Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-14

stock OF $lo,OOO, by local CAPITALISTS.
John Edwards, OF Montmorency CouD-
| ty, has caught FIVE wolves this winter.
The deep snow was too much for them.
Mrs. Andrew Cunning. of Bay City.
has fled a complaint In the probate court
to the effect that her husband IL a spend
thrift.
| Mr.. and Mrs Joseph Bennett, of Man
istee, have been fined heavily for cruelty
beating their adopted daughter, aged IA
years.
-Ignatius Pelot, of Mackinac Island,
has never seen a railroad track or locomo-
tive, though he has seen the smoke watt
ed across the straits. He is SO years old.
Samuel A. Browne, ST., of Kalamazoo,
| well-known horse owner and breeder,
died at Los Angeles. He had been suffer-
ing for several months with lung trouble.
A Chesaning young man, who has twice
escaped from Pontiac asylum, for some
time evaded capture by digging cave
and keeping everybody away with a shot
gun.
The Montmorency County court house
at Atlanta is about completed and tho
next term of the Circuit Court wilfbe held
in. it, The building is credit to the
county.
Reynolds & Zerby, of Berrien Springs,
will start a line of boats on the ST. Jo-
seph river ut the opening of navigation,
and are fixing up n summer resort at Ber-.
rien Springs.
An Indian River fisherman brought up.
through the ice an 1S-pound pickercl,
which, on being opened, gave up an un-
digested leaf of Methodist hymnal and
three hairpins.
where did you get that hatY' will soori
be very pertinent question in Jacksou
and vicinity. Some wicked person broke
into freight car and swiped whole
outfit of felt hats.
VIM. J. Campbell, of Grand Rapids, and
Mary Boyd, of Duluth were married at
Grand Rapids, and neither said word
to the other before, during or after the
ceremony. They were stone deaf.
The two-story dwelling of Hawking
Moore, of Falcon. Sanilac County, waS
destroyed by fire. The deed is supposed
to have been the work of an incendiary.
The loss is 81 800, with $500 insurance.
Mrs. Lucretia Hammond. of Ypsilant.
mother of Mrs. Jennie Kline, a member
of the school board of that city, died,
aged 80 years. She had lived in Michigan
since 1914, when she settled in Hilsdale
County.
DR.. James G. Jackson, of Muskegon,
ex-county physician, became insane and
was taken to n private hospital in Indiana.
His arrangement is due to the use of
cocaine, to which he became addicted
during severe sickness.
Over 300 prominent women Of Battle
Greek organized woman's league. Its
object is the promotion of musical, phi
lanthropic, scientific, literary, educational,
artistic and social movements in which
women are interested.
A marble saving mill, to be first class
in all respects. will be erected at Foster
City, Dickinson County, by the Northern
Michigan Marble Company, which owns
quarries in that section. Operations will
be carried on on an extensive scale.
An officer went into a small, tumble
down house at 400 James street, Bay
City, found the inmate, Mrs. Hine, suf.
fering from a paralytic stroke. She had
not been attended to for two days. There
had been no food or fire in the house in
that time.
The Citizens Industrial Association of
An Sable had experiments made to see if
the jack pines SO abundant in that sec-
ton could not be made of some use and
a chemist engaged by them claims that he
has a process by which a fine quality Of
paper can be manufactured from the pine.
Up in the Ontonagon river, near Even,
is a sight which cannot be seen every
day. 1t is log bank which fills the river
for two miles, and rises thirty feet above
the banks of the river. The amount in
the bank is estimated at 30,000,0 900 feet,
and this, it is expected, will be nearly
doubled before the season is ended. This
is perhaps the largest amount of logs ever
banked in a single banking ground.
The Peoples Church of Kalamazoo was
packed at the meeting when the question
of taxing church property was brought
up. Mrs. l.. III. Stone announced that she
could afford to pay her proportion of the
church tax. on the ground that il was
benefit to do so, and other speakers advO-
Gated the taxation of church Props ty,
not to spite the Catholics or any oGher
organization, but strictly on the ground
of justice. When the question, shall
church property be taxedY was put, n
was carried by unanimous vote.
Some Flint attorneys were trying an
exciting case before Justice Swayze when
one of the legal gentlemen made use of
the word "layman" while addressing the
court. His honor did not catch the. word
just right, and his temper at once rose
higher than his dignity and he gave the
attorney to understand in emphatic terms
that he would not be called highway
man. without resenting it. There was
some very plain talk on the part Of his
honor, an apology on the part of the at
torney, and good laugh among the SPEC.
tators over the queer misunderstanding.
At the annual meeting Of the Grand
Rapids and Indiana Railway Company
the following directors were elected: w.
o. Hugart. w. r. Shelby, J. II. Il. HUI
CART, ii. J. HOLSTER, ]. Nj. Barnett, r.. j.
O'Brien. of Grand Rapids; James Nc
Crea, J. Il. Brooks, John Il. Davidson,
Charles Il. Speer, Benjamin Thaw, Of
Pittsburg, and w. III. Barnes and j. n.
Hutchinson, of Philadelphia. The gross
earnings were $2,4G4, 056, a decrease Of
$342 $50, and net earnings 1901 ,206, n
decrease of $S3,921. After providing for
interest charges there is n deficit of about
$4,000. No plan has yet been formu-