Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-07-19

crease Of 2l7. 1t Is &, 81 now.
INGHAM COUNTY has 1854 peop'e,
about half OF whom live in Lansing.
THE 20 3ulation OF Kalamazoo County
Is AZ, l0l, an increase of 2,870 over le!0.
MRS. JAMES BRoGAN. OF Ionia, was
fatally burned by q gasoline explosion.
FRANK MYRoN fell from q load OF
hay at Kalamazoo and was instantly
killed.
JOHN j. GRIFFITH, one of the oldest
pioneers in Bait Creek, died, aged
80 years.
THE disciples of Christ are holding
revival in big tent in the heart OF
Kalamazoo. 49,.
f. l.. MCPHERSON has been elected
prin ,ipal Ct Burlington schools for the
ensuing year.
p TIE census of the city of Marshall
shows gain of nearly 700 since the
last census was taken.
WILLOW and Waltz are now con-
nected by telephone, and the residents
OF both places are proud OF 1t.
WATERvLIET has made contracts for
a s00-electric light plant, to be used
specially for the Syms Paper Company.
The census of Jackson is just COM
pleted. 1t gives the city a population
Of 22,750, an increa Q in four years OF
nearly 1000.
SOUTH HAVEN has increased from
1854 in 1890 to 2,46J in 1894, showing
the only marked increase OF any town
in Van Buren, County.
CHESTER GIBBS is nearly half
century old. yet he has left his native
county, Eaton but thrice in his life,
and then only as far as Jonesville.
JOE BARNEY, Mt Clemens fisher
man, has engaged in the raising OF
turtles. He recently shipped 80 to
Baltimore and other Eastern cities.
The Weston furnace at Cooks, Man
istique county, will go into blast at
once after being idle ten m )nths. That
will start the kilns and make business
good in that locality.
SCORES of Sault Ste. Marie people
searched all night for 6-year-old girl,
and found her in tho morning asleep in
a clump of bushes about 200 yards from
where she disappeared.
The c everest rascal In seven States
is at work in Grand Rapids. He gets
letter-heads o. business firms, writes
out b lis against their Gu ,tomers, and
then collects the n oaey.
SAGE g. Co., OF New York, own
choice lot of timber land at Thompson.
vile and some of the local lumber men
have been cutting some cherry timber
thereon, and now the sweating process
is to begin.
AS A result OF the strike, the express
company at Adrian had crate of dead
I'll l.. ~
Saturday. They had persisted for lack
OF food and water, having been delayed
by the strike.
FRIENDS of al Am Arbor bridal
couple threw rice when they started
for their hack. The rice hit the horses
instead OF the happy couple and run
away ensued. The brides life wa:
saved by jumping.
ACCORDING to the recent census in
Homer there were twenty-seven deaths
and twenty eight births during the
past year. Among those that died
live were over 80 years of age and
eleven over 20 years old.
CHESANING is thinking OF having
bell rang at certain hour every even
ing to warn its youngsters that 1t is time
for them to be at home. Complaint is
now made that number of boys re-
main out late at nights and use bad
language.
A VETERAN seaman of Portland had
the smallpox when he was 10 years
old, nearly died of swamp fever two
years later, had the yellow fever IL
Cuba aud the cholera in New Orleans,
but he's as well a man as one ordinari
~ sees anywhere, nov.
OFFICERS of the Government we're
in Dearborn on Monday and turned
over the old ofcers' quarters to the
village authorities. The building Is
a splendid one on Front street and wi
give rooms for all the village Offices
and still have room to let.
A NEGRO assaulted Mrs. George Case
and her daughter, Mrs. Marcy, at Bat.
tie Creek, on one of the principal
streets. She started to run away
from him, whereupon he drew a razor
and cut Mrs. Cases throat. She can.
not live. The assailant has not been
captured.
WHEN prisoners desire to leave the
Cadillac gaol-they spell it that way
to make it sound more respectable
they just lift up a board, scrape away
little dirt and run away: and then the
local papers come out with paragraphs
to the eject they're glad they've gone,
anyhow.
A YOUNG chap returned from the
lumber woods t, his old home at Lis.
bon and proceeded to show what man
he was. He shot at one fellow for
stealing bottle Of whisky from his
pocket and the next day he shot at an
other friend in a barroom. He was
disarmed and sent out OF town.
MISS NAME ALLEN, of Ionia, daugh-
ter OF a Jminent citizen. visited
Windsor, Ont. So did Louis L. Tower,
CT Crosse Pointe. Their respective
PARENTS wee m oh surprised when
they returned man and wife. 1t was
the second secret marriage of Ionia
young people within week.
The remains of what appeared to be
a prehistoric wet goods factory we're
unearthed at depth of about sixteen
feet b. Ann Arbor workmen. There
was an oaken floor, with corkscrews,
bottles and the remains OF q .ag, all
testifying that the aborigines we're
built about the same as Door humanity
to-day.
MICHAEL DUNN, 15-year, old Rei-
rien Springs boy, lived whole life
time in few minutes the other day.
He was thrown in front of mower
a Il l. Il