Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-02

grovS Chesaning.
Fire Quilted the old Franklin House
ut Saginaw. Loss. $1,000.
Presley Thomas, veteran. aged 81,
dropped dead in the streets Mt Galesburg.
Dick Richardson post, G. A. r., Pom
tiac, sept twenty-five members to Buff
falo.
Work on the Holland and Lake Michi-
gan electric railway has been stopped tenn
porariIy.
Miss Emma Took left Howell some
time last month and has not since been
heard from.
The annual reunion of the soldiers and
sailors of Northern Michigan was held
at Gaylord.
Carl Dixon Of Manchester was knock
ed insensible by footpads in Jackson and
robbed of 81.
Ionia has voted down the proposition to
issue $1,000 bonds for water works i'm
provements.
l.. Hirschkowitz, formerly in business
Mt Saginaw, was flim-kammed out of $50
by sharper.
The work of printing and binding the
public acts of the last Legislature has
been completed.
There was an attendance Of about 500
at the farmers annual picnic ut Peers
grove, near Flint.
Grand Rapids railroads are experience
ing Il car famine, and are 1000 short of
their needed supply.
The chemical plant of the Elk Rapids
Iron Company was destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of $4,000.
The cheese factory at Butternut will
distribute $4,000 in cash for milk among
the farmers this season.
The Richmond Elevator Company at
Richmond bought 1900 bushels Of wheat
from farmers ut 81 per bushel.
Geo. Burr delivered load of wheat
at the elevator in Warren which contain
ed 40 bushels and % pounds.
Peter Lasch, aged Is years, of Farming
ton, was instantly killed in a runaway
accident. His neck was broken.
The peppermint crop will be one-half
that OF last year because of decreased
acreage, Il wet spring and early frosts.
The residence of VIM. Reynolds at Bat
tie Greek was burglarized Sunday night
and a valuable gold watch and $40 in
cash stolen.
"A woman passenger on the steamer
City of Cleveland, bound from Cleveland
to Detroit, ended her life by jumping
into the lake.
Merchants of Battle Greek will hold a
meeting to try and induce wheat buyers
in that city to pay as high prices as neigh.
boring towns.
The arrest of ex-Cashier BREEDER at ST.
Clair has given rise to all manner OF
stories about other criminals being in
hiding in that town.
During a funeral ut the village of Burt
a horse ran away, throwing Mrs. Watt
out of II buggy. She received injuries
which may prove fatal.
Louis AXE, second OF the four prison
crs who broke Jail at Benton Harbor
recently, was captured in Chicago and
returned to Jail.
The population of Port Huron, as taken
by the school census enumeration, shows
population Of 1S,201. The State census
in 1894 placed the population at 1871
The worst fire in the history Of Viii
Jamestown occurred Saturday night. -Four
store buildings owned by j. N. Leasia
and one by j. Nj. Crossman were de-
stroyed.
The Seventh Day Adventists Of Battle
Greek have sold their missionary ship
which has been in commission on the Pa
cific coast, to party of Klondyke gold
seekers.
John Williams of Muskegon is suing
the Michigan Central Railroad for $780,
600 damages for injuries inflicted on his
trotting horse, Charles r., while in tran
sit to Galesburg.
Lieut.. Gov. Dunstan has been appoint.
ed president of the board of control Of the
Michigan College of Mines in place OF
Judge Jay A. Hubbell, who resigned be-
cause Of i'll health.
The residents of the Ninth ward, al
Port Huron, are greatly excited over a
ghostly visitor which puts in an appear
ance at the corner of Willow and Stone
streets every evening.
Several prominent young women near
Stevensville wrote their addresses on fruit
packages early in the season and are now
corresponding with Chicago men, with
the intention of matrimony.
A. G. Docrr, a Undertook, Branch
County, farmer, threshed $40 bushels OF
wheat from twelve acres, an average OF
over 43 bushels to the acre. From thirty
acres he got 1876 bushels.
Rick Burke's barns, tool house and sew
ernl other small farm buildings, five miles
from Benton Harbor, burned, with a
quantity Of farming tools and span of
horses. Loss is about 50 200; insurance,
5000. Cause Of fire mystery.
The weather conditions have been gen.
orally favorable for late potatoes, and
where they have been well tended and
kept free from bugs the crop is fairly
promising, but as whole late potatoes
seem to Indicate rather poor yield.
Tuscola farmers are beginning to think
there will be some money in potatoes this
fall. The crop Of tubers in that section
will be about half that Of the past two or
three years, and already buyers are in the
field trying to make contracts for fall