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

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over 10000 skins in Michigan this year.
Fire destroyed the mill plant of Rust &
Eaton at Milwaukee. Loss, $4,000; in
sured.
Widow Bontekocs 0-year-old on fell
from sailboat on Macatawa bay and
drowned.
Miss Olivia Peterson, of Grand Rapids,
ran away from home because of a quarrel
with her aunt.
went to the front herself during he civil
war, died Mt Owosso.
Azalia gardeners are irrigating their
gardens by utilizing the street sprinkler,
and claim inc results.
Fire destroyed the main building 0f the
Greenville Implement Company. Loss,
1900; insurance, $4,000.
Mrs. Dennis Goddenyne, of Bay City,
has been appointed a deputy sheriff, In
fulfllment of an ante-election promise.
Prof. 7. +. Morgan, of Manchester,
will take the Chair of Ancient History
and Political Economy ut Lafayette, Ind.
Bush fires threatened buildings in one
end of Decatur, but turned tail when the
rev water works appliances were turned
on them.
Grasshoppers have eaten up all the
beans near West Oshteno, and are fast
making way with clover, wheat, rye, corn,
and potatoes.
A number of brick stores are being
built at Gafien TO replace the wooden
store buildings destroyed in the recent
disastrous fire.
Fire threatened for time the existence
of Crosswell. 1t started in the barn of II.
ID. Franklin and is believed to be the work
of incendaries.
The steeple of Holy Rosary Church, at
Lake Linden, was struck by lightning
and damaged, the rectory adjacent also
receiving injury.
Edward Ruthardt, a well-known and
popular young man of Long Lake town
ship, was taken with cranp while bath
ing in the lake and drowned.
Gen. Alger, of Detroit, while in Grand
Marais, was serenaded by the band boys
of that city. The General returned the
compliment with $50 bill.
Michael Price, veteran woodsman, lay
down OH the railroad track near Alpena in
The loss of his left leg caused Death.
Gertrude Andree, aged %, daughter of
II. Andree, an employee of the Holland
furniture factory, was fatally burned.
Her dress became ignited at a wood fire.
Melburne Rockwell, charged with being
an accomplish of Del Swartz in the muir
der of Willard Johnson near Colon last
October, has been acquitted ut Center
vile.
In Detroit Mayor Pingree acted as
motorman on the first train over the lines
of the new electric 3-cent railway. with
its forty miles of track, and which cost
81 100000.
The Anderson hotel, two livery barns
and several other buildings were de-
stroyed by fire at Cross we'll. Loss, $2O,-
900; insurance, $1,000. Incendiarisn is
suspected.
In the Circuit Court ut Adrian George
T.. Robertson, q wealthy Ogden farmer,
paid fine of $50 for selling cider to some
young men neighbors. He didn't know
it was against the law.
Frank Hadly, IA years old, was drowned
in the river at Lansing while bathing OH
Sunday, his older brother having a mar
row escape from the same death while at
tempting to rescue him.
A large barn belonging 10 Mr.. Strick-
land, living six miles north of Homer,
burned to the ground. Spontaneous COM
bustion. Barn and contents insured in
Farmers Mutual for $500.
The city of North Muskegon and vicin-
ity have been in peril from forest fire.
Farmhouses and crops were threatened on
all sides and the farmers turned out in a
body to check the Roadway.
Berry box factories in southwestern
Michigan are running night and day to
supply the unprecedented demand for
packages in which to ship the enormous
berry crop in that section this season.
+. Hamilton living five miles west of
Homer, was sent with team after chairs
for his brothers funeral. The horses be-
came frightened and ran away, seriously
injuring Mr.. Hamilton, who died Friday
night.
Near Romeo seven barns and farm
house. with their contents, owned by
John Brewer, burned to the ground. The
cause of the fire was spontaneous com
bustion. The loss is $4,000; well in
sured.
The cruiser Michigan left Detroit for
Mackinac, where she will spend week
| examining the channel for dangerous
| rocks recently reported. Next week she
will return to Detroit to give the naval
reserves an outing.
| Mrs. Levi Pierce, living four and a half
miles southeast of Coopersville, was muir
dered while her husband vas working in
the fields, where he had gone after having
a quarrel with his wife, leaving daugh-
ter and grandson in the house.
ID. Dolp, Is years old, was .howned
while bathing in Muskegon Lake. He
could not swim, and it Is thought walked
into a hole. Life was hardly extinct when
he was taken out of the water, but all
efforts to revive him were of no avail.
In 1891 the court house of Muskegon
County was destroyed by fire, and when
the ruins were picked over, he corner
stone of the building, dated 1869, was
| found intact. On the stone were the
names of the three members of the COM
mittee who had charge Of the erection of
the building. Only one of the three is
now living, and the cornerstone is now
in his possession, having been given to
him by the board of supervisors. The gen.
| tleman IL Thomas ID. Smith. who now
lives at Ravenna and Is nearly 80 years Of
age.
| The summer meeting of the Michigan
Millers' Association was held in Grand
Rapids with large attendance. The