Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-16

| The electric light plant at Ontonagon
] has been running behind several thssf
sand dollars per year, and the Council
| will raise the rates for private lighting
considerably In order to make both ends
meet.
Grin Ormsbee, a young man OF %
years, was drowned at Trout Creek, On
tonagon County, last week. He tried
to cross pond on some logs and slipped
and fell in.
The boiler of freight engine on the
Chicago ana Northwcstern Railroad ex-
ploded lat Trcmbly Siding, killing Epgi-
neer Stonehouse and badly scalding Fire
man +. X. Buell. and Brakeman Conrad
Gorgens. q H.
The Board OF Supervisors or sDickin-
son County has offered reward of 81, 900
for the arrest and conviction OF the per-
sons who attempted some weeks ago to
blow up Capt. Goldsworthy's' residence
at Iron Mountain. ftt
The Council at Pinckney has adopted a
curfew ordinance and after 1t goeR into
effect. in three weeks, children under the
age of IL must be in their homes at
O'clock. During the winter months the
time will Ike 7:3O y. M.
Land Commissioner French of Michi-
gan has received a patent for 5000 acres
of choice lands in the upper peninsula
from the Federal Government. On Aug.
Ii they will be offered at auction at an
upset price Of IS per acre.
The mystery surrounding the death of
Jennie Gray, OF Kalamazoo, was cleared
up by evidence given by physicians before
the coroner's jury that she died from
Bright's disease of the kidneys. A YER
dict according was rendered.
Frank Fluent. Of Pinckney. who had
his face so badly burned and lacerated
on the Fourth by the premature explosion
OF a, lot Of powder, is slowly recovering,
and. although ne will be horribly dis6g-
mred for life, his eyesight will be saved.
A Brown City driver who had an idea
that cyclists had no rights on the road
ran one into a ditch and then laughed mt
him. The cyclist had the fellow arrested,
land the judge thought a fine Of about $40
would assist him to remember that others
have right to ride on a highway.
The Grand Rapids and Indiana road
has been trying a new idea for electric
lighting on one Of it's trains. A windmill
two feet in diameter Is placed in front
of the locomotive and generates the cleo
tricity necessary for lighting the train.
A storage battery Is used. so that the
lights will not go out when the train
stops Il a
4. III. Often. a drunken Detroit horse
sheer, shot his wife, the bullet lodging
in her shoulder, and also shot Mrs. Henry
Desrussc. at whose house Mrs. Often
had been staying, she having left her
home on account of her husbands dissi-
pated and dangerous habits. Mrs. Dcs-
ruisse was shot in the abdomen. Both
women vii! probably recover.
The semi-annual report of Prosecuting
Attorney Randall, of Washtcnaw County.
shows that up to July l of this year he
has prosecuted 25J eases. or the SO, 100
have been convicted. > acquitted, AZ dis
charged on payment of costs, 13 nolle
pressed. 8 discharged on examination, 3
escaped. and settled. During the past
year and half he has prosecuted CTS
cases.
There is quite scrap up in Montmo
rcncy County because Thomas Sheridan
is trying to hold down the two offices Of
supervisor and county Clerk. AT a recent
session, the hoard refused to recognize
him as a supervisor, and he refused, As
county clerk, TO give up the county tax
roll until he was so recognized. Neither
side would give in, and the courts will
decide whether he can legally hold the
two Offices.
Suit was begun at Benton Harbor by
Attorney Hammond to test the consti-
ftIfio of tha Ia lot 20
justices of the peace. The suit is being
backed by nearly all of the justices in that
part OF the State who were ousted by the
new law. The circuit judge will be asked
to grant mandamus requiring one Of the
ex-justices to issue summons in case
and il it is refused the case will so direct
to the Supreme Court.
Shipping facilities are entirely made
quate to handle the immense crop of fruit
and berries in the Benton Harbor region.
All the boats arc loaded to the gunwale.
The Big -Four announces n fast train to
Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Louisville.
thus aifording an entirely new market.
Arrangements are being made for ship
ments to Buffalo, New York and other
Eastern points. A market will be estab-
l;shed where peaches may be bought in
large quantities. ."
james Magee, weli-known Detroit
boxer and wrestler, was called to the door
OF his home early Wednesday morning by
nm unknown man and was shot dead as
he appeared ut the threshold. Magee's
mother, who had answered the ring, was
witness of the deed. The police are
looking for Frank Ashley, saloonkeeper,
who is suspected Of the crime. Ashley
had sworn revenge on Magee for having
whipped Ashlcy's brother. The latter
has been arrested as a witness.
Grand Rapids is throngcd with visiting
furniture men--buyers and sellers. The
buyers, especially those from the West,
complain that the spring retail trade was
very dull and unsatisfactory, and there
is no disposition in any quarter to place
large orders. The orders will be small
and diversified. the buyers taking little
OF everything that strikes them as being
good, and then il business opens up more
favorably in the fall they will send in
duplicate orders. The number OF sellers
from out of town Is not so large as in
former years, many Of the manufacturers
who sent statesmen and opened headquar-
tiers or their. own in the past having
placed their lines with commission houses
as a means of economy. Last July rival
cxpositions were given in New York city,
Minneapolis. and Rockford. but, Grand
Rapids is the only town this year that has
a fall 'opening."
The Board Of Supervisors, in session at
A Il