Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01
Short State Items.

Houghton County has S06,o1O cash,
above all liabilities, on hand.
Secretary of State Gardner fired ten
clerks in the State census division.
!. f. Van Horns residence at Jackson
was robbed of $40 worth of silverware.
]. S. Moore, of Pontiac has sold his
marble works to Fitzgerald & Chisholm.
Apples in Berrien County orchards are
dropping at rate that portends a light
crop.
A massive granite monument has just
been erected over the grave of Gov. Win
ans at Hamburg.
Albert and Walter Galgerson, aged re-
spectively and IL years, were drowned
in Muskegon while bathing.
G. w. Kendrick, of Alpena, dealer in
notions, has made an assignment Liza
bilities, $500; assets, 81 800.
The Alpena sulphte fiber factory is
shipping paper pulp quite extensively,
24S, 900 pounds being sent off last week.
c. A. Button, of Alaiedon. lost fifty
bushels of barley last week. spark from
a thrasher setting fire to a wagon load.
II. Il. Stewards law Office at Lansing
was entered by burglars who stole S2S5
in cash, but missed $500 stored in the
safe.
Eaton County's hay crop has for many
years averaged S350,OO0 per annum for
surplus sold. This year the county will
import hay.
The Big Four's business via Benton
Harbor has so increased as to necessitate
the building Of third immense freight
warehouse there.
Portage Lake Jackson County. was
never known to be as low as il il now.
There has been a dam placed across the
outlet in hopes of raising the water.
The farmers of West Haven, Shiawas-
see County, are having a dispute about
the ownership of field of wheat, and il
is probable that the matter will be settled
in the courts. Farmer No. / holds a
mortgage on the wheat, which was given
to him by man who occupied the land,
but did not own il at the time the wheat
was planted. Since the mortgage was
given the land passed into the hands of
Farmer No. Q, whose deed of sale calls
for the wheat as well as the land. Both
farmers are backing their claims for all
they are worth, and each vows that he
will not give in to the other unless COM
PEELED to by n courts decision.
At Westphalia. John Radamacher was
bound and gagged by Whitecaps and
taken to a strip of woods and given n
horsewhipping. He was released with a
warning not to beat his wife again.
Hemlock City is rather small place,
and yet they have two postmasters there.
One, Dan McMullen, is doing business Mt
the old stand; the other is William G.
Martin, who holds commission from Mr..
Wilson. Both are straight Democrats.
who boast that they never have split a
ticket and are clever fellows. The people
are wondering what the reason for this
excessive supply of postmasters can be.
Fred Whitney, a farmer of Banker,
scattered paris green on his potatoes to
kill the potato bugs. His 4-year-old
daughter and her sister, years old, went
into the field and ate some apples that
had fallen from the tree into the potato
patch. The younger girl died. There is
but little hope of saving her sister.
Burglars broke into the G.. r. & I. de-
pot Mt Alanson, and also the grocery
stores of l.. II. Williams and @. X. Mitch
ell. Several express packages at the depot
were broken open and the money drawer
was pulled out by the roots, butowing to
the carefulness of the station agent no
money was found. Between SO and SIS
was taken from the stores.