Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-12
PEACHES are oil right In Ventura.

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SARANAc's high school has just
graduated six pupils.
A ST. IGNACE man, digging for Q
we'll, struck q lode of nickel mixed
with silver.
IT Is believed one-half the peach
buds near South Haven we're killed by
the recent cold weather.
FREE vaccination has been ordered
at Kalamazoo. Only one case OF small
pox has so far developed.
THERE are ten churches and ten
saloons on the Gratiot road between
Detroit and Mt. Clemens.
MISS CHAPLIN, principal of the
Charlevoix high school, has resigned
to become missionary to China.
THOMAS MITCHELL, of Caro-, was
seriously injury by being thrown from
his wagon while his team was running
away.
sfEIGHT great-grandchildren helped
Mrs. Louisa Sharpsteen, who lives
near Kalamazoo, celebrate her 74th
birthday.
THE Holly Lumber Company plant
has been sold to f. j. Barrett, OF Holly,
who will start the mill at once and en-
ploy thirty men.
FARMERS in the vicinity of Holly
say that owing to the little rain and
freezing nights serious damage is
being done to the growing wheat.
MAY LA BAT, an inmate OF the In
dustrial Home for Girls at Adrian,
died of consumption aged 16 years.
Her homo was in Sault Ste. Marie.
MRS. RoELEF HAZEKAMP was found
dead in her residence near Holland
Monday, having smothered to death.
She was 46 years old and lived alone.
ArbOr have adopted class aower and
class colors. The flower Is the daisy
and the colors are yellow and white.
AT Lake Linden Monday night Fred
Houde was sandbagged and robbed OF
$500. Two men have been arrested on
suspicion OF having been the assailants.
THE Gunrantors' Accident and FL
deity Insurance Company OF Phila-
delphia was licensed to do business in
Michigan by the insurance commits
sioner.
THE inspector of hulls at Port Huron
says that more masters and pilots pa
pers have been issued this spring than
ever before IN the history OF the local
office.
THREE Whitehall men named Geo.
McLaughton, Frank Gimo and Nelson
Shutters, arD under arrest charged
with illegal fishing in Silver Creek and
White River.
A REDUCTION has been made in the
wages of tho employees of the stone
quarries at Scofeld. About eighty
men are affected by IL, and they talk
OF going on strike.
A DEARTH of houses to rent is re-
POI ted from Springport. 1t is report
ed that at the present time there are
five families Who wish to get houses
that cannot be accommodated.
m the teachers examination for
Calhoun County held at Marshall,
there were nirety-eight candidates.
ono for tirst-grade Gel tiicate, four
for second grade and the rest for third
grade.
CRUMP settlement, in Cheboygan
County, is quarantined, owing to diph-
liberia making its appearance at that
place. Two children have already
died with it, and there are several
other cases.
JAMES HAMILTON, of Kent County,
was sure he had oil on his farm, and
bored for it. He did not find oil, but
he did find fine deposit of hematite
iron, which may be made into either
paint or steel.
THE latest about Latimer, the fiend
who murdered his mother. is that he
has grown fat, and that he enjoys him
self eating, sleeping, and reading. 1t
is said that his conscience doesn't seem
to trouble him in the least.
MRS. CHARLES SMITH, an old resi-
dent of Highland, Oakland County, was
burned to death In her room. The old
lady was 73 years old, and the indica-
tions are that she set fire to herself
while trying to light her pipe.
ALGoNAC citizens are Frightening
the place up preparatory to receiving
its summer visitors Local fishermen
Of that village say that perch ana bass
are just tumbling over each other, so
anxious are they for warm weather
and the accompanying bait.
THE Adrian Electric Street Railway
cars we're tied up because the Electric
Lighting Company has an unpaid claim
against the railway for furnishing
power and shut off the current. The
railway company also owes its employees
and has a bonded debt of $36, 900. There
is talk of a receiver being appointed.
AT Lansing, Secretary of State
Gardner bas been investigating the
accounts of ex-Deputy Lindholm, the
defaulter, who fed to New York.
Among the ex-Deputy's friends there
is a prevailing sentiment that he is in
sane. Had he contemplated robbery,
there is no reason why he should not
have taken the $4,000 worth OF treas
urJ checks in his desk, which would
have been honored at any bank where
| he could have bean identified. Two
| checks, aggregating $500, made pay
able to Lindholm personally, we're also
| left behind. Another letter arrived
addressed to the Secretary OF State
| from Lindholm in New York. He ad-
mitted a shortage, and said he could
not raise the money to square it. Clerks
In the department say his store and
stock OF goods are worth 1000 and his
Chicago real estate $4,000, with only
$1,000 unpaid on them. His shortage
| is trife less than 5000, and no one
but an insane man would have fed un-
der the circumstances. It Is known he
has been despondent since notified of
his dismissal, and he was greatly wor-
ried over the coming trial OF ex-Secre-
tary Jochim, at which he was an inn
| portant witness. HIS family will not
| go to Sweden, as he advised, but will
| remain In Lansing. He left them with