Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-26

Ruybold 4 Clausen's cigar factory at
Cadillac.
OF the 2,f59 students In the State
University, 4l3 are attached to the
Episcopal church.
THERE are sixty-ive Chinese in the
Upper Peninsula, about one-half OF
whom are registered.
EIGHTY families from Ohio are pre-
pairing to settle in Beaverton and To
bacco, Gladwin County.
A DALTON man has q calf which, in
stead OF OF scraggly hair, has q coating
OF tightly c1rled wool. ~.
FLINT is too happy to live. 1t Is go
ing to have q five-storv block. George
Hills, OF Davidson, will build 1t.
A NEW bank will soon be opened at
Ubly, Huron County, to be known as
the Citizens Bank, with capital OF
S25, 900.
THE Country Squire" company dis
claimed to have cleared VI, 100 during
I'll @ season.
DUsHvILLE is after railroad facili
ties, and may get them by way Of Wy
man, as there Is an old log grade that
runs tnat way.
MRS. j. RILEY, of Grand Haven,
died suddenly. Ten minutes later her
daughter expired. Consumption and
grief killed her.
ALFRED DURPHY, a Marquette fisher
man, was fishing through the ice on
LAnse Bay. He slipped into the
water and was drowned.
BEN COLE, of Carleton, whose legs
were broken by rolling log a short
time ago. died from the shock. He
leaves a wife and children.
The Clinton Wooden Manufacturing
Company laughs at panics and Wilson
bills. The company has just declared
dividend OF III per cent. on last years
business.
CHARLES B. OTHMER has found a
rich vein OF coal eighty feet beneath
the surface at Corunna, and will dig
another mine. One hundred men will
be employed.
A PRESCOTT man married wealthy
Vermont widow. When she died she
.bequeathed all her property to young
son. The Prescott man was left with
out a cent.
RYLAND F. BAILEY is 90 years old.
He lives near Carleton. He cast his
first vote for James Monroe. and was
an intimate friend of the late Gen. Gus
ter and his father.
MRS. URSULA BURPEE, of New 10th
rop, who is charged with shocking cru
city to her stepson, Ira, is pining away
in Jail and showing unmistakable evil
dence5 of insanity.
A LEROY man buried two cats, after
doping them with chloroform and dous-
ing them In water When he got home
he found one of the cats in its usual
place under the stove.
ELMER PRESToN'S machine shop and
planning mill at Parshallville were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss $1,000. Mr.. Pres
ton is in critical condition from inju-
ries received at the fire
SPIRlTUALIsTS in Owosso are in
creasing. They have outgrown their
present quarters over the Times Office
and are considering the purchase OF
the old Methodist church property.
MRS. JOHN SMITH, of Bay City, set
a bowl or boiling lard on the table
while she was making fried cakes. Her
infant daughter tipped the hot lard
upon her head, and was scalded SO
badly that she died.
MRS. WILLIAM KESSLER. a poor
woman living in Delta Township, not
far from Charlotte, was lighting fire.
Her clothes took fire and were COM
pletely burned off. The doctor said
she could not live forty-eight hours.
but nevertheless she was trundled of
to the poor-honse, twenty miles away,
in farm wagon. When her escort
looked for her at the poor-house, she
was dead, having passed away while
en- route. Relatives then consigned
her body to the poor authorities, and
she was buried according to the pro-
vision made by the county. Much in
dignat on is expressed at the thought
less, if not inhuman, neglect.
The Supreme Court has filed an
opinion declaring the so-called inherit
ance tax law of 1893 unconstitutional.
BY the terms of the act money raised
by the taxation OF inheritances was to
be used in paving the general expenses
OF the State. The court says the tax
is purely a specific one, and that the
law is in contravention of that section
of the Constitution which makes it
mandatory that all money raised by
specific tax shall be credited to the
educational funds as far as needed and
thereafter applied to the extinguish-
ment of the State debt. The act in
question provided tax of 5 per cent.
on property OF the value of $500 or over
willed to collateral heirs or corpora
tions, and of ! per cent. on property
valued at $1,000 or over inherited by
lineal heirs.
SENATOR FRANCIS b. STOCKBRIDGE
lies i'll at the residence of James l..
Houghteling, q Banks street, Chica-
go. His condition is not considered
dangerous, although his friends are
x considerably wor-
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A( ried about him.
WS y The Senator went
Gg&S0 AG to Chicago about
WYXH IN two weeks ago, and
Ax1& was taken sick
W#HE &{SX$ soon after his ar
rival. The trouble
~ SS3&hA comes from stom-
n ~M Zach disorderwhich
* NX has for a time baf-
fled the efforts of
the doctors. No
nourishment cal
FRANCIS STOCK be retained, and
BRIDGE the patient Is in
danger of collapse from exhaustion.
He is accompanied by his wife, and
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