Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-10-21
Alfred s. fSollansbee has been named
for postmaster at Ontonagon.

Grass Lake, in Branch County, ha,
gone dry, leaving great quantities of dead
fish.
The Bay Coal Company, with mines al
Monitor, is now turning out about 25C
tons Of coal day.
| The project OF bonding Corunna to build
I n municipal lighting plant was defeated
by 46 majority at special election.
| Henry l.. Allen, aged Ga years, resi-
dent of Grand Traverse County for forty
three years, is dead at Traverse City.
| Il. j. Orr, justice of the peace at Bay
| City, has been appointed assistant prose
cutting attorney in place of U. X. Laran-
| ger, resigned.
Brighton has good prospects for elec-
| trio lights in the near future. The Coun-
| Gil are in favor of them, and the people
seem to be coming.
Simon Beckwith, an old resident of Mt.
Morris. fell over some old rails and broke
| leg. The injury may prove a serious one
on account of his age.
A tramp was badly burned in n fire
which destroyed the Kohlhaas meat mar
ket at Calumet. There is Il suspicion that
he started the fire himself
The coroner's jury in the case of the
Edison child, which was killed at Saranac
by d., &. III. & Nj. train, brought in n
verdict Of neglect on the part of the train
men.
Sparta has voted to bond the village for
$4,000 to enlarge the village hall. 1t is
thought good share of the money will be
used to bring furniture factory to the
village.
The man run over by the Grand Trunk
train between Perry and Shaftesburg a
week ago has been identified as Nicholas
Perins of Langdon, S. ID. Foul play is
suspected.
Harry Ogden, indicted at Kalamazoo
on n charge of burglary at Vicksburg, is
wanted at Toronto on n charge of mur-
der. He was known in the Canadian
city as Begelee.
Charles Wright of Belleville has been
| ordered by the game warden to put in fish
ladders at his mill dam. All owners OF
dams on the Huron river will be compell-
ed to do likewise.
large number Of lots in the burned dis
trict of Bay City have been bought in for
back taxes. The purchasers will sell
them cheap and endeavor to get families
to build on them.
Mrs. Charles Drake living three miles
south of Ridgeway, took n dose of paris
green with suicidal intent. Her condition
is critical. Family troubles was the cause
Of her attempt on her life.
At Wakefield, by the premature explo-
sion of powder blast in the Brotherton
mine, Leander Peterson and Joseph John
son were killed and n man named Harris
was probably fatally injured.
In the Circuit Court at Kalamazoo John
Dewitt of Climax paid a fine of $40 for
illegal liquor selling. and Allen Lee and
Ray Riley, Climax druggists, paid $500
each for selling beer Illegally.
The safety of the Genesee County Jail
at Flint for keeping prisoners is severely
criticised by the Jail inspectors. During
the past six months 800 prisoners were
detained in the institution, however.
Homer Harwood of Warren has a
strawberry patch from which ripe straw
berries have been picked for the last two
weeks. The largest berry was three
inches around. The bed was moved down
in July.
Lewis Wilson Of Birch Run was build
ing shed the other afternoon. His g.
year-old daughter Agnes was inside and
put her hand against board. with the re-
suit that her hand was nailed fast She
will probably lose the hand, as in tearing
loose she badly lacerated it.
There is much excitement at Sault Ste.
Marie again over the Michipicoten dis
trict. The steamer Telegram returned
with half dozen passengers, who say
that another find of undoubted value has
been made. The vein is about three miles
from Lake Wawa.
Diphtheria has been very prevalent in
Owosso and vicinity. 1t is now well un-
der control except in the Second ward,
where there are about thirty cases. To
prevent the disease becoming epidemic the
Emerson school in the Second ward has
been closed for the present.
Thos. Murta, Jackson shoemaker. lies
at his home badly exhausted from the ef-
fects of narrow escape from bleeding to
death. In cutting leather his knife slipped
and sank deep into his right leg above the
knee. severing an artery. When found
there was grave doubt of saving his life.
The body of Christopher ii. Crosbie,
night watchman at +. Bement & Sons
implement works in Lansing, was found
standing upright in the river back of the
factory in eight feet of water. The whs-
tie failed to blow in the morning. and
workmen found his lantern on the bank,
and later the body in the river. His key
showed that he made the last rounds at
III o'clock, and he was seen hurrying from
his home to the factory about o'clock
in the morning.
Another railroad is projected for Michi-
gan that will traverse an undeveloped sec
tion of the State that is heavily timbered
and open up some fine farming lands. 1t
will be called the Grand Rapids, Kal-
kaska and Southeastern and will be op-
Grated by the Chicago and West Michigan
company. 1t will start at Barker Creek
and run up into Missaukee County to n
large tract of pine owned by the Thayer
Lumber Company of Muskegon Later
on the road will be extended to Grayling
and Alpena.
Fitzslmmons' famous solar plexus blow
was the cause of n death at the State in
dustrial school for boys in Lansing. John
Carson, 16 years old, asked one of his
dormitory mates to strike him on the
chest. He was accommodated, but want
ed more and requested Frank Martin, an
inmate from Albion. to strike him. Mar
tin responded with a back-hand blow over
the heart and Carson dropped dead in his
tracks. Martin, who is but ii years old,
Is held blameiess, inasmuch as the blow