Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-01-02
Short State Itcma.

The latest industry at ureSory Is u
broom factory.
Pinckney has two dealers who have
sold nearly fifty cutters this season.
Goguac Lake, near Battle Greek, has
risen eight inches and is overlooking into
creeks.
Uncle" Eddie Baker, of Stockbridsc,
who was Sheriff in the early COS, died
Saturday. ff8t s9.Tf ~
Feb. g is the date fixed for the frst
shipment of pig iron from Gladstones
monster new charcoal furnace.
Z. Il. Cleveland. of Flint has got the
contract to build the new dofmitory for
the school of the deaf. His figure is
5000.
A man from Metamora, Ohio. has been
begging aims around Adrian, displaying
a foot as big as an elephants as the ex-
cuse for charity.
The dudes of Ontonagon have evidently
taken to burglary. Several stores have
been robbed recently, and in every ease
perfumery was stolen In large quantities.
Bcckervil,e. Sanilac County. is awful
" sick of its name and wants to be
known as Beloit. Sanilac Center would
be glad of almost any other name than its
own. AfR II ftsF
William Caffery, whose body was re.
Gently found suspended from tree near
Minneapolis. had n wife. and two chill
dren living in McBain, whom he desert
ed some time last August.
There's a project on foot at st. Joseph
TO build combined G. A. Il. memorial
building and city hall, costing from 49,
900 to 10000. A considerable amount
has already been subscribed.
]. II. Miller, of Ypsilanti, met young
Clark Chamberlain on the street and
openly charged the lad with stealing So
from his store. Chamberlain wilted con-
fessed and got sixty days in Jail.
Muskegonlittle boys are seen every day
gathering cigar stubs from the curbs.
Just what they did with the snipes was
mystery till a large crowd were seen
smoking improvised brown paper cigar
cites.
The brick curbing of a well on Myron
Potter's farIn. near Mulliken. SUDDENLY
sank out Of sight. and only n small hole
was left to mark the spot. Farmers think
there isa sabterancan lake underlying the
section. y 20 " Asfs ~ ~ ava
sued George Heimerdinger. of Mnnches-
ter. for 81 $3.50 for services rendered the
Heimerdinger family during an. outbreak
of smallpox, has recovered S40O. The
trial lasted seven days.
Mrs. Charles Grossman, wife of an Ann
Arbor hardwa merchant. threw herself
and 3-year-old daughter into a cistern,
leaving q note telling her husband where
she would lie found. !, The, coroner's jury
brought In a verdict of suicide from tenn
pOrary insanity. -
John NJ. MARI, travelling agent for Ham,
mofid. Standish X CO., reported to the
Saginaw police that he returned from
collecting trip,.and had $500 cash and
nearly 800 in checks in his pocketbook.
During the night burglars entered his res
idence aud secured tn, cash. (vgR
10 4 farmers wife, abou- eighteen ~ lies
west kof SAUL Stcl Marie. was dra wils
water from well. when sh, saw below
the head of man. Allen. removed a
corpse, which proved TO le that of james
Hail. He probably stumbled into the
well In the dark and couldn't get ont
Chicago, chaps, three years ago. con
vinced Almont people that creamery
was just the thing. and a $1,000 invest
ment was the result. The farmers quar-
relied among themselves profits vanished.
and the creamery building has been sold
for $500. "
A Port Huron cat jumped INTO the fly
wheel Of an engine that was making 100
revolutions minute. She landed astride
spoke and chung there until the engine
could be stopped. She came out unin-
jured, but her next friend will try to get
her a pension on the ground that she is
survivor of the revolution.
st. Clair County now has an even 100
places where liquor Is sold. At1cast &; IL
many places have pail the State license.
Fifty-eight of these places are located
in Port Huron rnd forty.tyo III the 9th
or cities and townships Port Huroms
share of the liquor money collected is
about $14,0Oo. gefErI krc rearc
The Buckley & Douglas Company, of
Manistee, have discontinued drilling on
the. salt well, in which an explosion of
gas. occurred tho other dny, ! and arc dis
Guessing the feasibility Of piping the well
| Cor purposes Or fuel ana illumination. A
column Of floating gas burst to the top of
the derrick with great force, and was
J controlled with difficulty.