Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-04-11
Record of the Week.


Hancock claims population of 1000 at
date, against 1862 last June.
There is firm in Flint named Black &
Brown. Neither of the partners is col
ored.
Milo Gregg, Jackson, for twenty-five
years in the employ of the Michigan Cen
trail, is dead.
Port Huron is likely to get electric
lights at about $S1 light, and agitation
for municipal plant is practically over.
st. Ignace people will hereafter adver-
tise their town as hunting place. A
mink was shot on a sidewalk near the
center of town.
The first fraternity of the State Nor
NAL School at Ypsilanti was organized
Saturday. 1t is named the Sigma Delta
and is local society.
Benjamin Cope, of Adrian, died from
grief. His wfe's funeral took place Tues
day, and about the same time he received
the news of his sons death.
Investigation at Fcnton of the death
of Mrs. Frank Annis, who was cremated
in her home, led to the arrest Of her hus-
band on suspicion of murder.
Chicago furniture men have decided to
hold furniture exposition and establish
an exchange, to see if they can't divert
business from Grand Rapids.
Despite the hard times fakir selling
silver polish took $50 out of Fenton peo-
pie in one evening at the old game of re-
turning the purchase price, etc.
A Central Lake tough assaulted farm
er. Rev. Arthur Wall, pastor of the
Congregational Church, pluckily seized
the tough and sat on him till help arrived
The collection of taxes in Oakland
County have been unusually well made
for the last tax assessment. The County
Treasurer on March % turned over to
Frank Jacobs, teller of the First Com
mercial Bank. of Pontiac. has been APP
pointed treasurer of the Eastern Michigan
Insane Asylum, to fill the vancancy
caused by the death of Hon. John ID.
Norton.
Talk about a canning factory ut Grand
Rapids has been renewed, this time with
more interest and enthusiasm; and as only
$15,OOO or $4,000 will be required and
the fruit is always available, it may ma
terialize.
The Manistique Railway Co., according
to a Seney report, has decreed that all
employees must quit drinking or resign
their. jobs. Several men refused. to give
up their teddy and are looking for work
elsewhere.
Seven workmen in the harrow works
at Kalamazoo have struck for an increase
of wages from S1.25 to $1.5O a day.
They failed to induce others to follow
their example and were ordered off the
premises.
An An Sable man has a curiosity i'm
the shape of a very old repeating rifle.
1t was made in 1851 and has a cylinder
with nine chambers for powder and ball.
that being before the day of breech- load
ing guns and shell cartridges.
A Wixom lady who expected dispatch
from her husband stepped into the tele-
graph Office. Soon one of the instruments
began to tick "Oh, yes" she declared.
that's my husband. / know him by his
stutter."
When the Dexter savings bank was rob
bed the officers offered large sum for
the capture of the robbers. Several de-
tectives and police officers put in claims.
The Circuit Court has finally divided the
reward as follows: Detective Baker. of
Detroit, $500; Nj. G. Peterson, of Ann
Arbor, $245; Deputy G. w. Stebbins, of
Dexter, $3.50.
Prof. Frank n. Cole has been draw
ing $1,000 year as assistant professor
Of mathematics at the u. of NJ. The re-
gents couldn't raise the salary because of
lack of funds. Now comes Columbia Col
lege, New York. with an offer of $500,
which Prof. Cole has accepted and the
U. of NJ. has lost another of it's best men.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. Hollis museum at Mus
kegon contains 10000 relics representing
I'LL ages from Alexander the Great to
Grover i. There are withered apples,
plucked near the Dead Sea. Koran In
manuscript and coin which Mr.. Holt be-
lieves has come down from ,Alexander's
time, to shy nothingsof lots of pieces Of
Egyptian pyramids.