Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-13
Grand Rapids authorities wil try 10


A Homer farmer thinks ne beat the
worlds record recently Ia hauling $500
pounds of wheat to market In one load.
Cyclers mt Jackson must keep off the
sidewalks in the future. the Council hav-
ing passed an ordinance to that effect.
Clayton, the 14-year-old son of o. ID.
Barnes, and Irving Boston, both of Nash,
Vile, were drowned while skating.
Secretary Morton, of the Department
of Agriculture, has ordered the removal
of the signal service from Detroit to Ian
sing.
Angus McConachie, better known as
Angus Bell, an inmate of the Grand Rap
ids soldiers home, was found dead from
exposure.
When the old court house bell was TAX
,en from Berrien Springs to st. Joseph II
was kept ringing all the way through
the county.
John VOlmer, n Ihotel-keeper and mer-
chant of Lilly, was instantly killed by his
team running away. Mrs. Volmer was
seriously injured.
Richards saloon and McKenzie's gro
'cery at Alpena were destroyed by fire,
causing loss of $4,000, with insurance
amounting to $1,000.
The Kalamazoo Pill and Granule Fac
tory was damaged $1,000 by fire. Fred
Wnslow fell from second-story window
and was seriously injured.
There is an immense bed of peat ex-
tending out into the bay near Caseville.
Every storm washes large pieces ashore.
The peat makes excellent fuel.
William Warren and John Johnson fell
100 feet in the asylum water tower at
Kalamazoo with an elevator. Johnson's
head was bruised and Warren's leg
broken.
Within one week the school books in
eighteen Kalamazoo county districts
have been changed, much to the distress
of the poor parents, who have no use for
expensive fads.
At Manistique Joe Mitchell's house
burned, and two boys, aged and
years, perished. Mrs. Mitchell left the
children locked in the house while she
called on neighbor.
Near Greenville Monday night Levi
Mount was held up by footpads, sand
bagged and knocked from his buggy. His
brother, who followed at some distance,
came up and drove over his insensible
body.
Peter Dewar, rafting superintendent,
at Muskegon, spends his winter days
gathering cast-off clothing and making
pantnloons for destitute little boys. 9th
ers are catching on to the very commend
able fad.
A ,deputation of Michigan lumbermen
will endeavor to induce the Canadian
Government to abolish the duty on BOOM
sticks which the Americans take to- Can
ada to use in towing Canadian logs to
Michigan.
VIII Sears. of Escanaba, is 10 years
old, but If reports be true has good
chance of becoming n simon-pure desper-
ado. 1t is alleged he robbed Chinese
till and threatened to shoot the slant
eyed if he peached.
The George Il. Arnold Transportation
Company has closed contract with
Heath's Shipyard Company, of st. Jo-
seph for the construction of a passenger
steamer to run on short excursions to
Mackinac Island.
The newly elected county officers Of
Montmorency County will move into the
new county building at Atlanta shortly
after they are installed in office, rs it is
expected that the buildings will be COM
pleted early next month.
An Owosso prisoner escaped from the
court room and fed home. He was fin
ally caught on the top, of the house, shiv-
ering with cold. '"It's q case of freeze
out" he remarked to the copper who
yanked him off his perch.
During IA powerful sermon in the Con-
gregational Church of Alpena recently
"a large, Isl ok" mouse trotted up the back
of a young lady and sat on her shoulder
till discovered. The mouse escaped, but
not before the religious feeling of tine
meeting was destroyed.
Jackson Commandery, No. %, *. r.,
will be content with their trip to Boston
next summer, but will make number of
smaller trips before that time. In .Janu-
airy the commandery will visit Detroit
Commandery, and n little later on will
pay fraterna visit to Bay City.
The general store of Pollard & McKin-
ley. of Ashland Center, was totally de-
stroyed by fire. Mr.. Pollard's family es-
ceped in their night clothes. Loss about
5000 with no insurance. Mr.. Pollard
was ia Grand Rapids buying holiday
goods. The cause of the fire is unknown.
Mark Jones, the Adrian smallpox pa
tient. died at the pest house- The bed
ding. clothing and furniture were burned.
and the pest house underwent thorough
fumigation. Jones had been in the pest
house ten days. His severe injuries from
the fall he had in Chicago mitigated
greatly against his recovery.
When B. G. Hoyt & Son, bankers of St
Joseph and Berrien County, went ont of
business twenty years ago, several hun
dred acres of village, farm and low land
property were sold at sacrifice sale. Wal
lace & Barnes bid in large tract Of
marsh land Mt $G5, and now il is worth
fifty times that sum. 1t is found that
flaw in the transfer papers will revert the
ownership to Hoyt & Son. Many citi-
zens are making offers to the old bankers
of various sums of money to give quit
claim deeds to their homes.
Gov. Altgeld. of Illinois. honored the
requisition of Gov. Rich, of Michigan, for
rendition of Walter +. Kelley, who 10
wanted Mt Port Huron for grand larceny
and under arrest at Chicago. Kelley
stole $500 from Matthias Hermle, of Lane
County, Oregon, an emigrant to Michi-
gan. while on Chicago and Grand
Trunk Railway train. He woke Hermlc
at night and asked to see his money;
Hermle thought Kelley was an officer
and gave him his roll, which Kelley took
and escaped with. Kelley was a news