Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-04-06

ON the road.
3. X. Francis, trapper of Stockbridge,
has sent protest to Gov. Pingree against
the passage OF the law prohibiting the
trapping OF muskrats previous to Nov. l..
Francis has been a trapper thirty years
and he says. as rule. after that date the
rivers and brooks in this State are frozen
up.
Prof. w. b. Barrows of the State Ag-
ricultural College declares the bounty for
killing English sparrows Is unnecessary
and injudicious. He says the sparrows
will not increase rapidly In this cold eli
mate and IL killing is necessary little
poison would be more humane and less ex-
pensive.
The people OF Constantine are very
proud OF Maj. Harry A. Bandholtz, who
has made such good record with the
Thirty-fifth Michigan volunteers. His
work has been commended by his superior
officers and his recent assignment to the
Grand Rapids recruiting Office pleases
them particularly.
According to the Iron Mountain Press
more than half the total tax levy in Dick
inson County has been returned as delin-
total of $G4.024. OF the delinquent amount
$2O,507 was from the city Of Iron Noun
tain.
Standing in the presence of his family
mt Lansing, Charles G.. Lauzun swallowed
fatal dose of carbolic acid after saying
"Good-by to everybody" One year ago
Lauzun's son was murdered, his head be-
ing beaten with gas pipe. The mystery
surrounding the murder has never been
solved and the fathers action is attrib-
uted to this fact. nt re i.s-.
Last fall two young Frenchmen died at
Munising from the effects of drinking
wood alcohol which saioonkeeper gave
them by mistake. Recently the boys
father, who lived in Quebec, started for
Munising to bring proceedings against the
saloOnkeeper for damages. He stopped at
Newberry, and while in the woods near
there Il tree fell on him and killed him.
The will of Mrs. Melissa Il. Terry of
Benton Harbor has been filed in the pro-
bate court, and she gives between $4,000
and $1,000 to the public library Of that
city. The sum of 81 $50 is divided equally
among her sisters and brother A Detroit
cemetery, where the remains of Mr.. and
Mrs. Terry are laid away, gets $500 and
parties in Grand Rapids are remembered
in the will.
A couple of Deckerville men went to the
polls to vote at the recent village cleo
ton. Their ballots were refused on the
ground that they were not American citi-
zens. They were determined that they
were going to vote, however, so they pro-
cured rig and set out for the county seat.
There they secured naturalization papers
and got back home i'm time to cast the first
vote of their lives.
The faculty Of the University of Michi-
gan for the present year consists of ODD
persons. or this number 81 are profess
sors, IL assistant professors, lecturer,
62 instructors, As demonstrators and as
sistants i'm instruction, IL nonresident lee
turers, % librarians and other officers of
administration or assistants not giving in
struction. Six of the ODD are absent from
college pursuing specia! studies.
A Marcellus man and his wife were go
ing home one very dark night recently
when the carriage in which they were
wheeling their baby was tipped over and
the baby spilled out. They had to hunt
around some time before they could find
the little one, and when they did it was
in hole under hedge, sound asleep and
oblivious of the fact that il had had a
spill and been lost for some minutes.
.Menominee capitalists and business men
conferred with G. NJ. Garrison of Detroit.
Mr.. Garrison is an expert beet sugar man.
ufacturer and promoter. A company is
in process of organization to erect a big
Co. T. Il
company with capital of 81 ,OOO, 600 will
be organized. The estimated cost of the
contemplated plant is $500,000 The plant
is to be completed by Jan. 1, 1900. The
daily capacity would be 1000 barrels.
Three months ago farmers in this State
could not get % cents per bushel for their
potatoes. Then came the big freeze-up
and the reports that all pitted potatoes
had been ruined sent the price up flying.
Fifty cents was freely offered by buyers,
but many whose potatoes were in good
condition refused to sell at that price, al
though it was double the top figure OF a
few weeks before. Now IL is being found
that the tubers in pits were not nearly as
badly injured as was supposed and the
price has dropped again, and those who
could have sold at 80 cents, but held out
for dollar, are doing some tall thinking.
The Dickinson family living in the vi
cinity of st. Louis has sold its worldly
possessions in that neighborhood, and dur
ing the first week in May will start for the
Holy Land to found colony. In the
party will be Leroy Dickinson. his moth
er and two brothers: also James Nichols,
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Harrison and Mr..
and Mrs. James Emery. The colony will
have enough money from the sale of their
| st. Louis property to purchase about 200
acres of land in the vicinity of Jerusalem,
and expect to make il their future home.
| They are members of the Church Of God,
and it is their belief that the people of
God will oil be gathered together prior
to the coming of Christ
| At Trenton, y. j.. Chancellor McGill
| filed decree annulling the marriage OF
Rachel +. Pccle of Jersey City and Geo.
| Il. Fisher on the ground that there was
| no actual marriage ceremony. Two years
| ago Fisher and Miss Prclc were students
at the University of Michigan. They
became engaged TO be married. Accord.
| ing to Miss Peeles testimony they went
through marriage ceremony in Toledo
to bind the engagement, but continued ia
maintain toward each other the relations
of single persons. Fisher went to Mexico
where he still il. Recently he wrote home
that he WINS not doing well and that he
| felt that he should release Miss Pcelc
from her pncaycmcnt On tho strength