Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-07-18
Short State Itcms.

Brighton may have an electric light
plant.
August Pecor, of Alpena, aged l., was
drowned while bathing.
Isaac Griggs, near Vicksburg, cut his
throat with a pocket knife.
Ezra Il. Hopkins, Battle Greek switch
man, lost his left leg under train.
Cattle arc being poisoned in large num-
bers near Dryden, and farmers are lock-
ing for the culprit
A Carleton COW kicked her owner. Wal
ter Vilcs, so hard that for n time he was
thought to be dead.
A war among 500 clothiers ragged so
fiercely that for while overalls were
selling for cent a pair.
Ann Arbof street railway 'aagnntes
have arranged fares so that a person may
ride two hours for 10 cents.
A little child of Geo. Mcintosh. of Dry
den, drank dose of poison and but for
prompt medical aid might have died.
Testimony was begun at Detroit in the
second trial of DIR. ID. ]. Seaman, charged
with causing the death of Emily Hall.
Marcellus has citizen who ;abs n
wheels are left in front Of stores or dwell
lings.
Martin Fischer was struck on the
head by falling tree at Good iIarbor
and died few hours later from Lis in
juries.
Floyd Gibson, of Jackson, who beat his
wife, threw his landlady off .he porch
and chased neighbor with n revolver,
has gone to the House of Correction.
The Salvation Amy midget, of Flint,
who stands AZ inches high and weighs
only As pounds, is showing the straight
and narrow road to some pretty big sim
ners ut Alpena.
Rev. ID. Engle, of Mackinaw City, has
been preaching nine months straight ex-
clusively on the Life and Work of
Christ" and he hasn't by any means ex-
hausted the subject yet.
Crops in Huron County are good ex-
cepting hay and oats. A 3-acre field this
year yields two tons of hay where last
year it yielded twenty. Farmers are put
ting old strawstacks in the barns for feed.
There are wonderfully sympathetic
lot of people at Adrian. Across from a
dentists Office is a dressmaking estab-
lishment. The cries of victim were so
heart-rendering that all rhe employees in
the room quit work and sat down for a
crying bee.
At Muskegon hostilities between the
old and new boom companies were
resumed by the arrest of the forty-three
employees of the new company on charges
of trespass. The old company will arrest
all persons touching on their lands or
driving logs on what they term their
private waters. This move, If successful,
will result in the complete blockade Of
millions of feet of logs and the closing Of
every mill in the city.
Woodville, the famous light brigade
whose charge ut Balaklava Oct. %, 1854,
makes a bright page in history, was re-
duced to three members, who are now
pensioners living in England. Mr.. Phil
lips came out of the battle with score of
bullet wounds and saber cuts, though
none of them proved serious. He had
among his possessions a bronze medal
concentrating the deed of the brigade,
each surviving member having received
one from the hands of Queen Victoria.
He was 40 years of age and had been a
resident of the locality for upward of
twenty years.
A small crew of miners has been set at
work at the Quinnesec mine, which has
been abandoned for the past five or six
years. The present demand for Bessemer
ore is so far greater than the supply that
every available source of supply Is being
worked.
A farmer living near Corwin set fire to
a pile of brush, when high wind came up
and the flames spread in all directions.
The farmers turned out en- nasse and by
blowing and back-firing saved many fields
of standing grain. One hundred acres
were burned over and several buildings
were barely saved.
A sea serpent has been seen in one of
the lakes near Battle Greek. Ii had n
head the size of bushel basket, adorned
with long flowing black whiskers.
Rev. w. G. Hicks, pastor of Central
NJ. Il. Church at Iron Mountain, will
leave his charge in August and go TO
Chicago, where he has accepted the pas
torate of a church.
The Kalamazoo Council ordered the
Citizens Street Railway Company to pro-
vide the cars with screens to prevent n
repetition of the last fatal accident. The
matter was thoroughly discussed, one
!. member suggesting that to paint the poles
red, white and blue would prevent acci-
dents by their conspicnousnesa