Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-18

Joseph Follmor, aged 70 years. . re-
spected resident Of Ypsilanti, died Sun
day evening. Deceased was born In Ger
many.
Sylia Metcalf, aged 80. a single man and
son Of Josiah Metcalf, of Seneca, was
declared insane Mt Adrian and will be sent
to Kalamazoo.
The gas storage tank Of the Kalamazoo
Heat, Light and Power Company blew
up. One man who was working on it's top
jumped thirty feet and was not hurt.
Damage, $500.
Frank Sovey, one of Saginaw's fremen,
was struck on the head by a falling brick
from the chimney of burning building
and knocked senseless. 1t Is thought that
he will recover.
A large mass meeting was held ut Ann
Arbor, mt which resolutions were adopted
favoring the abokshing of the Board OF
Public Works and the election of city
! treasurer by popular vote.
The Bond Steel Fence Post Co. Of Ad-
rian, gets the contract to furnish steel
posts for Government mail boxes for the
next four years at $1.2O per post. The
number may exceed 1000 week.
Peter Neuman. of Muskegon, went into
house on Michigan avenue to do some
business. leaving his 15-year-old son, Gus
tave, to hold his horses. A passing street
car frightened the team, which ran away.
The boy was carried on the tongue half a
block and then dropped, the rig passing
over and crushing his skull. He was pick
ed mp and carried into an adjacent house.
His father and an elder brother stood by
helpless and saw him die.
| At Flint, curfew ordinance was pass
ed. 1t provides that any child under the
age of 10 years that Is found upon the
streets after 80 in the winter season
and $50 in the summer season shall be
arrested as a disorderly person and sub
jected TO a fine not exceeding $40. The
passage of the ordinance precipitated an
animated discussion, in which number
of the ladies of the city participated. sEx-
Judge of Probate III. X. Lowell bitterly
denounced the ordinance.
| One of the results of the Kalamazoo
| conference of judges of probate with asy-
lum trustees will be the presentation of n
bill to the Legislature which will provide
that judges of probate mny compel guard
ians of insane soldiers to pay for their
care and keeping instead of allowing pen
| sion money to accumulate for the benefit
| of guardians or heirs after pensioners are
dead. There are many such cases, one
where tn guardian had 81 600 in back pen
sion and the State was paying his keeping
in the asylum.
When two years ago the immense po-
l tot n tod sv lax ina fnr
the tubers, the farmers Of northern Michi-
gan, whose principal product Is potatoes,
were not discouraged, and last spring
showed their faith in the belief that two
years of heavy production in any staple do
not come together by planting large tracts
to the tubers. The failure second time
to be able to sell at a profit has now
changed their minds, and it is expected
that the acreage planted to potatoes this
| spring will show an immense decrea 2.
Gov. Pingree has originated plan to
have Detroit bond itself for the purpose
of erecting $5.O00,OO0 State House in
that city on condition that the capital be
removed there from Lansing. the build
ing to be the handsomest State House in
the West. and to be presented to the
| State. The Governor thinks the present
capitol building inadequate and that the
metropolis of the State is the proper place
for the capital. He argues that the build
ing at Lansing could be used for asylum
or other State purposes.
Mrs. Jay J. Healey, wife Of the man
charged with defrauding an insurance
company by forged notes and who is now
| lying at deaths door at the Saginaw
county Jail, says that she has been mar
ried six times, Healey being her last ven
4 ture Three of her husbands are dead
and two divorced. Mrs. Healey has made
money out of her matrimonial ventures.
having collected $13, 800 in life insurance,
and yet she says that she has not cent
left. Healey says his wife has been mar
ried only four times, but she ought to
/ know.
There promises to be wholesale arrest
of Port Huron saloonists for violating xhe
Sunday closing provision of the liquor
law. The number of liquor dealers who
were caught is given all the way from
fifteen to twenty-five, while the keepers
of four questionable resorts will also be
proceeded against for dispensing liquors.
| 1t is alleged that n dealer who had been
found guilty of keeping open on Sunday
/ WIS lHStTuinenttl III uTTdHSfHk IOT TIE
visit of the spoilers for the purpose of
showing that he was not the only Of
/ fender.
| Republican members of the Ways and
Means Committee at Washington have
been interviewed during the last two days
by delegation of Michigan lumbermen.
who are opposed to the duty of 50 which
will be placed on white pine in the new
tariff bill. The Michigan men have pur-
chased stumpagc privileges in Canada
and are opposed to the increase of duties
on white pine, and fear that the Canadian
Government will retaliate by the imposi-
ton of higher crown taxes on their Ca
madam property. They want the COM
mittee to leave the white pine where IL
was in the Mckinley act, or to protect
them against possible retaliation by some
special provision in the bill.
Mrs. Lovina Beckwith was found dead
at Flint by her grandson, Asa Grooms,
Monday morning. For some time past
Mrs. Beckwith has lived alone in a COM
Portable house in the first ward She
thought it too expensive to keep SER
want. so had her little grandson stay with
her. She was 81 years old, and for weeks
past was i'll, but she still refused to have
a nurse, saying she could not afford to
pay them and that they ate too much
| Monday morning the grandson heard an
| unusual noise in his grandma's bedroom