Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14
Record of the Week.


A raw Scandinavian attended the cru
saders' meetings at Whitehall. Asked if
he was a Christian, he replied: NAV;
ee bane s Swede."
Miss Gertie Mcclellan committed sui
eide at Benton Harbor by taking poison.
III health and dependency are supposed
to have cause the act.
Atlanta, Montgomery County, is in
need of general store and grist mill
as well as a factory to work up some OF
the hardwood which is gotten out in the
county.
The village of Carsonville is very anx.
ious to have some one rebuild the wooden
mill which was burned Sept. 1, 1894, and
purpose.
II. ]. f. Bradley, ex-manager of the
Pullman works in Detroit, who swindled
o. w. Shipman with n bogus check, plead
ed guilty and was sentenced to twelve
years in the Jackson penitentiary.
Henry Houten was found dead on the
railroad track south of Grand Rapids.
He was reputed to belong to an old and
wealthy Holland family. He regularly
received remittance of $50 a month
from Holland.
Special Officer Benson of Bay City was
bitten in the leg by vicious dog. The
officer claimed the boy in charge set the
dog upon him, and caused his arrest. The
lad was convicted, and the policeman had
the satisfaction of shooting the dog.
Frank Melzac, an alleged insane man.
has been palmed upon Bay County by
Midland County, it appears. He has been
brought to Bay City and placed in the
poor house pending the development OF
his sanity. The Midland authorities say
he is a Bay County charge, although his
people live in Midland.
Frank Miller, the smart young man
who, it is alleged, got several unemploy.
ed men at Flint, Grand Blanc and Good.
rich, on the promise of jobs in Brook.
Ign in place of strikers, was arrested
At the Grand Blanc depot he tried to
commit suicide by taking aconite, but q
doctor pumped him out.
The late "Uncle" Daniel ]. Moriarity
was picturesque character of Muske-
gon, an ex-city recorder, ex-alderman
and an auctioneer. He was quite wealthy,
and in his later years disposed of many
real estate parcels. His wife, with whom
he was not on the best of terms, now
comes forward with claim that she
never signed away her dover interest,
that the signatures, il any there were,
must have been foigeries, and she has
brought seventy suitH of ejectment to re-
cover property valued at $4,000. Two
wills of the old man, which cut Mrs.
Moriarity off with less than a dover in
terest, have already been broken.
An Owosso minister bitterly attacked
one Of his lady Sunday school teachers
because an entertainment she got ND
smacked too much of a theater. The
wicked affair consisted of tableau with
calcium lights.
Albert Kinds, a young lawyer Mt Ra.
VIENNA, is improving his spare time in
teaching school. The other day he went
to Muskegon and had Worthy Stuart,
Fred and William Hicks arrested for as
sault and battery. They threw him out
of the school house in the old-fashioned
way and a cold-hearted justice fined them
heavily for their amusement.
Kent County farmers are now cutting
and selling logs from their farms as a
source of revenue while the snow lasts.
They sell the timber to manufacturers of
woodenware of various kinds in the
northern counties, and get good prices
for il.
News comes from Shelby of the finding
in the drifts near there Of the bodies of
a woman and man locked in each others
arms. The man was identified as a
school teacher from Banona and the WON
an is thought also to be teacher. A
farmer found half-frozen horse and a
broken cutter In his yard and started out
to search with the result as stated. The
names could not be learned.