Crawford avalanche., 1899-07-27
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mead. he died instantly.
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The beet sugar crop in st. Joseph Coun'
ty is estimated at fifteen tons to the acre.
Burglars entered the residence of VIM.
McNutt at Wayne and secured SIS worth
Of plunder.
The barns on the farm of Charles A..
Jewel Of Medina township were burned.
Loss $4,000.
The pea warehouse Of Keeny & Son,
at Traverse City. was destroyed by fire.
Loss $1,000.
Eaton County farmers say their wheat
crop this year will not fall much below
the average.
James Davis of Mckinley fell from the
driving scow on the Au Sable river and
was drowned.
e. III. Parish, well-known resident Of
Jackson, was thrown from buggy and
seriously injured.
Thomas Willis, who left Bay City ff-
teen months ago for the Alaska gold
fields, died April 1G last.
Buildings belonging to Jacob Maatta
Joseph Kecki and Charles A. Fox at
Larium, burned. Loss $1,000.
Marine City will issue $1,000 street
improvement bonds to run for about thr
ty years at per cent interest.
The new f. & z. NJ elevator at Lud-
ington, which will replace the one burned
recently, will have a capacity of 10000
bushels.
Joe Erker. an aged farmer and early
settler OF Gratiot County, living near
Perrinton, committed suicide by taking
dose Of poison.
Adolph Seitz of Harbor Beach. while
coupling cars on the flour mill siding of
the Flint and Pere Marquette, received
serious injuries.
Ex-senator Forsyth of Standish has
purchased the Hall farm near there, con-
sisting of $50 acres, nearly all of which Is
under Improvement.
William Martin OF Bad Axe built his
barn on foundation of posts instead of
rocks. The barn collapsed the other day
and is a total loss.
1t is said now that the bill raising the
salaries of Detroit aldermen To $1,000
was never legally passed by the State
Senate, and that the law is worthless.
Bay City Common Council has made
the first movement against the dynamite
frecracker. 1t had adopted a resolution
prohibiting the sale and use of cannon
crackers and toy cannons.
The Federal Steel Company has secur-
ed control of the Dexter iron mine, eight
miles west of Ishpeming, and will reopen
It with force Of 100 men as soon as the
workings can be watered.
The brick chimney at the Standard
Mallcable Iron Co.'S plant at Muskegon
Heights, fell with crash, carrying three
men who were working on it, with it.
The men were only slightly injured.
Burglars succeeded in cracking the safe
at the Holly postofficc. and the job netted
them nearly $500. They were evidently
disturbed while engaged in their work,
as they left 1000 worth of stamps be-
hind them.
Frank Albers & Co. of Muskegon will
rebuild their mill, which burned recently.
The new mill will have a capacity of
about 10000 feet OF lumber a day and
100000 shingles. 1t will give employ
mept to sixty men.
Lowell citizens are up in arms because
the Common Council has granted the
Grand Rapids and Bclding electric rail-
road right of way across the island in
the Kent river af that place, which Is
one of the protest natural parks in the
State. .EtttlE
During the past five years lat divorces
were granted in Washtenaw County, 1O5
Of the compliments being women. There
are 81 cases pending.
Geo. Il. Davis has returned to South
Haven from the Klondike. He is broken
in health and found little gold. He says
there Is no chance for men who go to the
Klondike now. E 10 w hf
Circuit Judge Person, at Lansing, has
granted an order directing County Clerk
Woodwork to show cause why he should
not issue certificates for the pay claimed
for Sundays by jurors who served be-
tween 1893 and 1897.
The F.5& Pm. Railroad will soon be-
ein the construction OF double track be-
tween Ludington and Baldwin, dis
tance OF eighty miles.
A reception was given at the Baptist
Church at Plainwell In honor OF the pns-
tor, Rev, John Fletcher, who celebrated
his C7rh birthday. This Is his thirty
fourth year of continuous service.
Ann .Arber City Council has determip-
ed TO have several free beds mt the dis.
posnl of city physicians in the Univer.
sity hospitals, and will have at least two
In the new homeopathic hospital as the
deciding of the new site Will have for Its
consideration tho setting aside of two
Bcds FOR the city.