Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-21

AZ rdlrvieW, OecOdd county, was burned.
The annual convention of the Ienawee
County w. @. Il. u. was held ut Morenci
Mrs. Caroline Humphrey, of Adrian, was
elected president for the ensuing year.
The new water works system at Lake
Ann, Benzie County, Ii completed, and
proud isn't half strong enough a word to
describe the way the citizens feel about 1t.
A strange phenomenon Is reported from
Fowler, Clinton County. For long time
past Stony Greek, near that village, has
been perfectly dry. The day on which
the recent earthquake occurred the water
rose and there IL now strong current in
the channel, with depth in some places
of two feet. No rain had fallen when
the water began to rise, and it is sup
posed that the earthquake was the cause
of the occurrence.
Kalamazoo is overrun with fy-by-night
merchants and suckers seem to be
numerous. A city ordinance imposes q
tax, but officials fail to enforce it or even
suppress the street vendors who stop peo-
pie and run them into the stores. Local
merchants are up in arms over the situa-
ton. One lady who bought cloak found
on getting home that it was full of holes
and returning it was accused of cutting
them. No satisfaction was given her.
Workmen clearing out the last of the
debris in the cellar of the building de-
stroyed by the explosion ut Detroit, heard
wall in the remaining rubbish,
and on clearing it away Maltese kitten
was revealed. Pussy had lived for seven
do In hn inc
and had passed through an upheaval that
destroyed the lives of thirty human
beings. When the workmen reached the
animal it was just able to make a move
ment, and shortly afterward died. The
workmen said they would bury the kitten
and it's grave would be marked by bricks
from the ruined structure.
The death of Col. Michael Shoemaker,
of Jackson, will be felt throughout the
State. Col. Shoemaker was for several
years one Of the best known and most
picturesque figures in the political life Of
Michigan because of his distinguished
appearance, his courtly manner and his
enthusiastic Democracy. During the war,
in command of the Thirteenth Infantry,
he was noted for the rapidity with which
and was conspicuous for bravery. AL
though he has been for some years living
a retired life he has not been forgotten,
but will be sincerely mourned by many
outside his immediate circle. He leaves
behind an honored and untarnished name
Surprise was manifested at Lansing
when it was announced that the State
Board of Agriculture had. by unan-
imous vote, relieved Lewis G.. Gorton
from duty as president of the Michigan
Agricultural College. The only reason
for its action given by the board to either
the deposed president or the public is a
lack of harmony between him and the
faculty and unsatisfactory discipline. A
demand from President Gorton and the
newspapers for specific charges has been
met with n refusal No notice of the in
tention of the board to demand his resig-
nation was given the president. He de-
clined to resign I'm the absence of definite
charges and an investigation and was
thereupon excused on an indefinite leave
of absence. The board will meet in jan
uary to fill the vacancy.
Although the Michigan policy commits
sion adjourned at Lansing without max
ing any announcement, there is little
doubt that majority of the commission
has decided TO recede from the action of
last August in adopting an so per cent.
value clause as a rider to the Michigan
Standard Fire Insurance policy. Owing
to the claim of most Of the lumbermen
and manufacturers of the State, whom it
affects, that the rider was a
fragrant evasion of the law, a rehearing
was granted, they not having been rep
resented at the August meeting. Judge
John w. Champln, of Grand Rapids,
spoke in favor of the rider, and T. t.
Lette, of Detroit, against it. II is ex-
pected the commission will decide the
matter within fortnight.
A petty war which has waged for sew
eral days past between the young lady
students and Janitor Mcdonald of the
West Side high school, at Saginaw, has
just become public and, as result, the
members of the school board have been
called upon to settle q pretty muddle.
About twenty young ladies who have been
in the habit of carrying their dinners
have been locked in the basement of the
building during noon hour to prevent
them from strolling about town. Not only
were they compelled to remain inside the
building, but were also subjected to un-
treatment at the hands of
Janitor Mcdonald. The girls drew up
petition which was signed by all the stu
dents and which they handed to Professor
Thompson, protesting against such bar
barous treatment. Considerable indigna-
ton is occasioned over this petty tyranny
and influential citizens will carry the mat
ter before the board.
War has been declared between the
faculty and students of Alma College,
and it all grows out of the Halloween
affair i'm which the pulpit and bell-clapper
were carried away and the furniture bad
ly married. A young student who was
known to be out that night has been made
the butt of it all by the professors, be-
cause n year ago he refused to disclose
some information they wanted. The fac
ulty wrote letter to this young mans
father, and he wrote back that the boy
could fight his own battles. When this
letter became known the students formed
an Indignation meeting and drafted a let
ter to the father. The faculty claim they
have proof that the young man led the
party Halloween night, but his fellow
students say this information is false, as
he is less to blame than many of them.
The faculty say they will have the law
on the young man, who is the youngest Of
his class and has always borne good
reputation. His classmates retort by
saying it is all bluff and they will leave
college in body before they will permit
one of their fellow-students to suffer for
a harmless Halloween prank.