Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-10-24
Minor State News.

Mrs. A. II. Beach. oldest resident of
Shiawassee County, who died last week ut
the age of %, leaves an estate Of S20O.O 900.
Con Hines, an ex-convict. and William
ID. Goodall, colored man, had a scrap
at Jackson, and Goodall was badly cut
with razor.
The Upper Peninsula Hospital for the
Insane at Newberry will be opened about
the 30th of this month. And. sad to say.
it will be filled almost Immediately.
The State Board of Education has $25.-
600 with which to build $4,000 train
ing school at the Ypslanti normal They
decided to build one story and rely OH new
Legislatures to furnish funds for its conf
pletion.
Miss ]. A. Gage, of Saginaw. was fined
So for riding bicycle on the sidewalk at
Alma last June. and left town without set
Ting with his Honor. She revisited Alma
the other day, and the Marshal was her
first caller.
The coal stove has already begun its
winter campaign. A scuttleful of wet
coal put upon the fire at night caused the
asphyxiation Of Il. Harvey's family at
Sault Ste. Marie Mr.. Harvey had mar
row escape.
Jules Otterbein, of Grand Rapids, has
received news that his brother, Albeit
was fatally stabbed by tramps. near
Evansville, Ind. Albert Otterbein left
Grand Rapids two years ago, and has
since lived rowing life
An East Jordan undertaken was nearly
mobbed by Charlevoix citizens because
he charged SO for keeping a corpse n few
hours in his establishment, He paid back
$40 to appease the mob, but now THREAT
ems to go into the courts.
Now they are circulating false stories
around the State that Ann ArDor stu
dents smoke cigarettes in the corridors of
churches while services are going on.
There is plenty of the incense of prayer at
Ann Arbor, without the fumes OF nico-
tine.
The people Of st. James Catholic
Church at Grand Rapids evidently Ike
their pastor, Father Pulcher, for ON the
eve of his departure to Europe they pre-
scented him with 9 miniature ship ia,len
with $3.50 i'm gold, besides $500 or S,a'O
more in other kinds of cash. This il his
first vacation in ,wenty-nine years. lie
will go as far as the Holy Land.
A. Page, Of Seville, Gratiot County,
pICheu iOuT VI fusIDttfltS tufS
week, and proposes to ship them to Flor
ida as .'the first of the season. and there.
by demonstrate to the people o. tins ma
ton that they do not have to go South to
get their first crop of fruit Jerome de-
Long brought into town branch of a red
raspberry bush having ripe fruit aud bios
son~, side by side.
A few weeks since Daniel Van Ripper
visited his old home in Washtenaw Coun-
ty and while there secured black walnut
door casing from the old house in which
he was born in 1S45. He brought II home
with him and q. ID. Hamilton fashioned II
into n very handsome ornamental clock
shelf, and Mr.. Van Ripper will treasure il
for years to come. A history of its origin
is written and pasted upon the shelf
Fowlervillc Review.
Although "Unclc" George Wood. an in
mate of the Tuscola County county
house, might be supposed to be a county
charge, he can hardly be thus regarded.
He is over so years old, yet has taken
entire care Of the garden at the farm; and
has raised all the vegetables consumed
by the family Of forty persons, besides 400
bushels of roots, large quantity Of cucum-
bsrs, etc. His maintenance is certainly no
burden to taxpayers.