Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-21
owosso Hsptists will erect . go, 900


to steal exactly $l3. OF course, he was
caught.
PROTESTANT and Catholic children
united in the grand Sunday-schoOl rally
at Lansing.
FRANK B. WHIPPLE, the new rrin-
cipal Of Port Huron's high school, Is
hut y years old.
HoMING pigeons travelled from Nor
way to Milwaukee, q distance OF 2lO
miles, in just eight hours.
THE drug store OF Charles Weeks at
Augusta was robbed of large sum OF
money and quantity OF goods.
INN. H. Cathcart's photograph gal
lery at Flint burglars stole the lenses
from two cameras, valued at Sl25.
AT Iron River, to-, the women rule
the earth. OF the eight high school
graduates. eight are young ladies.
A STURGIs boy has ground hog for
pet. Another boy in tho same town
had ground hog for his breakfast.
IT cost Eaton County 100 to bring
two dozen grand jury indictments
against law-breaking saloon keepers.
A SWELL University student is
charged with stealing $3.50 diamond
ring from one of his lady-loves. No
prosecution.
r. III. ELLIOTT, prominent citizen
of Pontiac, is dead. He was Sc years
old and had been in the drug business
for many years.
HEADLY, KROPP & Co., the largest
dry goods establishment in Muskegon,
has filed four chattel mortgages to the
amount of S19, ,630.97.
THE trestles on the Duluth, South
Shore and Atlantic, burned near Nes-
toria, have been rep aced, and trains
are running as usurl.
AN effort Is being made to colonize
Roscommon and Oscoda Counties with
German settlers. They are sold lands
on the installment plan.
THE Marquette council has slashed
salaries. The controller Is cut from
81, 800 to 81, So, the street commissioner
from 81 200 to 81 900, and 80 on.
J. WILKINS, President OF the Gen.
trail Trades and Labor Council at Bat
tie Creek. resigned because the Coun-
Gil indorsed the Coxey movement.
WORK on the new Harrington Hotel,
at Port Huron, has begun. The hotel
will be six stories high, lO0xl8l feet in
size. and will be one of the finest in
Michigan.
THE fish beat Nc nkey was struck by
lightning about five miles out from Os-
coda and was torn to pieces. The
owner, Mr.. Ernst, managed to get
safely to land.
SOUTH HAVEN will celebrate the
Fourth of July. The leading attrac-
tion will be the departure OF DR.. Ran
som on his trip around the world in the
schooner Wrenn.
ALL but one of the twenty-five men
indicted by the Eaton County grand
jury for violation Of the local option
law have given bonds to appear at the
July term of court.
THE Sisters of Jesu Marie, one of the
wealthiest orders in the Catholic
church, will build $4,000 home on or
near Lake Linden. Twenty acres of
land was presented to them.
A CALUMET father and son had a
scrap" one welding halter and the
other strap. The father, although
IS years old. walloped the son oil over
the stable until he cried for mercy.
JUDGE VERNON H. SMITH, of Ionia,
nominates Judge John w. Champlin,
of Grand Ra oids, for Governor. Cham
plin, he says, represents no faction,
and is grand old ma generally.
EX-STATE TREASURER HAMBITZER
has purchased, with the aid of Mime
sofa capital, the Minerva gold mine at
Rat Portage, and hasn't single yearn
to get back into Michigan politics.
ELMIRA has a sensation. A young
married woman Lost a pocket-bo) TX con.
tanning s28. A way-up lady confessed
that she stole it. A warrant was IS
sued, but the husband settled the mat
ter.
ALPENA COUNTY maple leaves are
falling thickly. Investigation. shows
that the tender stem is cut by some
insect about half an inch from the
leaf, and owing to severe winds the
leaves have been whipped of.
THE State Prohibition Convention
will be held in Kalamazoo Aug. Z.
State officers will be nominated.
Every county in the Stata will be en-
titled to one delegate for every fifty
votes cast for Governor at the 1897
election.
CHARLES WESLEY MONROE Is not q
bigamist. The Gran1 Rapids court SC
decided. In 1892 he mar lied Lansing
woman: a few m nths ago he repeated
the ceremony with Aliminia Carr. II
transpires that the Lansing woman
already had husband, so her mar
riage to Monroe was void, leaving
Aliminia the complete right Of way.
THE revised list of 10 ses from the
great fire in West Bay City Is as fol.
lows: Magill & Mclaughlin, 'oss S25,-
600. insurance s17, 200; Moses House,
less $4,000, insurance $1,000; Joseph
Grow, loss $3.50, insurance S1,20J
Lind Bros, loss 81 900. insurance $462
loss by private parties on ST am yachts
and boat, in Lind's house $500, no In
surance: steam barge Thew, $2,50), in
sured. The Thew had part of car
go Of stone in her hold and has gone
to the bottom.
! JAMES L. HoUGHTELINC, of Chi
cago. was appointed executor of the
will Of the late Senator Stockbridge
and his bond fixed at 81 100000 The
will and codicil bequeath one-third oi
the property and homestead, horses
and carriage to the widow and $40, ,00t
a year until the estate Is divided The
estate is to be handled by the executor
Four others receive from $40 to S1,.
200 year and from one-thirtieth tC
one-fifth OF the estate when divided
The Children's Home of Kalamazoo