Crawford avalanche., 1897-08-05

! The grnsshoppers have been 20 numcr.
GUS near Munith that many farmers have
| had to rebuild numerous shocks OF wheat,
the twine bands having been eaten by the
insects.
Preparations are already being made
for the Arcnac County fair, which will
be held at Standish this fall. Crops are
good and everything points to fine ex-
hibit. The association has fine track.
The home OF Mrs. Emily Coon at Muir
was struck by lightning three times In
succession. The house was set on fire,
but the flames were discovered in time to
save the building. None OF the occupants
were injured.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas Martiny of Mus
kegon were aroused by cries on their front
steps, and upon investigating they found
two bundles, one containing three
weeks-oli girl baby and the other the in
fant's clothing.
At Waterford, Wallace Bump and his
brother Charles were shooting blackbirds
that were destroying his crop of black
berries, when the block pin of his gun
blew out, striking him in the right eye and
destroying the sight.
| Brighton farmers have finished harvest
/ ing. The wheat crop Is the heaviest In
some years. as was Livingston County's
hay crop. In many sections grasshoppers
got in their work. Machines were used
to catch the pest 50c being the price paid
per bushel.
Flora McKinnon, through her father,
Angus McKinnon of Metropolitan, filed
notice Of suit against the Chicago and
.rtI ~ 4
in the sum Of $4,000. She was severely
injured over year ago by one of the COM
pany's trains.
Bay City's 100000 stone road refund
ing bonds We're sold at public auction.
Farson, Reach & Co. of Chicago were the
successful bidders Mt premium of ST.
332. Hayes Il Son of Toledo, who refus-
| ed to take the bonds after their bid was
accepted, will be sued for damages.
A terrible double tragedy was enacted
| Wednesday morning about 3 o'clock at
the farm house of Charles Gadd, about
| four miles northeast of Clinton. n. n.
james, familiarly known as "Sam" Jones,
shot and fatally wounded Martha Minor,
and then committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head. A lovers quar-
| rel caused it.
| More than twenty years ago Emory
| Roe, who then lived near Buchanan. en-
| graved his name and the date in the back
/ of a land turtle. Last week the turtle
was found, not far from the same place,
| and was sent to Mr. Roe, in Chicago,
where he is now practicing medicine. The
| doctor engraved q new date and his turtle
| ship was returned to his familiar haunts
| on the hoe homestead.
Roy Ford of Mooseville. Washtenaw
| County, has curiosity in the shape of a
winged animal. He opened box of lem
| Ons bearing mark from India. The
body is about as large as a lead pencil
| and 21a or ) inches long. Head fiat with
two long thread-like feelers and two other
shorter ones and more like horns. Its
| wings are ~ or 2 inches wide and 2
inches long. 1t has six legs and is of u
| cinnamon color.
| The sad fate which has overcome the
distinguished Michigan jurst, Judge Coo
ley, is the result of overwork. What he
| accomplished in the way of literary work
alone would have broken down even n
more rugged man than he, and his labors
| in his profession have been long and ar
duous. 1t is said his recovery is hopeless
and that it cannot he long before the
| country will mourn the death Of one of
| its most distinguished men.
While Hatch & Baker, hardware mer-
chants at Lyons, were making some i'm
| provements i'm their store, they found a
| shoe which had been made by Hendrick
| q Mattison forty-fOur years ago. when
| they were in the shoe business. The shoe
| is in a perfect state of preservation and
| il quite curiosity. 1t is square-toed and
has no cyclets, holes being punched in
| the leather for the shoe strings. Mr..
HendricK is now postmaster at Stanton.
while his old-time partner, Mattison, is
an inmate Of the Masonic home at Grand
Rapids.
Sunday some Cheboygan parties sailing.
accidentally came across n sunken tug
down the shore twelve or fifteen miles.
1t cannot be the Minnie Sutton, as claim
ed by the Cheboygan News, which was
lost twenty years ago next October at
| Spectacle Reef light, for her boiler was
discovered not a great ways from Spec
tacie Reef and was recovered the next
season. II. A. Blake says he thinks it is
the little steamer J. w. Likins. He says
portions Of her cabin and some of her fur
ulture WlSneu ashore III GrasS Day, lnul-
ca ting she was sunk in that vicinity.
The last census report gives the popula-
ton OF Montrose at 100. but so rapidly
has the village grown that good judges
place the present number of its inhabit-
ants at 3J0. Residence lots outside of the
business section, along the main street are
selling lively at n dollar a foot front. and
il is confidently expected by its citizens
that population Of 200 will be reached
within five years. The second hotel has
just been completed and opened to the
public. Several brick stores have just
been built. and one or two are now under
construction. Several new residences are
also being built, and the town may be said
to be fairly booming.
A poplar log was latcly hauled to n
basket factory at Benton Harbor which
was IA feet long ani large enough to turn
out S41 feet OF lumber. The log was
measured and sold at the rate Of SOD
thousand. a few years ago thousands Of
such trees stood in the vicinity Of Benton
Harbor and were slaughtered to make
way for farms. If few of the owners
could have foreseen what has come, they
could have made fortunes by holding their
timber. One man who owned a patch of
forty acres north of Benton Harbor,
which is now fruit farm, says that IL
he had held it until now the timber on il
would be worth $4,000, judging from the
way that 14-foot log sold.