Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-09-12
The grocery firm of o. Beebe 4 Son, At
South Haven, has turned the stock over
m creditors and closed up.

non-support, killed her anu hlmselI.
Coal has been struck on farm at MI
ington at depth of 110 feet. The find
was made while drilling for water.
Burglars broke into the residence Of
David Sanders, ut Flint, and made away
with several dollars worth of jewelry.
Port Huron had fourteen cases of
typhoid fever last month. All on account
of the open sewer known as Black River.
Oscoda's school census shows $50 per-
sons Of school age. In 1854 there were
T63: in 1892 and 1893, the number was
827.
A Jackson stationer and bookseller bids
for the trade of the school children by
giving quantity of candy with each pur-
chase.
G. j. Crawford, of Flint, was quite seri-
ously injured in wreck at Chicago His
father was killed in railroad wreck in
Michigan.
A company has been organized at Mar
quette with Il capital of $4,000 to manu-
facture pressed brick from the clay lands
on the shore of Keweenaw bay.
The son of j. f. Bradshaw, Of Oregon
Township. Lapeer County, has fancy
for breaking his arm. The other day he
fell from fence and sustained COM
pouad fracture of the left arm, the third
time he has suffered similar disaster.
Pontiac ladies have been annoyed sew
eral times recently by n man who fol-
lowed them whenever they happen to be
on the streets after dark. One prominent
lady was chased for some distance by the
fellow, and finally had 10 take refuge in q
strangers house to escape him.
Arthur Baldwin, young colored lad
who graduated from the Adrian High
School in 1894. was kicked on the head by
a pet horse at South Bend, Ind, and so
seriously injured that he died within
twenty minutes. The boy priced the
horse above all his other possessions.
At st. Joseph Mrs. NJ. Haney fell down
the cellar stairs and severed an artery,
which caused her death soon after. She
was the mother of thirteen children and
had forty y-six grandchildren. seventy-four
great-grandchildren and fourteen great
grandchildren. She was 81 years
old
Arthur w. Roth. Detroit druggist,
does not take kindly to the Salvation
army. A squad Of soldiers under Cap
tain Murphy held meeting in front of
Roth's pharmacy. The druggist became
annoyed at the rattle of the bass drum
and the squeaking of the wheezy cornet,
and turned the hose on the army, drench-
ing it thoroughly. The army was routed.
Captain Murphy had Roth arrested for
assault and battery.
Lionel j. Jacobs, registering from Chi
cago, put up at the Stowell House, Jack
son. He was heard muttering in his
room. A policeman broke in the door and
found Jacobs praying and rubbing his
head. A letter on his person shows that
he has stopped at the Hotel Somerset,
Wabash avenue. Chicago. He was found
TO be insane and locked up. The Hotel
Somerset has been telegraphed TO. Jacobs
claims TO be Rothschild.
Thieves made an unsuccessful attempt
to blow up the American Express Com
pany's safe at Saginaw. The express
agent found kit of burglars tools in the
rear of the Office and near the safe lay n
brace and bit, which the culprit dropped
when he was frightened away. A piece
of checked cloth, torn from the thief as
he escaped through the window, was "A
clew that succeeded in placing William
Sanborn behind the bars for the job.
In the death of Mrs. o. H. Mcconnell at
Grace Hospital, Detroit, Jackson loses
one of its noblest women. She was one
of the founders Of the Charity Union. and
at the time of her death was president of
the Associated Charities. She was mar.
ried TO Mr.. Mcconnell at Kalamazoo in
1868 and leaves two daughters and one
son. She was prominent member of the
First Baptist Church and was well known
for her philanthropic work and missionary
zeal.
The recent session of the Legislature
passed a law requiring persons who in
tended to hunt deer to take out license.
residents paying 30 cents and non-resi-
dents $50, with a big penalty for neglect
to comply with the law. The Secretary Of
State thought that 5000 would be large
estimate, but already applications have
come in to the number of 10000. and Sec
retary Gardner estimates that there will
be at least 1900 deer-h hunting licenses
granted in Michigan this year. The State
will get big revenue.
The Methodist Church at Cadillac is
out of debt and has 800 in the treasury
since Rev. DIR. Ives, of Aurora, n. Y,
preached the burden off the church. The
next thing is a new parsonage.
Mrs. Ann Bush died at Novi, aged 112
years and . months. These figures are
based upon authentic records in posses
sion of the family. She was the Oldest
person in Michigan. Mrs. Bush was of
French-Canadian parentage. and was
born at Montreal, June %. 1883. After
coming to the United States she married
Francis Bush at Albany, y. ". at the
age of 1S. Her late husband had become
q Free Mason at New Amsterdam. n. Y,
nearly century ago and her burial will
consequently be conducted by that or
ganization. She was the Oldest Mason's
widow in the world.
The 3-year-old daughter Of u. Y. Par
menter died Saturday at Bay City of
malignant diphtheria and was buried
Sunday, the father being the only person
present aside from the undertaken and
sexton. Monday morning the mother died
Of the same disease and was buried three
hours later. No one, not even the hus-
band, attended the burial. Mr.. Parmen-
ter was then too sick to move and his son.
who recovered from n mild attack of the
disease, is again sick and the worst is
feared The chances are that the entire
family will be taken off with the dis
ease. They are the only cases in the city.
James Devomer, n 9-year-old Grand
Rapids boy, was drowned in the Grand
River while bathing. The boy disobeyed
his parents and went in with several other
youngsters of his age, waded out too far
and being unable to swim, was lost.
Benton Harbor's policeman arrested