Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-05-03


Rev. J. A. Herrick Of Chicago, called
BY the Baptist Church Of Owosso. de-
clines to accept.
Michael Mccain. farmer living south
Of Jackson. received fatal injuries In
runaway accident.
Keller boasts OF resident who is SO
strong that while lifting q lady out OF
carriage recently he broke two Of her
ribs.
The new village council ut Ovid has
passed an ordinance prohibiting absolute
Iy the sale OF liquor within the village
limits.
A church is TO be erected at once by
the Presbyterian society recently organ
lied at West Branch, and pastor in
stalled.
Farmers in the northern part Of Ionia
County have organized a creamery asso-
citation and will build their factory at
Mulliken,
The National Salt Company has given
a contract to erect a salt warehouse TO
cost $1,000 near the 'three T. railroad
dock at st. Joseph.
The Business Mems Association at
and will now proceed to hustle for the
material interests of the city.
Henry A. Robinson, ex-statistician Of
the Agricultural Department and ex-
State labor commissioner, died at hir
home in Detroit, aged SO years.
Four free rural mail delivery routes
will be asked for by the farmers living
. about Vicksburg who are entitled to
these advantages of modern times.
Cass County farmers say that the
wheat which was sown very late last fall
is looking well. while the ground which
was seeded early in the season will have
to be plowed over.
AS springtime has come again it has
thawed out that internal nuisance-the
boy with gun, and the annual slaughter
of the rapidly decreasing supply Of our
song birds has started up again.
Escanaba's electric railway is to be ex-
tended northward to Gladstone and Rap
id River. a distance of twenty-one miles
Work on the extension will be begun
soon and the line completed at least to
Gladstone this season.
A truant officer seems to be very
much needed thing at Ludington. The
Appeal says that seventeen boys of
school age were counted fishing off the
docks near the entrance to the harbor
during school hours one morning recently.
II. w. David, who has been a justice
OF the peace in Eagle township. ever
since he was old enough to be eligible to
the office. has record of which he is
proud CT all the cases he has decided
which have been taken to higher courts,
in only one has his decision been changed.
The body of Oscar Curtis was found in
Paw Paw River on the shore of Hon. A.
y. Woodruff's farm, near Watervliet, by
his hired man. He was identified by his
brother and Floyd Fitzsimons, Of Colo
ma. He expressed his intentions to Fitz-
simons, his chum, but nothing was
thought OK it at the time.
The launching of the Ravenscraig, the
first steel steamer ever built at Port HUI
ron, was marked by elaborate ceremO-
MES. Ten thousand people were in at
tendance. the city schools being closed, in
honor of the event The new boat was
christened by Miss Morton. daughter Of
Capt. Ed Morton of the Volunteer Tran
sit Company.
A Quinessec woman who owned moth
ing but the house she lived in and the lot
on which it stood has refused to register
the deed to her property. but kept it hid
den in the house. The house was burned
down recently and the deed destroyed.
Now she is unable to sell the land be-
cause she can show no title to it, the
man who sold II to her being dead and his
heirs under age.
Dexter people acted very independent
and naughty to the promoters of the
Ann Arbor-Jackson electric railroad
scheme until the route was all surveyed
and the right of way bought and Dexter
left several miles to one side. Now they
have come off their high horse and are
hustlng their best to get the company 10
change the route so as TO have their vii
lage on the main line.
A young woman of Ovid has discov-
cred that it is dangerous to use curling
tongs. She was curling her hair with q
pair and had just gotten the instrument
thoroughly heated and was raising il to
her head when her hold upon it became
unsteady and the instrument struck her
i'm the eye. The heat seriously injured
the eye, and she may lose her sight.
One of the worst wrecks in years in
that neighborhood happened on the Gin
cinnati 4 Grand Trunk Railroad, four
miles east of Emmett. A loaded freight
train stood on the main line and the en-
CINE was taking a supply Of water from
the tank. Another loaded freght-train
came along and there was rear-end col
lision. The caboose of the first train was
lifted in the air and thrown into a field
several rods away. The engine of the
east train went down a fifteen-foot en-
bankment and is total wreck. The
train that stood on the track was loaded
with live stock, the cars upset and 175
sheep and fifty hogs are dead.
Miss Ida Guntow, Of Ann ArBor, is
dead. Shortly before her death she told
the following particulars as to the cause
of her death: Monday night she returned
from n dancing party and having a Sc
we're cold took dose of what she sup
posed to be glycerinc, just as she retired.
She realized too late that she had acct
dcntally picked up the wrong bottle and
had swallowed a large quantity Of car
bolic acid instead of the glycerine she
had been accustomed to use for her cold.
She was unable to arouse the family, and
fell back on the bed, where she was
found the next morning unconscious. AL
though the doctors did all that was pos
sible II was too late to save her life. The
young woman blamed no one for her
death and said that she took the poison
entirely by accident.
Farmers who own sugar bushes almost
without exception complained of a small
yield of sap this spring. Like all other
oIou.ls houavar fhic ono hoc eilvor