Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-10-29
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS


dered for the students at Ann Arbor.
Asa Fowles, one Of the pioneers OF
Ontonagon, is dead, at Cleveland, Ohio.
-C. Il. Barber is teaching his fiftieth
consecutive term of school near Morenci.
Warren Chipman, an actor cut his
throat at Flint. His family resides in San
| Francisco.
As high as $26 per month has been
offered at St. Ignace for men to work Ia
the woods.
A lady connected with the St Johns
apple-drying furnace pares and cores fifty
bushels Of apples day.
Grand Rapids Universalists will pay
off all their debts this year, and will build
new edifce next year.
An even dozen of Bay City cabbage
heads weighed 161 pounds; the same num-
Der of Saginaw early growth weighed 24O
pounds.
There are 500 school children in Trav-
erse City, and $17, 1000 has been invested
there in school buildings. The high school
is to cost $4,000.
"A Grand Rapids NJ. ID. claims to have
bills out for medical attendance which will
aggregate over 500, 900, which he never
expects to collect.
"A Lansing man recently sold some of
the deer in his private park. One of them,
a fine buck, was frightened to death while
they were catching him, and died while
they were tying his feet
"A Reading farmer claims 10 have
raised seven squashes whose aggregate
weight was 600 pounds. The largest one
weighed 107. A radish weighing two
pounds and thirteen ounces also halls from
the same place.
Lieutenant Brownell, who avenged the
death of Colonel Ellsworth in 1861 by kill
ing Jackson, the assassin hotel proprietor,
was in Tecumseh recently. Lieutenant
Brownell served through the war, and is
now connected with the Pension Bureau.
"A Hungarian was stabbed to death at
Iron Mountain, and two men whom he
had elected from wedding feast were
arrested for the crime. A mob invaded
he Jail after midnight, inten d ng to lynch
the accused persons, but departed after
beating them with their fists in a vigor-
orous manner.
e. +. Ray, of Coldwater, is doing a
lively business in the poultry line. He has
twenty-seven teams ON the road gathering
fowls, and has twenty hands in his packing
hn..e---A l..>--L ------ -
in the neighborhood Of twenty EIGHT thou
sand pounds, are killed, dressed, packed,
and shipped each week.
--Jud Osborn. a saloon keeper Of Tren-
ton, near Detroit, was shot dead in the
street by an unknown assassin who APP
preached him from behind. Ed Flaherty
has been arrested on suspicion. Flaherty's
wife recently applied for divorce. 1t is
| alleged Flaherty accused Osborn of alienat-
ing her affections and had made threats
against him.
AT the beginning of the war Phil
sheridan was ordered to Michigan to buy
horses for the cavalry. Governo, Blair be-
came acquainted with the horse buyer and
made him Colonel of the Third Michigan
Cavalry. Six weeks later lie was Mt the
head of all the cavalry in Hallecks army
and leading raid to break up the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad.
The decrease in the receipts from the
State Fair this year shows the usual en-
croachment upon the surplus of the society
accumulated by exhibitions in Detroit.
xuhiob will COON ron1ar na0aooarv for ha
fair TO be held one or two years in this city
in order to recruit its finances again. De-
troit is "the old man" to whom the prodiRal
and speculative young hopeful looks to
make good the losses when he goes skylark-
| ing around the State with his show and
wasting his substance in the smaller towns
and cities.--Free Press
The Adria N Record publishes the fol-
lowing joke on itself: If there is anything
that an editor dislikes it is one thing more
than another Especially is it discourag-
ing to have man of whom he has written
q touching obituary rise up and pronounce
the statement a falsehood. Recently the
Record noted in tender language the de-
mise of Uncle Billy Talmage, an old
fiddler we'll known about Woodstock. Now
comes Uncle Billy himself and pronounces
the statement "a - lie." Well. perhaps
tho old man may know more about il than
we do, but we can tell him one thing-the
Record is very reliable newspaper, and
we caution him not to be too positive in
disputing its statements.
| AT the Arctic Restaurant, a thieves re-
sort In Detroit, there was desperate fight
between the police and gang Of burglars
they we're after. The place had long been
under surveillance, and officers were de-
tailed to raid the place and capture all who
could be found. Over the saloon is
poker room, and in this were several burg
lars. who offered resistance. The doors
were burst open, but the officers were
driven back. With the help of part of the
force who were without the building the
men we're finally forced out Of the room.
| They came out with loaded levolvors, but
were received in like manner by the off,
GERS. the latter shooting two OF the gang,
one Of them fatally.
|
Tho rafting season for the Tittaba-
wassee Boom Company this year was
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