Crawford avalanche., 1894-03-08


been completed and Is now in opera
tion.
BISHOP vERrIN will dedic lte new
Catholic Church at Ontonsgon on
April Is.
THERE are within the boundaries of
Michigan q. 900 Indians, including 1000
school children.
RoBERT RUBLE OF Keeler was driv-
ing with his daughter, when he In
stantly died from heart disease.
MISS DAVIS residence at Whitmore
Lake burned to the ground. The loss
| Is quite heavy, but partly insured.
A MAD dog was killed on the farm oi
A. b. Coldren, at Worthwhile, after II
had bitten a cat, several hens and
hog NA
/ M. GRAY, the oldest dealer in grocer.
| les in Sheridan, Montcalm County, has
made an assignment for the benefit OF
his creditors.
A CHARLEvoIx Indian who hasn't
been paying his debts writes his cred
itor: "Me been afraid me hat send you
"a tollar now soon."
CHARLES GERMAN of Muskegon ha ,
brought suit against the city for S5, ,0J0
damages for injuries received by means
of a defective sidewalk.
THE dog poisoner is at work at How.
ell, but it Is the same there as every.
where-the valuable dogs get the meat
that is put out for the worthless ours.
KATIE BUCHANAN and May Hutton
were run over by an iceboat at Alpena.
Both young ladies were badly hurt,
and Miss Hutton may be a cripple for
life.
Ar Linden. near Flint, platform
collapsed and twenty-five or thirty
persons were more or less injured.
The crowd was listening to burglary
trial
NEAL MCKENZIE, farmer at Yale,
who went up to Gladwin County to work
in the lumber woods this winter, was
killed by falling tree five miles from
Gladwin.
ALPENA Maccabees want to put up q
hall of their own, and will try to sell
l,O00 shares of stock therein at SIC
each, which would secure the required
amount.
FARMERS in Worthwhile and vicinity
are grinding their wheat and feeding
1t quite extensively to their hogs,
SiaiihiuS " rOoiiIo Soou ~ iSo Aioih ~
in that way.
FOUR OF Prince Michael's flock are
preaching to the people OF Battle
Creek, and the Moon speaks OF them as
two long-haired men and two short
haired women.
A CONTRACT for grading and equip
ping an electric street railway from
st Joseph to Stevensville has been let,
and it is expected that cars will be run
ming down the lake shore by June l.
Two CONSTANTINE men are tanning
the hides of Galloway steers for lap
robes. They are said to be finer and
hand somer than the best quality OF
buffalo robes, and the best of them can
be sold for $40.
THE Fenton Fruit Shippers Associa-
| tion has been so successful in securing
reduction of freight rates that the
| growers in that immediate vicinity
will save $4,000 in transportation on
the coming fruit crop.
A ST. CLAIR firm will put in 100
barrel rOller-process Touring mill at
Richmond il the citizens OF the pace
will furnish site and erect build ng,
or If they will give bonus sufficient
to secure site and building.
Miss HATTIE BUCHANAN of Alpena
was seriously and perhaps fatally in
| iured by being run into by an ice boat
which was going at the rate of thirty
miles an hour. The man who was
steering the ice boat tried to turn out
| in time, but just at the critical moment
| the tiller broke and he was thrown out
of the beat, leaving it to run itself.
FIVE generations were present at a
gathering that celebrated the 85th
| birthday of Justin Hallsted in Cooper
| Township, Kalamazoo County. He and
his wife recently celebrated the sixty.
third anniversary OF their marriage
They have six children, twenty-three
| grandchildren, ten great-grandchil.
dren, and two great-great-grandchil.
dren.
MICHAEL FoREN, an eccentric resi-
dent OF Brownstown, died in his filthy
cabin, all alone. He had lived there
for many years, in about 8x10 feet oi
| space. starving himself to death, and
| he would allow no one to come any.
where near him. His bed was pallet
of dirty straw, which he had no,
changed in years, and an iron kettle
served for both cooking and washing.
A CERTAIN class OF tax-title sharks,
who have been waxing fat under a re.
cent tax law in this State which az
parently permitted the purchaser of q
tax title for the years 1887 and 1888 tC
receive deed of the property from the
Auditor General. received q severe
setback from the Supreme Court.
| Thousands of dollars have been invest
ed by spectators. Valuable proper
ties have been sold for the taxes and
there has been no end of speculation.
OF course, the delinquent taxes will
have to be paid, but the tax-title
| spectators are prohibited from ex,
tracing fabulous profits upon their in.
| vestments, and owners OF property who
have allowed taxes to lapse may re.
deem their belongings from the clutch.
es of tax-title sharks
A RECENT Lansing dispatch says
| 1t has developed here that the mem
bers of the Board of State Canvas ,ers,
who are the Board of Auditors, are
not the only State officers who have
been collecting heavy fees for services
performed. The Auditor General
Stanley w. Turner, seems to be in it.
too. His expense account since he
| went into Office, a little over q year
ago, has averaged over 800 per month,
while that Of his predecessor was
scarcely more than $3.50 for his entire
term of two years. He paid plenty OF
money for carriages, hotel expenses,
| parlors and sleeping cars, and most OF