Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-09-16

victims Mt Muskegon.
Traverse City has the largest school
enrolment ever known there.
William williamson's machine shop. at
Saginaw, was damaged 81 900 by tire.
The fire In the Williamson factory build
ing at Saginaw was caused by incendiar-
les.
Grand Rapids contributions to The strilsr
ing miners relief fund up to date amount
to $500. ,.
Bay City's poor box Is empty and des-
titute families cannot receive aid from
the city. y.na<, t,assE
Nearly $4,000 worth of ,blueberries
have been sold in Marquette County since
July %.
Frederick Eisenhart, aged 20 years, of
Royalton, was married to Katie kauff,
Is years of age.
Cecil Matthews and Mrs. Frank Fer
ron OF Mount Morris were severely hurt
in runaway accident.
Vim. w. Spatch was arrested at Ma
son, charged with throwing poisoned corn
to neighbours chickens.
About 1000 Hoo Hoos" attended their
uuuuti cOuNtutlOu III DetrOlt. Lie OfucI
is composed mainly of lumber dealers.
Joseph Darling Peter De Mean and
Mrs. Mary Cuthbertsop, ut Port Huron,
broke out Of Jail and made good their es-
cape.
A new village is being built on the four
mile extension Of the Bagley branch Of
the Michigan Central Railroad. 1t will
be called Toledo.
l.. nj. Beers. aged 81 years, died at
Traverse City. He came to Michigan and
settled Mt Worthwhile in 1887. In 1861 he
settled at Old Mission.
Harry f. Leadley, of Rochester, N. ",
died at Bancroft. Before his demise he
stated that he had been guilty of killing
Miss Emerson in Rochester and of eni-
bezzlement from a Rochester fire insur-
ance firm.
Thomas Hartwell, postmaster at Akron,
has been removed, and his bondsmen have
put up $1,000 to cover an alleged short
age in his accounts with the Government.
Hartwell has turned over his property to
his bondsmen.
The remainder of the first brick block
built in Caro-, which was partly torn down
several years ago, is to be removed and a
Bay City resident has contracted to sup
ply it's place with a modern up-to-date
$4,000 hotel.
Bay City police believe the cracking Of
the safe in Silas Forcia's store was done
by persons well acquainted with the prem
Uses. There was vicious watchdog in
the yard surrounding the store, but he did
not modest the safe crackers.
Anna Crof+ mol Nth an fr;obtF,,l 1aath
at Lum, while attending the closing exer-
cises Of the Protestant Methodist confer
ence. The young woman was run down
by runaway pair of horses, and the
tongue Of the carriage they were draw
ing pierced her abdomen. She died al
most instantly.
The apple crop is going to be short
one on the Upper Peninsula this season,
as only a comparatively small number of
trees have any fruit on at all, and that
is nothing extra either in quantity or
quality. The plum trees that did not
bear last season are pretty well laden
with fruit, while the others are bare.
-Four years ago Hattie Simpson was
welded to Samuel Wright. Afterward
she obtained divorce, with custody Of
their baby. Having no home, she left the
baby with Mr.. Wright. Recently she
married physician in Detroit, and came
to Laingsburg for the child, now nearly
3 years old. Mr.. Wright refused to give
up possession. The mother got a deputy
sheriff to go with her, rushed into the
house, seized the baby, and after short
struggle fed with the child, pursued by
Mr. Wright and his father. She escaped
with the baby and now has it at her home
in Detroit.
A dispatch has been received from
Wawa City, the newly laid out town in
the Michipicoten gold country on Lake
Wawa, Ontario, The embryo town Is To-
Gated in the one narrow pass which leads
to Lake Wawa from the landing place
on the shore of Lake Superior, which is
but six miles from the gold discoveries.
The dispatch says: "As to the gold dis
coveries developing anything like the in
dications, it can be said that quartz has
been found that assays over $500 ton.
1t is found not in one section, but in
different places, extending over several
thousand acres. Quartz has been found
containing free gold in chunks as big as
kernels of wheat-gold in its pure form,
which does not have to be subjected to
chemical process to free it from the rock.
Prospectors every day are finding speci-
mems that assay $50 a ton. Probably
100 prospectors are to-day working in the
hills. The country where the discoveries
were made has never been opened for set
Element. The only inhabitants about are
Indians and Hudson Bay traders, and
they are few"
For the Michigan crop report for Sep
TENDER correspondents secured from
thrashers the results of 1851 jobs, aggre
eating more than $4,000 acres Of wheat
thrashed, the yield from which was LODI
4S3 bushels, an average of 1913 bushels
to the acre. In the southern counties
more than 1000 acres thrashed averaged
11.34 bushels an acre. In the central
counties the average is 14.02 bushels and
in the northern counties 1873 bushels. The
area in wheat in the State last May as
compiled from the returns Of supervisors
was 1,513,910 acres. This is the probable
acreage that was harvested this year. The
crop this year is the largest produced since
1892. when the yield exceeded 25,000,000
bushels. Thrashers' returns indicate that
oats will yield about % bushels and bar
lev about 10 bushels an acre. The figures
for oats are ) bushels below and for bar
ley bushels below the estimate one year
ago. Corn made slow growth in August,
but il has not been damaged by frost and
there is good reason to expect a good and
well-matured crop. The dry weather has
undoubtedly injured potatoes, but the ex-
tent of damage cannot now be estimated.
At Grand Rapids Catherine G. Beneker.