Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-03

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Over 5000 OF Dickinson County's IA
600 people are foreign born.
Ben Horsn. Of Empire, fell under the
cars and 4 from his injuries.
Mysterious disease has carried on sew
eral cattle In Lapeer County.
Mad dogs infest the vicinity Of Brigh-
ton, and all dogs are ordered muEslsd.
True bills were returned against seven
teen township and county officials BY the
grand jury at Bay City.
About twenty cases of diphtherin are
reported In Livingston County. At Pleas
ant Valley there have been two deaths
in one family.
T. II. Giddings, receiver of the City
National Bank of Marshall, has paid to
creditors the last dividend, in all 100 cents
on the dollar, better result than was an
ticipated.
Isaac Harrison, well-to-do laborer,
was found in the river at Battle Greek.
He drew $45 from a building and loan
association, and it 10 feared he was muir
dered for the money.
Complaint is made Mt Battle Greek that
teachers expound the Bible for the pur-.
pose of propagating certain protestant
doctrines. The complaint comes especial
ly from Universalsts.
Alexander Molyneaux, Bay City, a
sweet singer, has written TAO poems In
the past two years. He says they will be
published after his death, when critics
shafts will hurt not.
William Morgan, house carpenter at
the Morton House, of Grand Rapids,
while riding up in new freight elevator
put out his head and had it caught in
the floor above. He was killed instantly.
He leaves a wife and six children.
Grand Army men are agitating the G..
A. II. home project, favoring either Lam
sing or the Soldiers Home as the site.
Headquarters would be in the home, and
the assistant adjutnnt general, who does
most of the work, would get good salary
and hold Office as long as he behaved him.
self.
Up to 1871 shoe were not pegged. In
that year President Madison, per James
Monroe, Secretary of State, signed a
patent for pegging shoes to Jonathan
Conklin, of Minden, n. Y. His son, X.
Il. Conklin, of Lapeer, still has the old
patent of Jonathan, his father, and the
world keeps pegging right along.
Grand Rapids will now have to hustle
around to find someone to light the city
after June % next The contract for the
job was awarded last week to the West
Michigan Electric Company, but they
have decided that they could not get their
plant ready to turn on the light on that
date, so have given up the contract.
Last spring there died upon the shores
of Burt Lake, an old gentleman named
Brown. Among other lagacies left his
boys, was a parting injunction never to
sell his team Of horses. With a hard
winter confronting the boys, through
which they were unable to properly carry
the stock, the team was killed and buried
and the filial duty carried out.
The residence of John Muck, lust east
of Adrian, was destroyed by fire on
Sunday. The parents were away from
home, and the children say that all they
know about il is first noticing sparks
fall from upstairs. The contents in the
rooms below were saved but nothing
upstairs or in the cellar could be taken
out Insured in Farmers Mutual for
5000.
A curious incident in the life Of Henry
A. Chaplin, the millionaire mine owner.
Is recalled. Years ago he failed and
turned over to his creditors the land on
which the great Chaplin mines are now
located. The creditors, however, prefer
red cash, and in return for $3.50 worth Of
unincumbered property he received back
the land that has since netted him ST.
100000 in royalties.
Grand Rapids was gayly decorated
with flags and bunting in honor of the
sixth annual session of the Michigan
Knights of the Grip. Special trains
brought the knights from Detroit, Sag
inaw and Jackson, and as they arrived
bands and committees met them and es-
corted them to the hotels. In his annual
address President Waldron recommend
ed that the mortuary assessments be in
creased to 50, instead of 81, as a measure
Of economy, and approved the proposed
accident insurance feature, which will
be brought up for consideration. Secre-
tary Mills reported 1,549 members in good
standing, an increase of 500. Three
mortuary assessments were levied last
year and eight death benefits paid. The
association is out of debt and has money
in the treasury. Treasurer Reynolds re-
DOTtcu DHyluR III ututh Dcucuto
and having 5000 to the credit of the fund.
The general fund has 1914 to its credit,
| after disbursing $1,616.
| The annual meetings of the State
| Teachers Association, the County School
| Commissioners and Examiners Asso-
| citation and the Michigan Academy of
Sciences were held at Lansing. The Com
missioners and Examiners adopted reso-
lutions declaring that the education most
needed is that which will create better
| teachers. To this end they ask for laws
providing for the conducting of teachers
| Institutes at State expense and requiring
! all teachers to attend them, and also re-
| curing all commissioners and examiners
! to be experienced teachers. 1t was rec
commended that the DETACHMENT of school
| outhouses with obscene pictures be made
a penal offense. The president of the
! State association, in his annual address,
| made the statement that at least 17J, ZOO
children of the school age in Michigan do
not attend school and are growing up to
become menace to our free institutions.
| He also said that only % per cent. of the
| children who enter school remain to take
the grammar grades and but one-tenth go
| through the high school. He, therefore,
| strongly advocated the enactment of n
| comnulsory educatiou law TINT could no