Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-08-02

A FEMALE barber Is one OF the at
fractions OF Midland.
A PLOw and harrow factory Is to be
opened at Mancelona.
KALAMAZOO college has summer
school OF sixty pupils.
MoNTFoRD BUTTERFIELD drowned
while bathing at Detour.
KALAMAZOO COUNTY farmers report
the potato crop is not worth digging.
ANEW business block will be erected
at Muir loon, being the third this
year.
A CANCER on the lip caus d the
death CT Antoine Procunier, II Harris
vile.
VIM. SESSIONS, an ex-member OF the
Legislature and q pioneer of lonia
County, sde;d. 49,, ..,.... ~ +
CANNED BEEF made the five members
Of John Rocks family, at Battle Creek,
sick unto death.
MARTIN KoKKEN. a Norwegian, lost
an arm by being run over by an cleo
trio car In Manistee.
PRINCE ROBINS, Gilmore, Benzie
County, farmer, lost his home and all
his goods by forest fires.
A CALL for a report from all the
State banks has been issued by Bank
Commissioner Sherwood.
A SHORTAGE OF fuel at Benton Har-
Dor Is given as a reason for the shut
down Ut the Buss machine shop.
JOHN L. CURTISs, member Of the
State Senate in 1896 and mayor OF
Grand Rapids in 1884, is dead, aged So
THE lie lie Local Republican chang
ed some time ago from weekly to a
semi-weekly, but will change back
again soon.
with daily ball game, horse-racing, a
balloon ascen sion-and comic opera all
the week.
LABOR COMMISSIONER MORSE is
very much Disguised with the IrOnwoo
miners In not accepting his proposed
compromises.
SAMUEL BOOTH, OF Eden, Ingham
County. lost twenty acres of hay by
fire, which was started by spark from
a passing engine.
CHEBOYGAN people are mulling over
the problem whether to give a cash
bonus and site for the location of a
box-factOry there.
THE Midland pail factory is to be
moved to Fort Smith, Ark, and with
it the employees. Midland will thus
lose forty families.
A HUMAN finger and human tooth
were found in Port Huron water works,
and a search will be made for the re-
mainder Of the body.
JOSEPH HARE, of Leslie, aged 65
years, fell from load of wheat Thurs
day and broke his neck. His fall was
caused by sunstrOke.
1T cost an Adrian man $l0.55 to call
another, who had taken strikers
place at To edo, "scab:" besides he got
"a thrashing thrown in.
THE residence of Benjamin Bum at
Athens was struck by lightning and
burned to the ground. The loss is
$1,000, with $1,000 insurance.
The Y. Nj. G.. A. at Adrian has a
corner on baseball grounds, so all ball
cranks have to join the association to
get the privilege OF the diamond.
A MAN giving the name of Charles
Dudley deserted his wife, whom he
married in Chicago few days ago, in
Kalamazoo, taking her diamond ring
and $25.
A 5-YEAR-oLD boy, son of August
Birtch, farmer near Port Huron,
was caught by the knives OF a moving
machine, and his foot SO badly lacerat-
ed it may have to be amputated.
RANSOM J. WILTsE, settling clerk
In the United States Express Company
at Chic go, was arrested at Grand Rap
ids. On March 20 he disappeared with
81, 1000, and has just been run to earth.
The State ce 4sus gives Port Huron
1S, 1873, loss of 1902. The people
claim that blunder has been made,
and the school census enumerators will
try to show there is an increase in
stead Of decrease.
A SMALL black worm bearing some
resemblance to the pernicious army
worm, is ravaging crops about East
Jordan. They are countless in num-
Der and several fields of growing corn
and oats have been destroyed.
CHARLES FARMER was on Monday
appointed general superintendent OF
the Chica 20, St. Jose h and Eenton
Harbor Transportation Co. Arrange
ments have been made to put on an
other ste mer during the peach ship
ping season.
THE Arthur Hou Q, at Midland, mar
rowly escaped destruction by fire. The
b axe started in the center of the build
ing and burned hole through the
roof. Good work by the city fire de-
partment saved the building The loss
is only 500, fully insured.
BURGLARS entered the hardware
store OF w. .. Mcbride, at Romulus,
by b eaking in rear door, and stole
SIS worth of goods including several
boxes OF cutlery and revolvers. Cross
meat market aud restaurant was also
entered, but nothi g OF value taken
DURING storm George Coates, aged
49, farmer residing In Madison, near
Ad ian, undertook to close the big
barn door, but as he rem we'd the prop
the wind swung the door against him
with such violence as to hurl him head
long soma distance, breaking his nip
bone lie could not walk, was alone,
and managed TO craSl distance to a
strawstack for shelter, lying there
three hours tefore passing neighbor
wa, attracte by the noise the old man
ma3e by pounding on q tin pan. He
was rem we'd to t. g house and physi-
clan summoned. His son, a man of 80,
was in the city when the neighbor ar
riv, d, but OBJ ,ected to having doctor.
He went he me and when the neigh Dor
arrived with physician, he began to
abb 9 him and. was soundly thrashed
by the neighbor.