Crawford avalanche., 1895-04-25

| broom factory, which looks as If II might
be headed that way.
Bicycle riders at Kalamazoo and Battle
Greek are raising fund to build bicy-
| Gle road between the two towns.
The Jackson Common Council will be
asked to appropriate funds for putting
Pingree's potato scheme in operation.
Earl Minor, young boy from Battle
Creek, has very mysteriously disappeared
from home, and no trace can be found
| of him.
Mayor Walker, of Ann Arbor, says the
city is paying twice as much for electric
lights as it should pay. He advocates
municipal ownership.
Lawrence Van Wormer, resident Of
| Milan for forty years, died of old age.
He was "A years old, and leaves widow
and several children.
Indians near the 500 are hard at work
| gathering maple sugar. They bring 1t
to town in birch bark "mococks," deco
rated in Indian fashion.
Although Joshua G. Griffin, of Napo-
leon, died eighteen years ago, his will has
| just been probated. The heirs have man
aged the property harmoniously all this
| time.
| If the girls of Ann Arbor are not TO be
| allowed to wear bloomers they will at
least insist that the boys of the school
wear skirts. No discrimination! No male
| domination!
| The issue of 5000 bonds for a city
hall at Bay City proves TO be invalid,
| because at the election all citizens were
| allowed to vote, instead of taxpayers, as
the charter provides.
A lumber camp foreman named John
| McCarty was taken to the Bay County
| Jail for being insane. This makes this
| years list of crazy people taken into GUS
tody in Bay City reach thirteen.
The Ann Arbor Council has authorized
| the Mayor to offer a reward of 500 for
evidence that will convict the man or
woman who is just now poisoning dogs
| by the wholesale in that city. Many val
| liable CANNES have been killed.
| There are 227 children in the State pub
lie school of Michigan. Forty-one are
| colored and forty-seven are girls. Six
| teen of the boys have formed company
| of jubilee singers, that the school takes
| great pride in Forty-seven children have
been procured good homes in the past
| year.
A private detective at Alpena investi-
| gated fire which occurred there some
time ago, and as a result of his work
John Richards was arrested on a charge
| of arson. The detective" had clear
case against him, but when summoned
to testify, his story was punched SO full
of holes by the prisoners attorney that
no doubt remained of Richards innO-
| cence, and he was discharged.
Meager particulars have been received
of a most distressing affair which Occur
red in Helena township, Antrim County.
near the Kalkaska County line. One of
two daughters of farmer named Good
win picked up her fathers shotgun, and
in n spirit of mischief pointed it at her
sister, saying that she would shoot her.
The gun was discharged, it's contents
striking the young lady in the shoulder
inflicting injuries that will result fatally.
The other girl is raving maniac over the
terrible results of her foOlhardy act. Both
are girls under 20 years of age.
Ralph Plaughman, 8 years of age, was
frightfully and probably fatally burned
while playing at a bonfire at Muskegon.
He was alone at the time of the accident,
but managed to pull himself from the
flames, and, with his clothing burning
from his back, rushed to his home,
block away. His mother was so frighten-
ed that she was helpless, and had not
7-year-old brother had the presence of
mind to grab blanket and smother the
flames, the child would no doubt have
suffered instant death. As it is, his re-
covery is doubtful.
At Welch, Ogemaw County, ID. La
port and Patrick Spring argued out an
old feud with a revolver apiece, and both
will be laid up for repairs for some time
to come. Springs weapon failed to work
after he had fired two shots, and after the
shooting was over, he went to a neigh
boris house and examined the weapon to
see what was the matter with it. While
doing so ii was accidentally discharged,
and the ball struck little girl, making
a painful wound in her arm. Neither of
the men is seriously wounded, and it is
probable that they will be put under bonds
to keep the peace when they get around
again.
Bois Blanc island, recently created a
township, had glorious time at election.
The floating palace where liquor refresh
n
scene of jollification all day long. The
ballot box was not locked, and frequently
during the day the election inspectors
could not restrain their curiosity to count
the votes to see how it was going. Five
justices of the peace were elected, but
no provision was made for the length of
time each should serve, so the voters re-
sorted to the floating palace, where cuts
were drawn, the town justice getting the
longest straw getting the longest term,
and vice versa, while one poor fellow who
drew neither a long nor a short straw
got left altogether.
The Board of Regents of the University
of Michigan took the first steps toward
the reorganization of the homeopathic
medical department. The department
was declared by resolution to be distinct
and independent of every other depart
ment, and q committee to draft n new set
of rules and regulations for il was ap-
pointed. This was done to counteract the
cry that the department was under the
domination of the allopathic school. Re
gent Dean made an adverse report on the
proposed introduction of military train
ing. President Angel announced the re-
ceipt Of $4,000 from Mrs. Clara Harri-
son Stranahan, of New York city, the
income from which she gave to the estab-
lishmcnt of scholarships.
A Port Huron constable is likely TO get
into trouble for serving forged warrant.
An English family had seized boarder's
trunk for back bills. The boarder and
constable tried to get the trunk back
through threats of arrest, but the scheme