Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-03-04
Iron Mountain will have q new city
hall IN cost abouf x0 600


The Republican State convention has
placed In nomination the following ticket:
For Justice of the State Supreme Court,
Chas. ID. Long of Lansing; for Regents
of the University of Michigan. William
]. Cocker of Adrian, Charles d. Lewton
Of Lawton. Van Buren, County.
Some Albion ladies who were getting sp
an entertainment announced as one of the
attractions that they would all wear
boomers. A big crowd, principally Of the
masculine persuasion. turned out, but
when they perceived that the ''bloomers"
were only large chrysanthemums they
looked badly sold.
i, Deputy County Clerk Frank Shell, of
Port Huron, has received a very touching
letter from a young lady at Emmett, re-
questing him not to issue n marriage IL
cense to a certain young man of that vii
lage, claiming that she was his affianced
wife, but had been discarded, and he was
now intending TO marry another.
At Saginaw, Thomas White, an elderly
single man, was terribly burned about the
head and face by fire which broke out
in his room. He was carried out insen-
sible by the iremen. White rented a
room in dwelling occupied by Joseph
Kalinski. The blaze is supposed to have
been caused by White smoking a pipe.
He may recover.
reckless house mover between Mus
kegon and Muskegon Heights moved a
house through the wires of the Citizens
Telephone Company, the Muskegon Street
Railway and the G. X. 1. Railway. The
street cars ON Pine and Sanford streets
T..fsI l.ta
night railway linemen were engaged in
restoring communication. There is trouble
ahead for the house mover.
Mrs. J. Thompson had narrow escape
from drowning at Brighton. She went to
the cistern TO draw pail of water and
her 6-year-old son went with her. AS she
turned TO leave he stepped back and fell
in. She jumped in and by great effort
succeeded in lifting out the boy. 1t was
impossible for her to get out. She called
10 the boy, who ran to q neighbours, Chas.
Smith. who came to her rescue and pulled
her out. She was in the cistern fifteen or
twenty minutes.
The X. Il. ball at Fenton, the social
event of the season., came to a tragic end
by the sudden death of Douglas Van
Vert. Mr. Van Vert is the veteran
prompter of balls in Fenton. BY request
he went upon the stage to call off one or
two numbers. After calling one or two
changes he was seen to fall upon the
footlghts and thence to the floor. He
died instantly, but his last call was uttered
in a clear, distinct voice. Mr.. Van Vert
was 81 years of age and leaves a widow
and daughter.
Frank Burdick met n terrible and I'M
expected death at Grand Blanc. He was
stealing a ride 10 Detroit upon freight
train. and when near the village of Grand
Blanc the train parted. When the sec
tons came together again Burdick was
knocked from his moorings and his body
was cut in two death following instantly.
The deceased was 81 years old, and was
resident of Flint. where he leaves a
widow and two children. The unfortu-
nate man was bound for Detroit, where
his father lives, when he met his awful
death.
More recent investigations of the injury
done to the western Michigan peach crop
by the severe cold weather indicate the
damage to be much less than at first
thought. While in the more northerly
portion of the fruit belt the peach buds in
some localities were badly frozen, the
damage was mostly confined to the early
varieties. those which are rarely picked
for market in seasons when the fruit is
plenty. The extensive orchards of south
ern Allegan County and in the region
around South Haven were but slightly
damaged, while the same conditions pre-
vail throughout the larger portion of Ber-
rien County.
A fire occurred in Ithaca Monday,
which will probably result in the death Of
Miss Ada Amspoker. a domestic at the
home of George T.. Stone. In some un-
known manner her clothing caught fire
when she was in the laundry. She rushed
into the other part of the house, from
there into a closet, setting fire to the
clothing hanging there, and then rushed
outdoors. Bradley Stone succeeded in
extinguishing the flames by rolling her in
the snow, but not until she was so badly
burned that she will probably die. The
house was considerably damaged by fire
and water.
A fruit grower in the vicinity of South
Haven will this year work the same
scheme he did last year on portion Of his
peach crop. He had been robbed by Chi
cago and Milwaukee commission dealers
until he was tired Of it, and then he went
to Chicago himself rented a small store
for $15 month in the retail business por-
ton of the city, had his peaches shipped
TO him and sold them for from twenty five
to forty cents per basket while the COM
mission merchants were paying seven
cents. AS a result of his scheme he was
richer in experience and ready cash, and
he will do the same thing this year, be-
ginning with strawberries.
Aid. ]. T. Upjohn started out mt Kala-
mazoo to investigate the charges that GER
tain hotel bars and saloons violated law
by keeping open Sundays. He visited sew
eral places and reports are varied as to
the result of his tour. At one hotel he
took the marshal with him and demanded
that he break into a room, but the mar
Shall refused, whereupon he was denounc-
ed as a coward and as standing In with
saloonists. The City Council the next
night suspended the marshal because lie
allowed nickel-in-the- slot machines to run
in saloons and cigar stores, and it is also
charged that his officers repeatedly re-
ported violations of the liquor law to him,
but he did not investigate the complaints
or cause the arrest of violators. The ac-
ton of the Council Is attributed to the
Christian Citizenship movement, which
was inaugurated by Rev. Il. l.. Buchanan
last summer. l8
A special dispatch from Detroit an
nounces the sudden death of Baron Frei-
herr Francis Xavier Ludwig Macmillan
Van Oegen. Perhaps policeman asked
him who he was and the poor fellow chok-
Cd IN 1aafb trying IN foil him