Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-07-25
short State Items,

The United States Associated Bill Post
ers' convention met in Detroit
Bronson wheelmen will build bicycle
paths" to neighboring villages.
Grasshoppers have destroyed 300 acres
of vegetation in the vicinity of Mattawan.
| A Deerfield man has a white OK, seven
feet tall, which he wants to sell to Bar
| mum.
A lumber pile fell on Charles Fox at
Benton Harbor, inficting dangerous in
juries.
Gertie Andree, aged 20, of Holland,
caught fire from a stove and was burned
to death.
The small schooner Ida May Brown was
lost off Michigan City, but the life-savers
rescued the crew.
At Azalia, Anna Wait was shot through
the hand while fooling with revolver,
her eyes being also filled with powder.
A citizen in Ravenna missed many of
his young chickens. A portion of his
yard is low and marshy, in which live
spring water is constantly cunning. The
chicks delighted to wade in this place.
One day one of them was seen to futter,
apparently having one of its feet fast;
upon investigation it was found that the
leg of the chick was squarely in the
mouth of a mud turtle lying concealed in
the muck.
The Diamond Match CO.. has 10000
600 feet of logs hung up in the On.onagon
River and it is said is adopting a novel
plan to keep them from fire and the at
tack of worms. 1t is to give them bath
L. .sEt L.
the bed of the river, and as room as the
water in the dams above is high enough
the food gates are opened and the water
washes down over the logs, giving them a
good wetting.
The four young Swedes who started
from MuskegOn on a northern cruise in
the sloop Viking struck rough water
within few hours after their departure,
and were forced to return. When near
Muskegon the mainsail boom was broken,
the boat became unmanageable and
struck on bar. filling with water. The
young men took to the rigging and were
rescued by the crew of the life saving sta
ton. The boat was recovered and as soon
as she is repaired and the weather is
favorable, the young men propose to try
1t again.
The old lightning rod chestnut, with
few variations, has been recently worked
near Freeport. A smooth-tongued chap
secures the farmers order with the under
standing that, for advertising purposes,
they are furnishing a superior quality of
rod free, the only expense being for put
ting it up. The rod arrives and is put up
according TO agreement and agent No.
disappears forever. No. 2 shows mp in a
few days with the farmers order for the
rod mt 80 cents per foot, usually amount
ing to couple Of hundred dollars, which
he collects and another slice Of rural ed
ucation Is obtained at the usual rates.
Wilbur Ruggles and Samuel Knowt
were neighbors living a few miles from
East Jordan. Saturday morning they
quarreled, and shortly after Knowt was
found lying dead in field. Ruggles gave
himself up.
The lowering of the water in the mill
pond at Battle Greek has been a grievance
to the people living in the vicinity for
some time. BY instruction of the common
council the city marshal held q consul
tation with the~mill owners, and the head
gates have been closed, which, of course,
stops the running of all mills depending
upon the water for power.
The work of furnishing the Upper Pen
insula Hospital for the Insane, at New
berry, Is being pushed, and Ii 10 expected
that the institution will be ready for the
reception of patients by Sept. 1. There
will be accommodations for 100 patients
Mt first. go
At Saginaw, an attempt was made
about midnight Friday night to destroy
Doerr & Austin's store by ire. At the
base of the store-room the clapboards had
been torn of and rags saturated with
kerosene stuffed in. These were isnited
and the flames shot up near where two /
60-gallon oil tanks stood. The frsmen
subdued the blax6 after q dsmaeo 6f
about 81. 900 had been Indicted.