Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-16

RamuS CnrlStlanSen accldentally SnOt
himself near North Muskegon. He will
die.
Edward Evanson, an old resident of Re-
public, hanged himself in Il fit of despon-
dency.
The lighting plant at Eastern Michigan
Asylum for the Insane will be in operation
Jan. /.
f. A. Hagenbuch has been appointed
postmaster at Fabius, vice A. U. Shafer,
removed.
The man who was recently killed north
of Standish has been identified as Calvin
y. Hadley.
Bay City people feel sure that the Unit
ed Alkali Co. of Great Britain will locate
in that city.
Harm Tyink of Graafschap, aged 10,
who was accidentally shot by young Hill
blink, is dead.
Eugene McOmbcr's dwelling. near Mon
terey Center. was burned. Loss, S1,2OO;
no insurance.
Rev. Elder Mann. an evangelist, mar
rowly escaped death in ii runaway acci-
dent at Rivcrdale.
A fight between two Sunday school
scholars in Caldwell township cost Mis-
saukee County $50.
James +. Carr is suing Muskegon for
$4,000 damages for injuries received on
an obstructed sidewalk.
Four Mormon elders direct from Utah
are at Bay City and will try and convert
the gentiles of that city.
To rhn
has imported a couple of bloodhounds TO
help prevent Jail deliveries.
1t is said that Il white deer was shot in
Montmorency County just before the
close of the hunting season.
Alpena lumber mills cut 15,000.0OO feet
more this season than in 1896. The sea-
sons cut was 120,000,0OO feet.
The factory and stock of the Santa
rum Health Food Company ut Battle
Creek was damaged $1,000 by fire.
Sheriff Hall of Eaton County believes
he has broken up gang Of wheat thieves
which was working in that county.
The creamery at Litchficld has paid a
10 per cent dividend to its stockholders
and another is expected next February.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Whitmore, pion-
GERS, celebrated their golden wedding an
niversary at their home in Colon.
Marshal Davis has succeeded in break
ing UP the nickel-in-the-slot and other
gaming devices in Pontiac saloons.
The Winona mine at Houghton was bid
in at receivers sale by Matthew Nanor-
den. trustee for the stockholders, at S13,-
500.
Rev. FIR. Brancheau succeeds FIR. Slat-
tery. who had so much trouble with the
parshioners at st. Mary's Church. Ian
sing.
The deadlock in the Common Council nj
Metamora continues. 1t has been in ex-
istcnce six months, and the village Is suf-
fering.
Mayor Stearns Of Kalamazoo has ve-
toed the ordinance permitting bicycle rid
ing on sidewalks. He says bicycles are
vehicles.
The tools lost at depth of 300 feet in
the new well OF the Diamond Crystal
Salt Company at st. Clair have been re-
covered.
John Admission, Mundy farmer. re-
Gently shipped ten 7-months-old hogs
whose aggregate weight was 2,4JC
pounds.
Ninety persons. mostly students at the
college, were baptized in the Adventist
Tabernacle baptistry at Battle Greek the
other night.
Every county in the State reports a
great increase in the number of marriage
licenses issued as compared with the two
previous years.
Poker players in the vicinity of Meta
mora and Thornville hold forth in hen
house, since the burning of the old grist-
mill in the latter village.
r. NJ. Wood. the st. Ignace lumberman.
who is operating near Trout lake, recent
ly felled pine tree which cut seven IL
foot logs which scaled G,0O0 feet.
Albert X. Knapp, German cigarrpak-
or at Detroit, 80 years of age, tried 20 kill
his aged mother. Subsequently he was
found dead, having cut his throat.
The State county roads system has not
proven n success in Cheboygan County
and it is probable that the different town
ships will return to the old system.
A Boyne City merchant named La
l<ouut NuS tOuNitltu VI Stlllng lltIlOT
without license and fined $75. He
claimed the bottles contained ''pepsin."
Gov. Pingree has appointed Clayton NJ
Nash Of Allegan county agent for the
State Board of Corrections and Chari
ties, to succeed NJ. III. Wing. deceased.
A man and his son who had Travelled
all the way from the State Of Washington
5000 miles, since Aug. Is, struck Homer
last week. The peculiar part of their
| journey was that IL was made in an old
| fashioned prairie schooner.
T.. s. ORourke, who worked his way
up from helper TO n track gang to th,
superintendcncy of the southern division
OF the Grand Rapids and Indiana Rail
road. has resigned his position because OF
| ill-health. He will be given place in the
general Offices.
The Michigan crop report for Decem
| bcri says the condition of wheat Dec. |
was SO per cent of the average. The con
dftion Is 3 per cent poorer than 1t was
one year ago, the fields being unusually
spotted. Correspondents report the ex
istence OF hog cholera in ffty-one places
IN the State.