Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-03

A convention Of the health ofAcers OF
Michigan will be held at Grand Rapids
next month. m.
| 1t has cost Sanilac County $1,000 to
repair bridges damaged BY heavy rains
during July. ~ tel~s'
Gladwin County farming lands are hav-
ing boom and many new settlers are go
ing that way.
The Cheboygan Wood Turning Co.'s
factory at Cheboygan burned. Loss 3d.
600, with 81, 200 insurance. rt
DIR. J. w. Bosnian OF Kalamazoo has
been appointed division surgeon Of the
Grand Rapids and Indiana road.
Richard Jones. aged % years, Of Au-
rora, ILL.,, was drowned In the Black
river at South Haven while bathing.
The residence oil. G. WRIGHT, farm
err living near Berrien Springs, was gut
ted by fire. Loss $500, no insurance.
s. Il. Baker OF Kalamazoo, who went
to the Klondike year and a, half ago,
has returned home without a fortune. s.,
| Fire completely destroyed one Of the
power houses of the Escanaba Wooden
ware Company, entailing.a 5000 loss.
Wilfred Casson, aged 10 years, son Of
| w. N. Casson Of Menominee. was drown
ed ut Pines summer resort while In bath
ing fa
plum orchards in Van Buren, County. He
( will harvest about 1000 bushels this
year.
The independent telephone exchange at
Traverse City was sold under chattel
mortgage sale for $4,000 to the mort
gagee.
The Michigan Bell Telephone Co. has
purchased fine location on East Main
street, Battle Greek, and will erect fine
block.
The residence of Seaton w. Anderson,
a leading Tecumseh merchant, was loot
ed by burglars. They secured lot Of
silverware.
| Since the Flint Council passed the ordi-
nance providing that tramps be put to
work in the streets, not a hobo has been
in that city.
Ray Gee. while loading q fat car with
logs at Dundee, was severely hurt by q
log rolling upon him and pinning him
against post.
| FIR. Els has received the papal bull ele-
waiting him from the priesthood to be
bishop Of the diocese Of Sault Ste. Marie
and Marquette.
| A young man named Cowan, living on
the Wallace Grace farm, near Birming-
ham, swallowed q fish bone and died Of
internal hemorrhage.
/ The widening and deepening Of the
Dwight drain of Sanilac County has been
begun. Five iron bridges will span the
creek in the county.
The plumb crop in st. Joseph County is
expected to be a very poor one. Or
chard proprietors report the plums all
falling off the trees.
| Alfred L. Pierce Of Gregory, who took
a dose Of poison with suicidal intent and
who quickly repented, has recovered sufi-
GENTLY to leave that village.
Judge d. G. Robinson of Hastings Is
dead, aged SO. He was president Of the
| Hastings City Bank, and was probably
the oldest banker in Michigan.
Large quantities Of dead fish are being
taken out Of the Huron river at Willow.
| Low water and refuse from the sanitary
| works are said to be the causes.
The 215-year-old child Of Michael Half
mon, a farmer living near Westphalia,
| drank fly poison. A doctor worked over
the child all day and it will recover.
A fatal accident occurred at the Hecla
branch Of the Calumet and Hecla mine
when Henry Roeder, miner. was caught
in the open shaft by descending skip
and instantly killed.
The strike in the Pingree & Smith
shoe factory at Detroit has ended and the
| GOO employees resumed work. The COM
pany will again employ union hands, but
discontinues use Of the union label.
| The tragedy at Muskegon whereby
Mayor Balbirnie was assassinated by
John w. layer, has resulted in the re-
uniting Of Mrs. layer, her brother and
two sisters, who had been separated for
many years.
For the fiscal year ending June 80, the
Board Of State Auditors allowed claims
aggregating 1856, 767. 90, ms follows: Gen.
eral allowance. 1920, SS664; printing,
SAL, 4S2.72; binding, $3.50, 106.81 station
cry, $40, 23G.92.
Senator G. A. Ward Of Ann Arbor hes
entered the summer law school. He an
nounces his intention Of entering the uni
versity next fall and hopes to completes
the law course in one year. He will ther
practice the profession.
Fred Parrish, aged q years, wax
drowned in Cranberry lake while BATH
ing. He had cramps and sank before
assistance reached him. He was thire
sergeant of Company z, Thirty-secorA
Michigan volunteers, in the Spanish war.
The design of Harrison Brothers Of
Barre, VT, has been accepted for the sob
ders and Sailors monument to be erect
ed at Battle Greek. 1t consists Of q
bronze group in defense Of the flag. The
monument will be placed at the intersec-
ton of five streets in the paved square.
Ray Marshall. boy 15 years old, who
lives south of Morrice, was drowned in
Sugar lake. The boy was in bathing
with his brother, who Is much younger,
and another boy. None Of them could
swim much, and when Marshall got be-
yond his depth the two other boys were
unable to assist him.
A destructive fire visited Fort Brady,
Sault Ste. Marie, when the fine four
company barracks building was damaged
| to the extent of about $4,000. The
building cost $4,000, and was considered