Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-02-22

ploying 100 men. 1t is for the manu-
facture OF rubber goods.
AT Gibson Vile is an altruistic COM
munity of which any family may be-
come memt er by paying 500.
GRAND HAVEN is subdivided into
tho, Beech Tree, Fiety Hill. Dutch
town. Swamp and Sawdust districts.
SrONEwALL ]. DE FRANCE will be
tried March 5. The attorneys have de-
cidcd rot t {, ask for change of venue.
MIR. AND MRS. LOOMS A. MILLER,
of Grand Rapids. are finally divorced.
They have been having ten years ago.
T. ]. LUCAS, for twenty years large
shoe merchant of Grand Rapids, has
filed trust de ID in favor OF creditors.
JOHN TEARS, Of Corunna, is 60 years
old, but still bankers after profess
SIGN. He has just begun the study OF
law.
CoUNTERFEIT quarters are in circu-
lation in Ashley. The date of the coin
is 1876. The coin is very poor imita-
tiol.
THOMAS J. PARKER. resident Of
'4S-er and one OF the captors OF JEFF
Davis.
OLIVE ANDERSON lost a husband in
wreck at Vanderbilt in 1890. She
has just recovered $4,000 damages In
the courts.
CADILLAC has won the fight against
transient dealers. S. Yalenstein re-
fused to pay the city license. He has
been fined $50
MRS. CHARLOTTE A. BELDING, OF
Amsterdam, ~. Y. granddaughter
OF Benedict Arnold, died at North
vile, aged II years.
MRS. ASA WELLS, of Grand Rapids,
was robbed of 81, 200 in her home by
two masked men, one of whom Is be-
lieved to be hor husband.
AT Bay City Willie and Ed Sarisen
and James Sills, aged considerably less
than q, are in Jail charged with being
bold, bad highway robbers.
THE Zion Evangelical Church, In
Bay City, which has been nearly dis
rupted by the conference war, is now
restoring peace with a rousing revival.
MRS. A. b. BARNUM, of Charlotte,
read ninety-fve volumes of literature
during the past year, to say nothing oil
fifty different magazines and lot OF
uOWspdpOIo.
THE house on Charles Stanley's farm,
near Ypsilanti, burned to the ground,
and three inmates barely escaped with
their lives, the roof falling in minute
after they left.
Mrs. ANNA MCINTOSH, of Coleman,
deliberately walked upon the track in
front of a passing locomotive the. ether
day and was killed by being ground un-
der the wheels.
The Grand Rapids Guards have
been holding Midway Psaisance, and
Old Vienna was so realistic that real
lager was sold. The government officers
swooped down on them.
WITH niece of gas pipe as ladder,
Convict Billy Howard escaped from the
penitentiary at Jackson. He was serv-
ing sentence for burglary, and had
been in prison six years.
KALAMAZOO people have inspected
Ypsilanti's public electric light plant,
and found that Ypsi is getting lights
for $3467 year, less than one-third
what Kalamazoo has to pay.
ATHENS is raj ing bonus Of $3.50 to
start Touring mill that has lain idle
for a score of years. Fl. J. Weeks, OF
Battle Cr1sk, will run the concern
when the cash is forthcoming.
Roam CoE. of Climax, while stand.
ing on side track at Battle Creek
Sunday night, wa struck by switch
engine and seriously injured. He was
taken to his home in Climax.
THE Dickinson County Relief Com
mittee has made another call upon the
General Relief Committee of Detroit
70 - 10 -
the Upper Peninsula from starving.
THE agricultural implement plant of
f. Bement a. Sons, at Lansing, was
damaged by fire to the extent of $1,000.
The loss is fully covered and large
number OF companies are interested.
MRS. HARRIET MORRISON, wealthy
and aged Jackson widow, paid $4,000
for So pounds of copper and zinc alloy.
believing it to be gold. The old lady
isgreatly grieved over the swindle.
A RESOLUTION has been introduced
in the Pay City Board of Education to
reduce the salary OF the Superinten-
dent of Schools 20 per cent and the
high school teachers from ID to 20 per
cent.
HENRY NIXON, Penn nimrod, re-
killed In southwestern Michigan in
number of years. The bird measured
nearly twelve feet from tip to tip of its
wings.
THE family of Nelson Burlingame, of
Flint, were arr used from their slumbers
by tho barking of their dog, and found
their house in flames. They had
barely time to get out before the roof
fell in.
Mt. CLEMENS rejoices over the COM
pletion of its beautiful boulevard to
Lake st. Clair. IL cost the city only
S400, but it is expected that 1t will lie
worth 100000 to Mt. Clemens in the
course of time.
The pupils OF the Athens High
School will engage in theatrical bust
ness to create fund for equipping the
school with apparatus. Their first
venture will be the drama, "The Yam
kee Schoolmaster.
MRS. ROBERT w. SMITH, whose hus-
hand, a prominent Kalamazoo bus, ness
man, in November, 1892, left home on
a business trip through the Northwest
and never returned, has become raw
ing maniac. The mysterious disAp-
rearance OF Mr.. Smith has also crazed
his aged father.
THE residence OF Z. T.. Palmer, OF
Fork township, Mecosta Co., was de-
stroyed by fire, the family barely es-
Gaping in their night clothes. Had It
not teen for cat which jumped on the
face OF one of the occupants of the