Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-12-21

accidentally Killed At Clarion 'Oht9s
John Gradey, aged As years, OF Eos
toria,. Ohio, died suddenly stsSt. Johns. !.
( Elkton will have = pump factory as
soon as a stiitabIt dbhildfhe can be pre-
pared. He@ xefgasEh ~ ~ ~. ~
WIN. snyder gTsSs seriously burned By
the explosion OF gasoline stove at Port
Huron. ~
George Flanders and f. o. Wood have
purchased the DAILY block at Flint for
$25, 900.
Wheat in Cass County Is looking fine
despite the damage reported done by the
Hessian fly.
A route is being surveyed by the North
western Railway between Lawton and
Schoolcraft.
{, Mrs. Garlock of Allegan was seriously
burned by her clothing catching fire from
a gasoline stove. g ~
Fire in one of the show windows Of
Oppenheim's clothing store at Bay City
did $500 damage. lfs
A fine bed Of mari has been discovered
near Schoolcraft, and a cement factory
may be erected there.
John Bowers, an aged man living at
Pennington, fell from a wagon and re-
ceived serious injuries.
The residence of John Miller, farmer
living near Ashley, together with its con-
tents, burned. Loss $500.
Martin Brown, aged go years, Of Ad-
rian sustained serious injuries by falling
from an elevated platform.
DIR. Adler, the man who mysteriously
disappeared from a hotel at Ann Arbor
recently, turned up at Lapeer.
Cattle thieves are operating in Wayne
County in the vicinity of Willow Bert
Curtiss is their latest victim.
An epidemic of measles is said to pre-
vail at Toquin. Schools have been closed
and the village is quarantined.
The map of the Central Michigan Rail
road through Ottawa County has been
approved by the State crossing board. \,
The store of n. b. Mills at Marysville
was entered by burglars and consid-
cradle quantity of goods were stolen.
Active preparations are being made by
the Anti-Saloon League in Ottawa Coun-
ty to bring the local option question to a
vote next spring. t.e
The, new Catholic church Of Bunker
Hill was dedicated the other day. 1t is
one of the finest country churches in the
State, costing $4,000.
Three thousand acres of land have
been pledged for the growing Of sugar
beets for the proposed new beet sugar
factory at Battle Creek.
Rev. Mr.. Pierce Of Romeo has accept
81 a. h.. d.. rh,,rn1, at h
land Station, succeeding Rev. George
Atcheson, who has gone to Milan.
All business places at Alma were clos
ed during the funeral of Charles A. Fa-
tin, who for years was one of the most
prominent business men of that city.
9 William Henry, colored man who car
ries the mail between Milan and Stony
Creek, was born slave in Virginia. He
was sold for $500. He is now 80 years
old i.i:a FF 27tFt 81
Miss Maude Reese Davis of Los An
geles, Cal, for two years soprano singer
with Sousa's band. was married at Glens
Falls, n. Y, to Herbert Merrill Quimby
of Detroit. estuat
Prof. Clark Giberson, principal Of the
public schools at Baldwin, has purchas-
ed the general store of G. III. Bates there,
and will resign his position to enter the
mercantile business.
Mrs. Caroline =. Haskell Of Michigan
City. Ind, has made beQvest of $4,000
to the sanitarium at Battle Greek, the
legacy to be expended in the establish
ment of an orphanage to bear the name
of it's benefactor.
4 I.
The remains. OF Alfred ]. Stevenson of
the Thirty-fifth Michigan volunteers, now
inferred at Arlington, Va, are to be ex-
humed and sent at Government expense
to the dead soldiers father, William Ste
yenson, at Flint.
An old tenement house located near
Pennington and owned by Fred Foers,
burned. 1t was occupied by number of
men working on the Detroit and North
western electric railroad. No lives were
lost The loss is small
The st. Paul Railway will follow the
lead of the Northwestern system and will
establish freight and passenger Office
in Houghton. s. III. Vaughan. formerly
travelling passenger agent, has been APP
pointed commercial agent.
The Fidelity Mutual Insurance Com
pany of Philadelphia, which has always
been an assessment company, has chang
ed its plan of doing business and has
been authorized to do business in Michi-
gan. as an old line or legal reserve COM
pany.
The Hughes & ALLEY Lumber Company
of Chicago has purchased half-interest
in the Sagola Lumber Company of Sa-
COLA. The deal involves over $4,000
and includes the sawmll. stumpagc, and
logging outfit The company has five
years to saw.
The University of Michigan ranks sec
ond in point of enrolment in the United
States and fourteenth in the world. In
this country Harvard leads with $3.50;
Michigan, 3,346: Columbia, 3,0S3; Yale,
. ,6SS; Cornell, 2,665; Wisconsin, 2,O25;
Princeton, Liza; Brown, S6S; Hopkins,
632.
Prof. A. A. Stanley of Ann Arbor has
been appointed official representative Of
the International Society of Musicians,
recently founded in Germany, and he will
form an American branch of the society.
The object of the organization is to unite
musicians and writer's of music for mu-
tual advancement.
Knox and Williams. the two hobos who
were captured at Battle Greek with
bottle fof powder and fuses and three
loaded revolvers and razor upon their