Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-02-08
Record of the Week.

MICHIGAN lumbermen hail the cold
weather, a it facilitates the moving of
logs from the various camps.
ALBERT A. HAZARD, for twenty
six years a prominent merchant of
Kalamazoo, is dead at the age of 81.
THE taxes in Haynes Township, AL
coma County, are III FER cent. of the
total assessed valuation Ct the property.
CARL SELoUKE. Milford saloon
keeper charged with selling liquors on
legal holiday, has been bound over to
the Circuit Court for trial.
THE Allegan County Farmers Mu-
tual Fire Insurance Company has BIOS
members, with 81, 755, 47G at risk. Dur
ing 1893 the ass essments levied amount
ed to 81, 40S.
ALICE Y. STRAIGHT, a fas hionabie
modiste of Grand Rapids, has filed a
chattel mortgage in favor of Fl. w.
Downs, of Boz ton, for $500. She owes
one Paris firm $4,000.
THE dog poisoner is abroad at Mar
quette at present. and many a canine
in that town Is biting the dust Strych-
nine is the agency employed to shuttle
off the mortal coil for them.
EAST TAwAs people who have mailed
letters on the trains at that point late
" claim that the letters have never
reached their destination, and a COM
plant has been forwarded to Washing
ton.
THE business committee of the State
Agricultural Society has decided to
hold the State Fair in Detroit, begin
ming Sept. 10. They haven't decided,
however, whether to continue the Fair
one week or two.
JAMES MCCARTHY, the fashionable
plumber, of st. Joseph. who was sem
fenced to prison for crooked work, was
taken with Commissions soon after he
learned his sentence. The disgrace has
well nigh killed him.
w. II. CULP, the balloonist, arrested
at Kalamazoo for passing counterfeit
money and who had 500 bad dollars in
his possession, pleaded guilty and was
bound over to the United States Court
with bail fixed at 81 900.
CATHARINE NJ. FILLMORE won her
suit at Ann Arbor to recover s., 900 in
surance on her husbands life from the
Knights of Maccabees. The knights
claimed his rights were vitiated by his
purchasing stock in a brewing COM
pany.
OSCAR BROWN, Sodus farmer,
buried his large potato crop TO get a
better price in the spring. Noticing a
well-broken wagon road across his pO-
tato field, he investigated the matter
and found hardly enough tubers left to
supply the family larder.
G. w. CHOPIN, member of bank
ing firm at Stanton, which made an
assignment last July with liabilities in
excess of assets of $4,000, has been ar
rested on complaint of Mrs. Beggs,
who charges embezzlement. Chopin
has not yet been able to give bon1.
THE following are recent appoint
ments on medical boards of pension
examiners In Michigan: Kalamazoo,
DIR. j. w. Bosnian, DIR. G.. w. Nihart;
Hillsdale. DR.. f. M. Stearns; Traverse
City, DIR. j. b. Martin; Kalkaska, DIR.
II. S. Trask, DIR. S. f. Neihardt; SAUL
ote. Marie, DR.. S. N. Rogers, DIR. c. j..
Ennis.
WILLIAM HENRY SUMMERS is q rug
peddler. He struck Bedding the other
day, and IL was alleged he was ped
ding without license. At any rate,
he was arrested under the city ordi-
nance. Now Mr.. Summers asks $4,000
because the city ordinance is out of
gear and the marshal had no right to
arrest him.
ST. MARKS HOSPITAL, which for
twenty-five years has been under the
control of st. Marks Church, Grand
Rapids, Is now q nonsectarian institu-
ton, and will be known as the Butter
worth Hospital. Thirteen doctors have
been appointed to manage II, while the
rector Of st. Marks and the mayor will
be honorary members Of the board.