Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-21


teeth. He has three fingers less than he
had.
Mrs. Carouthers, SO years old, who lived
alone on q small farm In the wilderness
in Arenac County, was found frozen to
death.
The owners of the Eagle block ut Mar
shall are contemplating remodeling the
building from the second floor up into a
first-class opera house.
| . Mnckinaw City il in the throes of a mu-
nicipal war. The village Council has been
spending money right and left and there
is none left in the treasury.
The ball ground at Grand Haven is call
ed the pest house grounds. 1t occupies
the site where, years ago, Grand Haven
smallpox patients were buried.
Charles Parker, known as Leopold, a
minstrel who once ranked with Dock
stader and others, is in jackson Jail, al
most a total wreck from alcohol.
A Cheboygan lad put his tongue against
a cold coupling pin just for fun. They
| had to take the coupling pin home stuck
to the boys tongue. There was a surgi-
cal operation, but the boy is still eating
soup.
Christopher Bissinger, employed in tho
| Detroit Chamber Of Commerce building,
was instantly killed by being struck on
the head by an elevator Bissinger's neck
was broken, his skull crushed and his
| jaw fractured in two places.
The hut of Eric Burg, the Muskegon
hermit, who for many years has made his
home on the bleak shore of Lake Muske-
- III IN.sa IxaI
tears, but put his woodshed in order and
| lay down to pleasant dreams.
James Battle, chief of the Detroit fire
| department since 1860, was retired on
| half pay and Assistant Chief James Il.
| Elliott succeeds him. Chief Battle has
! been sick for two years and Elliott has
been at the head of the department.
Mrs. Catherine Dewitt, of Grand Rap
| ids, and some of her relatives had not
been living together very tremendously.
Last night she received letter sharply
criticsng her for her treatment of her
sons wife, While reading the letter the
| old lady died.
The steamer George e. Stone lies at the
dock at Port Huron, with $1,000 bushels
of corn, which has become heated and
will have to be unloaded at once. The
Stone came from Chicago. A leaking pipe
started the trouble. The w. L. Sauber
is also troubled with heated cargo of
10000 bushels of corn, due to the spilling
9f fire eXtinguisher.
The Circuit Court at Grand Rapids
made a decision which is victory for
Great Commander Boynton, of the Mac
cabees. Some time ago he appointed a
commission to investigate Valley City
Tent of Grand Rapids, for its conduct in
connection with the Boughton trouble of
few months ago. The tent Immediately
applied to the court for mandamus to
restrain the commission from proceeding,
and on Monday the court refused to issue
the writ as requested. The investigation
will now go on.
George Pike. of Port Huron, is a
happy man. For twenty years he has
been trying to get II pension. only TO be
rebuifed with the assertion that he was n
deserter. While in the hospital during
the war, suffering from a serious wound,
he received letter that his wife had
eloped with another man and fled to Mar
quette. Forgetful of his obligation to the
Government, he went to Marquette at
once only to find the bad news confirmed.
The Government ordered him to return,
but he had no money and could not do so.
Now the charge of desertion has been set
aside and a pension granted.
The funeral of Isaac NJ Turner at
Grand Rapids was so largely attended
that the doors had to be closed. The SER
vices were conducted by the Rev. Allen
w. Gould of Chicago, and DR.. Campbell
Fair When the ministers had concluded
Mrs. Turner entered the room unattend-
ed and unexpected Taking position at
the head of the coffin, she, for half an
hour, spoke of the virtues of the dead. She
spoke eloquently and from the heart, yet,
while many in the room were in tears, she
did not show emotion until near the close.
She was in tears as she retired from the
room to prepare for the ride to the Gene
terry.
February crop report says: In reply to
the question, Has wheat during January
suffered injury from any cause?" 1872 cor
respondents in the southern counties an
swer Eyes" and 205 mo-" in the central
counties "a answer "yes" and 142 mo-"
and in the northern counties S answer
''yes" and 30 'no." The total number of
bushels of wheat reported marketed by
farmers in January is LOCI 1913, and in
the six months August-January 7,296,941,
which is 1,952,971 bushels less than re-
ported marketed in the same months last
year. At twenty elevators and mills from
which reports have been received there
was no wheat marketed during the month.
The condition of live stock averages from
93 to 81 per cent, comparison being with
stock in good, healthy and thrifty condi-
ton.
Samuel Graham, captain of Ypsilanti
Hose Company ,, was arrested, charged
with incendiarism. For the last eighteen
months fires, destroying vacant houses
and outbuildings, have been frequent on
the East Side, and the fact that Captain
Graham's men were always ready to re-
spond caused some suspicion, which the
police officers have followed up. As a
result Charles NJ. Walker, a former min
ute-man of the fire department. was taken
into custody and made full confession,
duplicating Captain Graham and Fire
man Archie Harrison. The mysterious
fires ceased several weeks ago, when the
department was reorganized aud Graham
became the recipient of q monthly sal
airy, and the system of paying firemen
by the hour for work performed was
abolished.
Owosso is town of less than 10000
people, yet il is to have n fve-story Office
building that would be credit to a city
of 100 600 Masons will occupy tho ton