Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-06

All the huckleberries near East Tawas
were destroyed by the recent frosts:
Kalamazoo thinks that her pprss@kt ire
department equipment IL not sufficient,
and will buy q new engine.
The jackson commandery, X. T., has
been invited to give an exhibition drill at
the Boston eonclave in August.
Pontiac people who own dogs will here
after have to pay 81 per dog, the Council
having passed dog tax ordinance.
William A. Wilcox, the ex-Montaguean.
who was convicted at Seattle, WASH, Of
murder, but whose friends secured a Sec
ond trial for him, has been acquitted,
A dismasted yacht which was picked mp
by the schooner Chris Grover in Lake
Superior, near Grand Island, may indi-l
cate that some camping party has met
with disaster.
RIVE Chase, aged Is, of Ionia, was ia
tally injured Monday. He was assisting
lineman ut the top of forty-foot pole.
when he lost his hold and fell to the
ground.
Measures are nearly completed for the
erection of a home for old and INDECENT
ladies at Marshall. Mrs. Dulcina Daily
willed $4,000 for the purpose. The trus-
tees hope to raise sufficient funds in addi-
ton to pay for the site, which has already
been bargained for.
At Even, the Even Planning Mill Co.'S
mill and plant were destroyed by fire. Sew
eral thousand feet of lumber and six cars
of the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic
| Railway were also destroyed. There was
no insurance on the mill and the loss win
aggregate $4,000.
| A Jonesville farmer covered up his
| strawberries with blankets, old clothes
and horse robes, started big bonfire and
| then went to bed, confident that his straw
| berries, at least, would escape frost blight.
The next morning he found nothing but a
| field of ashes.
| The late Emaline A. House, of Kalama-
zoo, left the First Congregational Church
$1,000; Olivet College, $1,000; Drury Col
lege, $1,000; children's home in Kalama-
ZOO, $1,000; the remainder of the $4,000
estate is divided among other charitable
institutions and relatives. y
William III. Soper, '06 dental student
| ut Ann Arbor from Greensburg, Wis, met
with a curious accident on the baseball
| field. He was playing in a class game,
| and in making throw home from the out
| field gave him arm a jerk that broke it
near the joint. The doctors are much
| puzzled as to how the fracture could have
occurred.
Frank Herbst is a Grand Rapids dane
| ing master. He took finger ring from
| the pocketbook of one of his young lady
pupils, and she afterwards traced ii to
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| whom Herbst had given it. Mr.. Herbst
| explained that it was joke, but Judge
| Burlingame sentenced him TO two years
in the Ionia prison.
The 9-year-old son of Louis King, Of
| Saginaw, was terribly bitten by his dog
recently on the arms and legs, which
were badly lacerated, four gaping wounds
having been sewn up. The canine bit a
| little girl also, and exhibited signs of n.y.
drophobia. At the request of the doctor
the animal will be chained up until all
doubt on the subject is set at rest.
An important damage case by which
| Mrs. Mary Mulliken sues Corunna for
| $4,000, occupied the attention of the Cir
| cult Court for four days. The jury were
| out only an hour, bringing in q verdict for
| the plaintiff in the sum of $1,000. The
case will undoubtedly be taken to the
| Supreme Court. Mrs. Mulliken alleges
| that as she was returning home on the
| evening of May "a, 1894, she stepped into
a hole in the sidewalk and fell, fracturing
her ankle.
| The Michigan weather bureau says in
its weekly crop bulletin that later reports
show that the first frosts did less damage
than at first reported, but that the frost
later did inestimable damage to small
fruits and garden truck, practically de-
stroying grapes and slightly injuring
peaches. Wheat, grass, rye and oats are
| improving, but as the season advances
farmers are beginning to predict short
hay crop. Warm rains are much needed
in all sections.
Young Charles Miller of Marshall, mys-
teriously disappeared not long since and
no trace of him could be found. 1t now
transpires that he got into an alteration
with schoolmate on his way to school,
| receiving blow on the nose which caused
it to bleed profusely. He did not dare go
into school in such plight, SO he put pre-
| viously formed resolution into effect and
left the city on a freight train. He has re-
| Gently written his parents that he was
working for a good farmer near Grand
Rapids, but they were not to come after
him, as he was determined to stay away
from home.
According to consolidated report Of
the condition of 167 State banks and three
| trust companies at the close of business
| May Z, issued by the State banking COM
missioner, the banking business in Michi-
| gan is flourishing and the volume Of bust
ness greater than before the panic. The
total resources of the banks are $S1 ,259,-
| 976. Loans, discounts, stocks, bonds and
mortgages amount to $64, 601 1881, an in
crease of $3,765, IA since the report of
Dec. 10 last. The cash reserve amounts
to $1,000, $40. Deposits now amount to
500, 7S2, 1853, an increase of So, 22G, OS8
since the December report.
The lumbermen in the Perry Lumber
| Company holdings near Seney, in attempt
| ing to drive out mosquitoes Saturday
night started brush fire that spread
| rapidly and is now doing vast amount Of
| damage in the eastern section of Luce
| County and northern Schoolcraft County.
| One man was nearly burned to death in
Bakers logging camp and the Manistee
| Lumber Company has ordered its men to
cease work and fight the flames. Whole
rollways are in flames and at the latest
advices the fires were raging unchecked
and beyond control. Unless the flames
are speedily checked the damage will
amount to hundreds of thousands of dol