Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-30
Minor State Matters.


A terrific hail storm passed over Belle
vile.
The tramps around Lansing are becom-
ing very bold.
There seems to be a great scarcity of
school teachers at Royal Oak.
John Harmon, of Plymouth, was fatally
injured in n runaway accident.
Adrian now has direct connection with
Toledo by telephone by metallic circuit.
Monroe business men will form a bust
ness mems association or chamber Of
commerce.
A total of 1872 cases have been entered
on thu Supreme Court docket for the De-
tober term.
Sey enteen miners from the Ohio coal
fields were put to work in the Monitor
mines at Bay City.
Lawson Lamb was sentenced Mt Ionia
to 90 days in the Detroit house Of corrcc-
ton for reckless driving.
The two days entertainment Of The
Saginaw jobbers and manufacturers
association was n success.
Grand Rapids Wholesale merchants met
and adopted resolutions against the IN
HStlDlt Doohs.
The corner stone of the new building of
the German Workingmcn's Benevolent
Society was laid at Kalamazoo.
The body of Edward Dufresno, of Es-
canada, Mich, was found in the Missis-
sippi River near Minneapolis.
The checks and notes recently stolen
from safe in Silas Forcia's store in Bay
City were found in an empty box car.
Detroit dealers will be the first to an
swer in court for the violation Of the
olcomargarine law, according to Commits
sioncr Grosvenor.
\ construction train on the 500 line
near Whitedale was dcrailcd and See
ton Foreman Charles Nose and IN I'M
known man were killed.
Nathan Myers, II farmer in Rome
Township, is under arrest, changed with
cruelty to animals. His neighbocs charge
that he starves his stock.
Kalamazoo officers are hunting for
| Charles Simmons, aged GO, colored pen
soncr, who Is alleged to have fired Il cor-
| pie of shots at Jesse Ridgelcy, his land
| lord.
Bay City shipments of lumber by lake
| during the first half of September were
| 10,315.C0O feet, which Is more than 90
per cent greater than same period last
year.
\ ;uan who gives his name as Frank
| Hay ues gave himself up to the authorities
ut Utica, n. Y. claiming he was wanted
| mt Dowagaic for stealing "A horse and
buggy.
| Es-Ald. Herman Gezon, of Grand Rap
| ids, has returned from Skaguay. III,
found 1t impossible to get through tho
pass. He says the situation Mt the pass
is terrible.
Ii Richard Cline was sentenced to 81,
| fine or sixty days in jail at Port Huron
| for disposing of a bicycle ne had pur
chased on the installmcnt plan and ha,
not entirely paid for.
| Miss Hattie Boss, an Albion college
graduate, has been appointed superin
tendent of missions ut Bombay, India
She has control of six day schools, siA
Sunday schools and 100 orphans.
A correspondent writes from Standisl
that a little child near Deep River ha.
been torn to pieces by bear in the berry
i patches in that vicinity, nothing beinf
found but few shreds of its clothes.
An item appeared u few days ago
stating that Miss ELLA McCarty. of Chel
sea, was arrested for masquerading n
pale attire. 1t now transpircs that th,
girl was not Miss Ella McCarty, but an
other who gave a fictitious name.
Joseph u. Griffin, OF Saginaw, tool
opium, lay down In corniiell back o.
his house and when found an hour aud {
half after was nearly dead. 1t was G-if
fin who said he recognized the man lcav
ing Shepherd in mysterious rig on thu
morning of the Strublc murder. but OF
ga. stand could testify to nothing.
A genuine white-headcd American eagle
was shot by II. +. Tabor, farmer a
Twelve Corners