Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-02-10

Mason refuses to pay a bonus of $50
000 for the Lansing and Dexter electric
road.
A snowplow loaded with men ran into
caboose at North Bay City, badly in
juring four men.
ID. o. Adams. the farmer who commit
ted suicide near Litchfield, was heir to
II fortune in Ireland, said TO be valued at
$4,000.
The Carnegie Oliver Mining Company
of Ironwood have announced an increase
of 10 per cent. in the wages Of all their
employees.
Christopher Daley. of Genesec an old
man, has just received from son in
Dakota present of 1000 with which
to buy farm.
A vein of soft coal is reported to have
been located on a farm just west OF Bron-
son, while sinking Il well. There is talk
of sinking a shaft.
a number of business men have organ
sized at Jackson and will give fair next
fall. Charles X. Durand is president Of
the organization.
The farm house of Thomas Erwin. three
miles from Marlette, burned while the
family was absent. The house and con-
tents are total loss.
Bay City now intends reaching out for
a plate glass works and Il soap company,
the latter being an English concern that
is to locate in this country.
In Thetford Township 4,101 trees have
been inspected, 4S4 of which were found
to be affected with n disease known as
black knot, and 81 were condemned.
Dolly Smith, Il 1-year-old girl Of Deck
erville, was seriously burned. In trying
to save his daughter Henry Smith was
also severely burned. Both will recover
Rover Snow, farmer. living fourteen
miles south OF Battle Creek, while repair
ing a windmill was struck by fan and
thrown to the ground, receiving injuries
from which he died.
The well-known dry goods firm Of
Lamb, Davis & Kishlar. at Ypsilanti.
have decided to dissolve partnership April
10. Fred Lamb will engage in business
elsewhere in the State.
Farmers in Gladwin County are en-
gagged in running down wildcats, and the
record up to date for the season is sixty
six. They are unusually plentiful A
bounty of S3 apiece is offered for their
scalps.
Burglars went through the Ann Arbor
railroad stations ut Owosso. Corunna and
Vernon the other night. At Corunna the
automatic gum machine was smashed and
S1.9S in cents taken, also the agents re-
volver
Arthur Manner. the trusty, who escaped
from Ionia prison Oct. q. 1896, has haen
captured at Dawson, Ky. and will be
brought back. He was sentenced from
Detroit on IA fifteen years sentence for
robbery.
Officers have discovered sad case in
Cooper, where Frank Davenport and sis
ter live in one room with chickens and
pigs. The stock, eighteen head. are left
to feed themselves and drink where they
can find water.
Mrs. Charles O. Everts was Il passenger
on train between Saginaw and Grand
Rapids with her twin babies The train
became stalled in the snowdrifts. and
one Of the babies died before assistance
could be reached.
Mrs. f. NJ. Overmeycr of Charlotte
has received word that she is one of nine
worth 100000. John Lease of Eaton
Rapids, brother of Mrs. Overmeyer. Is
another one of the heirs.
Stephen Baldwin. the Detroit million
aire. has begun suit ut Pontiac against
Fred A. Baker, chairman of the Mich.-
gan Democratic State Committee. to COM
pei the latter to accept silver dollars in
settlement Of mortgage.
Bert Cornell. employed at Taylor's mill
in Rome, stopped over TO pick up some
edging that had been sawed off, While
doing so his head came in contact with
the circular saw which cut the skull COM
pletely through, exposing the brain.
While a meeting of the Barry County
Farmers Institute was in progress at
Delton. in Blackman's Hall, it was dis
covered that the building was spreading.
The hall was crowded to it's utmost ca
pacity. The crowd filed quietly out and
no one was hurt.
In the Circuit Court at Lansing J. H..
Robert Il. and Willis n. Walker were
ordered to contribute So per week toward
the support of their aged and infirm faith
er. The first named was willing to con-
! tribute, but the others proposed to let the
old man shift for himself.
Before board of arbitration at Bang
! kok Is being pushed the claim of Mrs.
NJ. A. Check of Grand Rapids for $780,
600 damages against the King of Siam.
Rev. Dan +. Bradley. brother. says
that eight years ago the late Mr.. Cheek
owned a lumber plant in Siam with 200
| elephants and several steamers. Failing
| to fulfill government contract owing to
low water the King swooped down and
confscated everything he had Cheek
died from the shock.
The west side of the public square, the
business portion Of the village of Brook
| lyn, was destroyed by fire, causing losses
| aggregating $4,000. The fire started i'm
the Ebbcrt bakery building, owned by
NJ. Sheridan. Two other buildings owned
| by Sheridan, one vacant and the other
occupied by saloon and feed store: two
stores occupied by Frank Fitzgerald. one
occupied by a barber shop and the Brook
| lyn business mems club, and the other
| by meat market; the Brooklyn hotel and
barber shop owned by Mrs. Betty San
| ford, and the frame building owned by
II. ]. Ennis, occupied by n millinery es-
tablishment were destroyed. The tear
ing down of shoe store and an imple-
ment warehouse stayed the progress Of
the flames. There is no insurance on the
burned property.
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