Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-07-23

Ten new disiiIleries Tor the extfact1no
| Of peppermint oil have been erected On the
mint fields At Decatur this seaeon.
An Adrian physician went on we'd
ding trip. leaving his dog to watch the
house, but somebody stole the dog.
Huckleberries are very plentiful this
season In Manistee County and large par
ties are out every day picking them.
John Phillips was thrown from his buk-
Ky Monday night at Bad Axe BY couple
Of drunken MEN running into him. and
was fatally injured.
sheriff Blackmar has located the home
Of the wild. woman captured near Mid
land. Her name Is Louise Zabe!, and
her home is in Thomas township. Sagi-
nav County. Her luther, Frederick Ia
bel. is supervisor OF that town. and is
reported well-to-do. This daughter was
the brightest Of three children. until six
or seven years ago, when she lost broth-
er by accident in the woods, and the shock
sunbal anccd her mind. She was sent af-
ter the cows and wandered away. No
one knows how long she had been wan
dering about in the woods. The girl -
in pitiab.e coalition.
| Peter Delaney, OF the Union Hotel,
| Jackson, who claims that Paul Worth, j.
O'Meara and others robbed him OF 500
on sure-thing foot race bet some weeks
ago. refuses TO compromise the case. Mr..
| Delaney has received LETTERS from Detroit
parties praying him to let up on Worth,
who is now in jail They agree 10 retarn
part of the money IL Mr.. Delaney will con-
sent to let Worth go and all OF the amount
Later on. Delaney says: II don't care
one-half as much about the money as l
do about Furnishing these frauds. | loan
ed them the money TO bet. l thought they
were friends OF mine, and they stole the
money. l don't want men ! befriend TO
rob me. I thing Worth would better so
to prison"
On Sunday evening, three miles east OF
Brown City, Asa Reynolds was shot in
the back and legs by one VIM. Wiswell, a
farmer. on the highway. Eighty coarse
shots were extracted. 1t appears that
Asa Reynolds, one Morrell and one
Christ!a. while passing Wiswells, threw
a stone into his yard and then ran. Wis
well Immediately got his gnn and started
in pursuit and shot Reynolds who fell
by the wayside. Wiswell did not notice
him fall, and went pas. him after the
other two, and when returning heard him
moaning. He went into the bushes
brought him ont and took him to one Muir
rays. A warrant has been issued aud
constables are looking for Wiswe.l.
A fierce storm OF wind. rain and cleo
tricty swept over Southern Michigan
Tuesday night, doing damage 10 crops
and property TO the extent of nearly $780,
600. The electrical display was marnif-
cent and the sky was a mass of fire for
upwards OF two hours. Near Hillsdale
the Lake Shore tracks were washed out,
and all trains delayed for nearly ten
hours. In Calhoun County twenty barns
were reported struck by electricity and
burned. In Ienawec County the rainfall
was 2.10 inches. Around Kalamazoo
immense damage was done to celery beds.
In Berrien and ST. Joseph Counties great
orchards OF apples, peaches and pears
were stripped of fruit by the wind.
Henry Glass. OF Pipestone, Berrien
County, was about to toss a sheaf of
wheat into the thrashing machine Tues.
day when stick of dynamite fell CUT and
upon searching the bundle Of grain he
found two more sticks of the explosive.
Had the dynamite passed into the ma
been blown into atoms and the men at
work near it would have been instantly
killed. Mr.. Glass is at loss to account
for the presence OF the dynamite in the
sheaf. as lie had none on the place and
the grain has only just been harvested.
He thinks that some envious neighbor or
unknown enemy placed the dynamite
where it was found for the purpose Of
ba cbnr x.-,;n &.
one he recently purchased for bis own
use.
Two little passengers who were not
booked when, the steamer City Of Nnwan-
kee left Chicago for st, Joseph Tuesday
morning made their appearance in the af-
ternoon when the steamer was in midlake,
and their coming was heraldcd with some
confusion, as the steamer had no p-ovis-
ion for such emergencies. They were
twin boys born TO Mrs. Jonas ID. Jenkins,
of Hutchinson. Kan, who was making II
pleasure trip across the lake. With the
kindly care Of the matron the mother was
made as comfortable as possible, while
the little fellows. both OF them bright,
bouncing babies, were as healthy and nc-
tive as their native lake and roared as
Justify as the latter does in its anger No
names were given the little ones, although
numerous suggestions were made by the
passengers.
Ed Mclaughlin, one of the striking
caulkers at Whce!cr's shpyard. Bay City,
went into Mr.. Whcelcr's private Office
Wednesday afternoon and demanded
money. threatening to blow up the place
IL his demands were not complied with at
once. Mr.. Wheeler talked with the man
until officers were summoned, and he was
locked up. When the officers appeared
Mclaughlin said he made the threats
only as joke. A search failed to reveal
anything about him with which he could
have carried out his threats.
The annual Muskcgon school election
was held Monday and was something OF
a novelty in that a woman, Mrs Wildam
=. Wood, rich widow, made a run for
member OF the Board OF Education en-
the nomination OF the Trades and Labor
Assembly, against Bunker and Wander
laan. who We're backed by the support OF
the board. She was beaten, but gave her
competitors quite a fight, as was evil
dcnced from the desperate means taken
to defeat her. Circulars were used and
the regular politicians appeals were made
to the foreign vote. The women were as
active as the men in clectioneering, hut
apparently did not understand as well
how to do 1t. A proposition to bond the
district for $4,000, the bonds I'd he pur-