Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-14


One farmer In Eagle Township. Clinton
County, raised TOO bushels Of mangel
wurzels on less than an acre OF ground.
A Flint jury sent out requisition for
bushel Of apples. peck of oranges, q
box Of chewing gum and box Of cigars.
Frank Ayres, of Wheeler, Gratiot
County, shot himself accidentally while
out hunting and died shortly afterwards.
Sault Ste. Marie will have new hos
pital next year. The plans for 1t are COM
pleted and ground will be broken In the
spring.
The Catholic church ut Algonac was de-
stroyed by fire Sunday night, and ii 10
supposed that incendiaries were RESPONSE
BILE for the blaze.
Albert Price, Grand Rapids bicyclist,
while riding home with his head down,
collided with Sylvester Tobin. Tobin
died from his injuries.
Muskegon and Saginaw people want
through train service between those
towns, over the d., L. & N. and G. g. W.
NJ. systems, and the plan is being consid1
cred.
The $25 tax on Ohio and Indiana marks
manship has frozen out for this season
nearly all the old hunting parties that
make the northern part of the State their
hunting ground.
During last week 20O, 900 cabbages We're
shipped from the south end of Bay City
to Cincinnati and the South. Farmers
obtained from S. to 81 ton for them
delivered at the cars.
The new town well at Eagle is COM
pleted, at a depth of ITO feet. A wind,
mill and n 20O-barrel tower tank are be-
ing erected and a quantity of hose will be
bought for fire purposes.
Nettie Williams, an innocent-looking
16-year-old girl, was arrested Mt Owosso
for stealing rings valued at $50 and dress
patterns from friends she was visiting in
Saginaw. She confessed.
BY the burning of barn at Willis on
Saturday night ID. w. Kane lost twelve
tons of hay, twenty tons of straw, two
horses, two buggies, ETC., and one of his
horses was seriously burned.
The Yawde Boat Club, of Marshall,
held baby show at which twenty of the
handsomest youngsters in the city CONF
peted for prizes. The affair was the talk
of the town and n bowling success.
The relatives of Miss Olive Carleton,
at st. Clair, still insist that she was MUIR
dered and did not commit suicide. They,
however, give no reason for this belief
other than that the detectives have told
them.
At Ann Arbor over 800 women stu
dents of the university attended recep-
ton given by the sophomore girls. All
male students were carefully excluded,
and the men in the orchestra were hidden
by a screen.
Kalamazoo has new industry-the
slaughter of horses for their hides About
fifty were killed during the year past.
William Shaffer buys old horses for 75
cents or 81 apiece and sells their hides for
from $3.50 to $3.50.
A Manistee man got tired of life the
other night and to drown his troubles
jumped into the river. The coldness Of
the water soon changed his mind for him,
however, and he yelled until some one
got plank and pulled him out.
Milford Brisbin and Willard Clapp were
hunting muskrats in Franklin Township,
Lenawee County. Clapps gun was acci-
dentally discharged, and it's load Of shot
lodged in Brisbin's abdomen. Blood pois-
oning set in, and the boy died.
1t transpires that Watson Fisher, the
Mount Clemens barber, who went North
on hunting expedition and died soon
after his return, was not victim of salt
pork. as supposed In his stomach sill
yer 10-cent peice was found obstructing
the passage.
George III. Durand ST., one of Sagi-
nav Valleys most prominent citizens,
died Tuesday, aged 80. He was the
father of the Hon. George III. Durand ex-
Congressman and ex-Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court; Mrs. John p. Williams
of Chicago and the Hon. l.. Il. Durand,
of Saginaw.
When the Bay City water works inlet
pipe was laid up Saginaw Bay less than
twenty years ago, the intake was seven
feet below the average level of the water.
The lakes have fallen so much since that
the pipe is now covered by only two and
a half feet, which is one foot less than
only year ago.
The Hackley Park Assembly Associa-
ton, of Muskegon, practically disappears,
all of its property, real and personal, be-
ing decided to Albert Dodge, of Grand
Rapids. Mr.. Dodge is the grand secre-
tary of the Michigan Good Templars.
Mr.. Dodge says that while his plans are
not yet ready to announce there will be
an assembly held next year and that he
will proceed to organize an assembly asso-
citation. While the consideration named
in the deed is $25, OCO, it is estimated the
property is worth nearly twice that.
Just before the closing hour Sunday
morning at Buckley x Douglas mill, Man.
istee, tramp named John Tynon, locally
known as Jack, the Ripper" was found
asleep in pile of sawdust. Ordered off,
he started away staggering, apparently
half drunken. A moment later he pitched
head foremost into the main driving belt,
and was carried around the pulley, nearly
every bone in his body being crushed to
pulp. The big four-foot belt snapped
in two. The victims shoe, hat and frags
ments Of his vitals were found in distant
parts of the MILL
All is activity at Iron Mountain. The
Pewabic Mine Company has purchased
the Walpole property and commenced ex-
ploring, with view to extending opera
tons. 1t has also increased the wages
of 500 men. The Lumberman's Company
is preparing to reopen the Ludington and
Hamilton mines, which were flooded four
years ago. The mine once gave emplay-
ment to 100 men. The big Chaplin Is
employing 500 men and proposes to in
crease the force. The Quinnesee Falls
Company is erecting $500, 900 paper mill
which will employ nearly thousand men,