Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-05-03

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streets after o'clock at night will be
arrested.
The Unitarian Church in Kalamazoo
will henceforth be called the Peoples
Church. .
DIPHrHERIA has broken out ut For.
ester, Sanilac County, and the schools
have been clQsed. -.
QN5 OF the largest funerals that wer1
e,er held at Berlin was that OF Mrs.
Haas and her twins.
AT Jackson. Mrs. Constantine Shan
non died: on the same day her sister
died 1T Neenah, Wis.
TIE adventists of Battle Creek have
decided to put thirteen tent mpanies
in the field this summer to do mission
airy work.
TIE basement of the Ontonagon jail
is flooded with water. Prisoners need
Ing baths a e simply let down through
THE Marshall Township Board offers
$500 for the arrest and conviction OF
persons guilty OF "maliciously breaking
into the Town House."
OF ll9 voters naturalized at Negau-
nee the other day, IS were Italians, IL
Swedes, 10 English, IL Danes, 2 Ger
mans and 40 FinlaQder,. : -.
At the Central NJ. Z. church n
Lansing Secretary of State Gardner
preached, and raised $4,000, which viii
be applied on the church debt.
THERE are 80 many dead cats and
other foul smelling things on Soc
streets that three prominent ministers
have united in written protest.
w. ). WHITE saw mill at SCOTS,
Kalamazoo County, were burned.
Loss, $1,000: no insurance. The -four
ing mill narrowly escaped the fire.
ALL the men employed by the Dia-
mond Match Co. on the drive of the
OntonagOn River are out on a strike.
They. were getting 81 per day and
want SO.
GEORGE TAYLOR. who lives in Leoni
Township, about half mile northeast
OF Jackson, let lantern drop in pile
OF straw in his barn, and the barn was
entirely consumed.
The net earnings of the Flint &
Pere Marquette railroad during 1893
were 1858, lS3. 81, as against 1851, 1851. l3
the year before. There we're IS, 489,-
10 feet OF logs handled over this road.
THE safe of the jackson Engraving
Company was opened and SIS stolen.
j. r. Golden, a rubber stamp agent.
who &C upied desk in the Office, was
arrested on suspicion and bound over
tor trial.
A NUMBER of Sandstone farmers
tool n In ,hox,
they found in a marsh eight miles west
he Is an escaped inmate of the Calhoun
county house, and he was returned to
Marshall
THE 500 is to have new hotel. It
will be three stories high and will be
fitted out with all the modern cOnven-
fences, steam heat. electric lights,
baths, ETC., and it will be run in a first
class manner.
CENTRAL LAKE is experiencing a
building boom. This summer two new
churches will be built and Intermediate
River is to have bridge. The people
will be asked to vote on $4,000
schoolhouse. .1r< -
EDWARD RICE, mason employed on
the Pythian temple, at Grand Rapids,
fell from the seventh story to the base
ment, distance of 120 feet. and was
fatally injured. Rice struck the ground
with such force that his body rebound
ed and was found several feet from the
elevator shaft down which he had
fallen with defective elevator.
A PROMISING young merchant of
Yale recently presented his wife with
a beautiful piano lamp on the anniver-
sary of her birthday. He was much
battered when she told him she in.
tended to give it his name. until he
asked her reason for so peculiar pro-
ceeding. why" said she. you know,
dear it has a good deal of brass about
it. 1t is handsome to look at, requires
a good deal of attention, is remarkably
brilliant. Is sometimes unsteady on its
legs. liable to explode when too full,
flares up occasionally and is bound to
smoke"
CONVICT RIPLEY was released We'd
nesday from Jackson prison, having
served a twenty-fve-year sentence for
assault. Ripley made full good time
and was inside the walls a trifle under
nineteen years. He had never seen a
telephone, electric car nor b lick pave
ment until he came out. The city, he
said seemed like fairyland to him, and
the actions of people moving about the
streets were like unto picric when
he was boy. He had saved a few
dollars during his confinement, which
he was disposed to spend as a boy
spends a dollar at Christmas. He is 40
years old.
ATTORNEY GENERAL ELLIS has filed
an opinion to the effect that. under the
new law, real estate mortgages are
treated a. personal property. and as
such are assessable in the township in
which the mortgagee resides. Mort
cages owned by nOn-residents are nom
unless the mortgage re-
sides within the State. Mortgages
owned by banks are not to. be deducted
from the capital stock OF said banks,
the only deductions to be made being
the value of the real estate which the
banks own. Real estate must be as
ed at its true cash value, without
regard to the mortgage thereon.
HENRY FRAME has confessed that he
helped Charles Macard rob and kill old
Mrs. Miles Mckendrick at Grand Rap
ids, last January. He was arrested at
Libertyville, Ill. He ssys his con-
science made him suffer such tortures
that he could not but confess. The
murder was dastardly one. The
woman was gagged, robbed of $500,
and finally suffocated to death. Charles
Macard, whom Frame duplicates, is
now on trial He is a nervy fellow,
having been convicted several years
ago OF killing Michael O'Hara. but
gained his liberty on technicality.