Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-22
Charles Hemming's abandoned planning
mill in Sebewaing was DESTROYED by fire.


County, which has been idle for a long
time, will be opened UP again.
William Ebart Snyder, of Detroit, and
Miss Margaret Kingslaye, of st. Joseph,
were married at the latter place.
Charles III. Ferdon, of Rives Junction,
shot bald-headed eagle, the first seen
in Jackson County for many years.
"Prof." Kennedy, an alleged fortune
teller. was jailed at Bay City, charged
with obtaining money by false pretenses.
Owing to drop in the price of salt
from 80 cents to - cents barrel, Thomp-
son Bros. have closed their works at st.
Clair.
Ann Arbor boasts that more building Is
going on there than any other town in the
State, except Detroit. Grand Rapids il
not excepted.
The Hillsdale Jail was empty from
Thursday to Saturday night, and 1t was
so still that the cockroaches came out of
the cracks to see what was the matter.
William Summerville and Louisa NJ.
Taylor, both colored, were the first peo-
pie to be married in Jackson's new Jail.
The groom had temporary engagement
there.
The forest fires on Beaver Island did no
great injury to farms, but destroyed valu-
able timber belonging to Chicago men.
The hay crop is failure, but other crops
are good.
We heartily indorse Mr.. Sovereign's
boycott of national bank bills, so far as ii
applies to the $5-bll of the First National
Bank of Flint, which is pronounced
most perfect counterfeit.
A young Saginaw woman, named Mrs.
Klock, ate several green cucumbers, rinds
and all, then took dose of rough on
rats, but she overdid the thing and is still
alive. Domestic troubles.
T.. V. Robinson, for four years principal
of the Schoolcraft schools, has distin-
guished himself in German university
by receiving a degree that has never be-
lore Jren granted to IN American
William Hess, of Napoleon, although 20
yenrs old, has done a heap of work this
summer that would have "bushed' al
most any nan. lie cut and stacked TWEEN
ty-six acres of wheat and cut fifty six
acres of hay.
Hereafter gypsy horse traders and their
likes will be expelled from Calhoun Coun-
ty, without ceremony. The officers re-
gard them as Il nuisance, and residents
are requested to report their presence to
the nearest officer.
Aid. Seth Smith, of Hillsdale, is gen.
ius. A few years since he patented a ma
chine for cutting out seamless oval wood
en- dishes and now he is out with ma
chine for cutting perfect wooden spoons,
handle and all, in one piece.
Ed Petrie, who was arrested Mt Sarnia,
charged with stealing watches hut es-
capped to the American side, has been rear
rested at Port Huron. He went to several
residences, representing that he was sent
by the gas company to examine meters,
and, it is alleged, made way with jewelry
If it is not asking too much, will Sam
ID. Nesmith please arise and narrate what
has become of his interurban electric rail-
way that was to connect Sandusky, To-
ledo, Adrian. Tecumseh, Saline, Ann Ar
Dor and Ypsilanti. Nearly 100000 Of
people are holding their breath for an
answer.
Instead of settling down, twiddling
their thumbs and "hugging the delusive
phantom of hope" till fire should burn
down the town, the business men Of
Maybee are building a l ,000-barrel water
tank and 40-foot derrick and will talk
with it's citizens afterward, about water
connections with their houses.
Stonewall j. De France, the noted for
ger and confidence man. and Frank L.
Hayes, who was sent to the Jackson pris-
on from Detroit on life sentence for
numbering his friend in drug store as
sisted by John w. Higgins, a convict who
was released from prison Aug. /, after
serving ten years sentence for burglary,
made elaborate preparations to escape
from the Michigan State prison few
days ago, but their plans were foiled by
the officials, who received an intimation
as to their intentions.
1t seems when young Mrs. George II.
Boynton, of Port Huron, threw herself
into the river she was laboring under the
impression that her husband had desert
ed her. Having no employment, he left
her there, going TO Lorain, Ohio. He
wrote her he would be back Saturday
night. Upon his failing to return the
woman, sick and in needy circumstances,
decided to end her life, but no sooner hal
she struck the water than she repented
and screamed for help. She was fished
out with pike-poles.
William Gansie. of Saginaw, aged II,
feel from a boomstick and was drowned.
One of the smartest graduates at the
Agricultural College this year is Vadim
Sabemikoff, a native of Siberia, who in
two years has taken tho entire engineer
ing course, and studies / the agricultural
department besides He halls from Hi
akta. near the Chinese frontier. He grad
uated from local college, engaged in the
Chinese tea trade and served year and
q half in the Russian army. Finally his
love for democracy led him to leave home
for the United States. He got to the Pa
ciic coast, partly on foot, partly by stage,
and partly on q raft. At st. Louis he
joined gang of negro laborers and stud
led their ways of life.
Melvin A. Root, of Bay City, who has
been collecting divorce statistics for the
State, finds, with six counties yet to hear
from. that in 1888, LOG DEGREES were
granted; 1884, 915; 1893, 1922; 1894,
1,151; marriages for the same periods
were: 1883, 17,07S; 1884, 15,S63; 1892,
19.1ST. The work when completed will
bepublished by the State. Onepeculiar fact
is developed by these statistics, namely,
that both marriages and divorces fall off
in leap years. which would seem to indi
cate that the new woman Is not only shy
about proposing, but also of seeking free
dom during those years when she is gencr-
ally supposed to have the greatest free
dom.
Several bad runaway accidents have
taken place recently at Benton Harbor
by reason of horses being left unhitched