Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-06-07

son was the ceieDrhtlOu NJ the prison.
Fully fifteen hundred people were present
Convict ex-Mayor Tom Navin, who is
serving ten-year sentence for robbery,
delivered the oration, one of the most in
teresting and scholarly addresses ever
heard in the prison chapel, and Eugene
Converse, the Battle Greek ex-lawyer do
ing fifteen years for forgery, spoke on the
theme Of -Our National Day." A literary
and musical programme was rendered, and
over two hundred G.. A. r. men attended.
The chapel decorations were the finest
pieces of draping and trimming ever seen
in that city, and we're done by Francis
Herbert, who is serving life term.
Walter Wright, aged 10, was shot in
the left groin at Jackson by another boy,
assisted by Flobert rife. The boy with
the rife was trying to kill sparrows.
Hereafter graduates of the Grass Lake
High School will be received at Albion
College as freshmen without undergoing
the usual preliminary examination.
Charles Spriel, who had both legs
broken above the ankles by being thrown
from hand-car near Grayling, has been
taken to the Flint hospital for treatment.
John Quartet, of Canton, is putting
up twenty horse power peppermint still,
and the farmers of that vicinity are pre-
pairing to embark extensively in the rais-
ing of mint.
A Lake Linden man mailed o letter
addressed to person at Salt Sent Mree,
Mis- Keagain," and it reached the right
man at Sault Ste. Marie. Who says that
city isn't we'll known?
The fourteenth annual convention Of
the Hillsdale County Sunday School AS
sociation will be held at Waldron on the
26th, 9th and 2sth of this month. A fine
programme of exercises has been arranged
for the interesting occasion.
1-l-A--.ry--s s-i.-a-n-II. l:ol
of pneumonia. Mr.. Lindsay was GA years
old, and was one of Litchfeld's oldest
settlers. He came to the State in 1886,
and to Litchfeld in ls49, when there was
only one log house where the town now is,
and has since resided in that vicinity.
The H. Witbeck Company has sold
Is, 900, 900 feet of Menominee lumber to
Buffalo parties at 50, $ls, and $24 a
thousand. Lots of shop common and
better have this year been sold at that
point at $25.50. and parties in Chicago are
holding the same class of stock for $27.
The Menominee River log jam was es-
timated on a late date to contain from
300, ,O00, 900 to 400, ,000, 900 feet, and it will
doubtless be several weeks before the water
will be sufficiently low to admit of break
ing the jam and sluicing the logs. 1t
is one of the largest jams ever known,
thoroughly eclipsing the Menominee jam
of 1876, which contained about 20, ,OOO, 900
| feet, with the water nine inches lower than
now. The piles are now from twenty five
to thirty feet above the river.
DIR. S. f. Baker, the Menominee dent
list, is the possessor of handsome fur
coat made of Esquimaux dog skins and
which formerly belonged to survivor of
the Greely North Pole expedition. DR..
Baker secured the coat on his recent trip
to Manistique. The original owner of the
coat had relatives living at Thompson,
Schoolcraft County, and after returning
from that ill-fated search for the North
Pole he spent some time visiting his rela-
tives at Thompson, and whilethere disposed
of one of his arctic coats, the same that is
now in Doc. Bakers possession.
The salary of the Bad Axe Marshal
has been raised from $25 to 800.
"A woodenware factory will probably
soon be added to Lansings industries.
West Branch improvements this yeas
will foot up 100000.
A. r. Richardson, prominent farmer
living near Alpena, was killed by being run
over by a heavy land roller.
Fire at Saginaw City destroyed l.. G.
Newell & Co.'s planning mill and curtain
roller factory, George Moore's ice-houses,
and several cars of freight. Newell & Co. g
loss is $40, 900; insurance, ST. 800. Moores
loss is $4,000; covered by insurance.
"A large bear was trapped three miles
north Of Bad Axe by M. Holland and f.
Stentop. in trying to get away he broke
an ordinary logging chain. He measured
seven and half feet in length.
The farmers of Choboygan County are
wearing long faces. Winter fingered SO
long in the lap Of spring and then was fol-
lowed by the wet weather, so that they
were delayed in doing their spring plowing
and seeding, and they are wondering where
their profits for the season are coming
from.
"A robin building nest in the court
yard at Mt. Pleasant few into tree with
thread in its mouth. The thread became
tangled in the branches and ut the same
time became fastened to the robins tongue.
The bird in its efforts to free itself kepI
flying backward until il pulled its tongue
out by the roots.
Hall & Buell., at Manistique, have COM
menced saving, having carried over suf-
icient amount Of logs to keep the mill
running till the new logs are down. They
have built during the winter q railroad Ia
Indian Lake. about four miles from the
mill, where they will take logs out Of the
lake by an endless chain and load them On
oars and haul than TO their mill on ths