Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-25
Diphtheria Is spreading in the vicintJ
of Rirch Run VI

iberia mt Alpena.
James Dodge, who was accidentally
shot near Morrice, 10 dead
Sebastian Mutzger OF Daggett commit~
ted suicide by hanging.
Romeo expects to have its new electric
light going by next month.
A compound bear was shot by q farmer
ten miles north OF Grand Rapids.
1t is said that the reported gold find In
Arenac County near Omer is hoax.
Malcolm Ferguson, the Mason boy who
fell under a freight train at Lansing, In
dead.
The depot at Highland was burglarixed.
The robbers secured some cash and many
tickets. ..i....
The Ithaca Presbyterian Church has
extended call to Rev. A. l.. Toucer Of
Reading.
Burglars have looted McDermid & Co.'S
store at Columbiaville, for the. second time
in six weeks. .,-.s
Fire destroyed Bittner's meat market,
Conroy's hotel and Aaron Miller's build
ing at Gladstone.
Charles Dodge, aged II, who accident
ally shot himself near Bancroft, is dead
Of blood poisoning.
Miss Bertha Shepherd, a Bay City
dressmaker, was thrown off her bicycle
and severely injured.
An aggressive movement has been start
ed at Port Huron in the interest Of the
county roads system.
Although there are fifteen cases of diph-
liberia at Alpena, the authorities believe
they have the disease under control.
The residence Of Robert Ards and .
barn belonging to VIM. McBain burned at
McBain. Loss, $1,000; insurance, $500.
Mrs. Frank La Rue of Empire was bad
ly injured in a runaway accident near
Traverse City. The pair Of horses were
killed.
The second annual Sunday school con-
vention Of Van Buren, township was held
In Belleville. Oscar l.. Austin was elect
ed president. ~
Theodore j. Dumanois must spend ten
days in Jail as well as pay fine OF $500
for not paying his liquor tax. He had q
saloon In Dawson.
G. G. Arench of Bloomsbury, Pa, ono
OF the owners of the defunct bank at
Grayling, has settled with the creditors
at 40 cents on the dollar.
NJ. b. Armes Of Ridgeway fell through
hole in the floor while pitching hay in
Birdsalrs barn there. He broke two ribs
and tore his kidney loose.
Arthur SCHNEIDER, aged Is years, son Of
ex-POstmaster Andrew SCHNEIDER Of
Wakefield, while skating broke through
the ice and was drowned.
The total valuation of Arenac County
as determined by the Board OF Supervis-
ors is 81 ,06S, 800; county tax to be raised,
$11 800; State tax, $1,000.
Louis Kirby, a prominent and wealthy
farmer of Clinton County, died suddenly
of heart failure while on a hunting ex-
petition in Ogemaw County.
Club -Cressler, son of Supervisor Cress-
Ter of Sturgis, who had suffered with mus
cular rheumatism for years, took an over
dose Of morphine and is dead.
Benton Harbor is to put mp a $500
monument to the memory of the firemen
who persisted in the theater fire. The
shaft will be Of Vermont granite.
Milo Keep. who confessed that he with
his father slugged and robbed VIM. Dug
gon of Ross, escaped from jail at kala-
mazoo. He has not been captured.
Parson Arney. the preacher and horse
man, has entered into partnership. with
knight Bros, at Schoolcraft, and will
Narcisse MERCER, a resident of Esca-
naba, whose return from the Klondike
was reported few weeks ago, recently
refused a cash offer of 100000 for his
claim.
Harry Cummins Of Burr Oak, who had
been on protracted spree for several
days, finished himself by drinking wood
alcohol that he helped himself to from
l.. c. Van Husan's hair restorative labor
atOry.
Orville Yennar, ward from the State
public school at Coldwater, who Is living
with Munger farmer, attempted to
board Michigan Central freight train
and slipping, got his foot on the rail. The
toes were crushed off.
There is talk ut Port Huron of an cleo
trio railroad from that city to Marine
City to connect with the Lake Shore road
now building from Detroit. Mark Hop
kins Of st. Clair is said to be one Of the
proposed roads hackers.
Foreclosure suits were commenced at
st. Joseph by John w. Ulm of Chicago
against the Ohio Paper Company to re-
cover $153, 10000, and the Niles Paper
Mill Company to recover $40, 731 on mort
cages given July q, 1855.
The Michigan Fire Insurance Inspec-
ton Bureau has issued a notice that in
all lower Michigan towns the rates would
be reduced from 10 to 10 cents on dwell
ing houses, household goods, private barns
and contents and solid brick buildings.
Eighteen years ago Alonzo Sidman and
wife of Bay City agreed to separate, the
father taking charge of their 2-year-old
son George ID. The child was kept in an
orphans home for a few years and then
went to live with his father in Buffalo.
who in the meantime had married. The
boy afterward drifted away, travelled
around the country, and finally landed in
Bay City in search Of his mother, whom
he has not seen since taken from her. 1
Diphthcria has been unusually trouble
some in the northern part of the State
since early last summer. On the Gogebic
range there are still many cases at both
Ironwood and Bessemer, while in the
copper district the disease has been rag
ing without cessation in certain plac8S
for nearly six months, one Finnish set
Element, at Highway, having been raw
aged by the scourge to such an extent TINT
barely a quarter of the juvenile popula-
ton has escaped contracting the disease.
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