Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-08-09

Sanilac County. IA ~,
THE 500 expects 70, get : too. factory
employing TO- mep,c ~
TaE drought Is, seriously In uring
fruit near South Haven.
BERvILLE. st. Clair County, is to
have new depot.
FIsHERMEN at Algonac report that
they have met with Z eat success this
! season.
| HERBEBT b. PARTRIDGE, Bay CITY
burglar, got three years at Ionia. He
was only y. ss
JOHN M. SWITCH, a Fairfield pioneer,
aged %, died Sunday ter an illness OF
several months. 80
SYLVESTER RrTTENHoUsE, while
temporarily insane, shot and killed
himsel at Benton Haabor.
>. The Pontiac. Oxford and Northern
Railroad Company Is surveying a line
from Kingston to Sanilac Center.
A BREAD riot is now feared at Iron
wood, as 100 men are out of work and
haven't a cent with which to buy food.
OSCAR BRIGGS, o Saline, committed
suicide by drowning himself in mill
pond. He was 10 years Of age and very
| feeble.
r A.SHAFT house and other buildings
I at the Pewabic mine. at lrOa Noun
tain, were destroyed by fire. The loss
| is $5,0Uu.
SPARKS from u locomotive set fire to
and destroyed the otter Lake ice
houses belonging to j. +. Heyniger, of
/ Detroit
The Manisi ne LAUNDERING Co.'s
| new mill at Grand Marais, is ready
for work, with capacity OF $1,000, 900
feet per year. - j.
FIVE HUNDRED pounds OF gas pipe
fell on Edward McKenDy foot at ; ort
Huron, mangling it so that he will be
a cripple for life. y. TFf,'vt.. ~
COLEMAN gets the soldiers and sail
| Ors' reunion tor Osceola, Isabella. Clare,
Gladwin. and Midland Counties 1t
will be held sept. Is to q.
MARLETTE wants better school
house, and Up cial meeting has been
called to consider the advlsab lity OF
raising money to add another addition.
THERE are forty-five saloons at the
Sault, but only twenty-six have taken
out licenses. Looks as if there were a
go chancs for the taxpayers to make
/ kick.
UNION railroad men, debarred from
railroad jobs by the Grand Trunk
blacklist, are leaving Port Huron in
numbers, hoping to receive obs else
whore.
WHILE running to a fire hose cart
at Adrian was Overtur. ed, and fire.
man run over. The latter's ankle was
di,located- The hose cart was bady
damaged.
81. CLAIR has but two empty lots re-
naming in its cemetery, and the Re-
publican serves notice on strangers
that this is the poorest place in Michi-
! gan to die.
| A THREE-MONTHS-OLD c ut in field
near Adrian was so badly frightened
| by storm of thunder and lightning
that 1t broke its back ty contraction
| of the mus cles.
| JULIUS LtNDSTRUM, the salvation
| army captain arrested for obstructing
Bay City streets, was found guilty and
fined SO. he ha; appealed the case to
the Circuit Court.
| DURING an electric storm seven
barns and one dwelling house in nils
dale County were struck by lightning
and burned. Not enough rain fell dur
ing the storm to lay the dust.
FRIDAY the Thermometer at the
weather bureau office.at Allena regis
tered yS $40 degree the highest point
rea he'd since the establishment of the
station TWEEN y-one yeacsagO.
SEVERAL far mers ihEthe vicinity of
| Bad Axe sent to firm in Nunda, N.
", for set of harness, which they
| claim to furnish for S2.97, but when
! they arrived it was nothing more than
rope made up in tn shape of harness.
ST.. CLAIR COUNTY farmers are
praying for rain. Everything is as dry
as finder, no rain having iallen for
many weeks. 1t is claimed that there
will not be more than half potato
crop.
MOSES TCREAU, the West Bay City,
an who kicked his wife in the head for
amusement short time ago, pleaded
guilty to assau tand battery and in de.
fault o. fine o S45 went to Jail for
eighty days.
ANDREW RoNDo. OF Cagget, Me-
nominee County, after search lastiog
many years, found a daughter at
Ontonagon who had been separated
from him in 1878. The meeting was
very affecting.
NEGAUNEE miners who went to Se-
DeWalng, expecting TO get work, came
back disappointed. They say trey
were not given cas- enough to keep
them working half time, and could
heardly earn their board.
A RAILROAD is t. be built from
Grand Haven t. Hackley Park next
spring. The right of way for tho
seven miles has been secured The
road will connect with the Lake Har-
Dor Railroad at Mona Lake.
THE Lake Shore Anti-Thief Society,
with headquarters at Ben;on Harbor,
has been organized by the fruit grow
ers OF Southwestern Michigan As the
name indicates, the purpose of the So
clety is to pros ecute fruit thieves.
A FELLOW out in New Jerusalem,
says the Mt. Pleasant Democrat. traded
his wife to another fellow for load of
shingles, and the second fellow, think
ing he had been cheated, stole the
shingle back, and now has both wife
and shingles.
THE Board of Education of Escanaba
has decided to build new 5000
schoolhouse Considerable opposition
has been made agai st the pro ect, tho
Mirror calling it an Infamous out
rage, that paper alleging the city has
already ample school acc jmmodations.
GRAssHoPPERs are so plentiful in
some parts OF Santa County that they