Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

The Keystone mill at West Bay City
is idle, the men having struck by reason
of rot receiving their pay regularly. The
managers desire to pay monthly instead
Of semi monthly, and these terms the
men refused to accept. The men soy
they will not resume work until promise
of semi monthly paym snts is made.
Pretty nearly every day shipment of
queer souvenirs from Northern Michigan
arrives at the Lansing Depot for Prof.
Beal, of the Agricultural College. The
Professor has an unrestrained mania fer
collecting things, and the railroad men
in wondering why on earth he wants to
litter up the college with knotty limbs, old
tIee trunks, logging tools, and seemingly
worthless lunches of weeds. They fail
10 grasp their botanical value.
AT Detroit, Jacob Moore. carpenter,
aged 50, who lived with his brother, but
had not paid his board for eight months,
shot and killed his sister in-law, Mrs.
Mary Moore, in a rage, because she asked
him to pay He shot himself, but not Sc
riously.
Little Mary Boyla, pretty 4-year-old
daughter of Patrick Boyle, of Detroit,
was burned TO death Mt her fathers resi-
dence. Mrs. Boyle took an elder child
out for walk after dinner, leaving Mary
of bana olOna Thara Nvac M fra in tho
house, but some matches strewn about the
floor showed that the child had been
playing with thom.
Hitchcock & Blaly of Bay City, are
putting in $4,000, 900 feet of logs at Carp
River, and they expect to raft them all to
their mill in that city this season.
The monthly earnings statement of
State railroads for May gives the total at
S6,4S2, ,G23, an increase over the same pc
Rod last year of $l94, 666. The earnings
from Jan. to June were S29, ,994 ,3l9, an
increase over the same period last year of
1929, ,Ssl.
The Lake County officers might as
well release Doe Andrews from the charge
of numbering Julius G. Bailey, the Cold
water schoolboy. The boy is now q man
G! own and resides i'll Chicago. His broth
er, j. W. Bailey, lives at 1926 West Jack
son street. Chicago, and another brother
is foreman for Boardman & Rose, bus
liremen of Kalamazoo. Julius workel /
there i'll hardware store three years after
leaving Lake County, in March, 1881, and
two years afterward drove a baggage
wagon in Kalamazoo. When he returned
he said the old man was dead and his
widow didn't ike him. The death bed
confession is merely hoax.
A Jackson commercial traveller, just
noIlv rrvur u "TRIP Jnruugn tuo rrufVrvs,vu
of the State, declares that the orchards
never contained such bounteous crop of
fruit as this year, and thus far it is ripen-
ing in its perfection.
During the past three years many
Michigan towns, for the purpose of fos-
tering booms or inaugurating such have
paid literally in bonuses to firms or cor
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their midst. These gratuities have oc-
casioned more or less kicking upon the
part of some of the heavier taxpayers,
but the matter had kept out of the courts
until recently, when j. w. Donovan be-
gan suit in the Wayne Circuit Court to
test the legality of the bonus giving
The village board of Trenton, Wayne
County, recently voted $1,000 to q stove
there, and the incorporators have begun
the erection of their plans. -Four of the
wealthiest men in the village are outraged
at the boards generosity, and they ash
through Lawyer Donovan that the cour
restrain the village officers from collect
ing the tax based on the bonus. If tn,
court decides against the bonus it will re
suit in vexatious litigation in nearly every
county in the Lower Peninsula.
Kalamazoo is SO badly in need of
bang-up band that the business men ar,
discussing the best means of securing
one.
Chemical works will soon be estab
lished at Newberry by Ohio capitalists
to create something out of nothing, 81
to sEeak. The investment will be heavy
They are going to squeeze alcohol out o
smoke the same way they do at Elk Rap
ids.
Gaylord presents good opening 70
a miller There is good mill standing
idle, located in good farming locality
--Cheboygan's handsome new Oper
House is nearly completed.
Saginaw City's Sewer Inspector get
$4 per day.
Fire at Merominee destroyed tn
sto:es of Morcaw & Young, j. l.. Davis
Servatius Bros, and T. Parent, at los
of $40, ,OOO partly insured.
Saginaw City will have new schoo
house, to cost $4,000.
J George Miller, young man marrie
about two weeks, suicided at Gaylord b
shooting himself in the head with re
volyer.
"A cheese factory is talked of at Mapl
Ridge, Arenac County.
Kalamazoo County poor and insan
cost $1,000 for the year ending July !.
The Worthwhile Opera House will b
changed to hotel