Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-07-25

StFeumD ~ 0u0 orouuo HANOVER Wulcu
have not ,heen known TO fail. new pre-
sent nothing but dry, dusty beds.
Ezekiel Bride 14-year-old son acciden-
tally shot himself In the hip ut Benton
Harbor while handling a revolver.
Paulina M. Schumacher fell from tree
In her fathers orchard, ut Thomastown,
sustaining injuries from which she died.
The store-room of the jackson Paper
Company's plant was destroyed. 1t was
filed with old rags and paper. Loss, $12,-
600.
The Second Reformed Church, of Kali
amazoo, was robbed Of the contents Of
two sealed contribution boxes, about $25
In all.
The Port Huron Council, which in it's
wrath ordered the Bell telephones taken
from the city hall, has rescinded its &C.
ton.
Bean Greek. which runs through Nor
encL IL 20 low that the mudturtles have
to 60 to neighboring fountains to ~quench
their thirst.
Hanover will have first-class Touring
mill hereafter. The old mill has been
raised on solid foundation and new
machinery will be put in.
BY vote of 10 to IL, the Port Huron
City Council sustained Mayor Boynton
in removing DR.. Myron Northrup and X.
w. Harris, city assessors.
VIM. A. Brown, of Parma, has one of
the best farms in Jackson County, but
this year sixty acres of meadow pro-
duced but eight loads of hay.
Although no liquor tax has yet been
paid at Davisburgh this year drunken
men are said to be common and several
have been run in helplessly intoxicated.
.'a A salt shed at the Louis Sands mill in
Manistee was destroyed by fire and u
large amount Of barrelcd salt injured, the
loss being several thousand dollars.
One day last week Emery Pollock, of
Fowlerville, threshed a stack of wheat
which yielded only sixty bushels. He took
the straw home in tick on top of the
separator.
~ The stingiest man in Michigan lives
near Morenci. He drove to town the 9TH
er day, hitched his horse in thefsun, left
his wife in the buggy to hold the umbrella
and the baby, while he went into a res
taurant and got a warm dinner. At an
other time when his wife had company
for dinner he "swiped'' some peapods out
of a neighboring garbage barrel, threw
them into his own and then palmed off
a can of stale peas onshis visitors as new
peas, and showed the pods as proof.
1t is said big shortage has been dis
covered in the books Of the ex-receiver
and ex-register of the United States land
Office at Marquette. Homesteaders in
% II 81 he, In,
sula are affected and many will lose their
land on account Of no entries of their APP
plications or proof of claims ever having
been placed on record. Many homestead
ers lose the work of years. The matter
has been known for some time, but prom
inent Marquette friends have kept the
matter hushed up.
At Algonac Capt. Raymond and man
named Mcdonald found box sunk in
Mitchell's Bay, and on towing it ashore
and removing the cover they found the
legs and one-half of the trunk of a man
wrapped in newspapers. The body had
been chopped in two just below the ribs,
and the chest, head and arms are miss
ing. There are no means of identifying
the body. The careful manner In which
the remains were packed is considered
an indication the crime was committed
some distance away. How it got into
Lake st. Clair is mystery.
A Greenville man has very deep well
and has wire screen frame around it to
prevent his 3-year-old son falling in. One
day the kid CAME in and said in an excited
manner: Mamma, the old black hen is
in the WELL" That's impossible" said
she, "there is no way for it to get in"
The little fellow insisted, so the family
let down lantern and sure enough there
sat her henship on the curb seventy feet
below. She was pulled up nearly dead,
and three days afterward an egg was
pulled up i'm the bucket. The hen had
crawled up the spout and in trying to fly
out, struck against the screen and went
down.
Chief Simon Pokagon was ut Benton
Harbor attending to some business in con-
nection with the Government claim re-
Gently allowed the Pottawatomie Indians,
the disbursement of which among the
people of that tribe he hopes will soon be
made. Pokagon has been assisting Gov
eminent Inspector ]. w. Cadman in tax
ing the census of the POttawatomies who
are entitled to share in the allowance.
There are 224 Indians altogether, who
will receive share of the money. The
amount to be distributed is $104, 900, Civ
ing each claimant little over SAGA. Only
those Indians or their direct descendants
who received a portion of the Govern
ment appropriation of $780, 900 in 1866 are
entitled to and will receive a share Of
this appropriation. -
Following is the summary of the crop
bulletin issued by the Michigan weather
service: 1.-THE weather conditions were
a repetition of the previous week, with
the exception that very beneficial show
ers have fallen over the Upper Peninsula
and in a measure have checked the
drought in that section of the State. Over
the greater part of the Lower Peninsula,
however, practically no rain has fallen
and the long drought still continues with
great severity. Reports from the Upper
Peninsula are quite encouraging, as all
crops have done well during the last
week. Over the Lower Peninsula, and
especially over the southern half, where
the greater part of the Michigan crops
are grown, all vegetation Is suffering
greatly. Corn and late potatoes, which
have stood the drought so well and were
just beginning to show the effects of the
lack of moisture last week, have barely
held their own. The wheat harvest has
become quite general in all sections of the
Lower Peninsula. The yield is the light
est in years, but the heads, although
small, are fairly well filed and the quail
ity is good"
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