Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-24

Rev. II. Nelson Glover, pastor Of the
First Baptist Church Of Bay City, has
Withdrawn his resignation. harmony hav-
ing been restored.
Burt Cameron and Richard Van Dill
lon, of Grand Rapids, quarreled during
SNOWFALL fight. Cameron stabbed Van
Dillon, INJECTING fatal injuries.
A body, supposed to he that of Gottlieb
Wagh,, of Warsaw, Ind, was found in
an abandoned house near Cheboygan. He
was probably suffocated by coal gas.
1t In said that great distress exists
among the poorer people In AIuskcgon and
Ottawa Counties, and many are suffering
for want of proper food and clothing.
In his annual report State Oil Inspector
McMillen says that during 1894 19,O0O.-
600 gallons of oil were inspected. and the
net revenue to the State was $4,000.
Friends Of Harry Stevenson, who dis
appeared from Prescott week ago, fear
he has been murdered. He was a lumber
jobber and his clothes have been found.
Daniel Weber, young attorney of
Benton Harbor, recently acquitted of
passing worthless checks, is now accused
of forgery. His whereabouts are un-
known.
The trustees of the Ann Arbor High
school rescinded the rule forbidding stu
dents to become members of fraternitics
and the six suspended students will be re-
instated
Albert w. Fairchild, formerly Of Ben
ton. and for thirteen years on inmate Of
the Kalamazoo insane asylum, hanged
himself with a handkerchief fastened 10
window screen.
Twins were recently born to Mr. and
Mrs. Newell Case, of Battle Greek, One
was born at IL :55 O'clock Monday a.Ibt.
Dec. 81. 1894, and the other ut 1905
o'clock Tuesday morning, Jan. l, 1895.
The law faculty of the University of
Michigan expelled one student for max
ing unseemly noises and suspended two
others. The dean has given notice that
more will follow such outbursts in the
future.
A young man of Addison. while work
ing in the yard of his home the other day,
picked up gold ring. When the rest of
the family saw IL, they identified it as one
which another member of the family had
lost fifteen years ago.
At Manistee Thorvald Peterson. book
keeper for the Manistee and Grand Rap
ids Railroad. was ,arraigned on four
charges of forging orders for money OH
the Manistee and Grand Rapids Railroad
Company. He pleaded guilty, and was
held for trial.
Several weeks ago the charitable Battle
Creek ladies sent boxes Of clothing and
$50 in money to the suffering poor in Ne
braska. The Michigan Central carried
the goods free. but Nebraska railroads
charged freight. The same thing is true
OF many other contributions from Michi-
gan, and the freight in some cases was
u heavy burden for the sufferers. Rev.
George b. Culp. of Battle Greek. raised
rumpus in letter to the Nebraska Gov
ernor, and the railroads have refunded
the freight charges.
The annual meeting of the Alillers'
State Association, the leading State as
isociation of its kind in the United States.
was held in Lansing The weekly re-
ports show that the association has during
the year shipped 536,G62 barrels of -four
and 17,SSS tons of feed to points outside
the State. This exceeds the amount re-
ported for 1893 by ,4S3 barrels of -four
and 5.41S tons of feed. The average
prices received for the year were S2.67
for straight -four. S3.e9 for patent, $14.36
for bran. $1JSS for middlings, and II
cents for wheat. This is about 60 cents
less for -four than 1893. with the price of
feed few cents better than for that year.
The annual meeting of the West Michi-
gan Agricultural and Industrial Associa-
ton was held at Grand Rapids. The
treasurer's report showed the receipts Of
the last fair to have been S11 1873, and
S263 remains OH hand after paying all ac-
counts, except $1.7OO in debts brought
forward from the previous year. Presi-
dent Hart said the time had passed for
purely agricultural fairs, and that to be a
success in the future the annual exhibit
ton must be an exposition open for at
least two weeks. These directors were
elected: :. =. Bailey. East Paris: Il. Il.
Dikeman, Grand Rapids John Lcssitcr.
Caledonia: l.. Il. Townsend, Ionia: and
Charles w. Johnson. Grecnville. At the
meeting of the new board of directors later
the election of officers was deferred until
March l, when a committee will report
the result Of conference with the man
ayers Of the State Fair relative TO pro-
posed consolidation Of interests in fair
to be given this year
The Michigan monthly crop report for
January shows that the number of bush
els of wheat reported marketed i'm Decem-
Der was 1,494, 1876, and for five months
August to December-6, 235. 1O3 bushels,
or 1 ,G63, 032 bushels less than in the same
months last year. The average condition
Of live stock il reported thus: Horses, "a;
sheep and cattle, %: and swine. 81 per
cent. The average price Of wheat Jan. l
was 30 cents: corn. -i6 cents: oats, %
cents per bushel, and hay $7.95 per ton.
The average price of fat cattle was $204
of fat hogs $3.96. and of dressed pork
S4.97 per cwt. The average price of
horses, 3 years old and over, were SCOTT:
mich cows, $27.91 per head; sheep, /
year old and over. 81 ca; hogs. ! year old
and over. $3.50. There has been a de-
cline in all farm products named in the
report, except corn and oats. Corn Is 3
cents and oats l cent per bushel higher
than one year ago. The loss on wheat is
8 cents per bushel; fat cattle, 10 cents: fat
hogs, I3 cents; and dressed pork, 81 10 per
cwt. Horses, years and over. have de-
clined $15; mich cows. $1.S2: sheep, 1
year and over, ~ cents: and hogs. year
and over, $1.4O per head.ts
Frederick Schiller n tailor of Ann Ar