Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-12-31
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

"A lodge of oolored Good Templars has
been organized at Lansing.
-Four Ann Arbor saloon-keepers have
been complained Of for keeping open Sun
day.
Citizens in Loomis are boycotting the
new Postmistress by running an opposition
post. ''1 81 nn A1sta4A
Canada parties have rented buildings
at Owosso, and will manufacture inside
blinds. ora
A fine new passenger depot has just
been completed at West Branch, costing
about $4,000.
| The calendar of the present term Of the
Shiawassee County Court contains nine di-
vorce cases.
The Ann Arbor University Freshmen
are to wear seal-hrnwn -@mortar boards"
with golden tassels.
-Four boxes of giant powder exploded
ut the Wolverine Mine, blowing the dry
house into little bits.
Frank Hospitaler and 12-year-old
boy named Either each broke leg while
wrestling at Calumet.
Traverse City's new fire-alarm system
will be in operation In few days. The
boxes at present are six in number.
William Flannigan, recently pardoned
ont Of the pententiary by Gov. Aigsr, was
imprisoned for over thirty three years.
DIR. N. d. Clark, prominent physician
of Michigan for the past twenty five years,
dropped dead at his home, Chesaning.
Rev. w. H. Milham, fourteen years
Presbyterian pastor at Liyonia, N. Y, has
been called to the pastorate of the same
faith at Hillsdale.
The privilege of appointing cadet for
tho Maryland Military Academy, whose
board will be free, has been given to Hon.
f. L. Dodge, of Lansing
The big we'll at the Traverse City Asy-
lum is finished. 1t is sixteen feet in diam
eter, ffty-six feet deep, and already ha1
seventeen feet of water in it.
S. S. Ellsworth, for several years chief
engineer of the East Saginaw Fire Depart
, ment, dropped dead of heart disease. He
was 45 years old and leaves a family.
|, Secretary Sterling, of the State Agri-
, cultural Society, reports $11, ,17O.25 paid for
, premiums awarded at the fair of 1885, and
$12,833.S7 on business orders or for ex-
penses.
Ut is thought that the Postoffice at Re-
public, which was burned recently, was
first robbed and set ON fire to conceal the
crime. -Four years ago 800 was stolen
- ii. 2rger, an ola resIuenU or Dir
mingham, died at the age of seventy six
$ years. He was one of the pioneers OF Oak
land and Genesee Counties. He leaves
! wife and four grown children.
The jackson Wagon Company has re-
n ceived an order for several wagons for the
g 9 Russian Government, to be shipped to
!; Odessa, Russia. The order came through
h the Russian Vice Consulate at Washington.
4 "A Detroit calendar prints table head
f ed michigan legal weights and meas
ures." The people are proud of their Legal
h weights"-like Cooley and Campbell Lo-
5. throp, Pond, and Dickinson. Their names
IS are frequently found on the calendar,
II too.-Free Press.
Of Work on the University Engineering
a, Laboratory at Ann Arbor is progressing Sc
"a 70 favorably that it can probably be occupied
<, before the beginning of the second semes-
e. ter. Feb. II. The walls are finished and
is is the roof is being put on.
ed An undertaken in Detroit was closing
", the coffin of Cornelius Flynn, a steamboat
us us fireman, when Coroner Lansing took pos
- session of the remains and developed the
ot fact that his death was caused by mur'
nm derous blow ON the skull during an affra,
on boat.
Marquette Board of Supervisors hav'
e,s ea voted $500 to Nj. j. Griffin, of Ishpeming
ed who was shot at Iron River eighteel
an @ months ago by drunken Dane whom h
Ike was irving to arrest. He has been in II
ew health ever since, and the ball can not
inc extracted.
Jus lds Representative Horr's successor
,ad Congress, Mr. Timothy Tarsney, is said
md md be teller of very funny stories, and ther
I'VE I'VE are hopes that he will swell into the pre-
,cii portions of great American humorist ID
'ttS ~ saws, however, that he doesn't think th
ERE floor of Congress is the proper place to |
,m-
ven funny.
'''' Arthur Hamilton, who was admitted
NJ the hospital at Big Rapids week ago wi
zen. frozen hands, the result of spree and |,
,rol oI ing out doors all night in Osceola Count
n a had all the fingers on both hands amp
at tated. He says he served three years
ain; ain; the war, enlisting in Company II at kal
ried mazoo, and which company was afterwa
,our ioined to the Forty fourth Illinois lnfantr
lrms nn,' As the authors of the Springwe
one atrocty would not suffer very mu
ler's greater penalty for murder than for bur
tion aes larry and arson, they decided to commit
lavc three of the crimes and so make themselv
Urn Seen reasonably sure of escaping altogether.
nes- captured they would be about as 79ell on
nju. if they hadn't committed murder, while I
Sess Ses murder made the capture much less pro
'pn- able.-Free Press.
ews
70 at
rr,,s ,,ins State Salt Inspector Hills annual
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