Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-08

N. Mieseh. caused a 900 damage.
Charles Wellman has been appointed a
police Commissioners, at Port Huron.
The Clinic roller mills, burned at Leo
Midas last December, will be rebuilt.
The residence OF Samuel Rosen at
Muskegon was damaged $1,000 by FIRE.
The act relative to garnisheeing mu-
inequalities will be tested at Port Huron.
Judge Birney Hoyt was buried at
Grand Rapids. His FIVE sons acted as
pail bearers.
The late Mrs. III. b. Hoyt Of Kala-
mnzoo left $4,000 to the Peoples Church
OF that city.
The NJ. Il. Church Society of Galesburg
celebrated the sixty-sixth anniversary OF
its organization.
II is said that the Vandalia Railroad
will build a spur track from Baroda to
Berrien Springs.
The Bell Telephone Co. ut Ionia has
raised the rates on residence phones from
So to $1S per year.
Rev. A. +. Beare of Lewisport, KY,
has accepted a call from the Christian
Church of Bloomingdale.
Davis Fecrick, Casnovia boy, who
died in his country's service at Manila,
was buried at Casnovia.
The contest over the possession Of the
water power company at Berrien Springs
will be carried into the courts.
Vernon Morton, aged Is. son Of a prom
inent Casnovia township farmer, has en-
listed i'm the Second United States cav
airy.
James Horen, aged IL years, of Rom
illus township, got caught in machinery
and had both legs injured. He will re-
cover.
A pro-Boer meeting at Kalamazoo rails
ed $500 for the Boer cause, making about
81 900 in all contributed by Kalamazoo
citizens.
The engineers on the Saginaw division
of the Pere Marquette Railroad are en-
deavoring to secure readjustment Of
their wages.
The State Sunday school convention
will be held at Owosso Nov. Ii, IA and
10, 1900 About 1000 delegates will be
in attendance.
Clifford Hughes, Hugh Shotwell and
Lee Hughes were injured in coasting
accident at Galesburg. Their sled col
lided with a tree.
William Rowland of Worcester, Mass,
will be the successor of Gardner Lam
son as head Of the vocal department in
the university school Of music.
Dr. Henry b. Baker, secretary of the
State Board Of Health of Michigan, has
been chosen a vice-president of the con-
gress OF tuberculosis, New York.
The Baptist Calvary mission of the
First Baptist Church at Port Huron has
organized as an independent church and
will be known as Calvary Baptist
Church.
Susan Barnhart. q widow, aged Gl
years, living ut Muskegon, was overcome
by cold near her home the other night.
When found she was badly frozen, but it
is believed her life will be saved.
The boycott of chapel exercises at the
Michigan Agricultural College has been
raised, the coed societies having been
granted the use of the Union Literary
Society rooms, which had previously re-
fused.
The original Indebtedness of the y. NJ.
C. A. of Grand Rapids has been reduced
from So, 1000 to $4,000. The secretary
states that the association now has over
$4,000 in securities to pay off the bal
ance of $4,000.
Dr. Lille, former instructor in zool-
ogy at the University of Michigan and
professor of biology at Vassar College
last year, has accepted position as
professor of cytology at the University
of Chicago for next year.
Free rural mail delivery from the AL
bion postofiice has been approved and or
dered by the Postoffice Department.
Three routes have been determined upon,
which average twenty-fOur miles and
which will reach over 1000 people.
The Grand Blanc township board has
granted an extension of the electric rail
way franchise granted to Hon. Sam w.
Smith and others to Nov. l., 1901. 1t has
developed that the Hendries of Detroit
have become interested in the project.
David M. Robson was burned to death
ut his home in Port Huron. He had been
sick for some time with malarial fever.
After an alcohol bath he was tucked into
bed. About l o'clock William b. Robe
son, who was sitting in the next room,
saw a fash and rushed into the bedroom.
His brother was standing up in bed, a
pillar of flame. William made an attempt
to smother the flames. David's wife came
to his assistance. Both brother and wife
were forced to leave the room on ac-
count of the heat. A fire engine extin-
gushed the flames, but then the body
had been burned beyond recognition.
Benton Hnrbor has new Enoch Ar
Thompson, a farmer living in Lincoln
township, disappeared suddenly from
home. He left wife and four little chill
dren, and it was understood by them
that he had gone to look for work. For
six years they had no word from him,
and then his wife received letter dated
from some place in Cuba. That was the
last heard of him, and as the years went
by Mrs. Thompson decided that her hus-
band was dead. The children grew up
and married and settled near Benton
Harbor. Recently Mrs. Thompson, be-
lieving herself widow, married Edward
McGarvey, man from Chicago, and
they settled happily on little farm in
Hagar township. A few weeks after
ward the missing John Thompson came
back to Benton Harbor and visited one
of his daughters. Instead of quietly
sneaking away again he proceeded at
once to raise family row with the Mo
Garveys and attempted to win back his
former wife. Mrs. MctIarvey. however,