Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29

The Ann Arbor Railroad Is about to
buy 900 new freight cars.
The Eddy Sheldon Co. Is about to erect
big planning mill in Bay City.
Bread is selling In Inlay City for three
cents per loaf, or two for FIVE.
Julius Goldberg, for twenty-three years
a cigar manufacturer at Kalamazoo, died,
aged 50.
The Rudell Ice Cream Co., ut Grand
Rapids, has filed chattel mortgage.
Liabilities, $1,000.
Port Huron. with 10000 people, has
seventy saloons, and Y. M. @. A. is
now talked of as an antidote.
A Riverdale merchant was fiim-fam-
med with some eggs from which the con-
tents had been blown and water in
serted.
Miss Cynthia Irish, who had been in
charge of the Kalamazoo asylum cot
tages for twenty-five years, dropped
dead.
The Salvation army at Grand Rapids
couldn't raise enough money to hire a big
hall end hence had to forego visit from
Gen. Booth.
There was nothing mysterious about
the death of Proctor Atwood, near Port
Huron. A postmortem showed that he
had heart disease.
A G,0OO-pound bell is on its way to Bay
City. 1t is five feet and n half in di-
ameter and will ring out the hours from
the new City Hall.
Bellaire's new hoop factory, employing
seventy-five men, has begun work. The
Buckeye factory at Mancelona has beer
removed to Gladstone.
John l.. Miller, arrested at Oshkosh,
Wis, is wanted at Flint on charge of
robbing Hermele Matthias, poor Ger
man immigrant, of $27O.
Andrew Leonard fell from the third
story of the Clarendon Hotel at Grand
Rapids He walked some distance after
he was hurt, but it is feared he cannot
live.
August Kinder, living three miles south
Of Sebewaing, was found dead in his
house by neighbors. He had evidently
committed suicide. No cause is known
for the rash act
Thos. ID. Gilbert, aged 20. one of the
mostprominent citizens of Grand Rapids,
is dead. He leaves wife but no children
to inherit his estate, which is estimated
at over 100000. He kept out of politics,
but in formeryears was frequently known
as Gubernatorial possibility.
An INLAY City youngster who had q
cold saw his elders take cough medicine
out of bottle, and when he got n chance
he took some too. His intention was
good, but he overdid the mater and took
about half the contents of the bottle. A
doctor and stomach pump succeeded in
saving him.
IL. III. Hall, telegraph opera
tor of the Detroit. Lansing and
Northern Railroad, was instantly killed
at l.akeview, the result of attempting to
board freight train moving at the rate
of fifteen miles an hour. He was mem
Der of the knights of t.le Maccabees and
leaves a widow.
Uncle Harvey 1. Baldwin, one of Pal
myra's favorite sons, recently retired"
from the Office of Justice of the Peace
after forty-eight years continuous serv-
ice and said he wouldn't take it again.
But the Palmyra people let him rest just
one term, and the Squire" is once more
in harness. A singular coincidence is
found in the fact that the house Mr.. Bald
win occupies and has for many years.
was once the home of Tiffany, of Justice
Guide fame.
About year ago. the dry goods firm
of Livingston & Bloch, of Kalamazoo,
filed chattel mortgages for large amount,
naming Henry Stern as trustee. Five
suits, involving claims of about $4,000,
growing out of this transaction, are to be
tried in the United States Court. In the
initial suit it is claimed that before FL
ing the mortgages, Livingston & Bloch
shipped a large quantity of goods to
fictitious addresses throughout the State,
and that these goods were received by
near relatives or friends of the firm, and
were never paid for.
John Lee, of Eckford, who has been
burglarized thrice within n few weeks
and robbed of considerable property, is
again the victim of a mysterious plot
man representing himself as Il private de-
tective called upon him and induced him
to accompany him to Marshall for the
purpose of having his fortune told. A
descendant of the witch of Endor told
Mr.. Lee that he would again be burglar
lied, and the next time blood would
flow. What the witch and detective are
after remains to be seen.
Chicago commission houses must be a
nice lot if several recent stories about
them are true. One of the papers in the
fruit belt told of two apple-growers near
Fennvile who sent part of their product
to a Chicago house. One of them re-
ceived thirty eight cents for some sixty
barrels, and the other fifty cents for
thirty-five barrels. And now comes
story from the Menominee County Jour
nal to the effect that man in that coun-
ty sent quantity of wool to commits
sion house in Chicago, and since then has
heard nothing from 1t or received no pay
for it. Although he has written to them
several times about the matter, he cannot
even get the wool back.
Two would-be schoolmasters in An
tioch Township, near Cadillac, have lost
all their faith in human nature. One
started in the first morning with chapel
exercises, but was surprised to notice
that no one joined in. Looking up from
his prayers, he saw that two boys were
playing penny-ante in a corner of the
room, another was smoking corn-cob
pipe. Before he had time to expostulate
a girl of 16 came to the desk, ripped out
a terrible oath, and pointing to the peda-
gogue exclaimed: Boys, what do you
think of that?" The young man walked
fifteen miles to get home that day. His
successor stayed two days and left.