Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-08-24

struck It Caponvil1e. t ~.
Ths Hart Cannins Co. put up I 200 900
cans q peas this season. E
ID. b. Hu>chins he's taught school IN
Oceana County for he past thirty-two
years.
John Jackson rescued Freddie Jones
from drowning In the Black river at Port
Huron.
Frederick Llewelling Of Bay City died
In a padded cell In the police station at
Toledo. tt,J
Counterfeit silver dollars are In circu-
lation in the towns along the Michigan
|! Indiana State line. ~ 49, ~
Rev.. DIR. Philip Craft OF, Oakland.
CAL, has accepted a call to the Free Bap-
fist Church at Hillsdale.
NJ. L. Tice, painter, fell from the roof
of the Sigma Phi house at Ann Arbor.
His backbone is broken.
Grin Parshall and John Starr of Cam
1 den were severely shocked by lightning
during an electrical storm.
Miss Mary Derby, daughter Of Mrs. HI.
r.. Derby. and City Recorder Guy X.
Sterling were married at Eaton Rapids.
The new union depot ut Durand Is to
cost about $4,000. 1t will be two stories
high, stone to the first floor and brick
above.
tween Toledo and Flint are out on
strike. They want $1.25 instead Of $1.1O
per day.
Mrs. Alonzo Barker fell dead at ben
eft dance at ingalls,. She died Of heart
failure. which was no doubt aggravated
by over-exertion.
| The encampment Of the Soldiers and
Sailors Association Of st. Clair, Sanilac
and Macomb counties will be held In St.
Clair Sept. IA to 10.
| Bay City assessments for 1899 show an
aggregate Of $40, 492 900, an increase OF
$151 900. The rate Of taxation will be
less than last year.
Rev. s. A. Bauer, aged 20 years, liv-
ing near Monroe, got tangled up in a
rope while leading a COW to pasture and
was seriously injured.
L. T. Becker Of Charleston township
threshed fifty acres of wheat averaging
2S1a bushels TO the acre, a total Of / ,425
bushels from fifty acres.
Insurance Commissioner Stevens has
authorized the Ann Arbor Railroad and
Steamship Employers Relief Association
to do business in Michigan.
Wellington Woodwork fell under a car
in the Michigan Central yards at Bay
City and lost a foot. He Is stone ma
son and lives at Oakley, Pa.
In Detroit, Nels sorensop hanged him
self in the summer kitchen of his home.
L Grin ha Of Re xx-sfa thn
cause. He leaves six children.
The unknown man who was found dead
along the C. & G. II. tracks near Flint
on May "a last, turns out to be John
Alexander Mcdonald Of Port Huron.
The barn on the farm of Andrew Vo-
gelsburg located in Mt. Morris township,
was destroyed by fire, together with two
horses and seasons crops. Loss $1,000.
Prof. III. l.. Mcdonald, principal Of the
Hillsdale high school for the past season,
has decided to accept the presidency Of
Storer College at Harper's Ferry, w. Va.
Mrs. John NJ. Russell, Mrs. Earl Will
son and Mrs. s. A. Wilson, while driving
at Flint, were thrown out of their buggy.
Mrs. Earl Wilson died in fifteen minutes.
Roy Dean, aged 16 years, son OF e. ".
Dean of Perrinton, while shooting spar
rows, accidentally discharged load OF
fine shot into his foot, making an ugly
wound.
Five women, while berry picking near
Standish, were nearly scared to death by
the sudden appearance Of bear. They
screamed so fearfully that bruin turned
and fed.
Alex. Robinson, living on the Haupt-
man branch of the Michigan Central
Railroad, has secured contract to put In
], 500, 900 feet of pine for Russell Bros.
of Bay City.
The large hoist recently erected By
Prescott & Son at Styles Lake, on the
Prescott division of the ID. g. NJ. Rail-
way, is now in operation and is hosting
and loading two trains Of logs daily.
A rural free mail delivery has been
established at Lansing. The route will
be eleven miles west into Eaton County,
thence one mile south. and back to the
city, total distance Of twenty three
miles.
Mrs. Bens of Bay City, the only sur
vivor of a party that left that city more
than a year ago for the Klondike, says
that at no time did the party suffer for
lack Of food. They were unable to cope
with the scurvy, however.
President Head of the Chicago and
West Michigan and Detroit, Grand Rap
ids and Western roads says that 81 per
cent of the stockholders in these roads
and the Flint and Pere Marquette have
assented to the consolidation, and the
plan Is sure to go through.
Levi w. Ewing, president of the Ma
tional Match Company of Chicago, has
decided to equip a factory in Lansing ut
once. An available plant has been Sc
cured and the necessary machinery will
be installed with a view to beginning
work with 100 hands within ninety days.
Edward c. Bearce, manager Of the
Western Beef and Provision Company Of
Grand Rapids, was found with his throat
cut in a state room in the Goodrich
steamer Iowa, when the boat arrived In
Chicago. A penknife was found by his
side. Mr.. Bearce was unmarried and
was 80 years old. No cause is assigned
for his act.
Prof. George A. Hench of Ann Arbor,
whose skull was fractured by fall from
bicycle at Franconia, N. H., Is dead.
Prof. Hench was an instructor in the
.