Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-09-26
short State Items.

Potato thieves are so DuSy IN MecOSta
County that many families sleep in their
| fields, rolled in blankets.
The postofiice at Croton, Newaygo
| County, was robbed of $23. Chas. Il.
Merritt confessed and returned the
| money.
While Il. Tubbs was lying at the point
of death, near Loomis, somebody de-
stroyed his barn with fire. Neighbors are
SO mad that they threaten to lynch the
offender.
At Grand Rapids, too, the scarcity of
peach baskets is felt Shipments are
greatly delayed. The price of baskets
has already advanced from $50 to $50
thousand.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Church, of Mis-
souri,, Travelled to Albion, a distance of
800 miles, in their own conveyance, to
visit friends. Mr.. Church is ~ years of
age, and his wife is 62.
State Treasurer Wilkinson's report for
the fiscal yer ending June 80 shows
balance at the beginning of the year of
S521 ,S25.27; receipts, So, 1O4, 1880; total,
81, 226, O23.45. The total disbursements
were SD, 935 ,60J.6S, leaving a balance OF
500, 417.79 at the close of the year.
Mrs. Sarah Huntington Olney, wife of
the late Prof. Edward Olney, Of the Uni
versty Of Michigan, and author of several
important mathematical textbooks, died
Wednesday morning in Ann Arbor. She
was the daughter of the late Elijah Hunt
ington, of Perrysburg, Ohio. She was
buried in kalamazoo.
Frank Meyers, an aged veteran of st.
Joseph, received pension of $40 a month.
The good news was too much for him, and
he fell over dead.
The liquor tax money received by the
st. Clair County Treasurer this year. up
TO the present time, is $1,000 short of the
amount collected during the same period
last year. The total amount so far col
lected this year is $43, SO5.O2. These fig
ures indicate that nearly one-third of the
liquor dealers of the county have gone out
of business owing to the making of q
uniform tax of $500. Instead of the in
creased tax increasing the revenues of the
county, it has actually diminished them,
and that much more will have to be raised
by taxation.
The water i'm the Kalamazoo River ut
Concord seems to be disappearing as If by
magic The oldest settler says il has
never been so low as at present. The
heavy rains Of August had little or no
effect upon 1t, and the flour mill at Con-
cord is unable to run more than d few
hours each day. 1t has been proposed
that the mill pond be drained, the natural
water course dredged and diked like a
canal. thus forcing the water through the
channel instead of allowing it to spread
over n useless space of land as at present
If some remedy is not found soon, all
places that now use the water will be
obliged to turn to steam for their power.
The State fair was a grand success. A
conservative estimate places the profits
Mt $4,000 and it is not unlikely that they
will amount to $1,000 or more. The total
receipts were $21,5OO. Friday was chill
dren's day and the little ones filed the
grounds.
The. Alpena Council has decided to get
after certain lot holders in the city ceme-
terry with a sharp stick. Many persons
bought lots as much as twenty years ago,
and have not paid for them yet, and as
the city funds are getting somewhat low.
old accounts of the city are being, col
Iected wherever possible.
During a thunder storm William Colby,
who lives a short distance west of 'Birm-
inghnm, lost four cows which were killed
by lightning and another was so badly in
jured that it was killed TO end its suffer-
ings. Harry Wattles Troy farmer, also
lost one COW by lightning.
Melville Scranton and Paul Shuclte, of
East Saginaw, who were drowned in
Upper Lake. near Malone, N. Y, were
the victims of an unexpected storm. When
but a short distance from shore, the boat
was Overturned and the men went to the
bottom. The bottom Of the lake il filed
with Hoodwood and they must have be-
come entangled in II after striking the
bottom.