Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-01-13
Brighton will have electric lights.

The car famine which had existed at
Bay City for months is ended.
Pontiac expects to pave Main street
with cedar blocks in the spring.
Bay City banks have reduced their rates
of interest ON deposits to 3 per cent.
More than $25O,O0O was expended in
city improvements at Grand Rapids last
year.
Henry Walker of Salem township acci-
dentally shot himself and is dead of his
wounds.
Charles T.. Cox, who was murdered by
tramps at Waterloo, Ind, has been buried
| at Medina.
Henry Wright, farmer living near
| Muskegon, was thrown out Of cart and
instantly killed.
Walter Sisca, under arrest at Charlotte
on charge of robbing Farmer VIM. Rog-
| ers, has confessed
The hardware firms of A. X. Carpenter
and Yerkcs * Harmon at Worthwhile have
been consolidated.
There is bread war on at Buchanan
and bakers there are selling their product
for one cent n loaf.
1t is said that the cause of the fire in
the coal sheds at Dollar Bay was the low
| grade of coal stored there.
Chct Sargent is under arrest at Pontiac
and will be held as witness against the
alleged incendiaries at Holly.
VIM. Duffy. for many years clerk ut the
| Hibbard House, jackson. has been ad-
mitted as member of the hotel firm.
Cheney & Co.. boot and shoe dealers at
Grand Rapids, have filed trust deeds to
secure creditors to the amount of Sll,Ooo.
The deadlock in the Metamora Council
is broken after battle of seven months.
The village will now borrow money and
pay its debts.
Emory l.. Bridge, several years man
ager of the Livingston Hotel at Grand
Rapids, has resigned and will engage in
other business.
Fine progress is being made in the
woods by lumbermcn. The snow is Just
right The outlook for trade is said to
be most fatterng.
The river at St. Joseph is named after
FIR St Joseph. Catholic priest. There
is talk of erecting a monument to mark
the last resting place of the explorer.
The Kalamazoo Gas and Electric Co. S
gas machine refused to operate the other
day and hundreds of houses were without
gas for heating and lighting purposes.
The representatives Of the United
Alkali Co. of Great Britain have secured
an extension of the option for twenty days
on the McGraw property at Bay City.
Sheldon q Beebe. grain merchants at
Mendon. have filed bills of sale aggregat-
nd ,butt al mo
favor of the First State Bank of Mendon
for $1,000.
Metamora prohibtionists have scored
another victory and Metamora will re-
main dry. The pressure has been so great
that Benjamin Ycrkey withdrew his pc
tition for license.
At st. Joseph, Judge Coolidge impanel-
ed grand jury, the unsatisfactory trials
of many cases making ii necessary, es-
pecially prize fight case in which no one
could be made to testify
The city of Sturgis has been sued for
$4,000 by Mrs. j. W. Parker and her
daughter, who were seriously injured in
a runaway accident six weeks ago, caus-
ed by flowing fire plug.
Beginning the new year the fifty-hour
week, or nine hours n day, except on Sat
urday, which is a five-hour day, was re-
sumed at the Michigan Central shops at
Jackson junction. Seven new engines are
in process of construction.
Directors Of the Michigan Sugar Co.
of Bay City have practically decided to
locate the factory at Salzburg, near the
Twenty-third street bridge. An excel
lent site has been offered there, and the
board is unanimous in favor of accepting
it.
The directors of the Lansing, Dexter &s
Ann Arbor Railway Co. met ut Lansing.
They report the work of securing the
right of way well advanced, the right
through the townships of Vevay and Ing
ham and the village of Dansville having
already been secured.
The records of the city clerks Office
show that while the number of chattel
mortgages filed at Lansing during the
year 1897 show falling off from the pre-
vous year. the number of discharges has
materially increased. thus indicating a
more prosperous condition of affairs.
Newland l.. Sprague an invalid, has
fled claim of $4,000 damages against
the city os Lansing for injuries received
by his wife by falling on defective side
walk. lie Claims ne was dependent. OH
his wife for support. Mrs. Sprague has
brought suit for $4,000 damages on her
own account.
The United States fish station at North
vile has handled this season 12,0OO,O 900
trout eggs. Seventy-five per cent have
proved fe.tilc, which is n good average.
J -Four million eggs have been shipped to
various portions of the United States and
foreign countries. A shipment of $4,000
was made to Switzerland a day or two
ago. Tho remaining 100000 eggs will
be hatchod at the station and shipped
later as fry.
This Is The month for the payment of
specific taaes by fire insurance companies,
and by way of letting them know what to
expect, Commissioner Campbell has noti-
fled each foreign company writing insur-
ance in Michigan that no deductions in
the way CT rebates, reinsurance, abate-
ments or return premiums will be allow
cd, but that the per cent tax be COM
puted on the gross Michigan earnings.
The companies have been accustomed to
make these deductions heretofore.
The Ioiia district fair association has
elected tl-c following officers for 1898:
President John Il. Morrison OF Berlin
vicc-prcsicent, Frederick Graft Of Or
leans; secretary, g. "A. Cornell OF Ionia /:
treasurer, Will Peck OF Ionia.