Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-02
Elmer City is to have new hotel, and


road foreman of the +. x p. NJ.
Samuel Cook paid so fine at Port
Huron for selling fake spectacles.
Potato dealers at Cadillac have paid
out 900 TO farmers so far this season.
Benjamin Harrington OF Lakeside was
killed by a train as he lay assep on the
track.
The State Horticultural Society will
hold n meeting at Ithaca on Dec. /, 2
and 3.
Christian Baumann of Muskegon took
dose of paris green with suicidal intent
and died.
The electric lighting plant at the u. Of
NJ, which cost $4,000, is practically
completed.
The drug store of A. w. Fenton & Son,
at Bailey, was robbed by burglars for the
sixth time.
Five mines at Iron Mountain announce
an increase OF 10 per cent in wages, in
effect Dec. 1.
Pinconning is without banking facili-
ties since the fire which occurred there
some weeks ago.
Alpena's commercial fishermen will
obey the law making a close season from
Nov. to Dec. Is.
Armada councilmen have changed the
bicycle ordinance of that village four
times in six months.
Hesperia has already raised $4,000 for
the new electric railway which is TO run
between there and Hart.
+. G.. Sturgis OF Grand Rapids had his
hand, which was covered with wood al
cohol burned TO n crisp.
Mrs Minnie Ackerman is suing Owosso
for $1,000 damages for injuries received
from defective sidewalk.
Bedding firemen have tired OF working
for nothing. and will ask the village coun-
ell to pay them yearly salary.
John Mulder, 17-year-old Grand Rap
ids newsboy, was accidentally shot and
killed while handling sparrow gum
John w. Harris. a resident of Battle
Creek for thirty years and a painter by
trade, committed suicide at Cincinnati.
James Cushway. who stole overcoats
from Bay City hotels, will spend ninety
days at the Detroit house of correction.
Emma Dickinson, the 6-year-old Owos-
erson. has been located near Whitmore
Lake.
Daniel Button. an eccentric farmer liv-
ing near Okemos. was robbed Of $50
by two boys. The lads made good their
escape.
Eugene La Rose of Essexville fell from
the tower of st. Johns Church while
hunting sparrows and three ribs were
broken.
Albert Haven. aged 30 years, a farmer
living near Grass Lake. committed sui
eide by hanging. No cause is known for
his act.
Adelbert Fairchild and Frank Santee
OF Charlotte settled little difficulty with
bare fists in a 45-minute fight. Both were
badly punished.
An unknown man was found floating in
the Rife river at the old ID. x NJ. bridge
at Prescott. He had apparently been in
the water some time.
Fifty thousand bushels of potatoes have
been shipped from Manton so far this sea-
son. More than this quantity has been
shipped from Grcenville.
A year ago Druggist +. A. Tepoorten
dime. The coin gave him no trouble un-
til when he coughed it up.
The Ladies' Guild of Grace Episcopal
Church at Holland, known for its skill in
making fancy articles, has received a
large order from Paris, France.
The late Alexander Sayers OF Holton
was the father Of fourteen children.
Three of his SONS went into the army with
him. and one died in the service.
A woman clerk who worked for Osburn
x Sons of Owosso. twenty years ago, has
just returned five cents which she appro-
priated while working for the firm.
Adrian Common Council is after the
officials of the Detroit and Lima North
ern Railroad because the latter are not
Fulfilling agreements relative to crossings.
The Christy family of st. Clair in
clndes three brothers, aged respectively
Andrew, 81; Henry, "a; Samuel, SO, and
one sister. Mary Ann, 76. Henry alone
has married.
Several hundred skilled miners could
get work in the Marquette range mines
at once. There Is still an adequate sup
ply of day laborers. The same state of
affairs exists on the Menomince and Go
gebic ranges.
1t is told OF farmer in Ionia County,
who used green willow for corner posts
for his barn, that the posts have taken
root and grown, and that the building is
considerably higher than il was. Some
limbs have also come out for him to hang
his harness on.
Pastor A. H. Nagler and the official
boards of the Bellevue Methodist Epis-
copal Church have suspended the Ep-
worth League from any connection with
the church for three months for conduct
alleged to be prejudicial to the best in
tercsts Of the church.
The total ore shipments by Lake Supe-
'rior mines to Nov. / were in excess of
IL 100000 gross tons, or about one million
tons In excess of the shipments Of any
previous year. The November and De
ccmber shipments by water and the all
rail shipments to furnaces will bring the
total for 1897 to perhaps IL, $50, 900 tons,
or two million tons In excess OF the OUT
put of any previous season. The ton
mage OF this single year will be greater
than the combined output of all the iron
mines of Lake Superior from the time
that ore was first found, In 1874, until
Jan. L, 1870. The 1893 production will
reach at least 15,0O0,oO0 gross tons and
may exceed that amount
The Quincy Mining Company has de-
cided to build smelter plant OF its own
npxt sensom The plant will ha loca fod o q