Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-08
IT cost $1,000 to keep Kalamazoo
County poor in Septe mber.

REV. JOHN HOAG. Frote tant Meth
odist. was immersed and became a
Baptist at Dimondale.
GEORGE WEIGH, one OF the five men
| who escaped from Hillsdale jail Sept.
| q, has been recaptured.
ROBERT WALDO, boy OF Bay City,
fell from the attic to the basement OF
the new City Hall and was killed.
The epidemic of diphtheria which
prevailed at Portland has all died out
and the schools have been reopened.
AT Battle Creek, Orrin B. Frisbie's 8
barn was destroyed by fire, together
with two valuable horses. Loss, 81 800
WILLIAMSON has become a great
market for beans, and the picking OF
them gives employment to many
hands.
CHARLES GRoMBLY, a laborer on the
| narrow-gauge railway at Fogan's
Camp, was struck by falling tree and
| killed.
LUCIEN JACOBS, a woodsman work.
| ing about three miles frem Even, was
instantly killed by tree falling across
his head.
IT is reported in Gladstone that de-
tectives of the 500 line have arrested
the trainwreckers who have been burn
ing bridges and obstructing tracks for
several weeks.
BAILEY, village of som, 500 peo-
pie, in Muskegon County, would like to
have hotel, and one citizen OF the
village offers to donate a site to any
one who will put up the building.
THE project of starting a creamery
at Bailey, MuskegOn County, is being
talked over by the residents of Cas-
novia township, and it is probable that
the institution will be established.
ONE of the six men arrested charged
with causing wreck on the Grand
Trunk Road at Battle Creek, Nathan
| j. Dixon, was discharged. The evil
| dence against him was insufficient
AT Iron Mountain Cha~ls Engstrom,
| bridgetender for the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad, was found un-
| der the trestle at the Chaplin mine
with his skull crushed in. 1t is be-
| lieved he was murdered and robbed.
w. II. SHEARER, of st. Joseph Town
ship, raised cabbage this year that
weighs twenty-five pounds and seven
| ounces and measures four feet in cir
cumference. This breaks the cabbage
record. 1t is on exhibition at ST. Jo-
seph.
DANIEL WEBER, ayoung German at
torney at Benton Harbor. is In the tolls
| on a charge of passing bogus checks
| on the First National Bank His game
was to ask merchant after banking
hours to cash check, which almost
| invariably was done, it being supposed
that Weber was all right financially.
| Several business men a"e alleged to
| have been taken in by him.
MARTIN CoSGRovE. of Baraga, is
nursing lame leg just at present, and
| someone who violated the game laws
| of the State in placing a set gun / to
blame for it Mr.. Cosgrove was out
| hunting, and while walking along
| there was sudden report, and a charge
| of buckshot entered his right leg, in
flicting a bad wound. Someone had
set a gun, probably hoping to kill a
deer, and the line was in Mr.. Cos
groves path, so that when he struck
it with his foot Of course it discharged
| the weapon.
THE Big Four and Vandalia Railway
| Companies have secured the marsh
property lying between st. Joseph and
| Benton Harbor to be dredged, drained
used 70, immense lumber storage
| yards for heavy Chicago dealers and
transfer distributing companies. This
| tract embraces about 400 acres Of land
| and water that is of easy access by
heavy boats from the lake, it being on
| either side OF the Paw Paw River
along the St Joseph and the canal
The conditions AMI price are un b.
| tairable at present, but estimates
| place it over $4,000.
G 4 ..o1o
a to law that one-half OF the inter
| est at per cent. on money derived
| from the sale of swamp lands, should
go to the primary school fund and the
other half to the several counties OF
the State for the drainage and reclama-
tion of lands. County Clerk Gregg, OF
Calhoun County, has recently discov-
| cred that such u law existed and that
| Calhoun County had never drawn any
thing but the primary school fund.
Thus the county has large sum due
from this source, which will be ap.
preciated in the present dull times.
WILLIAM WILSON. farmer Of
Franklin Township, I awrence county,
and his wife were arrested, cha ged
wi horsewhipping Wilson's mother,
who is 80 years OF age. The offense
was committed two weeks ago, but the
old woman refused to make complaint
thouoh the marks on her back are
easi y distinguishable yet. Neighbors
made a e eat fuss O., er the incident,
and threatened to tar and feather Will
son. A grandson fina " made con-
plant. Neigh ors say the old lady,
who lived with the couple, was ne
elected and badly treated for long
time Wilson acknowledges the as
sault. it is C aimed, and says he would
do it again, because his mother called
his wife vie names.
! DELL WADE, of Portland, had his
| iugular vein severed in surgical
operation to have re enoved tum )r
VIII ch involved the jugular veil in
the neck. If it had remained death
would have ensued in year. A lew
years agJ the severing of the iugular
vein meant death. With one stroke
the surgeons knife went through the
vein, and 1t was cut again in another
pace. The ends were clamped to pre-
vent the loss of blood. The ends of
the nerve trunks were then stitched
together. the cavity was sponged with
i-chloride OF mer, ury solution, and
lator the ends of the vein were put to.
| gether Wade is now at his home
with every prospect Of living to a good
! old age.
SOME time ago the Common Council
OF Iron Mountain rejected liberal
PR position made b u 10. al company
to light The streets with electricity.
Now, after thinking the matter over,
they will reconsider their action, and
will probably accept the proposition.
lTseems the fimhamming of FIR. Con-