Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-06
Gladwin is to have heading mill very

Il 'DllllS Ill StlooHS mubt ceusc.
There is talk OF establishing sugar
beet factory at kalamazoo.
Seymer Degroff of Litchfield, who fell
from tree, died of his injuries.
The Bell Telephone CO. has made a 10
cent rate at Metamora to all points.
The village of Parma suffered from a
destructive fire. Loss about $4,000.
Bay City banks will reduce the rate of
interest from to 3 per cent after Jan. /.
| Free mail delivery service will be in
stitutcd at Sault Ste. Marie on March l
next.
Michael Pronex, living near Standish,
was trampled OH by n colt and seriously
| injured.
! Henry Redmond of Lansing was struck
on the head by falling brick and his
skull fractured.
A Yale man, who has buried two wives
within eleven months, has just been mar
ried to a third
The residence of Mrs. o. ii. p. Spring
er. at Eaton Rapids, burned. Loss $3,-
900; insurance, $500.
Marine City hopes to have canning
factory established there which will give
employment to 100 persons.
The 6-months-old child Of Joseph File
wclling was found dead in its cab at the
home of its parents in Flint.
The Michigan Manufacturing Company
at Standish employs i25 men and puts out
two carloads Of products daily.
A new corporation has been formed at
m.
bars of the adjustable variety.
An election will be held at Schoolcraft
to vote on bonding the village for a sys-
TEN of water works and electric lights.
Martinus Aphoff, an aged Hollander,
who had been deserted by his wife, COM
mitted suicide at Grand Rapids by hang
ing.
Charles Kimball fell off the roof Of a
church at Benton Harbor and escaped
with two broken legs and some broken
ribs.
After n three years fight with the
DUnkards, the Methodists have won their
suit for possession of Bethel Church, at
Penn.
A young man named Lilly of Coopers-
vile was found shot through the head in
the woods. Death was probably acci-
dental.
The municipal electric light plant at
Romeo has been started. There are forty
2,000-candle power lamps on the stree ts.
The plant cost $4,000.
A passenger coach on the Sand Bca ch
| division of the +. & +. NJ. jumped the
tracks in the tunnel yards at Port Huron
and was nearly telescoped.
The infant boy of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed.
Abbey, who was scalded at Charlotte by
a kettle of boiling lard falling upon him,
will live. He will lose his sight.
Leo Inderbitzen of Escanaba, a Ger
man painter who was recently released
from the State asylum for the insane,
committed suicide at Carlshend by shoot
ing.
VIM. Endries. an Irishman at Union
City, attempted to commit suicide by tax
ing big dose of iodine. Physicians saw
cd his life, but he declares he will yet
| end it,
The sale of the Adrian Street Railway
property to A. u. Southworth for 81 200
| has been confirmed The road will be
oyerhauled, repaired and put in operation
| in month.
| The Michigan Sugar Company has
practically decided to locate at Essex
vile, the Bay City suburb. 1t will be
given twenty acres of land, and it's plant
will not be taxed.
Carl Partridge of Sights, near Trav-
erse City, was cutting wood when an AK
welded by companion flew off the helve
and lodged in Partrdge's side, just below
the ribs. He may die.
| G.. De Vlicger. Jr., commercial travel.
er of Battle Creek, .vho has written sew
eral stories under the nom dc plume of
"Gyp." was robbed of S2,S52 while stop
ping at the Midland Hotel in Kansas
City.
Schoolcraft people will hustle around
to secure some manufacturing business to
locate in the village to use the casket fac
tory buildings, which are now idle, the
| property having been sold recently to sat
isfy mortgage.
Colfax Is the name of the postofIicc at
the coal mines in Monitor township, Bay
County. Within two years, since the de-
velopment of the mines. upwards of fifty
buildings. including hotel and two sa-
looms, have been erected there.
A factory win be erected at Muskegon
Heights, a suburb of Muskcgon, for the
manufacture OF monographs under the
patents of Muskegon man. The COM
pany is capitalized at 100000, and fifty
men will be given employment.
II is said a regular gang of bad hoboes
hold down the Michigan Central Railroad
route. They carry guns, rob citizens and
and even hold up other tramps. They
know where to beg and make it difiicnlt
for ''non-uiion'' trumps to get. get food.
At Mendon. Mrs. George Stevens mar
rowly escaped being burned to death. She
was carrying pan of ashes out of the
paror, when she fell to the floor in a
faint Her dress caught fire and she was
seriously burned before help reached her
Lawrence Waters. an aged farmer re-
siding three miles north Of WayIaRd, Cass
County. had no faith I'm banks, and instead
placed his savings, consisting of about
$500 in greenbacks, $4,000 worth OF
government bonds and notes. mortgages
and other valuable papers, into tin pail
This pail he buried beneath the floor in
his barn some months ago, and he has
been In the habit of visiting the hiding
place every day TO see if his fortune was
safe. The other morning when he made
the customary visit he discovered that
robbers had been there. for his fortune
had disappeared.
Michigan farmers hnve won n victory IN
decision of the Supreme Court which
declares the law authorizing township