Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-08-19
Minor State Matters.

The barn of Frank Sutkin, living five
miles south of Battle Creek, burned. to.
gether with grain and other contents. Loss
$1,000: no insurance. 1t is supposed to
have been fired by tramps.
Tidings have been received from Fred.
erick Cummings, the st. Clair business
man, who has been missing for two weeks
He has written from Iron River, Wis,
stating that he is sick there, and will re-
turn home as soon as he is able.
The Muskegon Celery Growers Asso.
citation Wednesday shipped carload OF
$40 cases of celery to New York for the
purpose of relieving the overstocked Chi
cago market. The first Muskegon Coun-
ty peaches were marketed ut $1.50 per
bushel.
George Beatty, farmer of Lenawee
County, got rid of his potato bugs in Il
manner that was so easy he wondered
that he had never thought of it before
He let 100 hens loose in his patch and in
couple Of days there wasn't sign of a
bug left.
The hseklebesry crop around about
Rhodes, Bay County, will soon be over.
There have been fifty pickers located near
that market and they have received from
81 to $1.25 per bushel. The thmbleberry
season is about to open and the crop prom
Uses to exceed any in the past ten years.
The Bay City Comptroller has advised
the Common Council to accept the bid of
Dietz, Denison Il Prior for the $35, Zoo
city hall bonds ut n premium of $1,611,
the highest bidders having declined to
take the bonds for some reason. AS a
guarantee of good faith the first purchas-
ers were required to put up certified
check for $500. This check has now gone
in for collection and will be placed to the
credit of the city.
At Ann Arbor, Marshal Sweet heard
screams from house, No. % North
Fourth avenue, and shouts that some one
was dying. He found young woman
named Louise Eringer in spasms. A
doctor found her suffering from poison. i'm
the form of an aromatic oil. The stuff
made her sick Emetics were given and
after two hours work the physicians said
she would live. There Is no known rea-
son why the girl should attempt to com
NIT suicide.
Hubert III. Barton, formerly superin-
tendent Of schools at North Muskegon,
left for Chicago, en- route to Haley, Ida
no. In the spring he will 20 to the Klon-
dyke with $1,000 in his pocket, and will
remain three years.
Because of n row at the election of n
captain. Company G of Ionia. Michigan
National Guard. has been ordered by Ad-
jutant General Irish not to go into camp.
The guns were shipped by the regimental
quarteImnster to Coldwater to supply the
company there. The Ionia company will
be mustered out, but steps are already
being aiken to organize a new company.
The large farm barn of Arthur l.. Corey
at Richardson was struck by lightning
and turned, together with all his hay and
grain and farming implements. IL was
one Of the largest barns i'm North Plains.
Insurance. 81 900 on the barn, anl $500
on its contents in the Peoples Mutual of
1onia, Montcalm and Clinton counties.
The wages of common laborcrs who are
employed on Grand Rapids street and
sewer work and on other outdoor Jobs
have In many instances advanced from
81 to -S1.2J day. The rise will become
general. The wages of factory hands are
also being advanced because OF the great
demand for good men, but the movement
has not yet become general.