Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-05-13

| Ihs oupsrvissss q Oalhsun County And
great shrinkase of personal property In
making the annual assessment this spring.
John Merritt. a young farmer living
near Vermontville. shot and killed him
self Monday. No reason IL known for
his action.
There being little prospect of the re-
Gently burned district Mt Bloomingdale
being rebuilt, the residents are talking
of plating the ground into public park.
The Gladwin Council refuses to grant
licenses for saloons, and before long the
village will probably have several new
business places in the shape of "hop pop
shops.
While in the barn on his farm in Fruit
land, Edison Spleed was paralyzed by a
bolt of lightning. The barn was set on
fire at the same time, and the cow knock
ed senseless. tt+
The city poor director of Lansing ex-
pended 5000 in aid for the poor of the
city during the fiscal year ending April
30. The amount is slightly in excess of
the amount expended the previous year.
Dog prisoners are at work in one of the
most thickly settled residence districts of
Muskegon and a number of valuable ca
mines have been sent to the happy hunting
grounds. Their owners are on the war
path.
George Sharrow, the Port Huron Cir
cult Court juror who became intoxicated
while serving on the jury trying Maurice
Joy for selling liquor to a minor, appeared
in court to receive his sentence for con-
tempt of court and was fined $50.
An Indiana man offers to put in and OPP
crate gasoline engine manufactory at
Benton Harbor provided that city will
give him $4,000 in cash as a bonus and
the use of building. The city still has
its $4,000, and will probably keep it.
Marshall is lighted by eighty street
lamps without cent of cost to the tax
payers. The city owns the plant and the
revenue from private consumers pays the
running expenses. There is even cash
surplus of $4,000 on hand for 1,2OO-light
dynamo which will be put in this season.
Reports received from points in south
ern Michigan state that new wheat pest
has been discovered that bids fair to do
great damage to the crop of 1897. 1t is
very small worm, which does it's deadly
work by boring holes in the roots of the
plant. 1t is doing considerable damage
to the wheat in many localities in north
ern Indiana and Illinois. Its appearance
is earlier than the chinch bug or Hessian
fly, and it does its destructive work more
thoroughly than either.
AT Jackson. Mrs. Francis Rocket was
fatally burned by the explosion and burn
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dying seven hours later. She arose to pre-
pare breakfast. Soon screams were heard
in the kitchen. and Mr.. Rocket rushing
there, found his wife cnveloped in flames.
He rescued her, but not until the clothing
had burned from her body. Mrs. Rocket
was conscious until o'clock and told how
the accident happened. She had filieu the
tank on the stove and set the can down at
her side. On igniting a match the can
exploded.
Two persons were suffocated and two
Others seriously burned Saturday in a
building at Detroit occupied by e. III.
Heideps bakery. In the upper story lived
the family of Nicholas Sinig. four mem
bers of which were surrounded by the
flames. Of these Lena Sing. aged IL,
and Nicholas aged o, were badly burned
in getting downstairs and out of the build
ing. Mrs. Sing escaped by a ladder with
out injury. Lizzie Sinig, aged 20, and
her brother Anthony, aged >, were caught
in a rear room, and before help arrived
were suffocated.
In the heavy rains and disastrous floods
which are visiting many sections of the
country, the potato growers of Northern
Michigan draw encouragement for a bet
ter price for potatoes the coming fall. The
sandy loan of that section soon throws
off superfuous moisture while heavy clay
soils continue wet and soggy for weeks.
and the knowing ones see in this fact
hint to Northern Michigan farmers to
plant heavily and be prepared to supply,
at a good price, those sections which,
through unfavorable conditions, seem like
ly to have short potato crop next fall.
Negotiations are closed by which the
Consolidated Rail Joint Co. of Chicago
becomes the owner of the mills of the
Muskegon Iron and Steel Co., which have
been closed since the panic first began.
The mills were placed in the hands Of a
receiver and bought by Charles III. Hack
ley at receivers sale. The Chamber Of
Commerce assists the purchasers by
bonus of $4,000, conditioned on their en-
ploying 100 hands. The works will be put
in order at once, as the purchasers are
anxious to get to work. Their mill at Chi
cago Heights will be closed soon as the
new one starts up.
Attorney General Maynard has stated it
as his opinion that the present Legislature
should certainly pass the pending amend
ment to the general tax law relative to
tax titles. This amendment provides that
a property holder shall, If resident of
the State, be given personal notice Of the
sale of his property and be given an oppor-
tunity after such notice to redeem it by
paying the taxes and costs. If the owner
is a nonresident of the State, notice shall
be given by publication. The present prac-
tice Mr.. Maynard termed legalized rob-
berry, and said it should be abolished.
At Kalamazoo, DR.. +. G. Dorment of
Chicago was arraigned in court on a
charge Of conspiracy to defraud John w,
Jones in a $4,000 land deal. Dorment
claimed to be the manager of the Luella
Day hospital, in Chicago, and represented
that he wanted to buy about $50 acres of
land from Jones for the purpose of estab-
fishing n branch of the hospital. 1t is al
legged he was to give Jones $4,000 in
checks and receive as change a draft for
$1,000. Jones' attorney stopped the deal
just as it was about to be completed. The
officers believe Dorment's drafts were for
geries. Dorment claimed that p. o. Ar
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