Crawford avalanche., 1899-10-12
The entrance examinations ct the Bta<s
Normal School were taken BY fifty stu

Amiotts livery stable ut Muskegon, was
kicked 10 death by a horse.
Charles Osborne, living two miles west
of Otter Lake. ran II crow bar into his
breast and was badly injured.
Two freight trains on the d., G.. II. X
NJ. Railroad stopped within four feet of
each other ut Ioania. Mistake in orders.
Simon Beauehamp, married. aged 2S,
accidentally shot himself while hunting
at Humboldt. He died in twenty min
utes.
John B. Hillman of Ypsilanti, who stole
$50 from the Office till Of the Kalamazoo
Telegraph, ut Kalamazoo. pleaded guilty
in Circuit Court.
The gang OF men at work on the grade
Of the Columbus, Marshall and North
eastern Railroad are within three and a
half miles of Olivet. E
J. s. Parks, OF Melrose, Mimi, has
traced his five children to Battle Greek.
He separated from his wife and she spir-
tied the children away. M.
The Blakelys Hotel at Torch Lake
burned. Loss $4,000. j. Brandt. a
boarder. fell from the third story win
dow and received serious injuries.
The Unitarian Church at Grand Ha-
ven has secured as pastor Mrs. Il. M.
Hickock, who for six years has preached
to the Unitarians Of Salem, Mass.
| A big theater will be erected at Little
Traverse Bay next summer, which will
be devoted to vaudeville and light opera.
A swimming pool is also projected.
The. farmers around Plainwell, who ex-
! periInented with sugar beet raising this
year, are well satisfied and large acre
age will be devoted to beets next year.
| Mrs. Anna Cudeback and her daughter
| in-law, Mrs. Fred Cudeback, were in
stantly killed one mile north of Grand
Rapids by Chicago and West Michigan
train.
AT Springsport, the 3-year-old child Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Owen McMannis pulled a
kettle of boiling soup from a stove and
was so frightfully scalded that it died in
few hours.
The State Board of Education has not
yet selected a president for the State
Normal School. DIR. Albert Leonard, dean
of Syracuse University, is likely to be
chosen, however.
Near Woodland, a pair Of old quails
have adopted a couple of young chickens
and guard them as carefully as if they
were theirown offspring. The chicks an
swer the quais' call.
,Griggs' store at Fulton was burglar
fzed the other night and valuable goods
taken. The thieves escaped by stealing
a horse and carriage from John Estle-
burns livery barn.
Mrs. A., w. Wright of Ann Arbor, who
was missing for FIVE days recently, was
found in the rooms of q woman doctor
who uses massage treatment. She claims
she was hypnotized.
An infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Stanley, who live two miles north
of Upton, fell into cistern. Mrs. Stan
ley jumped in to rescue the child and
both were drowned.
In Michigan fewer than one-half as
many bankruptcy petitions per 1000 in
habitants were filed during the six
months ended March 81 last, as in the
| United States at large.
The Bay View Reading Circle reports
at the close OF its sixth year a member
ship Of nearly 5000 and n steady annual
gain Eow OF almost 1000. 1t is particu-
larly strong in the West and South.
George Farr, '.trusty," who was do
ing FIVE years from Genesee County for
larceny, escaped from Jackson State
prison. Farr was driving prison team
and left it about half a mile from the
prison.
The Adam Bullett & Sons Piano Co.
was organized at Schoolcraft, with cap
ital stock Of $4,000. The plant moves
there from Oregon, Ill. The company
has purchased the Caskct Co.'s plant and
will build a large addition to it.
John Steele. Jr.. is dead at Ann Arbor.
Twenty years ago, while engaged in fix
ing the machinery in the Delhi mines in
that city, his two arms were caught and
jerked out Of their sockets. In this con-
dition he was compelled to go through
life.
Il. b. Vanderhoef of Otzcningo Lodge,
/. o. o. f., Ann Arbor, joined the order
in 1854, and has been an active member
ever since, while Past Grand Master
Jonathan Spraguc OF Washtenaw Lodge,
Ann Arbor. has been working Odd Eel.
low since 1916.
stock company has been formed al
Port Huron by Cyrus Hovey. John s.
Whitiiff, Charles +. Ormsby, Ii. q. Bar
mum. o. T.. Harrington, John NJ. Glea-
son and Eugene Law for the purpose OF
tanning fur skins by process discovered
by o. Il. Harrington.
The State fish commission has purchas.
ed the stock in G.. Il. Holt's private trout
hatchery at Cascade and it will be re-
moved to the Paris hatchery. This will
add about 1000 eggs to the Paris out.
put. The Holt hatchery has been in op.
Grafton fifteen years and was one of the
first established in the West.
Fire at A. J. Doherty's stock farm
four miles south Of Clare, burned five
barns, six stock sheds, one hundred acres
of wheat, unthreshed. twenty acres OF
buckwheat, three hundred and fifty tons
of hay, two binders and all the farm inn
plements and $500 worth OF calves and
hogs. Loss 5000, insured for $11, ,75C
in the Continental.
The State fair, despite disagreeablt
weather all week. Is said to have been q
financial success. The receipts were M
follows: General admission tickets. SS,
600; railroad tickets, $1,000: grand stand
tickets, 81. 100; privileges, $1.50O: mem
berships. 500; total. $4,000 The ex
penses will have to stretch themselves
much more than they did last year tc
come over $4,000.
The vpst-bound messenger train on the