Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-03-25

more on the rampage, the mats ana fair
grounds at Ionia being covered with wat
err. The wagon works bad to shut down.
Many farmers near Benton Harbor are
preparing to plant double the usual acre
age of melons because of the damage to
peaches and pear trees and berry vines
during the recent sleet and ice storms.
The Port Huron Gas Light Company
has reorganized and changed its name to
the Port Huron Gas Company. The cap
ital stock was increased from $4,000 to
$1,000 all Of the new stock being taken
by the former stockholders.
An effort is being made to have guar
dian appointed over Mrs. Jane Perry, who
owns 120 acres of land near Kalamazoo
and has good bank account, but who
has been supported by the poor authori-
ties to keep her from starving.
While trying to board moving train
at Flint, Joseph Gillies was thrown under
the wheels of Chicago and Grand Trunk
passenger train. His legs We're terribly
bruised and amputation was necessary.
The employees of Paterson's factory,
where the injured man worked, made up
a purse for the unfortunate fellow.
The damage to peach buds from cold
weather which Is reported from the south5
ern portion Of the fruit belt, does not
seem. to have occurred in the more north
erly counties. An expert who has thorA
oughly examined the orchards in Manistee
and Benzie counties says that he has not
found single bud winter killed or a twig
injured by cold weather.
Hon. w. A. Leet of st. Louis, ex-prose-
cutting attorney of the county and candi-
date for Congress in the eleventh district
last fall, sued Col. l.. SAVERS, president of
the Commercial Savings Bank, for $4,000
damages for SANDER and defamation OF
character. AS the parties are all well
known and of high character, the case
promises to be very sensational.
After several days of hearing Justice
Gibson of Ann Arbor bound over to court
the sewer contractor, Andrew Sharp Of
Port Huron, on the charge of embezzling
money intrusted to his care. The sum
which ii is claimed Sharp appropriated is
about 5000, and the complaining witness
is City Clerk Mills. Sharp will be re-
quired to give bond of $500 for his APP
pearance at the next term of court.
The new American Oil Company Of
Mansfield, o., has purchased the business
of Wells & Clear, leading wholesale oil
dealers in Michigan, with headquarters in
Lansing and branch at Saginaw. The
new American company has been cutting
the corners of the Standard Oil Company
in Ohio, and by the purchase of Wells &
Clears extensive business will obtain a
strong foothold in this State.
The question of securing the Lima
Northern Railroad is just now agitating
Tecumseh. A largely attended public
meeting was held at the opera house, at
which the matter was fully discussed and
a number of new pledges toward the re-
quired bonus made. About So 900 remains
to be raised, and the soliciting committee
are hard at work with confidence that the
total amount required will be secured
within few days.
At 6 o'clock Tuesday night the large
single mill of the Cameron Lumber Co.
at Traverse City was destroyed by fire,
making a total loss on the plant and a
large quantity of stock. Every effort to
save the property was unavailing, the
facilities for fighting fire being taxed to
the utmost. Loss, $4,000; insurance $5,-
600. This is the second disastrous fire
the company has suffered within few
"
The propositions to bond the city of Es-
canada for $125, 600 for municipal water
works system and the county for $115,0 200
for good roads are being actively consid-
cred. One of those who opposes the
scheme advances as an argument the fact
that he has to pay $46.4O taxes now on a
piece of property valued at $1,000, and
that if any further increase in the tax
rate is made he will have TO give away
his property to keep out of the poor house.
The special session of the Circuit Court
for the trial of the men alleged to be i'm
plicated in the murder of Farmer Brown
near Millington some time ago, opened at
Caro-. Howard Hawley was arraigned
first and pleaded guilty to the charge Of
murder. He was not sentenced, however,
the judge preferring to wait until the evil
dence is heard in the trial of the other
prisoners. in order to determine the ex-
tent of Hawley's guilt. The other men
| who are to be tried are Lawson, Cum
mings and Stevens.
Mrs. Eva Gene Markey, wife of d. p.
Markey, supreme commander of the
knights of the Maccabees, died at her
home in Port Huron Monday afternoon,
| after short illness, of appendicitis. The
| deceased was 80 years of age. She was
married to ID. Z. Markey in January,
1873, at Pinckney, Mich, and resided I'M
| til 1881 at Ann Arbor. That year the
| family removed to West Branch and lived
there until 1892, when Mr.. Markey was
elected supreme commander Of the
knights of the Maccabees. The family
then took up their residence in Port HUI
ron. The deceased is survived by her hus-
| band and two sons, Glare, aged Is, and
Claude, aged 16.
| In the cellar of the Arnold mission at
Battle Greek were about "A dozen empty
| barrels that formerly contained some of
old Adam G.. Arnold's best whisky. The
| tramps who have been stopping at the
mission this winter discovered Saturday
| that there were DRAWINGS of whisky in the
bottom of the barrels. They drained out
| the barrels and got over n gallon of the
mixture, one drink of which was enough
| to kill a horse. They passed the stuff out
| side through basement transom window,
| and soon all were drunk. when they had
| n wild time on the streets. Five of them
were captured and next day were sent to
| Jail for various terms. Some of these
men have been at the mission all winter
and then repaid the kindness and hospi-
tally by their disgraceful conduct, and
not only this, but boosted of the manner
in which they had yictimized the manager
of the mission.
Bert Fox, charged with obtaining bar
rel of -four from McKim's grocery at Bay
/ City on false pretenses, admitted his
guilt and was given sixty days in which
to pay for the goods in question.