Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-10-15
ICHIGAN. THURSDAY, OCTOBER Is, 1896
Mackinaw reported the first snow Of the
aea son Wednesdav morninp


Haven schools, is dead.
dered plans for a $4,000 auditorium, to
be erected on the market grounds.
Ridgeway farmers are putting up a
large amount of second hay cutting, as
corn fodder isn't curing in the shock.
Among the exhibits at the Huron Coun-
ty fair was a ive-legged cow The fifth
leg was on the back of the neck and per-
feet in form.
Partridge are very numerous in Day
ton Township, Tuscola County, this fall.
They arc very tame. often coming into
the farmers barnyards.
Apples in Tuscola County are selling
for so cents per barrel, delivered at the
railroad station. The crop of apples is
the largest ever known in that section.
A Lenawee County woman called upon
an Adrian undertaken the other day and
made partial payment o. bill contracted
twenty-one years ago. She made no ex-
PLANTATION for the long delay.
Within few days 200 men have been
naturalized in Muskegon County. The
other night fifty-seven from Whitehall
were put through. They came on a spe-
cial train with their employers.
At Iuskegon big Newfoundland dog
seized a bundle of mea. which little Jen-
ME Williams was carrying home. Simon
O'Day intercepted the brute and was ter
ribly bitten in the leg. The dog was shot
A branch of the American Volunteers
commenced operations at Manistee Sat
urday night. The old Salvation Army
Corps has been holding the fort there for
many years, and lively campaign is ex-
pected.
Section Foreman Couples, of Nissan
kee Junction, was killeL near Cadillac
An approaching freight train caused the
men hurriedly to derail their hand car,
but Couples was struck and the train
passed over him.
The funeral of Mrs. Samuel Ashley,
who died Sunday, was held at Dawson
Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Ashley was sc
years old and one of the oldest residents
of the town. She came there from Scot
land in 1887 Her husband survives her.
The funeral of Dr. J. T.. Hinshaw was
held ut Jackson and was largely attend
cd. The services were under the aus
pices of Edward Pomercy Post, G. A. II.
that Of Arthur y. Sammons. Jackson
Lodge, B. Z. o. E., attended in a body.
The Doust school house in Elba, Gra-
tiot County, was destroyed by fire the
other evening. 1t was not discovered till
the flames were breaking through the
roof, and consequently the contents were
entirely consumed. 1t is supposed the fire
caught from defective chimney. 1t will
be rebuilt Immediately.
In nandamus proceedings brought by
the city of Muskcgon Judge Russell held
that the county had no right to withhold
collections of delinquent taxes on realty
and offset them against delinquent per-
sonal taxes owing by city and township.
The city sued to compei the payment of
81 ,569, holding that it did not owe the
personal taxes till it had made collec-
tion. Other counties are said to have
followed the same policy as Muskegon.
DIR. ID. w. WIsmer, of Flint, had terri
BILE experience on the farm of Joseph
Walsh. He was passing through the
yard when sow attacked him. threw him
down and was tearing his flesh when Mr..
Walsh ran to the rescue. The hog turned
upon Mr. Walsh and threw him down
also, and an open knife i'm his hand ran
into his wrist. A neighbo- named Lavelle
came upon the scene with fence stake,
and, after hard fight, drove off the
infuriated animal, whicn was afterwards
shot.
The fve-story building at Detroit, for
merly occupied by the Free Press, was
gutted by fire Monday afternoon. The
occupantsare the job printing departments
of the Free Press Company, the Habbin
type foundry, and the Cliff e. Higgins
book 5indery. The fire was caused by a
small explosion of lighted gas stove in
an eleetrotyping room on the fourth floor.
The total loss is estimated at $4,000,
with insurance about half. The Free
Press Conipany's loss js 100000; insur-
aiice, S3J, 900.
Some time ago w. Y. Chamberlain took
the Lake Shore Road at Trenton to go to
Flat Rock, q distance of 6.3 miles. The
company had for years charged % cents
but Chamberlain believed it could legally
collect but cents per mile He offered |
21 cengs, which was refused. He was put |
of and walked home. A Circuit Court |
jury gave him judgment of $400. In the |
Supreme Court the company claimed that |
Chamberlain should have paid the extra |
4 cents, and then sued to recover. The |
Court allirms the judgment, saying the |
company was exacting az illegal fare.
In 1926 the paymaster at old Fort |
Drummond, near the mouth of st. Mary's |
River. became insane. Shortly before his |
death he buried a large sum of gold,
chiefly English sovereigns intrusted to |
him for the soldiers In spite of careful
search, the gold was no, discovered and
the post was finally abandoned. A few
days ago Byron Saltonstall, of Chicago,
on the island known as Judge Stdere's
Islani,' dug up an iron pot brim full of
gold, all English sovereigns of the time
of George III. He said his find amounted |
to more than $1,000. Now everybody on
the island is digging for buried treasure.
w. T. T.. Burton, of Detroit,
has been suffering for several months
from a peculiar accident but is now on
the road to recovery. In alighting from
street car his heel struck the pavement
before the ball of his foot did, and the
result was n severe jar. One of the ver-
tebrae in his neck was dislocated, and the
upper portion of his body became par
tally paralyzed. Surgeons placed his
neck IN plaster paris cast. Each morn
ing Ne. Burton is hung by the neck, the
process being gone through to gradually
work the vertebrae into its proper posi-
ton. For some reason or other Mr.. Bur
tons neck has been drawn to one side
for years, but the hanging is straighten-
ing it.
At switch at INLAY City a freight
train broke In two and the rear part ran
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