Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-20
CRAWLING, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, APRIL NUMBER g.
The village of Oakley refuses to grant

Is not to cost more than 100000
Dundee has one harnessmaker who has
been in the same shop thirty years.
A starch mill and brick and tile fac
tory will locate at Sand Bea III this year.
Huron County capitalists will prospect
for COAL lead and oil in Oliver township.
The Kalamazoo and the Wolverine Pa
per companies OF Kalamazoo will be COM
bined.
Jackson City Council has granted a
franchise to the Adrian and Jackson Rail-
way Co.
Mrs. Geo. Beardsley, one of the Oldest
residents of Standish, is dead of con-
sumption.
The first train over the widened South
Haven and Eastern Railroad was run the
other morning.
A majority of the union miners who
are still on strike at Ishpemng have voted
not to return to work.
The first session of the State board of
examiners in dentistry will be held at
Port Huron on May 8.
On account of the advance in the price
of brick brickmaking will probably be re-
sumed in Munith this year.
Jacob Lewandowsky of Port Huron is
reported as missing. He had $245 in his
pockets when he disappeared.
Only one objection to the taxes of 1898
was filed in the Circuit Court at Port
Huron, which is record breaker.
Alphonso Buckhout of Alamo tried to
commit suicide by stabbing himself. He
was despondent because of i'll health.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. p. Manning are the old
est couple residing at Mosherville. They
have been married for fifty-four years.
Mayor Davis Of Lansing has vetoed
resolutions passed by the Council permit
ting the construction of plank sidewalks
in that city.
The Traverse City Lumber Co. has sold
to Il. Wilce & Co. Of Chicago 100000
fest of hardwood, the entire cut of the
lumber company.
C.. b. Atwood, claiming his residence
in Ontario, was found guilty at Corunna
of forgery and attempting to pass forged
checks in Durand.
The Michigan Detachable Chain Co. Of
Detroit, with q capital stock of $4,000,
has filed notice of incorporation with the
Secretary of State.
The police authorities at Grand Rapids
are investigating the death of l.. A. Wat
eek, who died recently under alleged sus-
picous circumstances.
On a farm two miles east Of Durand is
live curiosity in the shape of a calf
without tail, in fact it has no backbone
half way over the hips.
Rev. w. c. Macbeth, who has been
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at
Milan for a long time, has resigned his
pastorate. He is going to Erie, Pa.
Minnie, the 3-year-old daughter of John
Niederer, Delray market gardener, was
burned to death. The child had built a
bonfire of dried grass and leaves in the
rear of her home, and her clothing caught
fire.
AT the town meeting of Clam Union
township, the voters passed resolution
irstructing the authorities to keep bicy-
cles off the town roads. AS it is known
that representatives Of the Joseph Letter
Autotruck Trust have been in different
parts of the county bicycle riders are in
ciined to believe this is the beginning of
a movement by that company TO rule BIZ
cycles off the roads, in order to facilitate
the introduction of motor carriages.
Prominent members of the Missaukee
Cycling Club say that they will fight the
ruling.
The official crop report, based on reports
from 700 correspondents, representing ev-
cry section of the State, says that the
wheat was seriously injured in March, its
condition now being but 73 per cent as
compared with average years. The abb
sance Of snow caused fields to be frozen
to a great depth. 1t is estimated that ap-
pies will be but 66 per cent of an average
crop this year; peaches, II; pears, 43;
piums, 81: cherries, 70; grapes, 60; rasp-
berries, SO; Strawberries, 76, AND black
berries, AZ. Forty-six per cent of the
peach trees and % per cent of the pear
trees are estimated to have been killed by
| freezing in February. There were alse
frozen 80 per cent of the potatoes in pits
aud 2G per cent in cellars.
Henry Huffman and Ed Smith of Mu-
NTH had a narrow escape from being
drowned. The past winter they have been
hunting and trapping and as the water
was rising they were gathering up their
traps along Plum Orchard creek with a
boat. AS they were nearing the Dunn
| bridge the boat swung into the current
and they were being carried under the
bridge. Smith thinking that the boat
would pass under safely, laid down in the
beat, but Huffman thinking to stop it,
grabbed the bridge. He was knocked OF
| the seat into the icy water and carried
under the bridge by the current. During
| his efforts to get into the boat it was over
| turned and Smith and their guns and
| about forty steel traps thrown out. The
| b,at was carried away from them and
| they swan to the shore, returned home
and started to recover their traps with an
other boat.
At Hastings, Allen and John McOmber
wsre convicted on the charge Of burglary.
Allen was sentenced to two years nj
| Jackson and to pay fine of $500, while
| John was let off with a six months SEN
teace and $500 fine. If the fines are not
paid, each prisoner will have to serve a
| wear in lieu of 1t. Before sentence was
passed Allen McOmber made short
sp.ech confessing he was the leader in
| thu burglaries. The McOmbers were
l,yenng business men and had the conf
dence of most of the citizens. More than
a year ago burglars began operating In
| thu town, and IL was not until last Janu-
ars that suspicion attached to the Neon
| be. boys. Then a search of their store
| and home resulted in the recovery of most
| of the stolen goods. Their arrest follow
| ed and caused a great sensation. Two
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