Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-05-04

A convention to organize State league
of municipalities will be held at Lansing
May %.
A barn belonging to Delos Lyon Of
Trowbridge burned. Loss $1,000, no in
surance.
Benton Harbor has concluded to try
asphalt paving and has let contract for
$14, 900 worth Of 1t.
The Michigan Bell Telephone Co. has
begun the work of extending its lines
north of Menominee.
Rev. Mr.. Frye of the Protestant Meth
odist Church at Oakley has retired on ac-
count of bad health.
Three new electric lines are assured for
Adrian, Adrian to Toledo, Adrian to Ypsi-
lanti and Adrian to Jackson.
The 12-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Patrick Burden of the Chilson Hotel At
Traverse City died suddenly.
David p. Chalker, member of Jack
sons police force, is 80 years old and
weighs $50 pounds. He is dubbed the
''baby."
The right of way through the Avery
property at Port Huron has been granted
for the construction of the electric road to
| st. Clair.
There is not vacant dwelling house in
Bronson and only one vacant store Twen-
ty-fve new residences will be built this
summer.
A business mems association has been
| formed at Flint to correct business evils
| and the promotion of the general welfare
of the city.
The village council of Worthwhile is hav-
| ing trees and shrubbery planted in the new
park. In few years it will be hand
| some spot.
The ice dealers of Bay City have form
| ed a trust. Prices will remain the same,
but deadbeats will have to do without ice
| this summer.
The Detroit, Grand Rapids and Western
Railroad has settled with Emily z. White
of Ann Arbor, who was injured in Detroit
two years ago, for $4,000.
Carl A. Hammond, cashier Of the First
National Bank of Traverse City, has re-
| signed because of ill-hcalth. He is sue
! ceeded by Frank A. Welton.
The Lake Shore Railroad officials have
partially promised committee of Adrian
| citizens that the company's car shops will
not be moved from that city.
Owners of sugar bushes in Branch
County enjoyed the best run of sap on rec
ord this spring. The price of syrup and
| sugar is low in consequence.
| Mrs. Sarah Hiltz has begun suit against
| the Jackson Street Railway Co. for $10,-
| 600 damages for the death of her son
| Fred, who was run down by one Of the
company's cars.
Jackson City Council has reduced the
rate Of taxation to 90 per cent. Ste
| phen III. Carroll is the new president of
| the Council, of which he has been men,
Der for twenty years.
| 1t has been proposed that owners of poor
! farming lands in the neighborhood Of To-
well, plant haZelnut trees. 1t is said these
trees grow rapidly and return an excellent
profit on investment.
The body of David Cogswell, steward Of
the steam barge Joys, who fell into lum-
Der slip and was drowned last December.
was found in the river Mt Menominee. His
mother and sister live in Manistee.
The Michigan Starch Co. will locate its
factory at Traverse City. Potato starch,
deXtrine and gums, potato -four and other
potato products will be manufactured, as
well as wheat starch and corn starch.
| The men have resumed work at the
| Tamarack and Osceola stamp mills, Calu-
met, the mine management having agreed
to their demands for straight 10 per cent
raise at the conference in the afternoon.
| A bill of complaint to epjoin Gov. Pin
gree and the other members Of the Detroit
street railway commission and the City
of Detroit from taking any further steps
| toward the purchase of the street railways
of that city has been filed.
Thus far the experiment that has been
conducted by the Cleveland Cliffs Com
pany in sheep raising near Negaunee has
turned out very well and if the same sue
cess is met with in the future the perma-
nency of the industry is assured.
Secretary Alger has written Gov. Pin
gree that on account Of quarantine regu-
lations and orders of the Treasury De-
partment it will not be possible to remove
the remains of Private Benjamin Davis
of Lansing from Cienfuegos, Cuba, at the
present time.
The maple sugar season in Mason Coun-
| ty was not a success this spring. and the
product will fall off at least two-thirds OF
the average production. One sugar bush
yielded POO gallons this year, while its
usual production is 700 gallons and this
illustrates the condition of affairs all over
the country.
AT Grand Rapids, a capias was issued
for the arrest of Andrew Wachter at the
instance of Ida NJ. Quicken, who claims
$4,000 for breach of promise. The capias
was served just as Wachter's friends werv
assembling to witness his marriage Ia
the English Lutheran Church to Mis-
Minnie Friedler and to participate in u,e
usual festivities. The marriage was dc.
layed half an hour while WacLter's
friends were signing his bail bonds, and
then 1t proceeded as though nothing had
happened.
Hon. A. L. Swneford, formerly OF
Michigan. and once Governor of Alaska, is
in Chicago assisting in the incorporation
of a company to develop and operate q
rich gold bearing quartz vein located in
the Sumdum district of southeastern
Alaska. Mr. Swineford says the greatest
wealth in Alaska will come from the
quartz lodges and veins with which the
whole of the main land of southeastern
Alaska bordering on the coast, together
with the larger islands of the Alexander
archipelago, seem to be almost intermin
ably interlaccd.
Capitalists have been investigating thu
valuable mari beds that abound near Hoi