Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-02

Ine supposed smallpox case al fORt
Huron turns out to be case Of chicken
pox.
Men are scarce in Oceana County.
Farmers. are Offering $1.50 and $1.75 per
day.
Flint council has offered $25 reward for
the arrest Of persons who turn In false
fire alarms.
Rain has quenched the FIRE that was
raging in the swamps four miles west of
Eaton Rapids.
A heavy rain in Cass County has saved
winter wheat. A large acreage was sown
!. In that county. 4
A man named Hagel, said to hail from
Michigan, was murdered at Lacombe, n.
w. t., recently.
Louis Olsen, under arrest at Calumet
for assaulting and robbing Otto Lind
quist, has confessed.
1saThe State board OF auditors have allow
ed the expense accounts of the State tax
commission clerks.
Seth Stratton of Battle Greek is said
to be a physiological marvel in that he
has two stomachs.
Wilfrid Laurier, premier OF Canada,
has refused an invitation to make an ad-
dress at Port Huron.
Charles Hoy, well-known woodsman
OF st. Ignace, is dead Of injuries receiv-
ed in a lumber camp.
+ A German colony of one hundred fam
lilies will move from Canada to Garfield
township during the winter.
Mrs. Jos. Hudson of Port Austin is the
owner of potato, raised in her garden,
which weighs 2 pounds 91a ounces.
The Owosso coal mine will shortly add
I to- its force OF men. The men will be
. impprted from Ohio and Pennsylvania.
/, At Kalamazoo; William Spellman, alias
Larry, one of the Richland bank robbers,
was sentenced to eleven years in Jack
son prison.
sscEugene Crowley Of Lansing, an en-
pioye of the United States Telephone Co.,
was instantly killed at Toledo by an ex-
plosion of dynamite.
Tuscola County has expended $5,144
for the care of her poor so far this year.
County Treasurer Kinney has disbursed
SIS, 265 during the year.
Mrs. Lyman Johnson Of Scipio is the
oldest living resident of that township.
She has lived ON the same farm for sixty
years and is 80 years old.
Lomia Hall. aged II years, of Grand
Rapids, attempted to commit suicide by
shooting himself through the head. No
cause is known for the deed.
John +. V. Blake, who is frequently
mentioned in the Transvaal war dis
patches as captain in the Boer service, is
a former Grand Rapids man.
The Port Huron Merchants and Man
ufacturers' Association hereafter will ia
boo all fake advertising schemes and
patronize only the newspapers.
The Sunday School Association of HUI
ron township has elected these officers:
President, Leroy Macs; secretary, A. Q.
Crittendon; treasurer, Frank Downs.
William Dean Howells, the novelist,
made his first appearance in Michigan
as a lecturer at Ypsilanti the other even
ing and made a favorable impression.
Martin handicapped, aged II years, had
his right arm so badly crushed while
coupling cars in the G.. r. & 1. yards at
Grand Rapids that it had to be ampu-
tated:
DR.. Droste Of Grand Rapids, who has
Just returned from the Klondike, says
that Alaska is rich in copper, iron and
coal, as we'll as gold and predicts great
future for that country.
Homer Harrison, aged 80, living six
miles north of Lake Odessa, shot him
self in the right temple with 32-caliber
revolver. He left note saying he was
afraid of insanity and tired of life.
Rev. VIM. Stevenson, pastor of the NJ.
z. Church at Lapeer, says that it re-
auires more money to convert soul in
America than in any other country on the
globe, little more than 5000 per head.
Rev. NJ. X Duryea of Eikhart, Ind,
formerly a well-known divine OF Hills
dale. has resigned his pastorate to ac-
cept the position OF chaplain and super
intendent of the Seamen's Home at Bay
City.
The Supervisors of Delta County evil
IDENTIFY believe that an annual fair is a
good thing for the county, for they have
appropriated $500 toward the mainte-
nance of the County Agricultural So
ciety.
Bay County Supervisors have agreed
to submit to the electors Of that county
ut the April, 1900. election, the PROPOSE
ton to bond the county for 100000 for
the purpose of extending the stone roads
system.
1t is reported that within year at
least $500 more men will be employed
in the copper mines near Calumet. 1t
Is said the Calumet and Hecla Co. will
employ no less than 1,5O0 new men be-
fore the middle of next summer.
Samuel Bidddlecomb, who lives en-
Ninth street in Port Huron, is an old
yacht builder Of Cornes, England. He
says that he remembers distinctly when
the yacht America won the cup in Eng
lish waters. He is SO years old.
Hanley Mnard of Huron township,
who is week known through the northern
and eastern parts of Huron County,
caught his foot in buzz saw. The por-
ton OF the foot cut off was not found
until two days later, when it was discov
cred on the roof of barn near by, where
it had been thrown by the saw.
Walker Kniss. wealthy bachelor farm
or, GO years old. was found dead beside
the road. He left Schoolcraft at 8
o'clock the previous night. His head
and face were badly bruised. When
Kniss failed to return home brother
started out to hunt for him, with the
above result. There Is talk of foul play,
as Kniss was known to carry a large
sum ofmoney.
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