Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-10-10
Short State Items.

A man supposed to be ID. Atwood. OF
Palo, was killed by an engine just north
of Grand Rapids. He was walking on
the track.
Deputy Sheriff Edwin Pettis, of Grand
Rapids, has been discharged, because, ii
is alleged, he deliberately assisted pris-
oners to escape.
Willie Hunt, a young man of Ban
croft, split some hydrochloric acid in his
eyes, but by prompt aid with ammonia
the sight was saved
The crops in Sanilac County, which in
the forepart of the season promised TO
be total failures. have turned out to be
the largest ever harvested.
The United States recruiting station at
Grand Rapids, which has been in opera
ton since July 10, succeeded in finding
just nineteen competent men.
George Wyckoff, the 19-year-old son
and support of his mother, widow. slid
off hay NOW at his home near Jackson,
striking a pitchfork handle and fatally
injuring him.
The apple crop of Cheboygan County
this season, while not large, is of fine
quality. The orchards of that section will
in a few years be factor in the supply
of Michigan apples.
After twenty years of waiting for
an opportunity to take a trip to Grass
Lake, a resident of Jackson concluded on
Thursday that he would have to give il
up and called on Ticket Agent Mosier to
ascertain what arrangement he could
make with the company regarding ticket
he bought Sept. 5, 1870. Considering the
pasteboard as a relic Mr.. Mosier refund
er the 80 cents originally paid for it and
1t will be framed and hung up in the COM
pany's general Office.
About thirteen years ago Miss Ollie
Avery, Of Port Huron, dropped gold
ring into the river. The other day the
ring was found on the bottom, mixed ur
with a lot of rubbish, but unharmed.
Cases of attempted imposition upon the
st. Clair County poor authorities are OF
frequent occurrence. Many of the cases
are Canadians who move over on this
side, live here for short time, and then
as residents of the county, apply for help
The other day an old man applied for aid
and on investigation it was found that
the only time he had ever been resident
of the county was sixty years ago, since
which time he has lived in New York
State. He was furnished transportation
to the East.
Joseph Fuller, charged with the muir
der of Alexander Kidd, of Blumfield
Township, Saginaw County, has been
fully acquitted and released from custody
Mrs. Kidd, wife of deceased, told the
story of her husbands return from the
hay presses and of his telling that some
one had hit him with club and tried to
murder him. She did not see the big
wound In her husbands head and did not
know of its existence until the doctor
found 1t some days after She said that
Kidd had frequently threatened to kill
her, but that she let him alone until he got
over his angry streak. The Court found
the evidence so conflicting the defendant
was discharged.
James Jelly, prominent farmer, near
Saginaw, has been missing for several
days. He walked out of the house Wed.
nesday night with considerable money on
bis person, and foul play is feared.
Adrian's Board of Health has rescind
ed the order recently issued to compel the
canning factory to stop throwing refuse
into the river Raisin. About sixty tons
of refuse are cast into the river every
week. The factories claimed il would
entail loss of hundreds of dollars To
them, and rather than submit they would
take the matter into the courts, so the
board backed down.