Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-07-11
Short State Items.

]. Ii. Hatfield was terribly mangled by
a Chicago and West Michigan train near
Benton Harbor.
The hay crop of Presquc Isle County
will not average half crop. Other crops
are looking well.
Albert Cavan, an employee of Alger,
Smith & Co, fell between the cars near
Alpena and was killed.
At Kalamazoo John Robbins was SEN
fenced to Jackson for five years for at
tempting TO kill Charles Hill by shooting
him.
Warren Smith. aged 10 years, who was
to leave Bay City for California, was
drowned in the river near the water
works.
One of the Milford high school gradu-
ates figured that she has travelled to and
from school I 600 miles. She lives one and
a half miles away.
Prof w. $. Perry has been superin-
tendent of Ann Arbors schools for twen-
ty-fve years. A Perry scholarship will be
founded by the High Alumni Association.
After long investigation Saginaw vai-
ley lumber dealers have discovered that
the railroads have been discriminating
against them in the matter of freight rates
east and that thereby Chicago was getting
undue advantages.
An earnings statement for the month
of April Issued by Railroad Commissioner
Billings shows the Michigan earnings of
all railroads in the State to have been
$2,507 ,974, or $253,3S2 in excess of the
earnings of the same period one year ago.
During a show in the opera house at
Owosso three alleged hoodlums charged
prominent citizens with immortality and
riot ensued, in which bad eggs, stones
and clubs were used. The opera house
was badly damaged, ana the proprietor
will sue the citizens.
Attorneys Moore & Moore have begun
suit at Detroit against the Flint and Pere
Marquette Railroad claiming SO, 900
damages for the road adopting their sug-
gestion of plan by which it could reach
the business section of Detroit, and not
paying them for it.
Abba Cavan, man employed as load
er on log train on the Detroit and Mack
inaw Railroad at Blond Station, fell un-
der the wheels and had both legs cut off
below the knees. In the absence of an
engine, the cars are moved by teams. A
car had just been loaded, and another car
was being run down, when Cavan made
a jump for the loaded car to set the brakes,
but missed his calculation and fell back
under the moving car. He was placed
on an engine and taken to Alpena. but
died before reaching there. His home is
at Thurson, Quebec.
DIR. n. j. Scott, for many years a sue
cessful physician and druggist at Bay
City, was driving to a small stream north
of Seney. with the intention of fishing
and hunting few hours; his shotgun
dropped through the bottom of the wagon,
and in the attempt to raise it by taking
hold of the barrels, the hammer caught
and both barrels were discharged in his
left arm just below the shoulder, shatter-
ing it so that amputation was necessary.
To make the accident more terrible, his
clothing took fire and was extinguished
with difficulty, he being at least two or
three miles from any assistance. At pres.
ent he is resting easily, but his recovery is
very doubtful.
Mabel Hart, the G-yelr-old daughter of
William Hart, farmer residing in Blum
field, while picking berries in the woods.
was bitten on the foot by rattlesnake.
The child was in critical condition. but
was successfully treated by nm Indian
DOCTOR
At partial test of the new water works
system at Decatur n stream was easily
thrown to the top of the highest building,
direct pressure being used. The standpipe
will not be completed for several weeks.
but In the meantime an ample supply will
prevent a repetition of the two disas-
trous fires which have occurred recently.
Samuel Thompson, aged II years, start
ed from Kalamazoo for Lakeview and
was knocked off trailer car by center
post and fell under the car. His neck was
broken by the car passing over him, and he
was otherwise badly mangled. He was a
trimmer This Is the first fatal
lily from the electric cars in the city.
Some kind of volcanic eruption has
taken place on Batchewanna Island, 60
miles west of Sault Ste. Marie, on the
north shore of Lake Superior. Part of the
bottom of the Jake has been thrown rp
out Of the water and the earth II trans
formed into series Of ridges. The most
probable theory 10 that an earthquake
has cnuscd the phenomenon.