Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16
Minor State Matters.

Minor State Matters.
Romeo voted to raise $4,000 for an
electric light plant.
Twenty Hollanders at Kalamazoo will
go to the Klondike next spring.
Much thieving has been going on at the
Lake HarboI hotel, at Muskegon.
Three thousand children participated in
the Rally Day parade at Jackson.
A farmers picuic was held at Homer,
which was attended by 5000 persons.
Charles Turner and Mrs. p. q. Hemen-
way, old residents Of Bellevue, are dead.
The water supply of Saginaw will be
,nalyzed at the University Of Michigan.
J. Moore. Jackson laborer, was found
dead ia his room at the Occidental hotel.
The Grand Council of the Catholic Mu-
tual Benefit Association met Mt Ann Ar
Dor.
The single mill of Durham Bros. at
Marion burned. Loss, $500; no insur-
ance.
A $4,000 addition to the public school
building at Watervliet has just been COM
pleted.
A 3-year-old son of Napoleon Dutil, Of
West Bay City, fell into well and was
drowned.
Miss Bridget Reagan, of Berlin, was
severely burned by the explosion of a gas
olne stove.
L. s. Clark. Of Oakley, was held up by
footpads ut Bay City, brutally assaulted
and robbed.
The new State telephone line between
Do ~ he I'm
working order.
Mrs. Margaret TeSb, Of Port Huron.
was iun down by a runaway horse and
seriously injured.
Nels Hellesner, aged %, medical stu
dent at the L. of NJ, was drowned while
bathing at Chicago.
George Demars was crushed to death
| in a hay press OH the farm of John Man
ming, near Saginaw.
Daniel Zigert's barn near Three Cakes,
together with it's contents, burned. Loss,
$4,000; partly insured.
A couple Of baskets of peaches, afflicted
with the yellows, have been discovered on
the Grand Rapids market.
Il. ID. Hayes and George Kilston have
been bound over for trial on the charge
of burglarizing the Elm depot.
Mrs. Joe Dunn, the wife of teamster
Mt Pontiac, attempted to commit suicide
by taking dose of morphine.
Joseph Dalman, who fooled Grand Rap
ids contractors, has been convicted of OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses.
George G. Verway attempted to act the
part Of peacemaker at Muskegon and
was severely beaten by five young men.
Dairy Commissioner Grosvenor and his
deputy inspectors had a conference rela-
tive to the enforcement OF the new oleo-
| margarine law.
Frank Halves, who was charged with
shooting Hugh McKinna, at Harrisvillc,
has been discharged, McKinna failing to
appear against him.
Rev. William knight, pastor of the
First Congregational Church, the largest
and wealthiest church in Saginaw, re-
signed on account Of i'll health.
The constitutionality of Port Huron
ordinance which provides that judge
has right to deny jury trial to viola
tors of the citys ordinances will be tested.
George Humphrey, aged IL years, while
playing on the turntable in the Michigan
Central yards at Oxford, was crushed
by an engine and died shortly afterwards.
Narcisse Mercier, after an absence Of
twenty-five years, has returned to his old
home Mt Calumet. He Is said to have a
claim worth $25O,OOO on the Klondike,
and Is said to have $4,000 in gold with
him.
William Finch has begun a $4,000
damage suit against the Excelsior Elec-
trio Light Company, OF Port Huron, for
the death of his son William, who was
killed by n falling electric light pole a
week ago.
The twenty-irst annual reunion of the
Sixty-seventh Ohio Veteran Volunteer In
fantry was held at Morenci, it being the
first reunion held on Michigan soil. There
were eighty-seven members Of that reri-
ment present.
Haroutones Carambanian and Antra-
mig Garabel Bedowin, students ut the Ag-
ricultural College, called upon Deputy
Clerk Dunnebacke and foreswore all allie
glance 20 the Sultan OF Turkey. and he
came full-fiedged citizens Of the United
States.
Farmer Black, who lives on the Flint
River, near Saginaw, took down his army
musket and went hunting for n potato
thief. He found the robber and fred into
The air to frighten him. The fellow re-
turned the compliment, hitting Black in
the leg. He then carried off all the pota-
toes he wanted.
Receiver Foster, of the People's Saw
ing Bank at Lansing, has discontinued
suits to collect 40 per cent. assessment
on the stock of the bank for the penefit
OF depositors brought against non-resi-
dents of the county against whom n de-
cree could not be enforced.
The Seventh Day Adventists have an
army of volunteer canvassers out selling
their books and papers. There were 343
in the field In July and they have inst
made their report Mt headquarters at Bat
tie Greek for that month, which shows
the work they do. They took 1855 or
ders, amounting to S1S0S3.54. They sold
G.001 OF their books, amounting TO So
so3.C2.