Crawford avalanche., 1895-04-25
Record of the Week.

Sacrilegious thieves Mt Grand Haven
broke into the Second Reformed Church
and stole $50.
The Otsego County jail is so porous that
they are going to line it with sheet iron
to prevent escapes.
The estate of FIR. Theophilus Buyse, of
Jackson, is estimated at $4,000. 1t goes
to brother and two sisters in Belgium.
A bright little Elkton boy, of years.
walked bravely up to bank cashier and
asked to start bank account. And he
started it, too, depositing % cents
The Jackson prison board has award
ed the milk contract to NJ. III. Mills and A.
Root, at 81 % per 100 pounds. Five hun
dred pounds are to be furnished daily.
The Vassar wooden mills will furnish cloth
at 45 cents yard.
When Mr.. Reed, of Grand Rapids, at
tempted to seize the drug store of a DIR.
Watts on n chattel mortgage a row en-
sued, in which Watts was shot in the
thumb, but Reed gained possession. Sew
eral nights afterwards Reed, 1t is al
legged, accused Watts of stuffing the chin
ney from his rooms above the store, so
that everybody below was almost asphyx-
lated. A wordy fight induced DIR. Watts
to slide down a post and run. Reed, it
seems, pursued with some fifty friends.
Watts ran into n store and barricaded
the door, but the crowd had about broken
In upon him when the police arrived. Lit
lgation will result.
The State fair will be held in Grand
Rapids Sept. o to II. This was decided
after an all-day session of the committees
from the State, Kent County and West
Michigan fairs. The basis of settlement
of the local fight was that the State fair
should select the grounds to be used, and
the local society to fit them up. The
State fair takes so per cent. of the re-
eeipts and the other 80 to be divided be-
tween the two local societies. The ono
whose grounds are used to take 80 per
cent. and the other Is per cent. 1t was
virtually decided to use the grounds Of
the West Michigan. ne the transportation
facilities are much superior TO the other.
Mayor Pingree of Detroit believes con-
victs shouid be secluded ON large island
somewhere In the great lakes. They
should be divided into classes and taught
all branches of farming and gardening.
Experiment plants should be established
where all kinds of foreign vegetables
would be grown. Seeds enough to supply
all the farmers in the State could be rails
ed on the convict farms. When the
terms of the convicts expired, instead of
seeking the cities with their temptations,
they could be settled on farms and there
after lead reputable lives. The Mayor
thinks ii wrong for convicts to manufac-
ture articles which paid labor should pro-
duce. The Mayor to-day also announced
all city street sweepings will be saved 10
enrich the land the poor will cultivate
with potatoes this year.
A few weeks ago Catherine keenan,, of
Ann Arbor. married Bernard keenan,,
aged about 30 and said to be worth $780,
900. She now sues for a divorce, alleg-
Ing that his children conspired against
her and persuaded the old man to deed to
them all his property.
Messrs. Nowln and Beal have settled
the question of ownership of the opera
house property In Ypsilanti, Mr.. Benl
taking the front 90 feet and Mr.. Nowlin
the remainder. Mr.. Beal will Mt once
ptft ur two three-story stores, the second
floors fitted for Offices, the third for an
assembly room.