Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-02-04
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS

Fire at Middleville destroyed T. ID.
Finch Il Sons -four mill and elevator.
The Plymouth Medicine Company has
been organized with a capital stock of $1o,-
600.
Wood has become so scarce around
Bronson that soft coal is being used in wood
stoves. - +@-s -4
Henry A. Luck, of Hersey, contem-
plates locating at Chase and opening poul-
try farm. '-s
Two young ladies were badly hurt near
Negaunee, last week, by the toboggan leav-
ing the track. .,
The stave-mill and grist-mfil at Free
land, which have been idle for some time,
are about to start up again.
"A prosecuting attorneys convention
will be held at Lansing Feb. 10, to talk
about criminal law practice.
"A brotherhood of railroad brakemen
has been organized at Saginaw, with char
ter membership of twenty.
The next meeting of the Livingston
County Teachers Association will he held
in Howell on Saturday, Feb. 13.
The German Lutheran Church Society
of Saline have placed two new bells in their
bell tower weighing 200 pounds each.
County Treasurer Luther A. Haynes
died at his residence in Kalkaska recently,
after painful illness of several months.
"A lumber firm of Grand Rapids paid
$172, 200 for mill, large quantity of lum-
Der and logs, and 500 acres of land near
LIE Roy.
The Houghton County Supervisors
have adopted the plans of ]. B. Sweat for
the construction of a new court house, Jail,
and Sheriff's residence.
p. B. Wachtel, President of Petoskey
Village, and a prominent pioneer of North
ern Michigan, has retired from the banking
house of Curtis, Wachtel & Co.
A petition is being circulated asking
Congress for an appropriation of $1O,O
so IepuIIu Une uocK at FerestviIIe, which
was DESTROYED by the storm Dec. a.
William Harris has purchaseda tract Of
land near Chase, upon which there is suf-
fcient cedar to make 100000 shingles.
He intends putting in a shingle- mill.
The people in the vicinity of Chase are
greatly excited over the discovery of de-
posit of pottery and fire clay ON the Pere
Marquette River, five miles from that place.
Professor Cheever, of Ann Arbor, re-
Gently sent to Central America, in the in
terest of q Chicago iron company, has
returned and resumed his work in metal
lurgy.
AT IshpemiAg, q miner named James
Cnrnnw instaaatly killed. by tlIo break
ing Of a plank on which he and another
man were working, one hundred feet from
the ground.
Hastings is to have new and neat opera
house this spring, adjoining the new Newton
House, the contract for both buildings hav-
ing been let They Will be of brick, with
all the modern improvements.
AT n large meeting in Waldron, the
people in that vicinity agreed TO raise
$4,000 for the proposed jackson and Ohio
Railway. Pittsford and Pioneer are max
ing strenuous efforts to secure the road.
The Secretary of State is having manu-
factured set of books providing for uni
form system of records and accounts for
the use of superintendent of the poor and
keepers of poor-houses throughout Michi-
gan.
AT Coldwater, B. T. Russell, of the
grocery firm of White & Co., and ID. A.
Sperry, of Stevens g. Spery, manufacturers,
have each commenced suit against their
partners by filing bill and swearing out
writs of injunction.
&C. E. Hershey, the ex- Cashier of the
First National Bank of Owosso, who abb
seconded, has returned home. He is quite
sick. 1t is claimed that under the strain of
business difficulties his mind was affected,
and that now all debts will be paid.
"A snow-shoe club was organized al
Marquette Saturday afternoon. Snow
shoes and moccasins have been ordered
from Montreal, and tramps will be taken
every Thursday. The exercise is On invig-
orating one, and the club promises to secure
large number of members.
Mile. Emma Nevada was married Oct.
/, in Paris, TO DIR. Raymond Palmer, OF
Birmingham, England. The civil service
occurred at the English Embassy and the
religious ceremonies at the Church of the
Passionist Fathers. The girlish prima
donna is the daughter Of DR.. Wixom, of
Michigan.
The Athletic Association of the Michi-
gan University has secured the refusal Of
the roller rink for the use Of gymnasium.
The boys will close the contract provided
sufficient money can be raised which, added
to that already on hand, viii be enough to
properly equip the place.
The trial of 7. B. Barry for conspiracy
in leading the strike in the Saginaw Valley
last summer has ended at East Saginaw,
the jury bringing in O verdict of mot
guilty" after being out twenty three hours.
The trial was made under the conspiracy
law, Barry being charged with melting riot.
The Coroner's inquest over the remains
of Frank Knoch, his wife, and their two
children, whose charred bodies were found
in the ruins of their home at Detroit, ended
with verdict that the parents came 10 their