Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-06-25

named AlIis, who had just drawn his pen
sion.
The third annual conference Of the
health officers of Michigan will be held
at Ann Arbor July 16 and II. Many val
liable papers will be read and discussed,
and large attendance is expected.
Some excitement prevails in Bayport
over the discovery of lead and silver. A
sample sent to Ann Arbor for analysis
contains one part silver and one part
lead A vein of this ore five feet deep has
been struck. Land has advanced to n
high figure.
The cemetery trustees of Lansing have
adopted an effective plan for bringing to
time wellto-do citizens who have failed
to meet payments on notes given in part
payment for their cemetery lots. They
have announced that if these overdue OBJ
legations are not liquidated within rea-
sonable time the bodies buried in the lots
of the delinquents will be disinterred and
buried in the potters field and the delin-
Quents dispossessed of their lots.
Oakland County is overrun with agents
soliciting insurance against cyclones.
"There's n $4,000, 900 advance in our bus
mess" said an agent, ..'and now is the
time to push business. There's one thing
In our favor, which is generally against
us. Women generally kick on their hus-
bands investing in insurance. But now
the women are frightened to death Of the
wind and beg their husbands to insure
against the terror of the Western plains"
Those ST Joseph reform women mean
business. They succeeded in closing the
saloons Sunday, but lot Of thirsty ones
went to Benton Harbor and brought back
bottles Of beer, which they proposed quiet
" to drink in restaurant. Scarcely had
they uncorked. when finely dressed lady
walked in, ordered cup OF coffee and, as
she sat down, gave them the most pierre
ing stare they ever encountered. She
was "spotter." The men drank their
beer, but there was no joy in their faces
till the woman departed.
At Grand Rapids, the new smokestack
for the street railway company was prac-
tically completed, and the work of tearing
down the inside scaffolding was commenc-
ed. To get up inside the chimney little
car drawn by single pulley was used
and this was connected with a stationary
engine little distance from the base Of
the stack. Thursday afternoon two work
men pulled the wrong signal on the bell
rope and the engineer sent them higher.
The top Of the car struck the cross-beam
and the whole thing fell crashing seventy
feet to the ground. John Wood died in
the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
His back, arms and legs were broken.
His companion. Benjamin McColl, was in
jured in almost the same way, but reach
ed the hospital alive. The physicians
give no hope Of his recovery.
George belong, Benton Harbor berry
picker, has fallen heir to fortune Of
$3.50, 900 by the death Of an uncle in the
st. Louis tornado. He has proved his
claim. The fortune is in real estate.
A boiler in the Michigan salt works at
Marine City exploded. The block took
Are and was destroyed. William Now
bray. night foreman, was caught in the
wreck md burned to death. John Hale's
head was perforated aud he died an hour
later. Peter Booth, a fireman, had his
left arm blown off and Is badly scalded.
The loss is $4,000.
In n runaway accident, Mrs. Harriet
I,ouise Blacker. wife Of Mayor Robert
r. Blackcr, Of Manistee. was thrown to
the ground. She sustained fractured
skull and other injuries. from the effects
of which she died two hours later
All the arrangements for the Fourth Of
July celebration in Ionia are completed
The fund raised Is ample and the pro-
gram Is a hummer. The speakers are
Gen. Shakespeare, of Kalamazoo, depart
ment commander Of the Michigan q. A.
r.: N. s. Boynton, of Port Huron, great
commander Of the Michigan Maccabees,
ana ex-C0ngressman James O'DonIiell,
OF Jackson. All kinds of sports have lcen
arranged for the day. ~ 'nsllg.rs