fire in pee liar manner. He stepped
on a m tch in the house, setting fire to
some straw mating. He ran t, the
barn for a pll of water and while in
the barn { rev o. a ia ket which he
wore, and then ran into the house with
the wa'e". He found the fre had got.
ten beyond his co ltrol and VIII he
went out Of g house he saw that the
barn wa also on fire and burning cree
ly. The acket whi' h he had taken of
in tho barn was bla Ing at the time,
althO 9Th he had not motto ed it. IT,,
blaze had communicated from the ar.
ment to the woodwork of barn, and
it had no taken long for the build NJ
t. become mass of a mes
TIE Chicago and West Michigan
Railway Company has i5sue1 circu-
lar letter to the bondbolders of the
Chicago and West Michig IN Railway
and the Chicago and North Michigan
/ abroad stating that owing to the ex.
treLne depression OF bus ness in Michi-
gan it is without fund. to pay in full
the coupons maturing Nov. / and Dec
on the North Mi higan and West
Michigan bonds respective ly, amount
ing TO $41 1915 on the former and Sl4 =
$40 on the latter. The company pro-
roses to pay to holders of these cou.
pons the cash at its command from net
earnings, there eing no other availa-
BILE surplus AMI offers no ders one half
the amount of their coupons In cash
ana the OF er half in scrip, to be called
coupon scrip" payable In ten years
from date with interest at 5 per cent,
payable semi-annually, the company
reserving the right to repay the scrip
at any time on sixty days notice, or to
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