Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-10-14

Charles Atkins, aged IA years, Of Bed
ford township, was killed by the accident
nj discharge OF his gun, while hunting.
At special election the city OF Sturgis
sustained the proposition to borrow $5O,-i
600 to erect new county and city build
ings.
Thomson Bros. started their st. Clair
salt block with a full force OF men, after
a suspension OF weeks, because of the coal
famine.
The receiver OF the street railway, at
Jackson, has been authorized to issue GER
ti6cates to the amount of $4,000 for re-
pairs to the road.
Earl Il. O'Dell of Battle Greek. brake
man on the d., Il. & NJ. Railroad, fell he
tween the cars at Addison Junction and
was cut to pieces.
John w. Adams of Dawson lost his
barn, granary and 45 tons of hay by u
fire, which was caused by sparks from
an engine pressing hay.
st. Johns NJ. E. Church members, at
Mason, do not like the action of the con-
ference in taking Rev. Mr.. Urch from
them. He goes to Ionia.
Three months ago Mrs. +. G. Parsons
fell through a manhole at Port Huron and
sustained serious injuries. She will sue
the city for $4,000 damages.
The east-bound II. s. & NJ. freight was
wrecked two miles east of Perrinton. The
wreck was caused by the breaking down
Of pair of trucks. No one was hurt.
Peter Bons, the murderer and assailant
Of Pearl Morrison, pleaded guilty at
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tcnce at hard labor and solitary conf.e-
ment.
j. w. Terrence, claiming TO hail from
Detroit, is under arrest at Plymouth on
the charge OF defrauding Hiram Il.
Church out of 500 with chuck-a-luck
game.
Large amounts of cedar will be cut this
winter along the Rife and Au Ores ri7-
ers; also the Nj. g. and ID. & NJ. rail
roads. Cedar, like pine timber, will soon
be gone.
Il. A. Cairns and wife. graduates OF
the class Of '97, of Adrian College. have
left there for Japan to serve as mission
aries for ten years under the auspices Of
the NJ. Il. Church.
The large cider and planning mill of
Charles Emmert, three and a half miles
northeast of Elsie, burned, together with
large lumber shed filled with lumber.
Loss, $1,000; no insurance.
The house occupied by George Brown
on Brown street, Ypsilanti, burned. Mrs.
Brown and her daughter were rescued
with ladders. Mrs. Brown slipped and
was severely injured. Loss, $1,500; in
sured.
The potato crop in the vicinity Of Frank
lin will be a fair one, especially for the
late variety. Some farmers report that
their crops are rOtting badly. The aver
age price paid farmers is 40 cents a
bushel
A Swedish laborer attacked Ronald Nc
Donald, a wealthy farmer living near
Cheboygan, because he would not give
him work, and pounded Mcdonald into
insensibility with shovel. The Swede
was arrested.
Work has just been resumed on the Ar
cadian copper mines at Houghton, which
were idle twelve years. Capitalists con-
trolling the Arcadian have options ON ad-
joining mineral properties, and propose
working the mines on large scale.
At Lansing, Jay Willinder, native Of
Sweden, and n student at the Agricul-
tural College, was adjudged insane and
committed to the asylum at Kalamazoo.
He entertains the delusion that there is
a conspiracy ON foot to do him harm.
DIR. Hans Hellman pleaded guilty in
the Justices court at Mt. Clemens 10 the
charge of assault and battery on Octave
Baufait, cripple, and paid fine. Later
the same day he was again arrested on n
civil warrant charged with doing bodily
harm to Baufait.
Bion Benham and Angus Mcdonald
were arrested at Hastings on complaint
of Mrs. E. Edmunds charged with Grim
inal assault. They waived examination
and gave bail. They have always been
considered respectable, and the lady is
above reprOach.
Captain w. A. Dunn has sold his Six
Mile Hill property at HoughtOn to Cam
eron, Currie a. Co. of Detroit, brokers for
New York capitalists, for $500,u00. The
property has the richest showing Of copper
of any mine opened since the discovery Of
the Calumet and Hecla.
New Michigan postmasters commission
ed: Fritz Rohr, Empire; Leroy ID. Heath,
Spring Lake; Ellsworth n. Rathbun, Les
ter; Charles A. Lasher, Sand Hill. The
site of the postofficc at Burrows, Branch
County, has been moved threc-fourths of
n mile southeast on route 81, 1873.
The south-bound train ON the Grand
Rapids and Indiana was he'll at Sturgis
twenty minutes while the company's ply
sician examined Miss Katie Henninger,
who walked from Kalamazoo to Mendon,
took the train there for Fort Wayne, and
fell unconscious ON the floor. murmuring
Fort Wayne as she fell II has since de-
veloped her parents opposed her in a love
affair and a Kalamazoo woman offered
her work as domestic. The woman paid
her fare. She found herself victmized by
procuress in house of ill-fame ply
sician Mt Kendallville went with her as
far as Laporte.
Thomas Watson, dynamo tender in
the employ OF the Consolidated Street
Railway Company at Grand Rapids, met
with the most peculiar and very serious
accident. Watson was engaged in re-
pairing wires mt the rear Of the switch
board in the dynamo room, using his pock-
etknlfe in the process. AS his hand pass
ed to and fro the handle touched one of
the live wires. The current, bearing a
voltage of 525, was forced through the
steel tool. There was flash, the knife
blade melted at the haft. and Watson's
hands and face were frightfully burned.
1t will be weeks before he can resume
work.
Hiram Brink, Melvin A. Jones, G.. +. |
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