Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-28

started near Negaunee.
A CASE Of CHAMBERS was reported al
Fenton, and the animal was shot.
THE graduating class OF the Bay
City high school numbers thirty -four
MASON will not celebrate this year
but her neighbors, Holt and Dansville
will.
ONE THOUSAND commission mer
from Chicago spent Sunday In ST. Jo-
seph.
THE Corrigan. Mckinley & Co. mine,
near Crystal Falls, will be opened with
seventy men.
| LANSING authorities are waging war
on tobacco dealers who sell cigarettes
to small boys.
FIVE young girls, and not q boy
among them constitute Ironwoods
graduating class.
JOHN WOODS, aged 10, while in bath
ing at Vandercook's Lake, near Jack.
son, was drowned.
| THE people who were poisoned by
eating ice cream at Ann Arbor are all
getting along very nicely.
AT Flint, George M. Spears tin and
rag shop was struck by lightning and
bnrned. The loss is $4,000.
BURGLARS chloroformed the six in.
mates Of a Muskegon house and got
f, only S7.85 for all that trouble.
LIGHTNING destroyed Harrison
Carlls barn, near Armada, together
with two horses and other property.
I'VE LITTLEFIELD quite recently SET
some traps in the woods in the vicinity
of Cheboygan and caughta large bear.
The new census, just completed,
shows Ionia to have 1850 families and
1923 people, an increase in four years
OF 526.
THE late rains at Belleville have
greatly improved the looks of crops,
and now verifying points to bounti-
full harvest.
HENRY MATTHIAS, of Roos Township,
near Battle Creek, was kicked in the
| stomach by runaway horse and died
from his injuries.
THE petition of w. H. Thacker, the
alleged wife murderer, of Benzonia,
for writ Of habeas corpus, has been
denied by Judge Corbett.
BEWARE OF Confidence Men. Do
Not Change Money for Strangers, is
Inscribed on 81 ms in Chicago AMI
Grand Trunk Railway cars.
AT Forestville, Henry Leonhardt
was found dead with bullet hole In
his breast and a revolver close by. 1t
is supposed to be case OF suicide.
Lou GILBERT and Miss Mabel Will
son, Of Chesaning, we're thrown from
buggy by runaway horse, and both
were injured, not seriously, however.
OLD Mrs. Bush, of Novi, aged l0S, is
hale and hearty, and can be seen near
ly every day, out about the yard,
smarter, physically, than most people
at 70 or 80.
IN 1864 an ottawa County mother
named her young hopeful Abraham
Lincoln. He has just distinguished
himself by picking 144 quarts of straw
berries in day.
AT Alpena, William Shepard and
Thomas Branscombe, who were arrest
ed as counterfeiters, admitted that
they made bogus coins, but said they
did it just for fun.
THE Coroner who held the inquest
on the Battle Creek wreck victims pre-
sented to Auditor General Turner what
seemed to be an exorbitant bill. The
Supreme Court has just ordered it
paid.
PONTIAC'S high school had 500 Wis
itors last year. II would be a good
thing If the average citizen visited
the public schools little oftener
Perhaps IL parents made practice of
going their boys would not be so liable
to play hockey.
ABRAHAM BURDEN, prominent
farmer of Marion, was found dead in
the field. He had been scraping of \
ditch bank with a young team. 1t is
thought the horses ran away, the
scraper handle striking Mr.. Borden
and breaking his reck.
ADRIAN is much excited because a
fat Jersey COW that was slaughtered q
short time ago was found 70 have been
the victim of tuberculosis. The ami
NAL belonged to an Adrian lawyer, and
had been pastured on farm with many
other Jerseys. One other COW was
suspected and killed, hut the disease
had not spread any further. People
who use butter and cheese are much
excited.
THE lottery business in the Bay
Cities Is said to be of enormous pro-
portions. Several large prizes sent
here advertised the concerns wonder
fully, and now there isn't month that
thousands of dollars arc not sent out to
enrich their Golfers. tickets in half q
dozen or more companies are DISPLAYED
fsr sac, and fey, e aIy, Of the deal.
eM make any pfetense at even cois.
cealing their business.
HEALTH OFFICER HocHsTEIN, of
Kalamazoo, IL being cursed about as
DIR. Lsod is In Detroit. Saturday night
q case OF smallpox was reported on q
box car. Dr. Hochstein took the, tramp
to the Jail, but the Sheriff would not
let him in. Then he left the supposed
patiert in the jail yard, while at least
300 persons crowded around, exposing
themselves to dangerous degree.
The city was In turmoil as result
OF parading the tramp around the
streets.
JOHN CLUBHOUSE, an insurance
man from Grand Rapids, who is one Of
principal witnesses for the people In
the prosecution of violators Of the
local option law in Antrim County and
is alleged to haye done detective work
for the Law and Order Lea9le. was
mobbed by about dozen roughs at
Mapcelona. Galehouse was sandbagged
with stone In a paper sack, his gun,
which he attempted to use, was
knocked from him with club and he
was badly kicked and bruised, but be
was on hand to give the balance OF his
test: monv in the morning