Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-10-22

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Prof. r. L. Evans. formally principal
Of the Jackson East Side schools, Is dead
at Colorado Springs.
Apples are being shipped from Saline,
loose In cars, or sold to the evaporating
establishment, at IN cents bushel
Farmer George w. Smith. Of Clio, was
thrown from his wagon In front Of Sag
NAV street car and crnshed to death:
The Manistee Fuel and Gas Company
has been organized at Manistee to man
ufacture and sell gas for fuel. The cap
itaI stock is 100000.
Dexter Baker and Peter Costello, two
youths who were arrested Monday for
damaging Wabash Railroad property at
Sand Greek, were convicted and fined
$40.
The medical department at Ann Arbor
has total enrolment If $50, of whom
80 are seniors, 60 juniors. 122 sopho-
mores and 146 freshmen. The total last
year was 4J2.
AtsJackson Jennie Dali, an .1S-year-old
Italian girl, while boating on the river,
was carried under the food-gates. Her
clothing caught and she was nearly dead
| when rescued.
| Thieves arc getting in their work in
| Eagle. William Sharp had double har-
ness stolen, and Ira Doty's milk wagon
was taken from his barn yard. Officers
are after the scamps.
TO relieve the crowded school buildings
of Battle Greek big barn in the Fourth
Ward has been prepared for so children.
1t is already nearly filed. The attend
ance is 24o greater than in 1895.
b. +. Cooper who was arrested at Bay
| City at the request of Flint officers on a
| charge of passing forged checks, is also
charged with victim.zing the Bancroft
House out of 800 on fraudulent check
| for that amount
One of the pioneers of Forestville,
Abram Mastin, died Tuesday morning.
| The deceased had been a resident of the
village for over forty years, being past Sd
years az age. He leaves two sons and
| two daughters.
The man Cooper, arrested at Bay City
for working forged drafts, secured $S1 at
Adrian at one of the banks on the in
dorscment of the hotel clerk, who remem-
bered him as having previously been a
guest at the hotel.
The State Board of Health will soon
Secretary Baker says the board has pre-
! served many lives and saved the people Of
the State $1,0c0,0O0 year by restricting
communicable diseases.
At Bay City +. w. Wheeler & Co. paid
off all their employees Saturday night in
cash. instead of by check. The cut of
| from % to 80 cents on the daily wages
was deducted from the Two weeks earn
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Walter Mcconnell, of Richfield, was
convicted in Justice Swayzee's court Of
stealing twenty chickens from his neigh
Dor. He paid fine Of $40 in preference
to spending sixty days in the county jail.
A man famed Allcott, who was arrested
with Mcconnell, jumped his bail and the
bond was forfeited.
An aged German of Roscommon traded
$1,000 worth of property in Detroit for
eighty acres of what proved to be almost
worthless land in South Branch, Craw-
ford County. On the Supervisors books
the tract is assessed at only 500, but the
tax receipt the Detroit man saw showed
81 900, 20" being added. To make mat
tiers worse, there was a mortgage Of 500
on the land
Albert w. Severance, the oldest justice
of the peace of Concord Township. Jack
son County. agreed to roll over and over
through the business portion of Main
street, Concord, distance of 200 yards,
when Concord defeated Homer's much
cracked-up ball team. Now that this lat
ter has come to pass, the many friends of
the Judge are looking forward to some
fun when he fulfills his promise.
John Van Wormer, living at White
Rock, went ont to shoe. ducks. He no.
ticed something in the water which he
took for large dog and fired at it. 1t
was not a dog, but Richard Rosson, an
old resident of the village, who had also
arisen early to look after some timber
that was floating around in the lake, try
ing to secure what came on his beach. He
received the charge in the back, luckily
only one shot penetrating the skin.
Asa G. Cutter, who was arrested at
Traverse City, charged with threatening
the life of Perry Hannah, was found
guilty after a two days hearing before a
jury. Cutter could not obtain counsel
and he conducted his own case. His
principal defense was that the Hannah 4
Lay Company had wrongfully retained
moneys belonging to him, but the books
of the bank and the testimony of the
witnesses showed that the transactions
between him and the bank were all
straight. He was placed under $1,000
bonds to keep the peace.
A decision just handed down in the Cir
cult Court of the County of Schoolcraft
will have an important bearing on tax
titles. The tax title law was assailed on
the ground that part of the records are
taken from the custody of the court and
deposited with the County Treasurer,
thus preventing the Court from having
in its archives complete record of case.
Another objection was that the statute
does not make any provision for PERSONAL
service on interested parties, who are
deprived of their property without due
process of law. The Court overruled all
objections. a
Last spring, when the disastrous FIRE
visited Sarnia and at one time threatened
to wipe out the whole business portion of
the town, the Port Huron fire department
promptly responded to call for assist
ance and did much to check the fierce
flames. Their arrival was just in the
nick of time as the water works building
was in imminent danger and the water
supply of the town was threatened. The
Sarnia Council has just rendered the Port
Huron department a handsomely engross-
ed testimonial of thanks. The presenta-
ton was made the occasion of quite a
local celebration.
Abont a year ago Ira L. Bristol. OF
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