Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-03-01

AUD. Gen. TURNER has 30 Tar SOLO
s110, 900 worth Of tax titles. Applica-
tions are pouring In every day.
SIEPKE MINNEMA, q farmer, was
struck by train in Grand Rapids and
tossed high in the air. He will die.
AT Hager, Frederick Westfall slash
cd his wife with case-knife, and after
setting fire to the house hanged him
self.
NINETY-EIGHT new members were
admitted into the Sault Methodist
church as result OF the recent re-
vival.
AT Adrian, Mrs. Cora Mountain COM
mitted suicide by morphine. She was
infatuated with William Essig, a mar
ried man.
THE little hamlet OF Cheshire in
Allegan County, has sixty converts as
the result OF a recent series OF revival
services.
ALPENA is going to get an electric
street railway, sure. A Chicago com.
pany has a franchise on some OF the
principal streets.
CHARLEvOIX schoolma' ans arc soft
hearted. When they whip kids they
feel 80 sorry that they pay them 5
cents to stop crying.
A BATTLE CREEK man, who has been
reading the papers, figures that there
have been 10000 conversions in Michi-
gan since snow first began to fly.
WHEN Miss Eva Anderson, of Mus
kegon, died she left $1,000 She had
saved the money during the past twelve
years working Tor 50 or $4 week.
REV. j. BREWSTER HUBBs, the
Grand Rapids Episcopal divine, who
came out for socialism a short time
ago, has now announced himself q
single-taxer.
THE Muskegon Log Towing Associa-
tion handled 1l2, ,669, 54S logs last year.
This Is the smallest number handled
since 1866. The largest was els, 447,-
1893, in 1884.
A MARQUETTE boy got drunk in
school and slugged the principal so
hard the latter had to call for as
sistance. Even then he escaped from
his pursuers and fed to the street.
THE insurance companies ordered
the Sault Common Council to build two
additional hose houses. The city has
not done so, and now insurance rates
have been advanced twenty-five per
cent.
WHAT is said to be largest pine tree
ever cut in the Upper Peninsula was
| recently felled near Chassel, Houghton
County. It was five feet five inches in
diameter, and sixteen feet in circum-
| ference.
JAMES BLACKMoRE and William
Eagle, farmers, were arrested at Al
| pena for smuggling horses from Can
ada. The men claimed to be immi-
grants, and this got the horses in free
of duty.
THE Tamarack cooperative store at
Calumet has probably made more
money the past year than has the mine
itself. 1t will divide among its stock
holders $4,000 as the profits on last
years business.
MISS NORA MERITHEw, of Osceola
Township, Livingston County, took a
dose Of aconite to cure a cold, and 1t
came very near doing so. The doctors
had to work four hours to get the young
lady out of danger.
ANYONE who turns in q false alarm
at Ovid hereafter must cover his tracks
we'll, as the Council has passed an or
dinance providing that anyone guilty
Of such an offense shall be fined S25 or
jailed for ninety days.
FIRE broke out in the Oaks House,
the leading hotel in Reed City, and the
building was entirely destroyed. Much
of the contents was taken out in bad
condition. The loss on the building is
placed at 81, 900, with 81 900 insurance.
AN aged and eccentric farmer by the
name of Harmer, living near Ceresco,
1 ia6 NIL 10 rrnn I'm 20. hox
considerable money hidden away, but
left no clue as to its whereabouts. His
son found about $500 in gold coin in q
small bag in an oat bin. Continuing
his search, he unearthed $4,000 more
in the bottom of the bin.
HORACE SMITH, of Dimondale, has q
SOW which he thinks Is a record-smash-
err. Within one year ard fifteen days
she turned out three litters of pigs
forty-four in all. During this time
Horace has sold $S5 worth of live hogs
slaughtered four from the second lit.
ter, which weighed 225 pounds each,
for his own use, and is wintering three
besides the mother.
AN Albion female physician has as
much pluck as man. She was called
to a neighboring village and started
out in the dead of night. She had
not gone very far when she sank in q
snow bank up to her waist, and came
near perishing, but she bravely strug.
gled on, walking two miles in snow SC
deep that she could make only few
steps a minute. She got to her pa.
tient in good time, however.
EDWARD PERKINS died recently al
Owosso. He had separated from his
first wife, whom he married in 1856
and believing her dead, married again.
In his lifetime he accumulated and
sold considerable property, his second
wife signing the title deeds. But he
died poor. Now wife No. / appears
and has succeeded In collecting large
amounts from parties who bought reai
estate from Mr.. Perkins, and who fear
a cloud on their titles. She will also
apply for widows pension, as Perkin.
was a veteran.
GOVERNOR RICH has removed from
Office, for gross negligence, State Treas
urer Hambitzer, Secretary of State
Jochim and State Land Commissioner
Berry. These officials constituted the
Board of State Canvassers and, while
acting In their capacity as members o.
that board in the spring of 1893, failed
to verify the canvass upon the salarie,
amendment to the constitution, by
which their own and several Other
State officers salaries were increased
The Governor will have his authorit,
defined by the courts relative to hi
power to appoint officers to fill vacan
cies.
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