Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-10

boygan, causing loss Of 81 1900, with No
insurapee.
The United States custom Office ut Rem
ton Harbor closed till the opening of
spring navigation.
James Coggin. for more than forty years
a resident Of Genesee. County, died Mt
Flint, aged 81 years
The Sixth Michigan Cavalry held their
eighth annual reunion in Ionia. Abous
100, including the ladies', were present.
Bay County's plan of indicting Super
visors who fail to assess property ut It's
real value may be followed in other Mich
igan counties. ive 80
Daniel ]. Trombley, Of Bay City. cut
his wife's throat and set fire to the house,
suifocating his baby daughter. He Is be-
lieved to be insane.
The Muskegon water works gave ont
the other day, and it was feared for a
time that the milk dealers would be una
bic to supply their customers.
Marshall citizens complain that their
children are not taught penmanship in u
busincss-like way in the public schools,
and ask for Il special teacher
Eugene II. and Roma u. Chandler were
arrested ut Frankfort. charged with EN-
bezzling funds deposited in their bank by
the Township Treasurer
Grand Rapids municipal league pro-
poses to adopt the Minneapolis plan Of
combining all the saloons within u circle
half mile from the city hall.
DR.. Dixon is still missing from Eagle
River. He disappeared Nov. 8, saying he
was going hunting, and searching parties
have been unable to obtain clew. 1t is
feared he was frozen to death.
Henry Robinson, of Dafter, near the
500, has been married by this time to u
lady in Ogdensburg. He made her ac-
quaintance through matrimonial bu-
reau, corresponded and finally closed the
contract
The Wilmington 4 Cooley Manufactur-
ing Company, of Jackson, will stop using
prison contract labor next June. The COM
pany now. employs POO convicts and has
an immense business in agricultural irl-
PIGMENTS.
DIR. f. l.. Jones and James Dalton, of
Montague, while driving from Whitehall
TO Montague on dark night missed the
narrow bridge and drove into the river,
drowning the horses and barely escaping
themselves.
A lot of Adrian dudes are mourning in
twO-story collars for the loss of money
for lottery tickets purchased from dap
per agent and represented to be pretty
sure of drawing each suit of clothes.
The tickets are not drawers, and the
agent is missing.
Paul q. Suekey, the Washtenaw Coun-
~ Treasurer i'm whose accounts a short
age of $4,000 was found. has returned to
Ann Arbor and given himself up to his
bondsmen. He went to Europe to secure
the cash with which to make up the deficit
in his accounts.
Eugene Keasey, of South Haven. who
was recently shot in terrible manner
by Robert Webster, is doing well at Kali
amazoo. While sneezing recently three
shot fell out of his nose, and another time
he found several leaden pellets in his bed,
that had rolled out of his ear.
John Taylor. Of Bedding. was assaulted
by two footpads the other night and dan
gcrously hurt with club welded by one
of the latter. He is treasurer of Eureka
Township, and the robbers probably
thought that he had OH his person some of
the money he had collected for taxes.
An exploding lamp started n fire in
James Ostrander's store building at
Loomis on Thursday, aud it was destroy
cd. together with it's contents, owned by
j. ID. Rumberger. The loss on the build
ing is 5000. with no insurance. and on the
contents 81 100. with $3.50 insurance.
The first of the cases against the men
charged with wrecking Il Chicago and
Grand Trunk passenger train, that of
Ernest Nj. Jewett, was concluded at Bat
tie Greek On motion of the prosecuting
attorney he was dismissed. The charge
Of conspiracy is still against him, but he
is not held under bonds.
Tuesday afternoon John III. Gotschall
about four miles south of Flint, lost his
fine farm residence, tenement house. horse
barns and grain barns. together with n
large amount of personal property, by fire.
The total loss will reach 5000. with IN
surance of from $1,000 to $4,000. The
fire was caused by defective chimney.
Frankfort is likely to lose the Ann Ar
Dor ferry boats. Mr.. Starkey, of Starkey-
vile, near by, has made proposition to
improve the harbor of Starkeyville, with
a view to, having the boats land there
and new line from Starkeyville to Cope
nllSn Is DclnS SURVEYED, mus ieaNlns
Frankfort out in the cold.
Andrew Arnott and wife. Of Sault Ste.
Marie, awoke to find his house full of
smoke and traced the cause to bureau
drawer, where were found some burning
clothes, a quantity of half burned match
es and dead mouse, which, attempting
the role of incendary. had gnawed the
business end of the matches and persisted
by his own deed.
In compliance with statute passed by
the Legislature of 1891 reducing the num-
Der of officers on the Governors staff, AL
jutant General Eaton issued honorable
discharges to nine officers. The old mill
tary board is also dispensed with. the
quartermaster general. adjutant general.
and inspector general constituting the
board. The Governors staff is reduced 10
twelve members.
In spite of the depressed business condi-
tons, Owosso has made Il good showing.
Among the enterprises which will proba-
bly, bring the greatest good to Owos.)
and the surrounding county is the 7. III.
Copas Packing Company. which is .ust
beginning operations in large building
built for that purpose. 1t will make
Owosso the best pork market in Central
Michigan. The building boom, especially
in homes, has been exceptionally llrge.
During the year public sewers AMI other
marked improvements have been con-
structcd, and the new year will contin lie