Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-05-28
VOLUME XVIII.

DuTshW, OuppeWu COuhty, Win Dohoi~
McFarlane as postmaster.
1t took two policemen to catch Fred
Allwardt, of Battle Greek, the first boy
to violate the curfew ordinance.
James Mathieson, Of Bay City, has a
silver medal presented to his grandfather,
who fought in the battle Of Waterloo.
Adolph o. Speckhard has been appoint
ed postmaster at Frankenmuth, Saginaw
County, vice NJ. +. Sehich, resigned.
The Port Huron Anglers Association
has planted 1900 black bass in the
| waters of Black river and Mill creek.
Mrs. Hopper, a pioneer resident of Pitts
ford township, Lenawee County, died
| Tuesday morning Of paralysis, aged 90
years
Justice Gibson and Marshal Peterson,
| who have been under investigation by the
Ann Arbor City Council, were both ex-
onerated.
The damage to the new hotel at Point
au Barques from the high wind was very
slight. The hotel will be ready for sum-
mer guests.
The average size of a farm in Oakland
| County is 1T acres. The largest is that
of G. =. Killarn, in Addison township,
| 1000 acres.
| During the heavy windstorm at Fowler,
the air seemed to burn all the leaves on
the windward side. One orchard of six
acres is nearly ruined.
The controller Of the currency has ap-
proved the Fort Dearborn National Bank
of Chicago as a reserve agent for the Ma
| a..
The union tailors at Adrian, who struck
| to compel pay for extra work, will prob
ably lose. Outside workmen are being
| brought in to take their places.
Duncan MAJ yellar, a contractor of
| Benton Harbor, Mich, fell twenty-five
| feet from a scaffold to a concrete pave
| ment, receiving fatal injuries.
William Blissit, an old soldier and farm
er of Atwood, Antrim County, committed
| suicide last week by drowning himself
in his well. Dependency was the cause.
bessie Covyeau. a 1O-year-old girl sent
| to the State school from Detroit, has dis
appeared. She told some Of her play
| mates that she was going to walk to De-
| troit.
Some of the Maple Rapids high school
girls have been sending each other inn
| proper notes, duplicating married men.
| Principal Howe is looking the matter up,
and there may be few expulsions.
While alightng from n trolley car at
| Jackson, Miss Mamie Tuthill was run
| down by ''scorcher' and so seriously
| injured that for a, time her life was de-
\ SPARED of. The scorcher made his es-
| cape.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
| awarded the contract for furnishing coal
for the public building Mt Grand Rapids
for the fiscal year ending June 30 1897,
| to S. +. Bennett Fuel and Ice Co., of that
city.
In Bay de Noe township, Delta County,
c. j. Merseze shot and killed Dennis
| Sharkey during a quarrel. Merseze gave
| himself up and admits the shooting, but
| says that he was forced to do it in self
| defense.
The Pottowatomie Indians of Calhoun
| County are expecting their share of the
distribution of the Sal ,626 due the tribe
from the Government some time this
month. Each member of the tribe will
receive $54G.76
The growing wheat in Calhoun County
| has been struck with peculiar rust that
threatens to great damage, if not near
| ly destroy the crop. 1t is thought to be
| the effect Of the exceedingly hot, dry
weather Of the last two weeks.
A Saginaw woman named Fourner and
her son, while fishing in the Cass river,
| pulled up the branch of tree to which
was tied baby's body. They were so
shocked they let the body fall back into
the river, and it hasn't been seen since.
BY the recent heavy gale the water in
| Saginaw bay was driven out two or three
| miles from shore, and thousands of fish
were left high and dry on the bottom Of
| the bay. Many tons were picked up by
| the settlers at Linwood, some fish weigh
ing all the way from pound up to 20 or
| 30.
The biggest trout ever caught in Mich
| igan stream was taken from the Pere
| Marquette river by Jerome Van Valken-
berg, president of the Greenwood Club,
| which is located on the banks of that
stream, seventy miles north of Grand
| Rapids. 1t is rainbow trout and meas
ures 26 inches in length, Is inches around
and weighs pounds and 2 ounces. 1t
will be mounted and sent to the Smith
sonian Institution.
Four students Of the University of
Michigan INDUCED in a peculiar Sunday
excursion at Ann Arbor. Two of them
are well-known members of the football
| team Of last fall, Villa and Drumheller.
| They were in Ypsilanti and waiting for
| the motor to return when w. G.. Dieterle
came along with his hearse. They asked
| for ride. All four with their dog piled
inside the grewsome conveyance. Two
lay at length on the floor and two sat
swinging their feet from the open doors.
The dog sat up in front.
Some time ago the Ypsilanti normal
school received n magnificent gift from
| Mrs. Mary A. Starkweather, in the shape
Of $4,000 for new building. Plans
and specifications have been made and
bids for the work called for. The build
ing will be n stone structure, something
after the pattern of n monastery. The
roof is long and sloping, the windows
very narrow. with an octagonal tower on
| the front right-hand corner The stu
dents have raised enough money among
| themselves TO furnish the building, and
| il is hoped to have it completed by Christ
mas, '0G.
The Citizens Bank at Edwardsburg
closed its doors. The bank Officials say
! the cashier is some thousands Of dollars
short in his accounts, but that he has
secured the bank and that depositors will
be paid in full.