Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-02

near future.
Lyons people came near calling out the
militia the other day. For the first time
In many years two Indians were seen In
town.
Grand Rapids boasts of being a prolific
breeder of acrobats and clowns. Most Of
the funny men in the big circuses come
from that burg.
Claude Brodie, young man from Bat
tie Greek, who stole ride to Port Huron,
tried to jump of and fell under the wheels,
losing both arms. =
Forbes Gummerson, a Lapeer black
smith, has become insane from the gold
cure and subsequent drinking. He lost
the power of speech.
\ Potatoes and hay are becoming very
scarce In Iosco County. Most farmers are
entirely sold out. and the few who have
any are getting large prices.
n Ann Arbor people In December, 1898,
sent the suffering lronwood people 1860.
Yesterday Ironwood returned $202 Of the
money, which had not been used.
A Grand Haven Juvenile informed his
schoolmaster that his father was out to a
stag party the night before and that he
staggered awfully when he got home.
Certain lines of business at Spring
Lake are very dull since an evangelist
up tobacco and the girls chew gum no
more.
One of the conditions which travelling
show Of any kind must agree to before it
is allowed to exhibit in Benzonia is that
the performances must be opened with
prayer.
The city electric light plant at st. Ig-
mace will put in machinery for furnishing
incandescent light to private parties pro-
viding they can get enough subscribers
to make it pay.
! Charles Ulrich, employed at the Han
cock Chemical Works at Dollar Bay, was
arrested, charged with blowing up the
works and causing the death of Dominick
Christiana on March Is.
Prof. Calvin Thomas, Roman languages
and literature at Ann Arbor, has been
given a years leave of absence with
salary to travel in Germany and prepare
his second book of Faust"
The wheat fields in Van Buren, County,
which looked so unpromising when the
snow melted and uncovered them, have
been greatly benefited by the recent show
ers and are now in good condition.
Charles Dickey is the oldest living male
child born in the city of Marshall. He
first made the forest ring with his music
Oct. II, 1887. John Beace is the next
Oldest, and was born six months later.
They had spellin' skule at Ann Arbor
the other night. A high school teacher
sat down on "beleve;" university pro-
fessor couldn't spell "scurrilous," and FIVE
way-up educational lights funked on
''peddler."
The Ann Arbor University library is in
receipt of n set of twenty-four volumes
from the King of Siam. They are re.
ligious writings by Buddha, and are clum-
silly bound. The king has sent them TO
several universities in honor of his 25th
birthday.
I'm sorry for the criminals" said q
Big Beaver lady when she heard that her
husband was drawn to serve on jury.
"He believes in hanging" "Is your hus-
band in favor of hanging?" 81 should
say yes. He believes in hanging around
the corners every night till Il o'clock,
playing pedro"
ID. III. Liberman, butcher of Adrian,
started for Ohio and Kentucky some ten
days ago to buy cattle. For three success
sive nights recently Mrs. Liberman has
dreamed her husband was brought home
dead. Thursday afternoon she received
a telegram from Cincinnati saying he had
been killed in a railroad wreck.
The managers of the Masonic home
near Grand Rapids have sent to the
lodges of the State another appeal for
contributions. The cost Of maintenance
is about $4,000 a year. Hitherto $1,000
Of this amount has been appropriated by
the grand lodge, but at the recent session
in Detroit the $1,000 was cut off. and the
managers declare the home will have to
close unless money is obtained in some
other way. The building alone is worth
100000.
The barn, sheds and granary of John
Thomas, two miles southwest of Maple
Rapids, were burned with all their con-
tents, consisting of six horses, five cows,
eight tons of hay, 600 bushels of oats,
binder and moving machine and other
farming tools. Cause of fire unknown.
The buildings and contents were insured
in the Clinton and Gratiot County Mu-
tual Insurance Co. Mr.. Thomas is lying
at the point of death. The loss was kept
from his knowledge.
While two men were digging grave in
the cemetery i'm West Tompkins, they
unearthed the skeletons of two bodies
which had been buried in sitting posture
and evidently without collins, the heads
being only fifteen inches below the sur
face. AS no white person, as far as
known, had been buried on the lot for
thirty -fve years, it was supposed ut first
that the skeletons were those of Indians,
but a careful examination Of the skulls
showed that some of the teeth had been
filed with gold. The discovery created
quite sensation.
Gov. Rich and all the members Of the
board of control met at the Ionia State
House of Correction and listened to re-
port verbally from State Accountant o.
G. Tompkins, who has been investigating
the books of ex-Warden Parsell. He
found that the books balanced within $40,
and that the furniture plant for three and
a half years had paid the Stnte nothing;
but that from July, 1894, to March, 1895,
the profit or clear gain to the State from
the furniture plant was $1,000, or
profit of 81 400 after, deducting 80 cents
per day for convict labor. The investiga-
ton was brought about by report that
the institution ran behind the last two
years previous. to 1891 about $4,000.
The unknown man discovered In the
Huron river near Ann Arhor haa hoon