Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-10-01
DR.. James h. Townsend, q jackson
pioneer, Is dead, aged "a.

resident OF Jackson, died Monday night
aged 81 years.
Omer. the largest village on the new
| Detroit and Mackinac, wants -four mil
and hardwood factory.
At WILLIAMSON Carl Post was arrested
for stealing articles from farmers wag
ons. Others implicated escaped.
| Furnaces have been discarded as O
means of heating the schools at Evart
and steam-heating system installed.
A married lady in Calhoun County II
teaching district school, is janitress OF
the building and boards herself, all fol
$40 per month.
Burglars entered the Office of the Stand
ard Oil Company at Port Huron, blew
open the safe and secured about 500 In
cash. There is no clew as to the guilty
| parties.
Sunday night unknown persons tam
pered with the Michigan Central track
three miles south of Grayling, and the
| engine and several cars left the rails.
Fortunately they did not tip over, and no
one was injured. Three men are under
arrest on suspicion.
Mrs. s. l.. Bird and her mother, OF
Pontiac, while visiting in Cleveland,
woman-like, looked under the bed-not
in vain. There lay big, burly negro.
A man in the same house rushed after
him with a revolver, but the negro jump
ed from window and escaped.
Deputy Sheriff l.. G. Adams, of Davi-
son, was informed that crazy man was
running at large in the southern part of
Dawson Township. Upon investigation
the officer found man lying by the road
side sick and hungry. He gave his name
as John Graves and said he had recently
escaped from the county house In Shia-
wassee County. 1t is said the Unfortunate
fellow had eaten nothing in about week.
He is somewhat Predetermined, and when
able to travel it is thought he will be
taken to the institution at Lapeer.
Through the efforts of Supervisor B. r.
Spencer, of Orange Township, n number
of farmers of Kalkaska County have ex-
perimented with sorghum the past sea-
son, and Mr.. Spencer has just put in u
crusber and the necessary machinery for
converting the raw material into syrup.
Thus far the experiment promises well,
in spite of the fact that the season has not
been favorable, and those who have rails
ed the cane were unfamiliar with the bus
mess. A fair degree of success, how
ever, will cause others to give sorghum a
trial next year.
Saturday night while VIM. Emo, a
farmer living three miles southwest of
Milford, was at work upon n bean ma
chine, Frank Hudson, a young man who
lives near Eno's, struck him twice upon
the head with hammer, crushing his
skull before bystanders could interfere,
and then ran home. Hudson has been a
little off for some time, but was consid-
cred harmless. He had conceived the
insane idea that Emo was seeking to in
jure aim or his friends in some way. He
was removed to the Pontiac insane asy-
lum. Emo lies in a critical condition, and
will probably die.
The Executive Committee of the State
Fair Board announced that by careful
management they may come out even, but
will be hardly cent ahead. During the
fair IL was announced that much money
had been made, but the officers had not
then stopped to consider the great ex-
pense attached to the big show. The
members are well satisfied, howeves,
when they stop to consider that only one
other fair in the country made money
this year, and that was the one given In
Minnesota, where they had the national
reunion of the G. A. r. to draw upon.
A Waterford correspondent says OF
crops in that vicinity: The yield this
year Of corn promises to be far above the
average. Farmers are quite busy now
sowing their wheat, and there will be a
much larger acreage sown to wheat this
fall than last year. The recent rains have
kept the ground in fine condition for seed
ing, and prospects are that grain crops
will get good top before winter sets in.
Potato digging has just begun and the
crop IS good one. The apple crop is the
largest it has been for years, but the
quality nothing to brag of. Nearly all
the red varieties are affected with black
specks on the surface. The farmers are
at a loss to find storage for their apples
this year.
Monday morning the wife of Joseph
Pettinger, who lives two and half miles
south of Cass City on farm belonging
TO one Neil McClarty, lief. her 17-months-
old babe sleeping in a cradle to make an
errand to family living about quarter
of mile away from her home. She had
reached the neighbours house when, look
ing back, she saw her own dwelling burn
ing, having ignited from defective chm
ney. The husband also saw his house
being consumed and made a desperate
effort to reach the house, only to find the
baby being roasted in the burning build
ing. He broke in a window and crawled
into the burning structure, and grabbing
the child, pulled it through the window,
saving it from cremation, but the child
was already dead. Mrs. Pettinger is in a
precarious condition over the loss Of her
child.
Albert Levi, of Croswell, was shot
Monday by Samuel Livergood, two and
one-half miles south of Roseburg. Levi
and wife have been keeping house for
Livergood for the past year, Levi rent
ing Livergood's farm and the latter
boarding with him. For some time they
have not been on friendly relations. Tho
men got into a quarrel over Levi leaving
a gate open in a field which Livergood
had reserved for his own use. Livergood
flew Into passion and pulled revolver
and shot Levi in the breast, the ball
striking rib and glancing off. Levi then
turned to run, when he was again shot,
this time in the right hip. Neither shot
will prove fatal. Livergood ran away,
but was captured in Yale and taken to
Port Huron and lodged in Jail. Both
parties are quiet, Woodworking farmers,
well respected in the community.
The Wiselogel planning mill and furni-
ture factory at Muskegon has been al
most entirely destroyed by fire, including
tramways, five box cars and n pile Of
rough stock. Loss, $4,000, insured for
$4,000.