Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-31

Battle Greek churches have organized
a non-partisan prohibition league.
A Port Huron man says he doesn't &c
sleigh riding. He prefers to stick his
feet in ice water.
An Arenac bride was welded in the
moonlight, a lantern aiding the preacher
to perform the ceremony.
Orders for 100000 fruit trees have
already been received from fruit growers
between st. Joseph and Traverse City.
Three hundred Iron Mountain residents
took out full citizens papers in one week.
Fully two-thirds are Italians and Austri-
ans.
The Bay City Council fixed the price of
gas as follows: Fuel, 81 thousand; light,
5000 feet and over, $1.20; under 5000
feet, $1.25.
Bay County supervisors have drawn
thousands of dollars for committee work,
which, it seems, is illegal. The supervisors
are now preparing bill to legalize such
pay.
A gilt-edge Muskegon dude was found
stark, raving crazy from smoking cigar
cites. His father took him out of police
court on the promise to refrain from the
man-killers.
The new altar Of st. Peters Church
in Mount Clemens will cost 81 800 and
be work of art One hundred electric
lights, besides candles, will be used In
it's illumination.
II. s. Browns large frame store build
ing, occupied by n. G. Monroe's general
business, G.. A. II. post and Forester post,
burned at Gagetown. Browns loss is
$1,000; Monroe's, $4,000.
Mrs. Flossie Pool got verdict Of $500
damages from the Grand Rapids Street
Railway Company. The Supreme Court
charges ate up almost the entire amount,
and there is little if anything left for
either Mrs. Poole or the lawyers.
Dude got on a Grand Rapids train.
Half his seat empty. Brawny lumber
remarked: "You had better not get too
near me; have just recovered from scar
let fever" "Oh. that's nothing" said
the wocdsman, I'm just let away from
the smallpox hosspittle."
A chap named Post visited all but two
of the Grand Rapids banks, claiming to
represent McKillip, Walker & Co., of
New York. To each one he offered the
Grand Rapids agency which he repre-
scented was worth $4,000. The only
the thing he asked was an entrance fee
of $50. When the bankers met they
learned that all had been offered ground
floor positions. The man in the meantime
had disappeared.
Macomb County lays claim to man
who is so chemically absent-minded that
sometimes it looks as though the gray
matter would get entirely away from him
and never materialize again. He makes
a business of cleaning carpets and sitting
up with sick folks. 1t is alleged that once
| in an absent-minded mood he sat up all
night with a roll of carpet, and the next
morning he everlastngly walloped n
sick "folk" with club meant for busting
carpets.
The power of the Jonesvile electric
lights is furnished by water from pond
nearly mile away. The lights were
little faint by spells, and an examination
resulted in the finding of large numbers
of cells congregated under the power
house. highly charged with electricity
The city fathers are contemplating n con-
tract for line of these cells to run the
waterway to the town and connect with
n high tower, which will light the country
! for miles around
Mrs. Frank Sczcyglowski, of Grand
Rapids, got tired of that name and also
of her husband and filed bill for sep
arate maintenance, alleging that her hus-
band called her names even worse than
| Sczcyglowski. Hubby came back with
a bill for divorce, hurting back other
charges, but the Judge said nay Then
the husband left for Dakota and filed an
other bill. 1t is alleged that some of his
statements were not strictly correct, and
the woman's lawyers are at work in
Dakota.
| At this time last year at Mackinaw
City ice sixteen inches thick was put up.
while now the strait is clear from shore
to shore. For couple of weeks the
| channel has been filed with field ice. and
the prospect was that it would freeze
solid, but an unusually severe westerly
gale carried it into Lake Huron. Snow has
been flying in binding clouds, entirely
blocking the sidewalks in places and ex--
posing the gravel in others. Trains are
all delayed not being able to make regu
lar time by at least an hour, though pre-
coded by plows and in some cases ru
ming with double headers.
An interesting matter has been discuss
ed by the Jackson papers recently. 1t is
in relation to postal cards, and shows that
Jackson was the first postoffce in Michi-
gan to receive them after they were issued
by the Government in 1878. w. l.. Sea-
ton, who was then postmaster in Jackson,
received 1000 of them, and Immediately
sent one to his daughter in Detroit, that
being the first that ever passed through
the Detroit postofice. The 1 900 which he
received at the first was then enough for
a month, but now it takes $4,000 to sup
ply the Office at the prison city that
length of time.
The Michigan Supreme Court filed an
opH,on overruling a motion for a new
.riii 1.-THE celebrated murder case of AL
pei' Nioi.er, of Presque Isle County.
1our'eeh yeas after the murder of Moli-
Ter men named yogeler, Grossman and
jacobs were last scar convicted of the
| murder and sentencedto the State nrison
for life. Application was made for n new
trial by reason of error at .everal sta pes
of the proceedings, but the court found
none and confirmed the judgment of the
court below. William Repke who was
the informer in the case, was also con.
victed, and, upon appeal was denied n
new trial two or three weeks ago. The.
case is finally closed now, and the parties
will end their lives in prison unless the
executive interferes.