Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-03-29

A NEW bank VIII DO started 1T MaJ6
lette, Sanilac County, In the near fu'
ture.
THOMAS ANDERSON, OF Manistes,
was struck by lightning and may not
recover.
CHARLES BEEKMAN, Manistee
painter, fell from q steamer and was
drowned.
A MARINE CITY man carries an old
| fashioned English bulrs-eye watch that
Is 129 years old.
JOHN CYPHER, OF Lapeer, died near
Lapeer. He was 81 years old and had
served in the war OF 1ol2.
CHARLES MEYERS, an inmate of the
Soldiers Home at Grand Rapids, was
killed by dummy train.
INDIAN LAKE sinners are being
bombarded by the Adventists, Meth
Odist and Crusaders all at once.
GEORGE MEERDING, Janitor of the
Kalamazoo public library, was found
dead in the basement Of the building.
WILLIAM BURKE. wealthy farmer
OF Ann Arbor, died suddenly. He was
a peculiar character and was IA years
old.
The Calumet & Hecla mine is send
ing upward of $4,000 tons of mineral
daily to its stamp mills at Lake Lin
den.
OF the Epworth League at Ypsilanti
nearly 1000 were present from Detroit
and other towns.
DIR. w. II. GUM, the Grand Rapids
physician convicted CT criminal assault
at Stanton, has been sentenced to jack
son for seven years.
A MUSHROOM woman thrashed her
husband on public street. She said
he had sneaked SIS OF her money and
blown 1t In at carousal.
BRUCE MILLS, OF Ypsilanti, aged 3
years, drank about half cupful OF
kerosene oil when no one was around,
and IT nearly proved fatal,
ANTHONY ALE, d Mt. Clemens pea
nut vender, cut his wife's head with q
hatchet. Four years ago ALE shot
and killed a Detroit man in dispute.
THE debts of the West Michigan Ag-
ricultural Society are being wiped out
by Secretary Fisher, who reports that
everything is being adjusted harmoni-
ously.
MUsKEGoN parties have bought the
Buffalo steamer Nyack, to run on the
lake between Muskegon and Milwau-
kee. The steamer was built at cost
Of $4,000.
j. W. WErNMAN, OF Lakeview, has
purchas cd 4,C00 acres of stump land in
Isabella County. He'll build saw mill
and start q new town to be known as
Weidman.
The lock force at the 500 are busy
preparing for the opening of naviga-
tion and making everything in readi-
ness for the reception OF the first boat,
whenever she may appear.
THE estimate for the support Of the
Indian school at Mt. Pleasant during
| 1895 has been increased from $24, 260 to
$32, $50. 1t is proposed to have $50 pu-
pills at the school instead of 100.
AARON +. SERvIs, who died at Wood
vile, Newuygo County, at the age of
| 50 years, was for many years a resident
| of Genesee County and for twenty-five
years an active minister of the gospel
in this State.
L. G. TRUAx'S shingle mill at Kinde,
| Huron County, was destroyed by fire,
the loss being $1,1O0, with no insur-
ance. A spark falling in pile of saw
dust is thought to have been the cause
| of the blaze.
THIRTY-FIvE cases of measles were
reported in Grand Rapids on Friday.
Its rapid spread Is said to be due TO
the fact that no attention is being paid
| to the quarantine rules established by
the Board of Health.
THE Weekly Tribune, of Manistique,
in speaking OF q citizen who had been
fined SO for beating his wife. says that
any man who has contracted such q
habit should be fined 81, 900, 900 and i'm
prisoned for 300 years.
A HOWL is going up from Muskegon
and Grand Rapids over the schedule OF
the Chicago and West Michigan Rail
road: By It these two towns have no
service with Chicago from Saturday
morning to late Sunday night.
CRYSTAL FALLS, village of only Q
few hundred souls, has a debt of $40,-
QUO hanging over its had. For that rea-
son 1t Is pretty hard to get man who
will act as village president and Tor
once the Office begs the man.
| AT Muskegon muskrats are being
killed on the public streets. There
isn't so much danger now as there WAS
Of being waylaid by the animals, bit
dead in the face, or being brutally
pounded by their long, flexible tails.
GEORGE CLARK, Of Vassar, drives q
colt with hard mouth, and 1t cost him
! just 81 the other day. He was out
driving, and when he came to the HUI
ron avenue bridge the colt did NOT
care TO be pulled down to walk, &c
Mr.. Clark was fined by Justice Bourns
for fast driving.
THE saloon of A. Nichols, in Loomis,
looks as IL cyclone had struck il.
Somebody who poses as q reformer cut
and destroyed the cover of the pool
table, cut up the cards, carried off the
pool balls ami fourteen kegs of beer,
and left a lamp burning In the cellar
without chimney,
DANIEL II. WATERS, a wealthy citi-
zen of Grand Rapids, died in Florida.
Before he went south he made hun
dreds Of poor famiiAes happy by his
contribution OF $1,000 to the relief
commission. He had always been gen.
erous, and although a millionaire had
worked as hard as day laborer.
1T Is somewhat early In the season
for fish stories, b 1T the Stanton Herald
has the following: "The high wind last
Saturday night blew over ten bushels
OF fish out OF Pearl Lake upon the pro
jecting slabs of the wharf on the west
shore. They were mostly black bass
and blue gills, some of the bass weigh.
ing FIVE pounds. The inhabitants oi
the village were out in large numbers
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