Crawford avalanche., 1900-04-12

Joseph l.. Langevin, who took dose
of carbolic acid at Bay City, is dead.
Dr.. Berry, prominent physician at
Romeo. will remove to Mt. Clemens.
The Methodist parsonage at Rice Greek
burned. Loss $1,000, insurance $500.
The coal miners of Bay County have
commenced ON the eight-hour day basis.
The residence of Loren Babcock at
Chelsea was gutted by fire. Insurance
$4,000.
A big match factory will be located at
Grand Rapids, giving employment to 100
people.
The Vicksburg high school has been
placed on the approved list of the State
normal school.
Thirty new dwellings and four two
story brick blocks will be built at Du-
rand this year.
Oscar Fry, market gardener at Ad-
because Of poor health.
Eighteen marriage licenses were issued
in Calhoun County in March and ten di-
vorce suits were begun.
The school board at North Adams has
5000 tied up by the failure of Patterson's
private bank in that village.
A. j. Ide, an electrician at st. Joseph,
has received word that his father, before
his death, wiled him $4,000.
Hillsdale has lost another industry, the
local hoop and barrel heading factory
having removed to Ashley, Ind.
Prof. +. ID. Miller has been retained
as principal of the Burlington schools for
the coming yeareat an, increased salary.
Joseph Smith, brakeman on the To
ledo, Saginaw and Muskegon Railroad,
fell under his train at Harvard and was
killed.
Daniel Barr, while oiling machinery
in the Guelph Patent Cask Co.'S factory
at Honor, was caught in the machine and
killed.
Miss Elsie Delamater won the Muske-
gon high school oratOrical contest, and
will represent Muskegon in the district
contest.
In a freight wreck on the Cincinnati
Northern Railroad near Devils Lake five
cars were demolished and the road block
ed six hours.
John Anderson of Grayling was struck
by train on the Manistee and North
western Railroad at Manistee and in
stantly killed.
The farm residence of Oliver Anderson,
located just west of Chesaning, burned.
Only few articles of furniture were saw
ed. Loss 81 900.
A camp of Royal Neighbors. auxiliary
to the Modern Woodmen of America, has
been instituted at Vicksburg with twenty
charter members.
The $4,000 needed to clear the kala-
mazoo Y. NJ. G. A. from debt and save
their building has all been raised and
with $1,000 to spare.
Durand's marshal refuses TO enforce an
ordinance providing for the licensing of
dogs and establishing a dog pound which
went into effect March l.
George Anderson, woodsman at Man
istique, made an unsuccessful attempt to
commit suicide by/cutting his throat. He
had been drinking heavily.
Laboring men at Port Huron who were
not affiliated with any labor union have
formed Federal Union, branch of the
American Federation of Labor.
Rev. II. A. Strough of Little Falls, n.
Y, a noted traveller and lecturer, has ac-
cepted unanimous call to become pas
tor of the First Presbyterian Church Of
Allegan.
The Port Huron Salt Co., recently or
ganized, is negotiating for the establish
mcnt of salt blocks at Cayuga Lake, n.
Y, and one in Kansas. The company will
run counter to the salt trust.
The Port Huron Merchants and Manu-
facturers Association is considering the
advisability of building farmers ele-
vator as an inducement for the farmers
to bring their grain to that city.
There was presented to the postmaster
at Allegan recently a draft of the United
States Postofiice Department which was
45 years old. 1t bears date of Nov. >,
1855. 1t had been lost for many years.
The person to whom it was drawn is
dead.
The Grand Rapids and Indiana Rail-
road Company has awarded contracts
for a new union depot in Gr md Rapids,
to be completed this season, at cost
exceeding 100000 The Pcre Marquette
and Michigan Central will also use the
building.
The regular State convention of the
Peoples party of Michigan will be held
at Grand Rapids Tuesday, May l, at IL
a. m, for the purpose of selecting dele
gates to the regular national convention
of the Peoples party to e held at Gin
cinnati, Ohio, on May 8.
Francis T.. Bogardus is dead, aged 63
years. He was one of the most promi-
nent men of Ypsilanti, and had held the
offices of city treasurer, justice of the
peace, alderman, mayor and postmaster.
His term in the last named office expired
in February of this year.
A dramatic scene occurred in Oakwood,
near Detroit. A woman with flaming
red hair stood in the center of the road
wrapped in long cloak. There was de-
termination in her eye as she nervously
awaited the approach OF team hauling
load of wood and a man, evidently
farmer, seated ON it. The man attempt
ed to whip up the horses as he reached
the woman, but she ran beside the wagon
and rained blow after blow across the
mans face and shoulders with a whip
she had taken from under her cloak. She
said the man had insulted her.
Colin Cameron, a Grand Trunk brake
man, after coupling the engine of his
train in the Sarnia tunnel yards, stepped
directly in front of an approaching train
and WAS Instantly kiIlad