Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-01-04

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The ladies' OF st. Joseph's Catholic
Church at Bedding made $3.50 out Of q
three days fair.
The residence Of Frank Benson al
Manistee burned. Loss $1,000. fully Gov
cred by insurance.
The Michigan Manufacturing and Mer
camille Co. of Standish is running five
large lumber camps.
Isaac Arnold, prominent hay buyer
of Charlotte, fell from load of hay and
received serious injuries.
There Is a large demand for men to
work in camps in Osceola County, but
men cannot be had at any price.
Ebenezer Pettibone, aged II years, OF
Lewiston, was killed near that village
while stealing a ride on log train.
Portland's $4,000 issue of water works
bonds has been sold to Cleveland firm
at par. They bear per cent interest.
Osceola County won the prize in 1895
for the largest average attendance at the
farmers Institutes per farm population.
The store occupied by Captain & Sin
german, which burned at Baldwin, will
be rebuilt and the firm will continue bus
mess.
The house on the farm of Henry Char
tiers in Fenton township, occupied by Mr..
Charters and Daniel Kline, burned. Loss
$1,000.
Frank Stafford has been sentenced in
Circuit Court at st. Joseph to six months
in Ionia prison for stealing horse and
carriage.
Miss Charity Mosher, aged 60 years, is
dead of injuries received from falling
down a fight of stairs. She was pion-
eer of Mosherville.
Frank Gum, a brakeman on the t.,
s. e. M. Railway, was caught between
cars while coupling at Pennington and
was severely crushed.
Charles McRay of Mosherville fell
from the roof of the Omega cement
works. distance of forty-four feet, and
received serious injuries.
Tuscola County farmers who have re-
Gently been feeding their cows sugar
beet tops say that it causes u great in
crease in the milk yield.
Il. A. Davis of the Wolverine Fish Co.
has closed a contract for entire Alpena
fish catch of 1900. The prices exceed
those paid by the trust in 1890.
Alfred Alger of Holland grew very de-
spondent because his wife announced that
she would leave him and go home to her
parents and attempted to end his life.
He was discovered in time and resusci-
tated.
Frank Beard, the chalk talk artist and
caricaturist announced at Benton Har-
Dor that he has appeared for the last
time on the stage as a public entertainer.
He has been on the stage for twenty
years.
Rodney Smons and his wife of Sher-
wood township have just celebrated their
fifty-sixth wedding anniversary. They
are both natives of New York State.
They have lived in Sherwood township
all these years.
Articles of association of the Benton
Harbor State Bank have been fled with
the county clerk. The bank is capitaliz-
cd at $4,000, divided into 500 shares Of
800 each. A commercial and savings
business will be carried on.
In Circuit Court at Lansing the jury
returned q verdict OF $500 damages
against Nelson Rossman of Onondaga
township, against whom suit was brought
for charging that his reighbor, Fred
Roraback, had burned his own barns.
A branch of the Social Democratic
party has been organized at Kalamazoo
with these officers: DIR. James Mccall,
chairman; Charles Wood, vice-chairman;
VIM. Benessi, secretary; Jerry Van Wer-
den, treasurer; ID. w. Shaw, organizer.
The chairman is grandson of the late
James Monroe.
st. Clair Circuit Court has granted
Mrs. w. Clark $40 per month tempo
rary alimony, $25 solicitors fees and $40
expenses while her divorce suit is pend
ing. The couple are occupying the same
house at the present time and the hus-
band is in the employ Of the wife's faith
er, William Canham.
Mrs. Mary Butterfield Sanderson, who
was acquitted of the charge of murder
ing her aged husband, Rodolphus San
derson of Battle Creek, may bring suits
she claims instigated her arrest. She
says she will not allow Marie Robertson,
the servant girl, to escape.
Railroad Commissioner Osborn has de-
cided to appeal the case brought against
the Wabash Railroad Company to COM
pei it to sell tickets at the rate of two
and half cents per mile. The commits
sioner lost his case in the Wayne Cir
cult Court, and the question will now
come before the Supreme Court.
A disastrous fire visited the village of
IIadley, wiping out the main portion of
the business part OF the town. Geo. Hut
toms drug store and postofiice, John
Morton's hardware store, Morelands
harness shop, DIR. Stewards Office and the
Maccabee hall were totally destroyed.
The origin of the fire is unknown. Par
tial insurance on the property.
A woman employee of the Sanitarium
Health Food Co. at Battle Greek has con-
fesscd that she set fire to the company's
building on the night Of July 10, 1898,
when the structure was damaged to the
extent of $6,000 Incendiarism had new
err been suspected. She says she did 1t
to cover up theft of $500, but her con-
science has talked to her repeatedly since.
The suit for 5000 damages, brought
by Mrs. Richard Storey against the
Grand Trunk Elevator Co., was ended at
Port Huron by the disagreement of the
Jury after being out fifteen hours. Nine
Of the jurymen, it is said, wanted to
give $4,000 damages. Storey was an
employee Of the company and was killed
by the falling of the grain gate while a
boat was being unlOaded.