Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-11-09

Onaway, which year ago was ham
let OF 100 population, now has 1,5O0 in
habitants.
The citizens OF Oscoda County offer q
liberal bonus for some one to erect .
grist mill at Milo.
Manufacturers OF desks and tables at
Grand Rapids have decided to advance
prices about ten per cent.
1t is said that an oil expert Is watch
ing the progress Of the drilling OF the
well on the campus at Ann Arbor.
Elmer Stoughton, the Pennington
farmer who squandered $4,000 in four
years, Is now driving milk wagon.
The amount Of State tax to. be raised
in Genesee County this fall is $780,
9l5.I0, against $46, $500 last year
Gerrit vandenbosch, aged 10 years, fell
from d., q. II. 4 M. train at Grand
Haven and received serious injuries.
Will Buck, aged - years, son of a
Pittsford township farmer, was severely
injured by the explosion of an old mus
ket.
Rev. Mr.. Younglove Of Park town
ship has been convicted on the charge of
non-support preferred by his wife. The
couple are the parents of eleven chill
dren.
The resignation of Rev. G. r. Swift as
pastor Of the Plymouth Congregational
Church Of Lansing has been accepted.
Rev. Mr.. Swift will go TO Minneapolis
Dec. 4.
s. NJ. Taylor. J. Salisbury and John
Werner. from Pittsburg, will open coal
mile in Monitor tofnship, and put down
the largest shaft in the State, 9x2O feet
in the clear.
VIM. Doyle, a high school student at
Pinckney. was seriously injured While
riding his bicycle large dog ran In
front Of it, throwing him with terrific
force. He will recover.
The recent $4,000 issue of electric
lighting bonds of st. Louis were sold to
Cincinnati parties at premium of 81
per cent Action will be taken immedi-
ate!y to buy or build plant.
A barn on the farm of James McKin-
ney. southeast of Bancroft, burned. to-
gether with five horses, 1000 bushels Of
grain and farm implements. Loss 3d.
600. partially covered by insurance.
The Flint and Pere Marquette Rail-
road has begun laying four miles Of track
on the ST. Charles spur for the purpose
of reaching the mine Of the Northern
Coal and Transportation Co. in James
township.
The Board Of Supervisors Of Oscoda
County has closed two weeks session.
Robert kittle was reelected county
bridge commissioner and Mrs. Eliza De-
w md 80 h.. al - -
aminers.
The Ishpeming and Negaunee offices
| of Paine. Webber & Co.. Boston broker
| age firm, have been closed. Speculation
in copper stocks has diminished to such
an extent that very few brokerage con-
Germs are doing any paying business in
the upper peninsula.
Johanna Gursky. the Crystal Falls
| girl who was lost in the woods, was
brought home by sheriff from a home
stead near Atkinson. She was seven
teen days in the woods without food,
| living on wintergreen berries during the
| time.
The potato crop Of Oakland County will
not be as large as was at first expected.
In the western part of the county the
| cropis the smallest ever known. On ac-
| count of the unsettled condition of the
market no dealers have commenced buy
ing yet.
Denver G. Allen has been released from
the Ionia house of correction on parole
by Gov. Pingrce. Allen was serving a
sentence for grand larceny, sentenced
| from the Superior Court at Grand Rap
| ids. and his sentence will expire March
| IL next.
| Six OF the twelve head Of registered
Jersey cows. belonging to John Denbley-
ker, living near Kalamazoo, were killed
by direction Of State Veterinarian Dunn
phrey and ]. III. Brown, president of the
| Michigan live stock sanitary commission
The animals had tuberculosis.
Bay City police have in custody Louis
Goldberg, aged IA, and Sam Weinberg,
| aged II, charged with entering Tepoor-
tens hardware store six times and rob-
bling the till. Goldberg has confessed,
and also confesses that he broke into
| McCauley & Larkin's shoe store on two
occasions and robbed the till.
The beet sugar factory at Caro- Is now
in operation. The plant has cost more
than $500, 1000 and is thoroughly equipped.
hV wv tiop 10 uSht. OWiuk W the lOuK
drought during July and August, but it
will average from 10 to IL tons to the
acre. The percentage of sugar is high,
some testing 10 per cent. while the poor
est go 10.
The Jackson Ore Co. is tearing down
it's old concentration building between Ish-
! peming and Nageunee to get material to
replace the shaft house at the Negaunee
mine destroyed by fire recently. The
concentration was built fifteen years ago
by Eastern capitalists to reduce iron ores.
The scheme was complete failure and
$1.O00,OO0 was lost.
The Union and Comstock blocks. in
GLIDING the Otsego County bank building
and five stores in the central part OF
the business district, burned at Gaylord,
The losses are as follows: Store Of Mrs.
l.. w. Stiff OF Owosso. occupied by T.
l.. Leonard. -four and feed; two stores
of s. W. Buck, occupied by Penney &
Conan, groceries. and w. s. Carpenter.
jewe,er; Freeman Arnold. store, Of Jack
son. occupied by Isaac Golden, clothing;
A. Il. C.. Comstock's store and bank
building. occupied by the Otsego County
Bank and A. b. G. Comstock's hard
ware store. The losses, including house
hold goods OF families in the second
stories. are estimated at from $4,000 to
| $4,000.
Jonathan Boyce. the big lumberman.