Crawford avalanche., 1895-12-05

was reported to be good this season. u Ii
difficult to procure any of the fruit In
Sanilac County.
1t cost Alfred Bailey and \ Charles
Sharon, Of Bay City. $40 apiece and costs
to catch pickerel weighing less thar on,
pound for the purpose Of sale. tfAA A
At Kalamazoo the home of G. j. Sat
chell burned, the family barely escaping
with their lives. A little girls feet were
frozen on the Ice and her pet dog was
cremated. Af .t
One hundred Poles are daily engaged in
trapping muskrats at the Crow Island
swamps north of Saginaw. The rats are
plentiful and poor families are using them
for food.
The home Of John Cole, near Sault Ste.
Marie. was burned recently. Mrs, Cole
had gone to neighbor's, leaving 1-year-
old child in the house alone, and the little
one was burned to death
As the result of action taken Mt con-
vention Of lngham County citizens the
electors will, this winter. be called to vote
upon the question of adopting the local
option prohibitory liquor law. OH
Port Huron people are much inconyeni-
enced by the delay In completing the addi-
tion to the city hall. The job was to be
completed Oct. 15, but it looks now as if
work would hand on till Jan. 4.
The homeopathic folks at Ann Arbor
are jubilant. They say within forty-five
days more patients have presented them
selves before the class than for any SIM
liar length of time in eight years. NV 4
The Bad Axe fire department now has
hook and ladder truck, which was built
by firm in the village. The town now
has as complete an outfit to fight fire with
as any place of its size in the State.
The Calhoun County Agricultural So
ciety paid the prizes offered for horse
racing in full and discounted all pre-
miums fifty per cent. The result is gen.
eral dissatisfaction among the exhibitors.
While digging a well at Jackson Verne
Miles was buried in dirt up to his neck
by the caving in of the side of the well.
He was extricated after nearly three
hours work and was found to be not
seriously injured.
Supt. Townsend, of Marshall, has inau-
gurated praiseworthy movement among
the schools Of the city. 1t is none other
than the gathering in of clothing for the
purpose of suitably clothing the children
of poor families.
A Bad Axe farmer, in looking over the
wheat which he has stored in bins, has
found it full Of white worms about half
an inch long. which are eating the grain.
He says that he has never seen any
worms like them before. m %
GOV. Rich has pardoned young Bella
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Ionia three years for larceny Clinton e.
Worden, Grand Rapids burglar, had
his sentence commuted from two years
and half to one year and half.
Naughty Port Huron boys terrorized n
Congregational Church social. They
turned out the gas, ran around the aisles
and created general disturbance. The
janitor locked five Of them in hallway.
Four were arrested, but one got away.
The sum of $4,O11, the cost of the trial
of the Molitor murderers, has been spread
on the tax rolls for Presque Isle County
this year. The money must be paid to
Alpena County. the cases having been
tried in the courts of that county on a
change of Venue.
In Platte school district. not far from
Frankfort, the wise old school trustees
were having an animated debate. One
man tried to chuck another out of the
house. when. 10! an irate wife appeared
in deshablle and drove all the trustees
away with shotgun.
The engineers on the railroad in Iosco
County will have game warden after
them the first thing they know, for violat
ing the law in regard to killing deer. Sew
aral how lx- hx.
waiting on the track to argue the right of
way with the engine.
In Missaukee County the provisions Of
the game law providing that deer must
not be hunted with dogs are openly vio-
lated, and strange to say. none of the
local game wardens in that vicinity ever
seem to see it, although about all the rest
of the citizens of the county do.
Mrs. Joseph Emery began suit against
the Lake Shore Railroad at Adrian for
$1,000 damages for injuries received last
September. A horse she was driving was
frightened by an engine and plunged off
bridge. She claims the company's duty
was to protect the bridge with a railing.
Coarse feed has already become so
scarce in Kalamazoo County that many
of the surviving horses are barely sub
sisting on buckwheat and in some dis
tricts mint refuse seems acceptable.
Straw and hay are 50 scarce that quota
tions on the home products arc merely
nominal. a
Mrs. Catherine Quinn, aged 04, is prob
ably the oldest person in West Bay City.
She was once the maid of the countess of
Mountcashel in Ireland. She has been
married three times, and still keeps house.
On the night of Nov. 1, 1904, the coun-
try store of William Cook, in Battle
Greek Township, was looted of nearly
all its contents. Officers have been work
ing OH the case ever since and have finally
succeeded in arresting Hiram and Willis
Mahoney and Carl Cook, members of the
notorious Mahoney gang, men of mixed
Indian and negro blood, who have long
been terror to Barry, Kalamazoo and
Calhoun Counties. 1t was one of the
brothers who. two years ago, caused
sensation by marrying the daughter of a
rich white farmer near Kalamazoo.
Adam G.. Arnold, who will be tried at
Battle Greek in December for the murder
of his son George, has caused ludic-
rous scramble for his property. Heirs
and friends, expecting to profit by his
death, are daily importuning him to deed
his property to them. He recently trans
ferred his old homestead to his man
housekeeper, Fred Mcdonald, commonly
known as at" Relatives persuaded him
to withdraw the deed, but Mcdonald
threatened to expose some of the old
mans nefarious acts and the deed was