Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-05-24

BUT one sawmill ID idle 1t Alpona-
PoTAToEs are selling for 70 cents 1t
Cadillac.
KALAMAZOO College win have new
building.
ELMIRA is without hotels, both be-
ing closed.
MRS. ANNA MARY ANN CLARK, Bay
City's smallpox patient, IL recovering.
Russell SNowDEN, q 7-year-old Of
Black River, fell from the dock and
was drowned.
ROBERT SMITH & Co., of Lansing,
were awarded the contract for the
State printing.
A LoNGsHoREMEN's UNION has been
organized at Port Huron, with go
charter members.
SOME 10000 fruit trees have ben
planted in Iosco, Alpena and Presque
Isle Counties this spring.
AN ex-minister OF the gospel was
arrested In an Escanaba saloon and
taken t. jail, dead drunk.
MYRoN p. FoGLEsoNG, the Hillsdale
wife poisoner, is said to be singing In
the prison choir at jackson.
The postoffice at Yankee Springs.
burned. The mail was saved.
The Antrim Iron Company at Man
celona will go out of blast May 81, and
remain SO till the last of August.
f. A. MERRITT, of Dimondale, offers
lot to the man who will build brick
building with plate-glass front
JERRY MAHoNEY, a Manistee woods
man, aged 60, took laudanum at the
Jail and died. Hard drink caused his
ruin.
CITY TREASURER COLE, of Iron
Mountain, gets the handsome salary OF
SloO year and has to put up $15O,OOO
bonds.
DOYLE TOWNSHIP, up in Schoolcraft
County, had three saloons last year:
this year it will have only one. Hard
times.
WILLIE BROWN, the e-year-old son
Of Geo. Brown, of Tawas City was
playing upon the river bank, fell in,
and was drowned.
WILLIAM A. SoUTHwoRTH, SO years
old and married, was killed at Bay
City, by being struck by horse while
riding bicycle
The United States recruiting Office
has teen at work in Saginaw for about
year, yet only seventy-five recruits
have been obtained.
AS MRS. A. LADD. of Old Mission,
gizzard within a gizzard, both distinct
ly formed and in active service.
SCARCITY of straw i, keeping the
Allegan Paper Company from resum-
ing operations. 1t i, probable now
Init <o
harvest.
JOHN LANDON is a farmer and bear
hunter up in Isabella County. His
latest exploit is to capture an old bear
and two cubs in the woods just north
OF his farm.
GEORGE BOOTH, of Grand Rapids,
died from laudanum. It is not known
whether he took an overdose by acct
dent or committed suicide. His father
lives in Dexter
4. M. SHELLEY, proprietor of the
Bancroft dog kennel, had five valuable
pointers killed by ferret. Then
lady pursued the ferret into a chicken
coop and killed it with club.
ORPHA WALKER and Nettie Van
Camp, Port Huron girls under ID, were
arrested on charge of stealing pock-
etbo oks and various articles from the
cloak room of the Congregational
Church.
MARSHALL people have come to the
conclusion that the Senate is not going
to confirm Charles 7. Fletcher for
postmaster Among the prominent
candidates for the place is ex-City At
torney c. S. Joy.
ABOUT a dozen tramps got into
fight in front OF an Owosso hotel.
Knives were freely used, razors were
twisted in dangerous proximity to
thr ats, clubs were brandished. When
they got through the side ak was COW
cred with blood.
THE Diamond Match Co., of Ontona-
gen, has made very clean drive this
spring, bringing down $4,000, 900 feet,
They will rul a day crew only, at Ie-
duction of from Is cents to 81 day
from last years scale.
In the freight recently shipped from
Caseville to Cincinnati was one crate
from which the boys kept their fingers.
1t contained eight large swapping tur-
ties, weig ming on an average eighteen
pounds apiece and intended for turtle
soup at their destination.
QUITE freak of nature was on ex-
hibition at Marlette, in the shape of
two little pigs completely grown to-
gether. There were two complete
bod es back of the shoulders. joining
in on the neck and head. The front
feet and legs were complete, and the
union of the bodies took place right
between them. The head was per-
tect, with the exception of the mouth,
which was open and bullying with
tongues.
WILLIAM ALGUIRE, the man with
wheels in his head, who confessed sew
eral times that he helped kill Butcher
Schilling at Kalamazoo and as many
times denied the story again, is the
author of another gauzy tale. He says
a certain hotel keeper, who is no friend
of his, dressed up in woman's clothes,
made love to an impre-sionable old
soldier and then threatened to sue the
old man for breach of promise. A lit
tie $40 settled the suit.
THERE is war in the South Congre-
gational Church at Grand Rapids. 1t
dates from a Sunday school picnic.
Most of the teachers and scholars
wanted to go to Reeds Lake. Smith
objected because beer is sold at Reeds
Lake. They went just the same, but
Pastor Smith b)ycotted the affair.
Then he roasted the teachers publicly.
The Superintendent resign from the
Ill