Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-02-08

keBon was uamageu $7OV Dy nrc.
The Pilgrim Congregational Church
was dedicated at Lansing free from debt.
A hog train was wrecked near Boyne
Falls. The trainmen escaped by jump
ing.
/ A knights of Pythias lodge has been
membership of twenty.
A frame store building at Bay City. oc-
cupied by Sorsfeld Demming as cigar
factory, was Quilted by fire.
DR.. A. Ii. Rockwell has been appointed
examining surgeon to the United States
pension board at Kalamazoo.
Bernard Lynch was crushed TO death
in the plant of the National Cooperage
and Woodenware Co. at Escanaba.
State Game Warden Morse is taking
steps to enforce the law prohibiting the
practice Of setline fishing in inland lakes
Two miners named Kraft and Sweet.
employed at the Atlantic copper mine,
fell 1000 feet down the shaft and were
killed.
The Bedding brothers will build twelve
fine tenement houses at Bedding in the
spring, the contracts for which will be let
very soon.
Miss Nellie Willard, aged 80 years,
who taught a school near Hetherton, was
assaulted by two or her pupils and seri-
ously injured
+. +. Spegel of Oakley, whose shin
gle and lumber mills at Vanderbilt burn
ed recently, will rebuild and has already
purchased new outfit.
A coroner's jury eXonerates the ID. a
NJ. Railroad from any blame in the acci-
dent Mt Onaway, which caused the death
Of Conductor VIM. Dunlop.
According to the county clerks report
there were 80 divorce cases begun in
Genesec County last year. 81 DEGREES be-
ing granted and 3 refused.
The body of Robert Kohn of Lapeer
was taken to Kalamazoo and buried ac-
cordng to the Russian custom, wrapped
in sheets and without a coffin.
Mrs Smith, wife of a Casco township
farmer, was seriously, If not fatally, in
jured in a runaway accident near the
Grand Trunk station at Lenox.
The trial of Della Thibault, charged
with the murder Of George Belland at
Hunts Spur Nov II, was finished at st.
Ignace. The jury. after being out but
short time, brought in verdict of mot
guilty"
Rev j. Il. Pinkard, now of Mendon,
formerly of Constantine and Girard, has
been appointed to the passionate of Simp-
son NJ. Il. Church at Kalapazoo, in place
Of Rev. G. G.. Thomas. The charge at
Mendon will be filed by Rev. Il. Il. Mea-
ders OF Jackson, who viii be succeeded
by student of Albion College.
Four masked burglars entered the lonia
Wagon Company's works. bound and gag
ged the Waterman, August Zimms, and
blew open the safe. The door of the safe
was sent through two partitions and the
contents scattered all over the rooms.
The robbers got 20 cents in cash and
about $40 in postage and revenue stamps.
The /. Stephenson Company has chang
ed the base of its lumber operations from
Chicago to Wells, the eastern terminus
of the Escanaba and Lake Superior Rail-
road s. W.. Wyatt, Chicago manager,
has sold his stock in the concern to Dan
ie Wells, Jr., of Milwaukee, Isaac Ste
phenson OF Marinette and J. W. Wells of
Menominee.
Daniel ]. Trumbley of Bay City was
arrested at Toronto, Ont, OH telegram
from Sheriff Gunterman of Bay City,
charging him with murder. Trumbley
was indicted some time ago for the al
legged murder of his wife and child and
was committed to an asylum to await
his trial. He escaped on Nov. 10 last
and has been in Toronto for month.
The body of Bessie Nesbitt, the T.
year-old daughter of ]. Il. Neabitt of
St Clair, was recovered from the st.
Clair river. The little girl mysteriously
disappeared after dusk the other evening.
Her tracks were traced to the river, back
of her home, and a hole in the ice ex-
planned her disappearance. Her hody was
found about 100 feet below the hole i'll
the ice. .
John Brown. farmer 81 years of age,
who lived near Shaftsburg, went To Ian
sing with considerable money and com
menced drinking heavily. He was taken
with pneumonia, and had been suffering
greatly from the disease. While tempo
rarily crazed he overturned an oil stove
in his apartments at the Maltby House
and was so baGy burned that he died in
u short time
John Sweet, an S-ycar-old lad, by his
father as sext friend, has commenced
suit again the Flint and Pere Mar
quette Rail way Co. for $4,000 damages
for the breaking of leg. The injury
was obtained at the Main street crossing
in the village of Yale, Oct. 4 last. The
railway company maintains crosswalk
over its right of way, and this is alleged
to have been in very defective condi-
ton, causing the mishap.
Fire in the Hurd House block at Jack
son caused a damage of $4,000. Ii is
supposed to have started from match or
cigar stub which. by chance. fell through
a crack in the stairs leading 10 the upper
stories Of the block. Under the stairs
was refuse. the apartment being once
used as a place TO care for lamps. Gas
flames from melted gas connections added
to the difficulty. The whole block was
smoked through and through and many
people living in the apartments had mar
row escapes from suffocation. The fire
was confined to the stairway, elevator
shaft and stock room of the drug store
of Waldron & Todd. The loss of Wal
dron 4 Todd is about $4,000, loss to
building, owned by Hurd estate and leas-
ed to Henry Hayden, $1,000; loss to
Maher Bros music store $500, besides
loss by smoke to the clothing stock OF
McQuillan Il Harrison and the several
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