Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-05-25


was completely killed by the heavy spring
frosts.
Revenue Oficer Martin seized $3.50 ci.
CARS at Charlotte that bore fraudulent rev.
enue stamps.
Fire at Manistee damaged the plant of
the Garfield Salt and Lumber Co. to the
extent of $4,000.
The p. o. e N. station and grocery
store at Cole burned. Loss $1,000, COW
cred by insurance.
Burt fleming was probably fatally in.
jured at Lowell while trying to board
moving freight train.
The Phelps stock of general merchan.
disc at Bellevue was sold to Burnham.'
Stocpel & Co. Of Detroit.
1t is said that the old Breen mine on
the Menominee iron range near Vance
dab will be operated this year. s+t
Fire at st. Charles destroyed a building
and barn owned by man named Heine-
man of Saginaw. Loss $1,000.
William Stevens, brakeman of the
Flint and Pere MlrIuctte, fell from the
top of freight train at Amadore and was
killed.
i
Marion township exploded. Ned Carlin
was blown to pieces and ID. o. Smith was
badly injured.
| Marcus w. Wallace, an Ann Arbor
horse dealer, was thrown from his buggy
while his horses were running away and
was instantly killed.
| Miss Katie Corey has secured $1,000
| judgment against Ann Arbor for injuries
received by falling on an icy sidewalk.
| She sued for $4,000.
The troubles between the Flint and Pere
| Marquette Railroad and the telegraph OPP
| orators employed by the company have
been satisfactorily adjusted.
Sheep killing dogs are doing considera-
| BILE damage in the neighborhood of Mil
| lington. James White and Richard Wills
| lost 500 worth the other night
The Lehigh Valley express No. made
the run from Port Huron to Battle Creek,
1G0 miles, in 1877 minutes, breaking the
Chicago and Grand Trunk record.
III. s. Rcardon, ex-superintendent of the
| Detroit, Toledo and Milwaukee, has been
appointed general manager of the Omaha,
Kansas City and Eastern Railroad.
Large quantities of flax have been sown
by the farmers in Sanilac County this
spring. Flax culture is becoming one Of
the leading industries in that section.
| ID. ID. Brockwy, who died at Lake Lin.
den recently, is said to have been the old
est surviving resident of the copper coun-
try. He arrived at L'Anse in August,
| 1913.
The three courts of Foresters in the Bay
| Citinc haya haan u,arOnd into ono NV Hiph
Chief Ranger VIM. +. Brown of Lapeer.
The new organization will be known as
Court Bay City, No. 306.
Edgar Britton of Bay City, assistant
ticket agent of the Flint and Pcre Mar.
Quette Railroad, has been promoted to the
position of chief agent. ii. Lane, agent
at Flint, will become his assistant.
Rev. j. NJ. Fulton Of the Westminster
Presbyterian Church at Grand Rapids,
advocates the abandonment of evening
services. He says they would be as pro.
fitably spent by church members in the en-
joymcnt of the family circle.
What promises to be one of the most i'm
portant moves in railway history in the
central United States is in a fair way to
be consummated by the consolidation Of
the Ann Arbor, Flint and Pere Marquette
and the Grand Rapids and Western roads.
SANDY" Walker and James Darrough
became involved in a quarrel at Lexing-
ton. Darrough gave Walker severe
beating. When the men were separated
Walker drew a revolver and shot OAR
rough in the back. The wound is not a
serious one.
The village of Carrolton has decided to
| oho 10, o,,I
the old township form Of government. Its
sawmills have burned down, and the lum-
Der industry has long been on the wanr,
and the people in that vicinity are turning
to agricultural pursuits.
A terrible loss of life was narrowly
averted on the Northwestern road at La
throp, when the north-bound passenger
train, running at a speed of fifty miles an
hour, crashed into the end of an ore train
that had broken in two while going on to
siding to permit passenger train to
pass. The passenger engineer saw the
fagman's signal too late to bring his train
TO q stop and it ran into the ore train,
smashing a caboose and several ore ca,s
and damaging the engine, but fortunately
none Of the passengers or train crew were
hurt.
Forest fires have been raging to tie
west and south of Iron Mountain. A fire
northwest of the city was started by Q
wood chopper leaving a camp fire and the
wind, which was blowing small-szed
gale famed it into a conhagration. a
stretch of half mile wide and three miles
long was all ablaZe. Three farms owned
by Edward Harvey, Theodore Jacquel
and Richard BENEFITS were in the path
and the buildings and stock were saved
only by hard work. Another fire started
near the compressor works on the Menom.
inee river, south of the city, and burned
considerable standing pine and cut hard
! wood.
Five hundred employees of the twenty
one miles on the Menominee river ana
bay shore struck. The strike is for a u
per cent increase in wages. In all in.
stances the demands were refused, excep,
by Harding Bros, the Menomnee River
Lumber Company and one or two Other
concerns. The foremen of all the mills af
fected by the strike say they will start ur
! again as soon as help can be secured. The
men on a strike are single sawyers, shin
glemakers and knot sawyers. The shin
gle sawyers receive $3.50 day and
want So. The shinglemakers receive I
{ cents thousand and want cents, while
the knot sawyers are getting $1.75 a day
and ask for 81.
!, The steeple on the First NJ. Z. Church