Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-11-05
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.


Elk Rapids is manufacturing potash
on small scale.
All the Holly girls are hayng their
auburn tresses clipped.
Bay County Supervisors talk Of erect
ing 81 ,00J building for idiots an insane.
James Wooley. the oldest resident OF
Gratiot County, died at Bannister, aged 81
years.
Northern Michigan cattle are being
kept on the go rather lively by the ambi-
tious sportsman in search Of deer.
Insomnia caused Daniel w. Fales. a
police sergeant in Detroit to kill himself
with revolver in the Fremont street sta
tion.
The team belonging to Jesse Quick, in
Barry Comfy, ran away and Quick was
thrown out of the wagon, and his meek
broken by the fall
Prof. Thompson, for nine years SUI
perintendent of Albion schools, has been
elected to the same position at Hillsdale.
at 81 400 salary.
Antoine Fernette. sixty y-six years old,
rushed into burning cottage near Detroit
to save some relatives he supposed were
there, and lost his life.
A commission appointed by the Gov
ernor of Michigan has locate the upper
peninsula branch prison and reform school
about two miles from Marquette.
1t cost Rev. Edward Matthews $11O
for resisting an officer who attempted to ar
rest minister at the Free Methodist camp
meeting in Branch County last summer
-Missaukee County Supervisors have
offered a $500 reward for the capture of
Thomas Goodrow, who shot and killed
Ed Pritchard near Lake City August IL.
A young woman in Detroit put this
personal in tho Free Press: DEAR NED:
Come back; all is forgiven. Pa kicked the
wrong man and didn't know it was you.
Come Immediately. MARY"
Ellen NJ. Jones, of Detroit, the widow
Of a well-known lake captain. brought suit
for $4,000 against the police officials of
Detroit. She claims that, while attacked
on the sidewalk by vertigo, she was arrested
| for drunkenness.
The mails heretofore carried between
Harbor Springs and Cross Village were
some time since discontinued, and a new
route established between Harbor Springs
and Leverina, but so much dissatisfaction
was expressed over the change that the old
route has been rec established.
The agreement among the baseball
managers to cut down baseball players
salaries to maximum of $4,000 is a very
bold step. 1t was hardly to be supposed
they would be equal to it. 1t is very much
as if railroad corporations should refuse to
pay railroad lawyers more than $4,000 a
year. At this rate BASEL ball Playing as a
livelihood will be quoted below plumbing,
Niagara Falls hack drivers, and the owner
ship of Michigan pine lands.-Free Press
Probably the three youngest criminals
ever convicted in East Saginaw are Delos
Frost, Eddie Booth and Wesley Brown,
who have been sentenced to the Reform
School until eighteen years of age. The old
est boy Is fifteen years old; the Youngest
twelve. One night last week the boys en-
tered the residence of Mrs. Booth, grand
mother of one of the boys, and stole S5l.
and startsd for Texas. They were arrested
next morning while at pistol practice.
Said brother recently, speaking of
tho disinclination of ministers to accept n
humber field than they have once occupied,
or that they think their talents should COM
mand, "there is no stepping down in
Chiists work. An angel does not question
whether he is sent to a hing or sent to a
peasant-the Only requirement is obedi-
ence. "But all ministers are not angels"
was observed. "True in one sense, but
they are Gods messengers. They have
work so grand that angels might also envy
them. The richest fruits of my ministry
were borne on field which had been
warned not to enter, of which had been
told that no minister could stay there. -
Detroit Christian Herald.