Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-03-22
CRAWLING. MICHIGAN, THURSDAY MARCH o. 1884,


BAY CITY grocers are having .
merry war. Flour was yelling for $3.50
q barrel.
WILLIAM EASY, of Bedford, was
caught under falling tree and had his
foot crushed.
BERTHA DEMAsKI, a Cadillac Dress
maker, died In Chicago from the effects
Of an opiate taken to relieve head
ache.
STRONG gales have driven the ice
out OF the Straits OF Mackinaw. Sew
eral fishing shanties and nets were de-
strOyed.
GRAND RAPIDS is to have q new
trust company with capital OF $l6),-
coo. It will be called the Peninsular
| Trust Co.
PETER SWAN was found hanging by
the neck in a deserted box factory at
Bay City. He had recently come from
Illinois and was despondent.
JAMES DONOVAN escaped from the
Ionia Asylum for dangerous and GRIM
inal insane. He was employed in the
kitchen and was chronic criminal.
JOHN L. HILER, who was recently
arrested at Bloomington, ILL.,, on a
charge of bigamy, was well known in
Detroit, Grand Rapids and other
Michigan towns.
JOHN CaELLEw kept disreputable
place at Negaunee. The people up
| there are on their ear with regard to
such places, and Mr.. Chellew has been
sentenced to prison for four years.
BAD men have been shooting fish in
Otter Lake. The slaughter has been
| 80 great that the fish are much fewer
| in number and Of poorer quality, and
war will soon be waged by the game
| wardens.
| DEXTER HORTON, of Flint. sues J.
| B. Roe, of Detroit, for $1,000 damages.
He says he loaned $1,000 to Roe, and
that 1t was lost in an unfortunate
wheat speculation. The men we're
partners.
| The minister's of Grand Rapids pro-
| pose to make that town paradise and
rendezvous for tramps. The idea they
have promulgated is to establish q
soup house for the entertainment Of
vagabonds.
THE Seventh Day Adventists of Bat
tie Creek have divided their portion Of
the city into fourteen districts, in each
of which meeting is held every
| Wednesday night, to discuss the plans
for carrying on their work.
HENRY WILLIAMS, otherwise Shores,
| stole horse from Poet Ren Hathaway,
of Prairie Ronde. He has lost the Pc
| gasus, didn't get even whack at the
poetic fire, and will spend the next
three years Of his life in Jackson.
| RoSEDALE is little town not far
from the 500. This is important in
view of the fact that mosquito was
killed there the other day. There
was frost on his nose, but 1t only
made his sting the more poignant,
says the victim.
| A MONUMENT is to be placed over
the graves of Thomas and John Pagan,
at Holly. These were the rich misers
whose sudden death a year ago made
such a sensation. 1t will be remem-
bered that $4,000 was found in the
house and barn.
| THERE used to be dancing hall in
Battle Creek which was reached only
by a ladder, stairs being absent. The
ladies objected to this arrangement,
and the ladder was partitioned off by
blankets SO that the ladies could make
the ascent unobserved.
TEN Mt. Pleasant kids started OH a
freight train for Glare, where they
registered as professors, doctors. etc.
| They forgot to ask whether the train
stopped at Mt. Pleasant on the return
trip. Seven jumped off and were more
or less bruised. The remainder went
to Alma. 1t took big livery. bill to
| get them back.
| ON the Au Sable River, somewhere,
there Is an outcropping of lead and
/ Cfl h,,f I'm vh.r
| The exact locality has been known
only to two Indians, a father and son.
| The father could not be prevailed to
locate the place, on account of Indian
superstition, but several times he has
brought specimens to the village near
by. 1t Is very tantalizing situation
all around, and spectators are nearly
crazy.
| DIR. S. w. L. GIVEN and DR.. j. w.
Handy, of Flint, were returning at
night from sick call The horse be-
came frightened and, running away,
| dashed over an embankment into the
| Flint River. The buggy, horse and
DIR. Given disappeared under the
waves, but soon rose again, and the
Doctor saved himself by grasping some
| willow bushes. The horse swan down
the river and was rescued, together
with the buggy, intact.
THE Kings Daughters at the 500 do
very practical work. A converted rep
| rebate relates that one night, after q
debauch, he started toward the river
with the intention of drowning him
self. He had not gone very far when
something arrested his steps. He does
not know what happened, but in five
minutes he was in cosy place on his
knees praying by the side of a good
| Samaritan. He is now a respectable
citizen and has gone back to his wife,
| who could not live with him on account
of his habits.
| HOPKINS LAKE, near Owosso, is ap-
parently without bottom, but that isn't
| its chief distinction. It Is the home of
an immense fish, fifteen feet long, and
at least fifty years old, for It was first
seen about half a century ago. The fish
resembles floating log. It allows q
boat to approach within a few feet,
| when with a fearful splash IL dashes
out Of sight. This pleasant little habit
has been the means OF bringing sew
eral parties very near deaths door. In
the early days a family named Jenkins
lived near by. Two boys went fishing
one day. Their boat was found bottom
side up, and finally their corpees were
pulled to the surface. The fishing lines
were wound around the two so firmly
IL would have been impossible for
| them to become separated. IL tran
| epiraa savs the local liar that thev