Crawford avalanche., 1894-08-23


THREE Osceola County girls drew
cuts 20 see who should have the COM
mon lover.
THE Northern Electric Co., of AL
pena, makers OF tannic acid, suffered a
fire loss Of $4,000.
STEPHEN PLEws, an orphan of Brit
| ton, has lost his foot 1t was crushed
while the 10y was climbing over coup.
lings.
MISS JENNIE WILSON, of Port Hu.
ron, fell from @ hammock, suffering
c0ncussiOn OF the brain. She may not
recover.
PEOPLE still 60 to st. Louis, Mich,
instead OF the big Missouri town. A
Russian lady was the last to make the
| mistake.
The West Michigan Agricultural
and Industrial Society will hold its an
nual fair at Grand Rapids. September
"A to 20.
HING LEE, an Ypsilanti Chinese, I"
doesn't care IL his country is licked. He
would like the present Tartar dynasty
overtbrown.
MUSHROOM toughs threw rotten eggs
| at the Sa vat on army through tran
som. The authorities are making it
hot for them.
A FENTON lady lost her switch the
other day. Without .alse modesty she
| advertised for the switch and / was
returned to her.
FRANK PROCIEUs, a young farmer OF
Portage Township, kalamazoo County.
mi, took his wife Tor burglar and shot
her, killing her almost instantly.
BURGLARS entered the residence of
G. II. Cerow and j. w. Lewis, OF Port
Huron, and secured a gold watch and
to the perpetrators.
j. w. HAsTY, a Kentucky bachelor
OF TO years, SAYS he reeer kissed a
woman. We have not lived quite so
lCng, but up to date have the same
record. .-Minden Herald.
THE Ann Arbor treet railway, dor
mant for seven or eight months, will
be in operation within a month.
Workmen have begun fixing the track
| and putting in extensions.
ZEB SoUPHIE and Mcclure Glougie
are under arrest at Bay City for sell
ing DR.. T. A. Birds glandered horse
to Tuscola County farmer. They say
they didn't know it was sick.
WHILE summing himself on the beach
at st. Joseph. Edgar Emerson, of
Chicago, fell asleep and was relieved
of his ocketbook and $3.50 by female
companion. The woman disappeared.
A WOMAN weat all the way from
Wisconsin t) Mt. Pleasant for the pur.
pose of taking baths. She didn't know
that Mt. Pleasant hal no "stinking
water, but mixed the town up with Mt
! Clemens.
ANNA PHALASKI, a giddy maiden
living at Bethel, Branch County. Is ac-
cused of giving false information t)
the census enumerator, she claiming
t be only l0j, when she was actually
107 years old.
WHEN it comes to producing frogs
with an abnormal number OF legs, Mt
Glen ems il the king bee in that line.
John Ereitmeyer q 5 rs, of Detroi :,
have q slx-legged frog preserved in al
cohol found at Michlgan's ce ebrat ID
s ring resort
DENNIS DEviNE, q farmer living near
Owosso, drowned himself in the Shia-
wa see hiver. He was demented. The
waite. in the river was only about a
foot deep. He tied no weight about
his neck, bat just lay down in the water
AMI drowned.
REV. FR. +. G.. KELLY, of Lapeer
| the youngest Roman Catholic priest in
the United State !, has just delicat ID
| an $4,000 church at Inlay CT y and a
| $40 church at Day i5on He is only
8 years old and has teen at work in
the field about year.
REV. J. w. HOLT. of the Hay Lake
Union Church, not far from the 500,
was Just in the midst OF his sermon
when Mrs. Isaac Ea gle marched up the
aisle furiolsly, declaring that the
| church belonged to her through q
foreclosed mortgage and ordering min
| ister and congre gat on to SIX ,daddle at
onc,, which they did after singing the
| doxo!ogy The Eagles moved the
church into the street then several Of
| the crowd were arrested and the
house o, God stands on no m ms land.
Deputy Sheriff Powell H. L. Will.
| Jams and II. G. Parker, of Battle
| Gre elk, went to Kalama 100 to recover
! the plumber alleged to have been stolen
| by w. Z. Porter and A. G. Baker.
| Williams reco, cred his horse and
carriage and Parker secured of the
| clothing taken from him, besides val
uaOlo diamond PIN anu SOlu glasses,
| the theft Of which had not been made
public. One OF the men looks as II he
| had Just come out of prison, as he is
very white while the other was very
much tanned. They refcse to tell
where they reside. Viii at Battle
Creek they went to church Sunday and
wore tho clothes that they had stolen.
CAsNovIA has g DRIED in its suicides.
burglaries, scandals and all that goes
to make up the az erage life of com
try village, but its cup o happiness
seemed not to be quite iull until "Le.
lah the ,air and dashing young maid
g who cancels stamps and shu1ies the
mail in the postoffice. eloped with q
Sparta young man named Eosenblr lrk.
/ elah il the only daughter OF Wesley
Hanna, the postmaster, bright, fair.
and irreproachable character. Her
parents vainly tried to divert her mind
from matters of love, and induced her
| to st dy medicine. but while pretend
ing to b absorbed in oste Jlogy, ma
terra medica, she was writing and re
ceiving love letters and laying plans
for the future, which eliminated as
above.
| A sACRELIGIoUS cat went into a
Forster church to prey. She WASH
long before sne felt a desire to pray.
On, the seventh day the diet on church