Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-05-18


picking out the eyes Of lambs.
The State Board Of Health wants larg-
or appropriations to carry on Its work.
The graduating class Of the Holly high
school will consist Of twelve members.
The Sanilac Center high school building
has been completed at a cost Of $1,000.
Grace Hess, aged IL years, Of White
more, is dead as result of injuries re-
ceived in play.
house at st. Louis burned. Loss a. OO,
insurance $1,000
The Lowell and, Hastings Railroad has
been sold TO the Grand Rapids, Bedding
and Saginaw Co.
Charles Thompson of Flint, Company
b, First Montana, was wounded In the
leg at Calumpit.
Marcus Sterk, a Red jacket saloonkeep-
err, lost wad Of 81 500. 1t is thought the
money was stolen.
More bicycles have been sold through
out Sanilac County this spring than dur
ing any previous season.
Work ON the Ypsilanti-Saline electric
railroad has begun. 1t Is expected to be
in running order in sixty days.
Rev. l.. B. Missel of Monroe has ac-
cepted the call to the Franklin Street
Presbyterian Church of Lansing.
The 15-months-old baby daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph Hinkley of Mason fell
into pail Of water and was drowned.
The Eaton County bar has presented an
oil portrait of Supreme Court Justice
Frank A. Hooker to the Circuit Court.
Two farmers named Stone and Mcleod
We're held up near Dolarville. They were
relieved Of $40 in the most approved west
ern style.
Ex-Congressman Ben Il. Gable will fur
nish most of the funds to build new
chapter house ut Ann Arbor for the Zeta
Psi fraternity.
Rev. James Chalmers, one of the most
able of Port Huron's divines, has accept
ed call to the Second Congregational
Church at Toledo.
Plans for the new court house for St.
Joseph County submitted by s. j. Os-
good of Grand Rapids have been accepted
by the Supervisors.
Battle Greek claims to have the tallest
telephone pole in Michigan. The giant is
| located on Marshall street, and is ninety
feet above the ground.
Charles Cardinal, living near Standsh,
was probably fatally injured in q saw
mill. A stick flew back from saw and
struck him in the head.
Ey-Congressman s. Nj. Stephenson, the
wealthy lumber merchant, is to give the
| city of Menominee handsome new Ii
lro hull 30 10 h,,sI+ T.; e,
pense.
G. L. Hills, wealthy lumberman, Of
| fers to build beautiful Masonic temple
| at Muskegon if the two lodge, in that city
will amalgamate. The building will cost
| $4,000
John Hartman of Birmingham, a line
| man on the Detroit and Pontiac Electric
! Railway, came in contact with live wire
and was thrown to the ground and severe
| ly injured.
| The mangled remains of a man were
! found on the Michigan Central tracks
| about four miles west of Jackson. He APP
peared to be about I5 years of age, but
| is unidentified.
| In the case of Cecilia II. Lellis of De-
troit against the Michigan Central and
! Ann Arbor Railroad companies in Circuit
Court at Ann Arbor Judge Kline direct
ed verdict for the defendants.
A freight wreck occurred on the Mich
| igan Central Railroad between Sheldon
and Dentons. 1t was caused by the break
ing down of fiat car loaded With build
ing stone. Twelve cars were derailed and
spread all over the track.
| A collection Of about 100 photographs
has recently been received by the depart
ment of pharmacology of the University
Of Michigan, direct from Colombo, Cey-
Ion. The photographs, which are unusu-
ally large, are illustrative OF phases of
| the tea, coffee, vanilla, cinchona and 9TH
er native industries.
| Alarming reports have been received
from the great raspberry district around
st. Joseph to the effect that the entire crop
is in danger Of being ruined by a foreign
small black bug of the mosquito family.
The little pest gathers upon the bushes
| by the hundreds. In a few hours the
bushes are lifeless.
The homestead near Galesburg, where
Gen. w. X. Shafter, American COM
mander before Santiago, was born and
reared, is to be torn down and the prop
erty sold. During the battles before San
tiago the homestead was visited by hun
dreds Of persons and portions of the old
log house were carried away as relics.
A party OF seventeen farmers living
northeast of St. Louis have started for
Palestine. They are Adventists and are
going TO Jerusalem in order to be there at
the second coming of Christ. While wait
ing for that to happen they will do mis-
sionary work and will support themselves
by farming land which they will buy. !
The Central Telephone Co., with head.
quarters at Kalamazoo, will extend its
| system to Jackson to connect with the
New State company. Further extensions
! will be made from Buchanan to Benton
Harbor and st. Joseph, and from Buchan-
an to South Bend. also south to connect
with the Ohio and Indiana Independent
telephone interests.
Peter Goetz the well-known proprietor
of the Clifton House of Sault Ste. Marie
mysteriously disappeared from home
Later his body was found six miles from
the $780," on the Canadian side. 1t had
been discovered in the river, and as there
was nothing on the body by which it could
be identified, it was taken ashore, placed
in rough box and buried. 1t is thought
that Goetz committed suicide. Before
leaving his home he went to his room
removed a portion of his clothing and left
all his valuables at home.
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