Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-28

proycments.
| The Amazon Hosiery Company. Of
Michigan City, employing 500 hands, will
move to Muskegon.
The register of Marshall tramp house
exhibits ], 100 entries during the past win
terra period of three months.
Eugene GROCER, a prominent farmer
oil Cambridge, has died of injuries re-
ccived by being struck by falling tree.
A West Branch lady has saved oil the
dimes that came into her possession In
the past four years, and they now amount
to 800.
The cheese factory Mt Raisinville will
begin operations on April 1, Dunbars Il
Jenkins, of Samaria, being the new pro-
prietors.
Hay is sold ut Muskcgon at 5000 to
$11. and good beech wood is only worth
$1.25 a cord, and pine 81 for cord and
u half.
Chippewa County has 800 farms with
IN its limits, which makes 1t easily tho
banner agricultural county of the Upper
Peninsula.
An ice-boat ran from Mackinac Island
10 Bots Blanc light, distance Of seven
miles, in three and a half minutes, one
day last week.
Regents of the University of Michigan
have ordered hose and chemical extin-
guishers purchased for every building
OH the campus.
| A piece of machinery few at James ID.
| Wilson, of the Montague Iron Works,
breaking several ribs and causing possi-
bly, fatal injuries.
The Plymouth Fair Association Is in
the field early with the announcement
of their fair for this year. The dates are
Sept. II to 20, inclusive.
Two foxes got into chicken coop be-
longing to Dcerfield girl and killed four
teen hens The girl killed the foxes, how
ever. and sold the skin of one of them for
| ST., so she isn't out much on the transac-
| ton after all.
The Supreme Court granted writ Of
error in the case of DR.. Myron p. Fo-
gelsong of Hillsdale. who was convicted
at Hillsdale several months ago of pois-
oning his wife and sentenced to State
prison for life.
A movement Is on foot at Ionia to PR
chase twenty-acre tract lying between
| the wagon works and the electric light
works, and convert it into an amusement
rink. riding park, etc.
A farmer living near Pleasant Valley
went TO Shepherd one day last week and
| filed up on ''forty-rod." He was so long
going home that he froze both feet, which
arc in a terrible condition and probably
| will have to be amputated.
| A prominent farmer of Livonia has
chopped five acres of apple orchard into
firewood this winter. He says it doesn't
pay to cucumber the ground with apple
trees as long as the coding moth is SO
actively engaged in business.
| A franchise to establish an electric
light plant is asked for from Benton
Harbor by Peter English. The power
is to he obtained by damming the Paw
Paw River about one mile from the city.
The dam will be 1000 feet long and give
a fall of fifteen feet.
The Fifth Infantry Band, NJ. \. c.,
whose term of enlistment expires this
month, has decided not to re-enlist in the
State service They were called into ac-
ton for twenty-seven days at Ironwood
| last summer, and cannot afford to lose
that much time again.
Clarence Eddy, of Chicago. will give II
| special organ recital during the May fes-
| tival in Ann Arbor. This makes The
fourth concert of the series which ends
with the performance of Berlioz's dam
nation of Faust" by the choral union of
$50 voices, the Boston festival orchestra
of thirty-six pieces and the following
soloists Nine. Nordica, soprano; Rose
Stuart. soprano: Gertrude May Stein,
contralto; Rieger, tenor; Max Heinrich.
baritone; Clark of New York bass. The
| nj will r.
than last year.
Sunday morning. betwec~ 2 and 3
o'clock, Postmaster n. McBaln, of Owos-
so, was discovered i'm an abandoned mill
race near the works of the brewing COM
pany. His face was despatched with
blood and his hair was matted. The
blood gushed from CHASTITY wound on
the back of his head. The would-be as
sassin, believing his victim to be dead, it
is believed, dragged the body to the Sc
cluded place where it was found for the
| purpose of hiding the crime until ESCAPE
could be effected. The assailant attempt
ed robbery, but he was evidently fright
cEed away. Mr.. McBain can give no ac-
| count of the assault and the police are
also mystifed.
Calvin DefOrest, farmer near Oakley.
shot and killed his brother George Tues
| day. The act was committed i'm self
| defense after Calvin himself had been
seriously wounded. George, who was
considered by many of unsound mind,
| has been the terror of the neighborhood
for some time. He was terribly abusive
to all his relatives. A short time ago he
beat his aged father and mother severe
~. without any provocation whatever,
and his brothers and sisters felt unsafe
| i'm his presence. His last and fatal ex-
plot was when he drove his sister, Mrs.
| Alfred Beers, out of her home. The
frightened woman called upon her broth
or Calvin for protection, when the shoot
| ing ensucd.
| Battle Creek police had lively fracan
with two tramps Tuesday. The men
were offering razors, jewelry and revol-
vers for sale at suspicious prices, and as
two officers attempted TO arrest them in
a barber shop each tramp pulled two re-
yolvcrs and. getting the drop on the Off.
GERS. escaped. A running fire was kept
on for about Two miles into the country,
several officers and a crowd of civilians
taking part i'm the chase. The tramps,
realizing escape was impossible. threw
away their guns and gave themselves UP.
| No one was injured. The despcradoes
were arraigncd on charge of assault with
intent to commit murder, waived exam
nation, and were bound over to the Cir
| cult Court. In default of $4,000 bail