Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-05-02
Record of the Week.

Eddie Evans, Hastings typo, has fall
IN heir to $4,000 in England.
George Taylor. of Grand Marais, was
perhaps fatally injured by rolling log.
Two Chinese were arrested at Port HUI
ron for trying to get across the border.
A Cadillac wife threatens to bring suit
for divorce because her husband has cold
feet.
There are 1S5 jars of whitefish spawn
in the hatchery at Alpena, which are just
beginning to hatch.
Adrian's new Mayor, having reformed
the saloons. is now taking steps to drive
the social evil from town.
p. A. Thompson, Kent City veteran,
who drew a $36 month pension, COM
mitted suicide with laudanum. No rea-
son known.
Archie Davis. of Hutton, aged Is, fell
into well and broke his neck. His
body lay in the well several hours before
ii was discovered.
1t is said that though you can buy 1000
matches for n nickel, Van Buren, Coun-
ty man makes his fires with flint and
steel to save expenses.
Miss Villitta Camburn, of Upton, aged
90, was frightfully injured by a bonfire.
Her clothes were burned off and her flesh
cooked. She cannot live.
A shipment of ten miles of fence was
made from Adrian to Capetown, South
Africa. The fence is ordered by the Gov
eminent railway officials. IA
Frank NJ. Bemis, who has been associ-
Al ID L. O.1
niture Company. brought suit at Column
bus for an accounting.
An Ann Arbor savings bank has
brought suit against the village of Chase,
in Lake County, to force payment of two
water bonds of $500 each. There is
nothing left of the village but site
and tumble-down buildings.
According to a Muskegon statistician,
the nearer man comes to being drunk
ard the longer he is liable to live. If a
man wants to live to be real old, accord
ing to his figures, he should keep drunk
Mt least three-quarters of the time.
Tom David and Clarence Rhoda, of
Conklin, Ottawa County, allowed poor
whisky to work upon their nerves until
Rhoda stabbed David three times, once
near the heart. AS Rhoda's knife failed
to trip that organ, however, they are good
friends now and no arrests will be made
''Begorra, the doctor seq that Moike
Tubey has got the paralises," said Biz
mingham Irishman to his wife. "Purali-
sis" exclaimed tho astoDished wife; "by
dang, but they're putin on lashin's of
stoyle at Tubey's!" "Ah, go an wild ye,"
said the man. "Paralises is disase that
whin ye move, We can't STIR"
An Orland couple didn't get along to-
gether very well and finally agreed to
quit this troublesome world by drinking
together each others health in a cup of
cold poison. The husband drank his
share, but the wife only laughed Mt him,
in silent meditation. A doctor saved the
husbands life.
Several chamber suit manufacturers of
Grand Rapids will shut down for two or
four weeks until time to begin cutting
for the new season. A national convep-
ton of furniture manufacturers will be
held In Grand Rapids June 1.
Chris Ames, an Adrian boy of 10, has
filed complaint for assault and battery
against his father. James Ames, whom
he charges with a murderous assault, and
claims he knocked him scnseless with a
bar of iron. An ugly scalp wound indi-
Gates that young Ames was struck in
some manner. The father pleads not
guilty.
At Ann Arbor. the body of man was
found floating in the river. The coroner's
jury decided that the man had come to
his death by drowning, and that the body
had been in the water three months.
There was no means of identifying the
remains.
There was a spiritual seance al the
home of Capt. J. NJ. Bradley, four miles
from Muskegon. Spirits furnished both
vocal and instrumental music of the most
superb quality, the litter upon instru-
ments wocfully out of tune, and one
young lady whose remains had lain In a
Muskegon graveyard several years took
her mammals hair down and redrcssed It,
N full view Of the audience.