Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-17

since the season Openeu last Ial.
Mrs. s. 8. Showers. Of Oakley, cut hen
hand on the spur of chicken she was
dressing. She will lose the hand.
Joseph Griffin was caught In the act OF
stealing a pair Of 'rubbers at Bay City
and the next morning went to jail for
month.
Mrs. o. Il. Fifeld. aged rs. wife of
Mayor Fifield, Of Benton Harbor, and g.
III. Lineaweaver, aged 80. passed away
Sunday. - ss4r< X
The store Of Samuel Moffett, ut Flint.
was burglarzed and $50 in cash. besides
a considerable quantity of merchan-
disc, taken. M
While attending horse which was
hitched in its stall, Hugh Johnson, living
near st. Joseph, was kicked to death. He
leaves a family.
Mrs. Polly Dixon died at her home in
Pulaski, jackson County, aged 90 years.
She was the oldest woman in the county
with one exception.
Mrs. J. g. Runyen. Troy lady, has
quite a curiosity in the way of flower.
1t is white chrysanthemum, and at
present has over 300 blossoms.
Benton Harbor citizens are trying to
persuade the officials of the railways
touching that point that new union
depot is an immediate necessity.
III. Hill, Of Omaha, is his name. Mark
the words. Omaha. and not Basswoods
Corners. He turned out the gas in
Flint hotel, and was nearly dead when
found.
The newly elected officers of Huron
Axe, the county seat, as there are no va
cant houses in the village TO accommodate
them.
Ex-Attorney General A. A. Ellis has
already settled down AZ an everyday law
yer at Ionia. He il associated with
Charles Locke. graduate of the State
University.
Eddy Bros, Capt. John Shaw and
Capt. Howard Shaw, of Bay City, have
contracted for steamship to be 352 feet
keel, 372 feet over all, Az feet beam,
and 81 feet hold, and to cost upward of
SOD, 900.
John Murray, Chicago and West
Michigan conductor at Muskegon, was
saved by coat button. He slipped from
the front platform Of switch engine and
would have been crushed to death under
the wheels had not the button caught
and held HIM up until the engine was
stopped.
A Southfield hermit. who doesn't squan-
der much money for soap, has. had n
patch of dirt on his left chop for four or
five years. It's alleged since the drouth
was broken up, that this beauty spot has
become an oasis on a sandy desert of face
and now is covered with a nice grassy
sod.
j. ID. Hagaman, the ex-medium of
Adrian, offers 81 900 to any medium who
can produce IA manifestation he can't
duplicate. He says the whole business
is humbug A few days after Anna
Eva Fay appeared i'm Adrian Hagaman
and his daughter did everything that
| Eva did.
A Grand Rapids girl has n mania for
| riding in the city ambulance, and the
number of times she is suddenly injured
on the streets is n caution. The last
| time they got Il physician to exaE,ine
| her. Mabel ut once decided there wax
| nothing the matter with her, and fled
! like n whirlwind.
Arrangements are being made for u
| rally Of old soldiers to be held ut Lans-
| ing some time during the month of March.
I, The occasion will be one of particular
| interest to survivors Of the Seventeenth.
| Nineteenth and Twentieth regiments Of
| infantry, as on the day TO be selected
| the colors of these regiments. which were
| lost during the war; will be returned.
| The flags were recovered through the eff
| forts of Senator Patton, and will be for
warded for preservation in the State
| museum.
There's an Oagland County man that
| is entitled TO the State championship for
meanness He is well-to-do and has stacks
| of quilts and bedding Now, boys" he
| said to several mechanics. who were I'M
fortunately helping him TO erect build
| ing, its getting near bed time and rain
| ing pretty hard; you take this lantern
| and you'll find the straw middling dry in
| the south end of the stack; bring n bun
| die and wen make shake-down for
| YOU" An udorfcrous horse blanket was
used for covering and the unfortunate
| "bread- winners" shivered off sort of
| nightmare sleep, without removing boots
or clothing, after taking the precaution
| to hide their tools, put on mittens and tie
their earlaps down.
| The eliminating outragcs in n series Of
| attempts OH the life Of Mrs. Alice Wat
| son, the housckeeper of Peter Kraus,
| an employee in the United States customs
| service at Detroit, was made when, on
leaving the rear door of the Kraus home,
she was seized by two unknown women
dragged into n shed, gagged and thrown
| to the earth. Her assailants then poured
Kerosene oil over all her clothing, but evil
IDENTIFY lost their nerve just before be-
ginning the cremation of their victim, for
| they fed precipitatcly. Mrs. Watson is
seriously injured. The assault is laid at
| the door of some of Kraus late wife's
| relatives. Mrs. Watson has been re-
ceiving poisoned candy and the like for
| several weeks.
| A farmer with prophetic whiskers and
desire TO smoke entered an Ann Arbor
saloon and purchased cigar. which he
| attempted to light at an alcohol lamp. He
'muffed'' the job and spilled the alcohol
| in his whiskers, which took fire. lmmedi-
| atcly an era of great activity set in with
the old man. who rushed to the door. 1t
would be vulgar to say he did so to let
the wind blow through his whiskers, but
entirely proper to remark that his purpose
! was to permit the circulation Of oxygen
| through the hirsute capillary covering of
| his face. The bartender, however,
drenched him with a pint Of water, and
| the old man thought that he had been Gre
| mated, baptized and had a smoke and a
| shave. all inside of n minute.
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