Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-14

soon remove their single mill to Florida.
John Mess, aged 10, was accidentally
shot and badly wounded while hunting
near st. Joseph. .... ia, ''
4 John Galbraith. aged 1S years, of Che
boygan, was struck by large iron wheel
and instantly killed.
Rev. Henry "A. Sumrell, pastor of the
First Baptist Church at Bay City, has
rendered his resignation.
Charles Ross, charged with assaulting
a street cur. conductor ut Port Huron,
was fined SIS or sixty days in Jail.
Tent No. "a, X. o. Il. NJ, at Battle
/ Greek, now has 900 members, and Is
the largest lodge in the. State.
\ The Valentine Clark Cedar Co. of
Standish has handled 5000 poles at its
yard during the past season.
Mrs. Matilda Burchfield, aged 81, of
Charlotte has begun suit for divorce, al
leging that her husband neglects her.
Enterprise Lodge, /. O. o. f., dedi-
Gated its new lodge building at Grand
Rapids. 1T Is handsome twostory struc-
| ture. ,-s, e
WmS Van Arsdale was run down by a
train on the Ann Arbor Railway near
Marion and instantly killed. He formerly
lived at Ithaca.
4 The 102 acres of sugar beets sown on
the Shaker farm near Berrien Springs,
produced 1,5O0 tons of beets, averaging
10 per cent sugar.
The internal revenue collections in the
Saginaw district amount to $1S,6S9 in
November, an increase OF. $4,000 over
November, 1898.
A rural mail delivery has gone into
1 operation at Ionia. Guy Conner is the
carrier. and starts out with 100 farm
houses onyhis list
Two large barns at Milwaukee belong
ing to John Otto, together with their con-
tents, burned. Loss $500, partially COW
cred by insurance.
Byron Persons, son of Capt. Persons Of
Thunder Bay Island life saving station,
was injured in runaway accident at
Alpena. He will recover
John Henry was acquitted at Port HUI
ron on a charge of being drunk, because
the jury thought the officer had no right
to arrest the man in a saloon.
manufacturers, now employ 300 men, an
duuitiOu Dcink iuuuc Iecehtiy thut VIII
give employment to 100 men.
The Cleveland Cliffs Co. has leased
the Webster mine at Michigamme and
will put men at work soon getting the
property in shape for resumption.
| Sylvester Sparks, a discharged soldier
from the Fifteenth regulars from Man
lila, was robbed Of 500 in gold on a Mich
igan Central train near Battle Greek.
At Crystal Falls, Mrs Peter Flabby
was found dead in bed with two bullet
holes in her head. Her husband was
arrested on the charge of having MUIR
dered her.
Some farmers in Spaulding township
are feeding their sugar beets TO stock
and selling them to other farmers, as they
are unable to secure cars to ship them
to the factory.
Ex-Sheriff Pomeroy of Standish and A.
Nelson have just purchased 1000 acres
of cedar and other timber near Moore's
Junction, and have commenced cutting
ties, poles, etc.
The Michigan Manufacturing and Mer-
camille Co. of Standish is running camps
near Estey, Moore Junction, Mt. Forest
and other points near there, cutting bolts,
logs, etc, TO supply its big mills at Stan
dish next year.
Martin Meecker of Freeland had been
away from the village for some time, and
when he returned the other day he found
that Mrs. Meecker had taken her share
of the household goods and departed. She
claims non-support.
1t is reported that an attempt was
made to wreck a fast express on the
Michigan Central near Geddes. A guam
tity OF fish plates lad been piled upon
the rails, but the fast train dashed
through without damage.
Edward Shell, well-known land look
err. who started from Alpena for the
woods recently, has not returned and
fears are entertained that he is dead. He
drove to Rutledge's camp in Green town
ship, hitched his horse and left for u
short trip afoot and has not been seen
since.
Grace Nj. Luxton of Milan has begun
suit against Andrew Mead of Ann Arbor
town for $1,000 damages. She alleges
that she received certain injuries June
IL by being thrown from a buggy which
was run into by rig owned by Mr..
Mead and driven by some member of his
family.
Kinde leads the Thumb in its ship
ments of stock for the month of Novem-
Der. During that month Cass City ship
ped $4,000 worth of live stock; Bad
Axe, as much stock and fifty carloads Of
sugar beets, while Kinde shipped $50, 900
worth of stock and fifty-four carloads Of
sugar beets.
Prompt and reliable certified copies of
deaths can now be obtained of the Sec
rotary of States department. Formerly
this was not the case as year or more
often elapsed under the old law before
the records of death were returned, and
they were very often incorrect when
finally received.
Ben Il. Gable, the millionaire of Rock
Island, ILL.,, has just made remarkable
purchase of two fine works of art which
he will give to his alma mater, the Uni
versity of Michigan. They are enormous
bronze figures from the Partisan sculptor
Fremlet. One Is a centaur, but it differs
from the usually accepted NEUROLOGICAL
form in that it has a small body and !.
only two legs, which the artist maintains
is all that could be nourishcd by food
passing through a mans mouth. The
other piece is that of an orang outang
grasping q female figure. The purchase
a. so 10 x,t.l.I ia httf "a he.