Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-15
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

The Copper Herald, of Hancock, will
make the second daily published in the
Upper Peninsula.
The Trap Shooting Association meet
ing will be held at East Saginaw May 5, 6,
and7. A. G.. North, of Pontiac, is Presi-
dent.
George w. Campbells general store at
Atlas burned recently, together with an ad-
joining building in which were the head
quarters of the G.. A. r.
United States Indian Agent Stevens,
of Flint, has appointed Miss Mary e. Wag.
ley, Of Cross Village, teacher Of the Indiap
school at Middle Village.
An Adrian drug firm gives away Il.
girls of that city by announcing that it has
recently ordered six barrels of chewing
gum, which it expects to retail in shon
time.
Tho fvo-year- old SON Of Edward Pres
ton, of White Pigeon, wasdrowned recently
while playing on the bank of the mill race.
The body was found in the mill race, half
o mile from where he fell in.
Rev. James Cooper, d. D., OF Detroit,
District Secretary of the American Baptist
Home Mission Society, died recently. He
was at one time pastor of a church at
Flint. He leaves a wife and six children.
Norris Alexander, known as KNOCK
Alexander, of Chesaning murder fame,who
was released about year ago after serv-
ing a ten years sentence, was arrested
on suspicion of participating with My
ron Crosby in the burglary committed at
| Mount Morris December 20 last.
: Ramsey Gregory, of Bay City, return
ing home the other night from neighbor's,
! discovered q man carrying off robe and
harness from his fathers barn, and upon
accosting him was shot through the heart,
living long enough to relate the cause oi
his death to his father, who came out on
hearing the firing.
The annual report of DIR. Palmer,
physician at the State prison at Jackson,
will show an improved sanitary condition.
The amount of labor lost through sickness
in 1885, with 730 prisoners, is only about
! twenty five per cent. of that lost in 1881,
with 1872 prisoners. There were eiglt
deaths during the past year.
The Executive Committee of the Grand
Army Association of Southwestern Michi-
gan has decided to hold the annual encamp-
ment of the Association in Hillsdale, Oh
the oath, 25th, Goth, and 9th of August
The Association is composed of the G. A
r. Posts in the counties of Branch, Hills
dale. jackson, Washtenaw, Lanawee, and
Monroe.
A woman was found drowned in ditch
identified as Annie Powers, alias Annie
Fisher. She and James Maloney were to-
oether about midnight, both being drunk.
and the police arrested Maloney, when the
woman walked off, and, it is supposed, fell
into the ditch and was unable to extricate
herself.
Two little daughters of Thomas Row
land, living in Saginaw County, were pois-
oned by eating some wild parsRips that grew
in the door-yard. The youngest child died
! within an hour after eating the herb, and
the other next morning. A girl still older
and the mother were both violently IL
, from the same cause, but saved by timely
] medical aid.
| AT an inquest into the recent fire at
Bronson. which destroyed the fine rew
brick block of stores, and resulted in the
i death of Mrs. Timothy Hurley and her
daughter, and the serious injury of MIR.
% rIur1ey sss,d sl.s~1i- l;i<a-N->, si-> S's'v'
: !, found that the fire was caused by the explo-
Q sion of a metal lamp in the store, and was
3 accidental, and not the result OF any negil-
q gence.
AT the March meeting of the Board OF
Regents of the University the American
= Medical Missionary Society asked them 70
IS emnower the proper officers to admit such
K students to the Medical College as the so-
. ciety should receive, under rule requiring
1t them TO furnish satisfactory testimonials ol
- earnest Christian character, without charge
l. Cor lecture fees. The Board decided thai
a. 4. the request could not properly be granted
4 Leave of absence was granted to Z. u
s, Gayley, Assistant Professor of Latin' q
" pursue studies in Germany, for one yea
y from October /, 1886.
al Attorney General Taggart has rendered
1e 1s an opinion on the law giving the bodies o
I. paupers to the State University for dissec
mt ton which will be of interest. The Med
90 q, ical Superintendent of the Northern Asylur
IL asked whether the body of an inmat
no no should be sent to Ann Arbor when the rel
atiyes of the deceased request burial at ID
20 ASYLUM. but are unable to bear the expens
~ The Attorney General says: II do not piac
is this construction upon the statute. In
mt former part of the section places the matte
he go that two requisites must exist to author
,es ,es ize the sending of such bodies to Ann Al
gh bor; first, that the body is that of persc
on on not claimed by any relative, and, secon
~; one that may be required to be buried
er- public expense, or at the expense OF sue
~s act institution. 1t appears to me that the r
the quest made should be treated as sufficie
1r. claim and request under the statute, al
red that bodies under such circumstances shou
be not be sent as subjects for dissection.
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,lo AT public meeting of the citizens
NO Pontiac, held for the purpose OF raisi
YES money to secure the location there OF 9