Crawford avalanche., 1895-08-08


organize bicycling society.
An Ottawa County farmer saved So
bill by killing dog that had eaten It,
X. L. Ginsburg, Detroit commercial
traveller, was drowned while bathing in
Orchard Lake.
Elsie Brown, of Oregon, Lapeer Coun.
ty, is heroine. Though but II years
old, she has saved three children from
drowning.
Detroit, died, leaving her property to her
daughter, provided she would not marry
a man of the Teutonic race.
Ben A. Joy, prominent Springport
farmer, was arrested for killing his horse
with pitchfork and chain, and was fined
$50 by Justice Powers for the offense.
Since the storm at st. Joseph articles
supposed to have belonged to the steamer
Chicora have been washed ashore. Hun
dreds of dead fish have been washed up
ON the beach at st. Joseph. For several
miles the shore is covered with them.
A man entered an Ypsilanti barber
shop, the other day, and offered So to be
shaved in minute. Two BARRIERS imme-
diately jumped at him, and each hewed
half of his face. The shave was finished
and the man wiped, combed and per-
fume-squrted, within the given time. He
lost the So and will never be caught in
another "scrape" like that.
Gertrude Smith, the 2-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Smith, of Grand
Rapids, got cherry pit up her nose some
time ago. The other day the pit was re-
moved, and it was found that during the
two weeks or more il had remained there
it had started to grow. The shell had
cracked, and a tiny shoot had made for
daylight at the end of the nose.
Several years ago Chicago people pur-
chased tract of swamp land near Galien
and in spite of the jeers of the natives set
about draining and preparing it for culti-
walton. Last year the tract produced 20,
600 tons of cabbage, worth $4,000, and
this year there are 600 acres set to cab
bage, while you cannot touch an acre of
this lately valueless land short of $500.
Humphrey Tabor Jr., young farmer
living two miles west of Adrian, was
mourned for dead for a week. He disap-
peared from home and was last seen going
in the direction of his barn. Nothing was
heard of him until Tuesday, when one of
his hired men heard means in the hay
loft, and, digging away the hay, found
Tabor nearly dead for want of food and
drink. When resuscitated he said that
in attempting to remove the hay the NOW
had tumbled over on him, and he had no
idea how long he had been there. The
doctors say he will probably die.
The municipal government of Adrian
has recently been all torn up over 4
series of arrests and counterarrests. First,
Mayor kirkpatrick had Chief Bowen, of
the fire department, arrested and fined So
for riding bicycle on the sidewalk. Then
in retaliation Chief Bowen had the Mayor
arrested for fast driving on the streets,
the offense being an old one, in which the
Chief also was implicated, he and the
Mayor having raced horses in the streets
last June. Thereupon the Mayor had the
Chief arrested for the same offense. The
City Attorney declined to prosecute and
dismissed both complaints upon the pay
ment of SO and costs by both parties. The
Mayor is still $5 ahead and has removed
the Chief and his bicycle from the side
walks.
Last Saturday, when the rain was pour
ing in torrents, "a Bloomfield couple drove
up to the door of a superannuated preach
er. The young man awkwardly explained
that they wissed to be married. They
had come in an open buggy and were so
wet that great puddles gathered on the
carpet The minister remarked: Its
too bad that you had chosen such a rainy,
disagreeable day" "Wal," said the groom,
''you wouldn't hev got job from us to-
day if it hadn't rained. I've been a-plow
in, cultivatn' and buggin' taters all
through the dry SPELL When it rained to-
day all that l could do, if stayed hum,
wuz to clean the hog pen and whitewash
the hen roosts So, seein' as how we
wouldn't lose any time we thought that
we would up an git married"
Since the furniture buying season open
ed at Grand Rapids nearly 400 agents.
from all parts of the United States, visit
ed the city. The buyers have not placed
very heavy orders, but have scattered
their orders over pretty nearly everything.
There is n marked advance in prices, par
ticularly in the cheaper and medium
grade The new styles have little carved
deviation, the tendency being toward pur-
ity and simplicity. Brass and iron beds
have become very popular, while the fold
ing beds have fallen in popular favor.
Folding bed manufacturers are obliged
to take up other lines as well in order TO
keep their factories going.
Storms, combining cyclones, cloud
bursts, hail and lightning, ragged general
ly over the Northwest and West late Fri
day night and early Saturday morning.
AT several Central Illinois points cyclonic
wind demolished city and country struc-
lures, snapped off trees and did great
damage to crops. Corn and fruit were
ruined in many places. North Dakota
farmers estimate their loss on corn and
wheat at $50O,OOO. Hail accompanied
the storm, beating down the crops so they
looked as If they had been crushed by a
steam roller Wichita, Kan, was partly
inundated by water from the swollen
Arkansas River. In Indian Territory
several washouts occurred along the rail
roads, and in the bottom lands people
were obliged to fee for their lives to high
grounds. A cyclone ragged in parts Of In
diana. Near Indianapolis considerable
damage was done. At Alexandria the
mill of the Union Iron and Steel Com
pany was partly demolished. Patrick
Sears was caught in the ruins and severe
ly injured. Three hundred men are
thyown out of employment. Wisconsin,
too, had a taste of the blow, but in Mich