Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-10-01
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.


-Hillsdalc College has between $50 and
400 students.
The Pioneer says that work on new
buildings is now in progress in all parts Of
Manistique.
From fifteen to twenty head Of cattle
die weekly in Detroit from what is known
as Texas fever
Billy" Burns, the notorious burglar,
has been sentenced at Detroit to fifteen
years in the penitentiary. nar "a
The first plat of Howell village was re-
corded Nov. 10. 1885, and there is talk of
celebrating the fiftieth anniversary.
--latest London market reports show
that Michigan white wheat commands two
O1uGs u UusueI ruvrv
ican wheat.
w. L. Hutchinson, of Rogersyille. has
100 swarms of bees, and his product of
honey this year will be 4, 900 pounds, 1000
pounds of which has already been sold to
Chicago parties.
Michigan charges any railroad $500
which shall employ as engineer. dipatcher.
fireman or brakeman man who is not
theoretically and actually total abstainer
from intoxicating liquors.
AT BEch Run, Saginaw County, the
two -year-ofd son of Thomas Johnson,
while playing with revolver, discharged
the weapon, the ball going through the
head and killing him instantly.
Robert Crawford. father of James
| Crawford, of Armada Township, died last
week on the farm where he had lived over
| fifty years. Mr.. Crawford is said to have
read the Bible through sixty-fi times.
Probably the largest sale of wool that
has taken place in Southern Michigan for
many years was consummated at Ann Arbor
recently. A firm of that place sold to an
Eastern party 800, 900 pounds of wool in
one lot, from which they realized 800, 600.
The wool, when loaded, will make train
of thirty-four cars.
| The only change from local time to
standard time is q slight change either in
| the mental habits or the actual habits of
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the people. There is no mystery about it.
People in Detroit must either eat, sleep, or
| go about their business half an hour earlier
as regards actual noon and midnight, or ac-
custom themselves to doing those things at
q half hour previous to the former hour Of
doing them. In two weeks they will not be
conscious of the change. II is of little i'm
portance either way.-Free Press.
| james Farm, who lives at Greenwood,
am sstSDss suIfns
| for the best bear-shoot He was out early
! last Sunday, saw large she-bear. and,
| aiming carefully at a vital point, fred. The
brute dropped, and when he got to the
place where she Law dead, he was surprised
TO see cub behind her, also dead, killed
by the same ball. Later in the day he shot
another cub, killing that also with one ball.
If it had been any other day than the Lords
Mr.. Farm would have doubled his already
| good record. detroit Ners.
| About one year ago the Pacific Express
| Company was robbed at Peru, Ind, the
express messenger being gagged and valu-
ables taken. A reward of 81. 500 was offer
| ed for the arrest and conviction of the rob-
bers. Detective Pat O'Neil, of Detroit,
was employed on the case, and succeeded
in bringing to punishment the perpetrators,
| d. w. Downer, Little AL, and Beit Lewis,
the express messenger. Payment of the
reward having been refused, 4. +. Conley,
| of Detroit, brings suit against the Pacific
Express Company for $4,000 damages, be-
| ing the reward. with interest and expenses.
| The suit is a novel one, being probably the
| first of its kind
| People who get their idea OF the saw
mill from the establishments outside of the
lumber regions have little idea of the ca
pacity of the mills in which lumber is
manufactured. One of the great mills in
the Michigan lumber district will handle
from 1000 to 1900 logs every day. The
mills will probably average 5000 logs a
week or 20, 600 logs month. All the in
genuity and energy of the lumbermen has
been directed to the quick handling of
these logs or the rapid turning Of the rough
material into lumber. They have SO far
succeeded that each mill will turn out from
SO, 900 to 100 feet of lumber every day.
Every contrivance that can aid the men
in handling and turning the logs or in turn
ing out lumber has been pushed to wonder
full professionalism Ocean.
DIR. George Whitfield Fish, ex- United
States Consul to China and Tunis, and
we'll known resident of Flint, died at his
home in that city, of pneumonia. He was
70 years old. DIR. Fish was native of
Kortright. Delaware County, N. Y, and
came to Flint in 1889 after having obtained
q medical education in Eastern schools. In
1850 he went to Panama as surgeon for the
Panama Railroad, and in 1859 went to
China, where he was appointed Consul at
Ning-Po In this connection he was pres
ent at the storming of Ning-Po by the Tai
pings. At the breaking out of the civil war
he enlisted as surgeon in the Fourth Michi-
an Cavalry. He was taken prisoner by the
Confederates at Stone River. Returning
from the war, where he was one of the
party who captured JEFF Davis, he started
the Saginaw Daily Enterprise, and became
successfully Collector of Internal Revenue
for the Sixth District of Michigan, Stale
Senator, and Trustee Of the Flint Asylum.
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