Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-09-05

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Frederick f., Rech, Of Detroit. aged "a
years and AFFLICTED with an ikcusable mall
ady, cut his throat.
A law suit over q 81 pig has already
cost two Berrien County farmers over
$500, and the end Ii not yet.
C. l.. Campbell. who lives near Pinck-
ney, has three acres of ensilage corn
which stands on an average of ten feet
high.
The Postoffice Department has allowed
| the postmaster at Grand Rapids $25 ,012
for clerk hire for the current fiscal year,
anincrease of 5000 over last year.
Miss Mabel Greer, daughter of a Pine
Lake farmer, painted the farm house and
windmill derrick two coats. She did q
complete job and doesn't wear blooiners,
either.
James McGibbon, of Saginaw, burned
sulphur In every room Of his house to de-
stroy diphtheria germs. He destroyed
the germs all right, and nearly destroyed
the house.
Whitmore Lake, owing to the dry
weather and the pulling out of many big
fish by Ann Arbor fishermen, Is six feet
lower this season than 1t was ever before
known to be.
Ex-Sheriff. Galigan, of Kalamazoo
County, now ut Woodland, has spaniel
which regularly goes to the morning train
for his newspaper, and never fails to re-
turn with it.
A Manistique man recently set out TO-
600 celery plants, and before night herd
of grasshoppers had braced their nerves
on 5000 of them. The hopper Is bird
of some sense.
Seventy-seven babies were entered Mt
the Dryden baby show and seventy-four
mothers were mad as hatters because
the stupid judges gave the prizes to
homelier babes than theirs.
Benton Harbor local officials are strin-
gently enforcing the ordinance prohibit
ing the leaving of horses unhitched in the
streets, and several prominent citizens
were among the first to suffer.
William Schmidt, who has been wanted
for Virginia authorities for some time for
stealing the running horse Rieff and who
was arrested at Saginaw, got out Of pris-
on through the carelessness of the jailer
and madegood his escape.
Mrs. Philip Schuermann, wife of the
manager of the G. Schuermann Brewing
Company, left the residence of John Mel
son in West Houghton at 8 o'clock the
other night to walk home, distance OF
less than two miles. Since then absolute
ly no trace of her whereabouts has been
found and foul play Is feared.
The meanest man on earth makes his
home in st. Joseph. Eugene Shuart re-
Gently committed suicide. He carried an
insurance policy of 81 900 in the Macca-
bees, made payable to his wife, who was
left destitute with two small children.
This man endeavored to prevent the pay
ment of 81 900 to Mrs. Shuart by writing
an anonymous letter to the lodge, stating
that the dead man was a common drunk
ard, and the insurance should not be paid
on that account The Maccabees are ter
ribly indignant.
All Of the Moliter murderers, whose
trial occurred two yehrs ago, eighteen
years after the crime was committed ex-
cept w. Repke, whose confession secured
all the convictions, have petitioned for
pardon. They allege that the State re-
sorted to fraud in the evidence. while
Repke makes affidavit that the testimony
he gave at the trial was false and that
officers forced him to give 1t by threaten
ing him with prosecution IL he failed to
stick to his confession. He was prose-
cuted nevertheless. All the convicts are
serving life sentences.
In secluded spot about two miles from
ST Joseph near the river bank the body
of man was found lying on his back I'M
der clump of bushes with a 3S-calber
revolver lying by his side and bullet
hole in his left temple. Two shells in
the revolver were empty. He was dressed
in fine suit of black clothes, wore a
Fedora hat and fine shoes He was about
30 years old. 3 feet inches high and
weighed 80 pounds. 1t is the general be-
lief that the man was murdered and put
there with the pistol by his side to cause
suspicious Of suicide. Only % cents and
some keys and other small things were
found on his person.
Farmers and business men of Evart re-
Gently decided to mend what Is known as
the Quarter Line road, and two days
work was put upon 1t. The business men
sent men and teams with supplies for
the dinner, the farmers came with wag-
ons, tools and teams and the way the
gravel was hustled on the road was
caution. One driver, with four men to
load, drew fifty loads in one day or load
every eight minutes. At least 5000 worth
of work was done on the road. The farm
ers' wives got up the dinner; and while II
was at first intended to work but one day,
the dinner was so good and the results
of the work so satisfactory that all hands
turned in for another day.
Superintendent Of Public instruction
Pattengill, in his annual report. disap-
proves emphatically Of the employment
as teachers of persons who are not United
States citizens. In regard to free text
books. he says that in the State there are
$50 districts where they are supplied to
pupils, and in these districts it is claimed
that better work is possible with the sys-
TEN. The following statistics are of gen.
eral interest: Enrolment in graded
schools, 25S, 100; enrolment in ungraded
schools, 30, 200; estimated pupils in Sc
lect schools, A .S42; teachers i'm the grad
ed schools, $500; teachers in the ungrad-
ed schools. G,563; men in graded schools,
703: women in graded schools, 4,654; men
in ungraded schools. 2,8S1; women in un-
graded schools, S,057; aggregate wages
paid all teachers, 1896, 264.19: average
monthly wages of men in graded schools,
$19.12; monthly wages OF women In un-
graded schools. $31.53; monthly wages of
women in graded schools, $43.24; month
" wages of women in ungraded schools,
$25.74; number of teachers holding nor
nal certificates, 49S; whole number of le-
Sgally, qualified teachers, 116,777; frame
school houses, 5,987, brick school houses,
n .361; stones chool houses, "a; estimated
value of all school property, $16,5S4, 800.
A Fentonville man punctured his tire
fifteen miles away from home. He had
no repair kit, but remembering how his
father used to stretch boots he borrowed