Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-03
State Nexs in Rrsef.

The grist mill ut Okemos is running
again.
Hudson b. Coleman has been appointed
postmaster at Kalamazoo.
DR.. Ferguson of Okemos has mare
that is Keeling off miles in 2:20 on the
road.
Okemos town board has granted a sa-
loon license for the fist time in many
years.
At Calumet, Joseph Shuttle and two OF
his children have been bitten by the kiss
ing bug.
Desire Pins of Franklin was thrown
off load of hay and received serious
injuries.
Mrs. Won Ripper of North Lansing was
terribly burned by the explosion of a gas
| oline stove.
At Adrian, William l.. Plat was fined
s. and costs for selling tobacco to 4
year-old boy.
| The Wenona Coal Co. is starting a
| town near its mine at the mouth of the
| Kawkawlin river.
A 2-year-old daughter of Fred Robin
son of Conkln fell into tub Of water
| and was drowned.
The farm house of Martin Grooming in
Eckford burned. Loss $1,000, partially
| covered by insurance.
w. ii. Bishop Of Burr Oak jumped
from a moving train at Vicksburg and re-
ceived severe injuries.
James Chambcrlin Of Ransom fell from
| the loft OF his barn to the floor and re-
| ceived serious injuries.
The 4-year-old daughter Of John
| Shrieves of Birch Run was terribly man
gled by vicious bulldog.
Henry Scestadt Of Romulus, who wa.
injured some weeks ago in runaway ac-
cident, died of his injuries.
ID. Van Steenburg of East Jordan was
| struck by a board which flew from an
\ edger and seriously injured.
Chas. Il. Thompson, aged 20 years and
single, was drowned in Manistee Lake
by the capsizing Of a rowboat.
Lansng's police. commission announces
that hereafter the liquor laws will be en-
forced to the letter in that city.
Hazel, the 5-year-old daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs ]. E. McCutcheon OF st. Clair,
| swallowed cent and death resulted.
| A 3-year-old child Of Joseph Smith of
Bay City was terribly bitten by New
foundland dog with which it was playing.
"Baldy" Williams has been indicted by
the Lapeer County grand jury, charged
| with uncolpling cars on the Michigan
Central, and was placed under $500 bail.
| Ira Elliot left Mackinnc Island eighteen
months ago for the Klondike with $500
capital. He has returned without a cent
and tells narrowing tale OF the hard
ships he endured.
| A Kalamazoo paper prints a story 10
the effect that hereafter Kalamazoo 10 10
be the only place between Chicago and
Detroit, on the Michigan Central, where
crews will be changed; also that the shops
at Jackson will be moved to Kalamazoo
d. s. Sutherland. superintendent of the
division between Detroit and jackson,
denies that he has any knowledge Of the
change.
A $4,000 damage suit has been started
against the village OF Durand by James
Hunter, an inmate Of the county house,
who received injuries on defective side
walk. of,4
Mrs. Will Peskett and Mrs. Sam Wal
tiers Of Charlotte, In gathering winter lilies
In the lake, upset their boat and were In
the water over half an hour before beina
rescued. They were much exhausted.
There Is legal fight on for the posses.
sion of the meteor which fell at Allegan
last week. The man upon whose farm
the meteor fell claims 1t, while the two
men who saw Il strike the ground and
who took pcsscssion OK the aestsi visito,
claim it o. their own. Tsxf