Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-02-06

The 81. John Plow Company, Of Kala-
mazoo, has given a mortgage for $685.

43o.
Mrs. Charles Hagadorn has been im-
prisoned at Ionia on a charge of conspir-
ing with the hired man to kill her hus-
band.
SO many cases of scarlet fever have de-
veloped Mt South Haven that the primary
departments have been closed in the pub
lie schools.
Sleighing around East Tawas Is just
right for the lumbermen and large guam
titles of posts, bolts and ties are being de-
livered to the mills.
The call of the Governor for good
roads convention to be held ut Lansing
on the third day of March has been re-
ceived in Ludington with much enthus-
asm.
The Cuff mine, at Iron Mountain. is
owned by Welcome Hyde, of Appleton.
A 10000 pumping plant has been erected
at the Pewabic mine. There are ten
mines in operation as against five last
winter.
Grocers at Ithaca are indulging in an
extraordinary war of prices, many arti-
cles being now below the wholesale price.
The citizens chuckle as they lay in big
time when the war will stop and prices
he boosted up again.
One Ingham County woman is a sort of
local option all in herself. Her husband
came home drunk and she went at him to
teach him thing or two. In the melee
she broke his leg. The doctor has the in
jured member in a plaster cast and he Is
doing well. He is sober.
Webster Goodenough, a Dawson town
ship, Genesee County, farmer, was thirty
five feet in the air fixing his windmill
when heavy gust of wind set the mill in
motion and swept him to the ground. Al
though no bones are broken, he il suffer
ing terribly from internal injuries and
his recovery is considered doubtful. Good
enough is 80 years old.
Flint has a sewing school with a class
of sixty pupils. The school does not ad-
mi, any over IL years. Material for wear
ing apparel is furnished gratuitously by
generous citizens, and then the pupils
are set to work making garments under
proper Instructions, and when they are
completed the makers become the owners
thereof The scheme works well.
Aid Selleck made break in the Bay
City Common Council that provoked an
outburst of laughter. He was questioning
a bill for photographing thieves for the
rogues' gallery. He asked. Il would like
to know what right the chief of police
has for photographing thieves and
rogues?" While waiting for an answer,
he added. "The first thing we know he
will be up here photographing this coun-
ell"
1t is alleged that Il "whskcrs club" on
the same plan as last years famous So
cety, has been organized among the
''senior laws" at Ann Arbor, and has Sc
cretly been in active operation for some
time At least 1t is true that since the
holidays about thirty senior laws have
gone unshaven and unshorn, and stand
the ridicule of their classmates without
wincing. They are supposed To he under
penalty of heavy fine for patronizing the
barber
The University of Michigan Daily has
opened up campaign against cheating in
examinations. A communication from q
student states that the present system of
faculty espionage is Il complete failure,
and that dishonesty in examinations is an
| extensive evil in the university. The
by the students themselves take charge Of
the examination. This same question
seems to he very prominent just now at
Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
Ann Arbor medical students who are
engaged in the study Of ophthalmology
are wondering at the feat DIR. Fleming
Carrow. professor of that branch, per-
formed upon u young man. This patient
had completely lost the sight of one eye
through disease, and DIR. Carrow inserted
a small thin watch crystal beneath the lid
of the other eye to save il. So far the
experiment seems to be very successful,
and it is expected that the flesh will knit
closely around the watch crystal, so as to
permit no impurities to enter it.
Residents of Grand Junction are much
pleased at the action of Gov. Rich in com
muting to eighteen years the sentence of
Charles w. Allen, sent from that place to
Jackson for twenty-five years, thus en-
abling the prisoner to take advantage Of
| the parole law. Ten years ago Allen kill
| ed one John Croker during a brawl and,
while there was to them no question Of
| his guilt, his fellow townsmen always
considered there were extenuating cir
| cumstances surrounding the case which
, should entitle him to shorter term of i'm
| prisonment.
There is family in Pinckney who be-
gin to think they have become possessed
Of hoodoo. The lady Of the household
has been sick about a week. The youngest
girl and one of the boys were playing when
| the girl was struck with knife in the
hands of the boy. intlicting painful
wound on her wrist. The youngest boy
| fell down cellar and received rather severe
| contusions on the head. and Sunday the
| head of the family was taking blanket
| from behind one of his horses when he
was kicked and laid up for spell There
| is one other boy. but as yet he has not
come under the ban.
William T.. Boyd, whose house at Grand
Rapids was so mysteriously blown up by
| the explosion, is having hard time with
| the insurance adjusters. He carried ST.
| 500 insurance on his furniture, but neigh
bors describe the house only partly fur
nished, and poorly at that. Boyd admits
paying $15 for carpet, and that he
bought some secondhand furniture. Aside
| from this, the insurance men raise a novel
point. They claim that the house and
| furniture were wrecked by the explosion.
and the FIRE started afterwards in little
| pile of debris. Therefore they have col
lected affidavits, and will refuse to pay
for any damage except that of the flames,
which could not amount to anything. The
matter will probably end in the courts,
L.. -. - IL