Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-08-19
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MICHIGAN AFFAIRS
Over GOO men are at work In the shops
and factories Of Three Rivers.
Charles Gilquist was killed by falling
down mining shaft at Ishpoming.
"A Mendon man owns a rifle which was
made for and presented to Davy Crockett
in 1884.
The Charlevoix County Board of
Supervisors passed a resolution moving the
county Offices to Bay Springs.
William Harrigan, arrested for the
murder OF the Knoch family at Detroit,
has been released, the conyicts on whose
testimony he was arrested failing TO identify
him.
r. II. Frost, ex-City Treasurer of
Jackson. was arrested on the charge of
stealing $4,000 from the City Treasurer's
Office. He denied the charge. and asked
for speedy trial.
Twelve old ladies had quilting party
In Parma last week at the home of r. II.
Dunbar. Their aggregate age was 9I2
years. The oldest was SO and the youngest
90, an average of 76 years.
"A. T. Lamphere. of Coldwater, found
In his Office doorway suspicious looking
box, bearing his address. He set it on fire
in his dooryard, and it proved to be an in
fernal machine of considerable force.
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cutter Johnson of the report that the Isle
Royal fishermen had robbed the bodies of
the victims of the Algoma disaster and sunk
the corpses in deep water proves the report
10 be utterly unfounded
"A sixteen -year-old mother has peti-
toned the Probate Court of Saginaw to al
low another family to adopt her child, now
two years and three months old. Her hus-
band deserted her two yeas ago, and she
finds herself unable TO support the child.
st. Paul's Catholic Church at Negau-
nee, almost large enough for n cathedral,
and exceeded in size by no church in the
Upper Peninsula except the cathedral at
Marquette, is being decorated and re-
paired, having fallen into almost ruined
condition.
Thomas Edison, the father OF the in
ventor, lives at Huronia Beach, and is n re-
markably well-preserved man of eighty
two years. The Detroit Free Press saws
that he has six children, three by his first
and three by his present wife, and that the
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Negotiations are now pending for the
sale of the entire tract of land held by Fay
cite Brown, trustee, and comprising Bay
Furnace and Munising Iron COMPANY lands
four thousand acres, and including some of
the finest hardwood timber land, in the
peninsula.
"A petition signed by forty three jack
son officials and guards has been sent TO
the Board of Inspectors, asking lay-off
OF twelve days each per year, without de-
duction from salaries. The average daily
services of each official for 3G5 days in the
year is now eleven and five e-sixths hours.
"A. X. Cutting, the American who inst
now is causing considerable unpleasantness
on the Mexican border. was once resident
of Clinton. He is said to have lived there
twenty years ago, doing printing work. His
brother, w. ID. Cutting, who still lives at
Clinton, is President of the State Bee
Keepers Association.
Pat O'Neil, a Detroit detective, recently
secured $4,000 which had been stolen from
an an Ohio man man Sbe otqh hsndaB 9gafs "SaRiid
glass breast pin. The cigars were given
away, and the pin was shipped back, with
tho statement that Detroit detectives could
not afford TO wear diamonds.
Detroit Free Press: Mr.. Maybury
failed ito catch the Speakers eye, and
Senator Palmer's bill appropriating money
for the Detroit Government building, which
he had in charge, did not pass the House.
Nothing can be done for another year to-
ward getting the much-needed accommo-
dations for Government work in this city.
The report of the State Salt Inspector
for July shows the quantity inspected to
have been 469,500 barrels, exceeding the
inspection of any previous month in the
history of the salt manufacture in the
State. The inspection by counties was
(barrels):
Saginaw ...... .15O, III st. Clair ........ 24,s2s
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