Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-29

causing loss of $1,000. 1t was insured
for 1926.
Drilling for coal has commenced near
Standish on Rife river by Bay City
concern.
III. Perkins of Oxford, who is ~ years
old, Is said to be the oldest newsboy in
! the State.
David Tucker, an old resident of Farm
ington township, is dead of injuries re-
ceived by fall.
Fred Weber, treasurer of cambridge
township, was seriously injured in a saw
mill at Penn Yam.
Rents at Alpcna have advanced 20
per cent. There is not vacant dwelling
house in that city.
Esther Pennington, aged two years, of
Lansing, was burned to death while play
ing with matches.
A washout has occurred at the dam at
Union City, near the roller mills. The
loss will be quite heavy.
Elsie, which has been without Ii
censed saloon for six years, has voted in
favor OF granting a license.
The treasurer of Livingston County
settle with the auditor general.
w. j. Miller of the Chicago and Grand
Trunk, former well-kn0wn Battle
Greek railroad man, was killed recently.
The Ionia District Fair directors have
decided upon Oct. 2, 3, 4 and 5, 1900, the
week following the State fair, for the
Ionia fair.
A. G. Schumacher, secretary Of the
State board of pharmacy, has commence
ed an agitation to raise the standard Of
registered pharmacists.
Young's boarding house, Lute's laun-
dry, Miller's tailor shop and residence.
and Stickle's residence burned at Rock
land. Loss $4,000, no insurance.
Prof. S. b. Laird of the State normal
school faculty ut Ypsilanti has been en-
gagged to deliver the annual Memorial
day address at Ann Arbor this year.
Lieut.. Ashley Saxton Of Lansing, now
in the Philippines, has been promoted
to first lieutenant and transferred from
the Fourth to the Twenty-third infantry.
Ellery z. Potter of Homer township
has voted in that township at every cleo
ton held for the past sixty-four years.
His first vote was east for Henry Clay
for President.
Emily Tubbs, aged IA years, daugh-
ter of AIR. and Mrs. George Tubbs, who
live three miles northwest of Ovid, was
buried under straw stack and narrow
ly escaped suffocation.
The Hotel kalamazoo, owned by K. j.
Liendecker, formerly south town super
visor OF Chicago, burned at Saugatuck,
together with it's contents. The insur-
ance is in excess of $4,000.
Lorenzo Brainard has begun suit
against the South Baptist Church of Bay
City to recover $1,700 which he loaned
to the church seven years ago. The
church has defaulted on the interest.
The mineral bath house projected by
Port Huron capitalists will be in opera
ton in that city by June 10. The name
of the corporation will be the Deepspring
Mineral Bath Company, and its capital
stock is $4,000.
Martin Joyce, a well-known Grand Ia
ven young man, has been admitted to
membership on the Chicago Board Of
Trade. He is only u years of age, and
it is said he is the youngest person ever
elected member Of the board.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Perkins, who
live three miles from Birmingham, cele
brated their golden wedding anniversary.
The old couple were married within a
mile of where they now live, and have
resided in the same section ever since.
The Duluth South Shore road is build
ing an extension from Newtonville to
Lake Gogebic through Ontonagon and
Baraga counties, which will tap a large
new belt of hardwood, hemlock and pine
timber. The extension will be thirty
miles long.
In wreck near Pembine on the
Holmes a. Sons Railway thirteen cars
and caboose were piled in the ditch and
Brakeman MCCLELLAN seriously, if not ia
tally, injured. The wreck was due to
the loosening and falling of a log from
the train on to the track.
The annual tour of inspection by the
junior class in mechinacal engineering
of the University of Michigan will occu-
Ply the entire spring vacation, beginning
April IL and continuing until April %.
The places which will be visited are To
ledo, Washington, Baltimore, Philadel-
phia, New York, Brooklyn, Bethlehem,
Pa, and Niagara Falls.
Citizens of Laurium, the finest resi-
dence suburb of the copper mining camp
of Calumet, have appointed a committee
to rid the town Of negroes. They object
TO having it called vigilance commit
tee and announce that only peaceable
methods will be used, but that the ne
groes must go. Colored men were al
most unknown there until sewer con-
tractor brought in several carloads from
Tennessee and Alabama eighteen months
ago. Several white girls have eloped
with negroes and constant trouble has led
to this action.
Fourteen of the students of the Detroit |
College of Medicine, who a month ago |
dissected the cadaver of a negro which |
had been shipped in from the South, are |
suffering from smallpox. One Of them, |
Harry Bradley. was taken to the pest |
house. aud his roommate, Joseph Young |
of Ottollee, Ohio, went there to nurse |
him. Bradley recovered slowly. and was |
preparing to leave the pesthouse, when |
Young was stricken with the disease. |
Bradley then sat by the bedside Of his |
roommate and minstered to his comfor' |
just as Young had administered to his |
The other day Bradley left him alone fol |
an hour. While he was absent Young |
suddenly developed alarming symptoms
and he died before he could write or leave /
word to his family or communicate witt |
his chum.
A letter has been received from Cape |
Town. South Africa, written by Gen. |
William L. White, the indicted quarter. |
master general Of the Michigan Nationa, |
Guard Gen White left Grand RaDide Il