Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-03-17

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Charles Bycroft was seriously injured
in coasting accident mt Ypsilanti.
The residence Of Mrs. A. b. Buck at
Moscow was destroyed by fire. Lose
81 200; insured. -
Deposits Of gypsum, lime, coal, mari,
ETC., have been found near Omer. Mines
will be opened.
Parker Divine, youngster, fell through
a hole In the ice on the lake at Lakeview
and was drowned.
The farm residence of John Monger,
near Benton Harbor, was destroyed by
fire of incendiary origin.
The Polish church war at Bay City Is
ended. Both factions have asked the
bishop to restore harmony.
James McGuire's general store at Bear
Lake was entered by burglars, who Sc
cured but small amount of cash.
M. p. Allen, who has run general
store at Carsonville for three years, has
moved his stock Of goods to Yale.
Timber thieves have been skinning the
woods on land just north of St. Clair.
owned by ID. j. Campau of Detroit
Burglars at Alpena robbed Ginter &
Rice's saloon of 81 in cash, several dozen
bottles of liquor and 14,00O cigars.
The Western Underwriters' Associa-
ton of Chicago has been licensed to do a
fire insurance business in Michigan.
The expenses of Port Huron's city gov
eminent for the current fiscal year will
ayaaad fhnoa Of las 90 INV gOH 0(l4
William II. Hitchcock and wife left for
Fairport, N. Y, to take possession Of
SEA, 900 left by Hitchcock's grandfather.
Portland is to have new soldiers
monument, which will probably be finish
ed in time for dedication on Memorial
Day.
The wife of Joseph Droste of Westpha-
liz recently gave birth to triplets, two
girls and a boy. The boy lived but n few
days.
Mrs. Robinson, an old colored woman,
was found dead in her home at Lapeer.
She had apparently been dead for two
weeks.
Fire has broken out in the fourteenth
level of Lake Superior mine No. z, Mt Ish-
peming and II is feared much damage will
result.
Roy Brown, a green brakeman ON the
Michigan Central Railroad, had one Of
his legs SO badly crushed it had to be am
putated.
John Decker of st. Clair has pleaded
guilty to the charge of stealing timber
from a tract owned by Daniel j. Campau
of Detroit.
The Toledo Ice Co. has settled with all
the men injured in the collapse of its
building at Whitmore Lake, and there
will be no damage suits. .+,4
Miss Maud +. Donaldson, deputy regis
ter of deeds at Mt Clemens, was struck
on the head by falling door spring and
a severe wound inflicted.
A six-weeks-old baby of William Deck
err of Scottsville was burned to death. The
father was seriously burned in his at
tempts to rescue his child,
The residence OF Homer Case, six miles
north Of Battle Greek, in Bedford, burn
ed with most of the household goods.
Loss 81 800. No insurance.
The Bay City branch of the Order Of
Iron Hall, which collapsed several years
ago, will divide the property of the order
in its possession among its members.
Theodore Nerville was struck and kill
ed by north-bound passenger train on
the ID. & NJ. road while walking on the
track between Pinconning and Saginaw.
Prof. Q. Wetmore of Dowagiac left for
the Klondike with only 80 cents in his
pocket WetmOre is a magician and ex-
poets to earn his way to the gold fields.
Michigan postmasters have been ap-
pointed as follows: G. w. Noble Buchan-
an; James Monroe, Kalamazoo; Charles
Brebner, Newberry; T.. Buzzo, Laurium.
Bank Examiner George b. Caldwell IL
making an effort to organize q new ma
tional bank at Lansing with a capital Of
100000. There is also talk of starting
a State bank.
An expert accountant reports shortage
in the Board Of Education books Of West
Bay City of 7,491 in the years 1892 to
1897, inclusive. A Council committee
will investigate.
Nearly all Of the vacant houses in Nc
Granville, the Bay City suburb, have be-
come occupied since the United Alkali
Company began operations. Rent has
doubled, and by April 1 it is believed that
there will not be house to be had there.
Mrs. Bertha Anderson. whose husband
was sent up for larceny, was found al
most dead in n small log house about
three miles north of Coleman. She had
given birth to a baby which was dead.
She had been without fire or food for two
days. She will probably recoverJ ~ ..nc
Henry Buck, living near Pinconning,
died under suspicious circumstances.
Sheriff Guntermann, Assistant Prosecut.
ing Attorney Orr and two physicians went
to the Buck farm TO make an investiga-
ton. An autopsy disclosed a bruise on
the forehead, above and right of the eye,
and blood clot on the brain. The skull
was not fractured. The officers learned
that Mrs. Buck found her husband lying
near the back door of the farmhouse in
an unconscious condition. She called to
her son Charles, young man of 20
years, and they carried the father into
the house and laid him upon the floor,
where he remained unconscious up to the
time Of death. No physician was called
to attend him. Near the spot where Buck
fell unconscious in his dooryard was found
on the day of his death small black
smiths hammer. One edge Of the ham
mer Is broken off. The contour of the
wound on his head was exactly the same
as the irregular contour of the hammer,
convincing the officers and doctors that
the blow that caused death was given
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