Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-07
state News in Brief.

StatC ANSWs Ia DhACAs
A white deer was shot nine miles eas
of Gaylord.
The supply of deer licenses at Mar
quette has been exhausted.
Albion postoffice handled 1880 pounds
of mail matter in thirty-6ve days.
Many deer, lynx, wildcats, ETC., are be
ing killed around Standish this fall.
Burglars made quite haul from the
grocery store of Il. q. Robbie at French
Landing.
The engine house at the North Buffalo
iron mine at Negaunee burned. The
loss is heavy.
Michael Berner is dead at Battle Creel
from injuries received at the Advance
Thresher works.
Otto Boekelo of Kalamazoo was shot
and killed while deer hunting in the
upper peninsula.
Josiah Reed, aged 20, of Benton Har
Dor, is the victim of bogus check sharp
er to the extent of $50.
The school population of Eaton County
is SAL. Charlotte leads with 057. Onei
da has $50 and Sunfield $50.
Hon. John Mulvey, ex-Representative
in the Michigan Legislature, and Miss
Barbara May were married at Negaunee
George w. Haskell, deputy food in
spector of Owosso, has resigned to accept
a position in the auditor generals office.
He was reappointed deputy last March
The health officer of West Bay City
has found a place outside Of the city
hara hnno fof on, tha on n ec
of dead animals and slaughter house re-
fuse.
Albert Teeple Of Deckerville has an
apple tree, from which well ripened
crop of apples was picked in September
and which is now bearing a second crop
of apples.
The Guatemala American Trading Co.
is being organized at Grand Rapids to en-
gage in numbering, mining and trading in
Guatemala. VIM. A. Fitzgerald is the
promoter of the enterprise.
Private w. Scott Winters, late of Com
pany III, Seventeenth United States in
fantry, now doing service in the Philip
pines, died at Charlotte of sickness CON
tracted in the Philippine campaign.
L. A. Pratz and NJ. NJ. Hawxhurst
have concluded the purchase OF the bust
ness interests Of their partner, Franklin
G. Parker, in the Inland Press publish
ing house at Ann Arbor. They will con-
tinue the business under the same firm
name.
A jury in the Ottawa County Circuit
Court values fingers at 500 each, and
gave Joseph Meismer verdict for $500
for three fingers he lost while in the en-
ploy of the West Michigan Furniture Go.
Of Holland.
Detroit parties have organized the Riv-
erside Cemetery Association at Owosso.
They have n tract of thirtyseven acres
Of land. The officers are: Daniel Abrey,
president; George Il. Abrey of Detroit,
secretary and treasurer. The directors
are B. III. Boutwell, and A. ID. Roehm OF
Detroit.
A company has been organized at
Worthwhile for the manufacture of limo
leum and curtain shades with capital
of about $4,000. +. II. Beal, president
Of the Globe Furniture Co., Is at the head
of the new concern and it is expected
that to start with it will employ about
fifty men.
The apple evaporators at Bloomingdale
have closed their seasons business. Dur
ing the last three months they have paid
out over $4,000 to farmers for apples
and to their employees.
A Calumet correspondent says that the
slaughter of deer in that locality will not
be as great as anticipated. The woods
are filed with hunters, but lack of snow
is interfering with their sport.
Samuel Wiersema and Harry Meyer,
two Muskegon lads, quarreled over dog,
and Wiersema is under arrest charged
with assault with intent to do great bod
lily harm. Meyer Is seriously hurt.
Grand Rapids Hollanders have raised
$3.50 for the Boer Red Cross fund in the
Transvaal, and expect to make it $1,000
or better.
There is talk that the new Pere Mar
quette Railway will take in the Detroit
and Lake Erie Railroad at Sarnia and
operate a car ferry between that town
and Port Huron.
A telegram states that a Montana jury
has declared the latest discovered will in
the estate Of John ID. Airport, the Mon
tana millionaire. a forgery. BY this YER
diet Mrs. G. w. Miller of Dexter IL made
secure In her title to one-fifth Of the All
port estate, whichsincludes the celebrated
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