Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-07-05

10 o'clock p. m. Mr.. Wallace was taken.
The family, consisting of Mr.. and Mrs.
Wallace, Miss Harding, sister of Mrs.
Wallace, and the servant girl are very
sick. 1t is thought they are out Of danger.
The meat has been sent to Saginaw to be
analysed.
The Ann Arbor High School at its last
session graduated class of seyenty-three.
-Messrs. A. c., Fred NJ, and Isaac
Stephenson, Jr., have a contract to put in
some 2l,0OO, 900 feet of logs for Hon. 1.
Stephenson, in the Republic country,
about five miles from the Michigamme
River, and have already over 100000
feet skidded, ready for the narrow gauge
railroad now being built by Southern
Michigan parties. The logs will be hauled
to that stream via rail, and within few
weeks the work will be begun in earnest.
Fire totally destroyed Cyrus Killers
planning mill at Bay City, loss, $500;
insurance, $500; 100, 200 feet Of lumber
owned by Foss & Letter, loss, $1,000; no
insurance.; also six freight cars, loss,
81 $780, insurance, 5000.
-"Good-by, sang out man on the pier
at the foot of Hastings street. at Detroit,
as he threw off his coat and jumped into
the river. Onlookers thought it case of
suicide until he came to the surface and
struck out. The current carried him down
nearly mile before he approached the
Canadian shore, several vessels sending
out yawls, thinking he was drowning. In
Canadian waters Provincial Detective Nc
Kee arrested the man after he had been
in the water two hours. He refused to
say q word about himself.
--Bellairo has no dontist.
The Concord knitting factory has
started up with full force of hands.
"A soldiers monument or q memorial
hall will probably be erected in st. Johns.
There are seven cases Of typhoid fever
reported from the Jackson Prison, and
the authorities there are making radical
changes in the system of sewerage.
West Branch, with q population Of
about $50, is trying to struggle through
the summer with only four millinery
shops.
August IA is the twenty-sixth ami
versary of the organization of the Fifth
Michigan Cavalry Regiment, and the
members of ID" Company hold their Sec
ond annual reunion in Worthwhile on that
date. A hearty invitation is extended to
all old soldiers to participate.
Since September there have been
twenty deaths from flirhthcria at Jackson.
and the disease is still maintaining firm
foothold in that city.
"A Connecticut firm has an order from
Europe from 400, ,OOO, 900 copper cartridge
shells, and it is Michigan copper they will
be made of.
Huron County crops are looking well.
While workmen were engaged in Dig
ging trench in Water street, Saginaw,
they opened an Indian grave in which
were found tomahawlss tea kettle, a
number of silver trinkets, beads, wooden
spoons, skull, and other bones. 1t has
been several years since the remains Of an
Indian was discovered in that city. but a
few years ago that was of frequent occur
renee, and many such graves have been
found in Saginaw, not only of Indians
but of soldiers formerly stationed at the
old fort there. The tomahawk, tea-ket-
tie, beads, and other articles were taken
by workn,en aud bystanders as memen-
toes.
Professor l.. G.. Carpenter, of the
Michigan Agricultural College, after go
ing to Colorado and looking over the
grounds, has decided to accept the offer
made him by the Board of Agriculture OF
that State. The position offered y the
professorship of physics and engineering
in the State Agricultural College, and
meteorologist and irrigation engineer on
the experimental station established un-
der the provisions of the Hatch bill. The
experimental work offers wide field in
done, and in a field that has very strong
popular support The Board offers o
salary of 81, 900, an assistant at n salary
sufficient to secure college graduate,
and good and growing equipment.
Michigan will be sorry to lose Professor
Carpenter but wishes him success in his
new home.
Gladstone, the lake port of the Min
neapolis, Sault Ste. Marie Il Atlantic
Railway, has now 1000 inhabitants, and
the pavement OF two and half miles oi
streets has begun.
The growing of onions has become
quite an industry at Ravenna and vicinity
the rich marsh lands north of there having
been found we'll adapted to their success
full culture. Between 200 and 800 acres
are now under cultivation and the croI
bids fair TO be good one. About 10, OOt
bushels were shipped from that station
last year, and with a fair yield it il
thought more than $4,000 bushels will b,
marketed this fall and winter. Pepper
mint is also largely cultivated few miles
north and west of there on this same marsl
ground, which, n few years ago, was con.
sidered almost worthless.
The Manistique Pioneer says: Man
istique makes no blow about its wonder
full progress, but people who have beer
absent for year or so, upon their retun