Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-07-08
Minor State Matters.

From the ruin or the large dry Kiln at
the stave and heading factory, which
burned al Clare, has already arisen the
frame FOR another Of increased capacity.
A large force of men is employed.
While playing in Exstine's feed mill at
Warren, the S-year-old son of Louis Sim
was caught in one of the shafts and IN
stantly killed. The body was one mass of
jelly when thrown from the shaft.
Genesee County in the vicinity of Flint
is stirred up over the boldfess Df' horse
thieves Thursday night large bay
gelding was stolen from the farm of John
Donovan, ten miles north of Flint. Fri
day night the thieves returned to the
farm and exchanged the bay, which had
been driven nearly to death, for fine.
large black belonging to Mr.. Donovan.
There is no clew to the thieves. A re-
ward has been offered for their arrest.
Ernie West of Battle Greek defended
the union in the great railroad strike of
1894 and was fired. He opened up a
little shop and has just paid $4 mo for the
property. He keeps everything magma
BILE in the shape of odds aadftf4}s. Among
them is petrified woman inn comm, pur-
chased from a stranded show. He says
along with; that she minds her business
does not talk back and does not gossip.
He has money to burn.
At Adrian, burglars rroke into the tab
| ernacle OF the German Catholic Church
| 1ney attempted to break open the iron
| safe from the back, but were unsuccess-
| full. They then defaced the valuable fres-
| Going on the walls, broke down the front
| doors and carried off n box containing the
holy oils. They also steele n quantity OF
medals belonging to the women's society
and dumped them into the closet of the
school house next door. Father Koenie
| and Catholics generally are highly indig
| nant.
! j. n. Stearns of South Haven says that
the outlook there for peaches is fer O
| rather light crop on the whole. WhilC
some orchards are heavily laden, other.
have but little fruit set. The crop al
| over the country is light, so that i'm hi,
| opinion there would be tendency to good
| prices, which would be much better thar
last year when peaches were an enormou.
crop and could hardly be given away
many growers allowing them to rot on the
| tree. Cherries will be also a light crop
In regard to pears, Mr.. Stearns said HI
never had better show for n good crop
Other fruits will be an average crop.
At Grand Rapids, the Hamiton-K Ken
wood Cycle Company filed trust mort
gage to J. Frederick Bars to secure cred
itors to the amount Of $O7 900. Charlie.
X. Sigh, president of the company, wa,
the fusion silver candidate for GovernoI
last fall.
~ b. Knight and wife, Of Clayton
were on their way home when FIVE bicy
clists approached them from the real
frightening their horse, which jumped Il
one side, throwing the occupants of tn,
buggy into the ditch. Both Mr.. ant
Mrs. Knight were badly bruised about tn.
face and body.
The Kalamazoo water supply Is threat
ened with contamination from adjacen
wells and cess pools, and the City Council
ordered fifty eight houses connected will
the sewer. Many of the house owners ar,
too poor to make the connections.
A stranger entered nj. ]. Kowalak,
Il meat market at Bay City and ordered 81,
pounds OF pork. After 1t was rolled In
paper, the man said that his family wa
starving and he had no money. When tn
proprietor made a move to take the mea
back, the stranger drew n revolver ant
threatened to use it unless the meat wa
given to him. The man got the meat an,
Kowalak Is thankful that all his custom
! ers do not use the same methods.