Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-05-03
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.
Casevills saw mills hsve started up.

james H. Lewis, of Kalamazoo, for
stealing an overcoat from his employer.
last winter, has been sentenced to three
years in prison.
Patrick Wade, who shot the widow Of
Burke, at Norway, has been found guilty
of murder in the first degree, by the
County Circuit Court at Menominee.
Berno Laneler, aged 10, baker, on
returning to his home in Jackson, was
scolded by his father for drinking beer.
Taking revolver, the young man shot
himself through the head, and died in
few hours.
Much more building will be done at
Sault Ste. Marie this year than m 81.
Contracts have already been let for four
large brick stores, q saw-mill, theater,
depot, and railroad repair shops, and over
fifty residences. The 500 National Bank
block will also be finished this spring.
Mrs. Mary Dewolf, of Lee Center,
ILL.,, has given Hillsdale College $5,292, in
addition to $4,000 that she gave them some
time ago, and will soon add enough to
make an even $4,000. She intende
later to make the sum $4,000, and have
it used to endow professorship Of theol-
ogy.
H. Stephens & Co., of st. Helen,
have erected telephone wire between
that place and Waters, where they have
large numbering interests, distance OF
fifty miles. This completes the circuit
and the Stephens Company now have tele-
phone connection with all their lumber
camps as well as between the places men,
toned.
The outlook for hay the coming sea-
son in Kalamazoo County is very poor,
and but few farmers expect more than half
q crop Of wheat. There is little or no hay
for sale. What little is offered brings $40
a ton. There will be little or no clover,
as in most clover fields last fall sheep
we're turned in and ate it down so low that
frosts have pulled it out and killed it.
"A lot Of river drivers in the employ Of
Thomas Nester, near Baraga, attempted 10
thaw some dynamite by placing it in the
oven Of cook stove. The result was an
explosion which killed Patrick Rattigan
and William Morrison, and severely in
| iured Malcolm McEachin, Peter Sommer.
vile, and Edward McGill. II is thought
that Sommerville's injuries will prove
fatal.
The Rev. j. F. Dickie, OF the South
| - nakroik hoo haA
invited to take charge of the American
Chapel in Paris. If he accepts he viii be
the second Detroit clergyman who has
held that position, the Rev. DR.. Eldredge,
Mr.. Persons predecessor at the Fort
Street Presbyterian Church, having been
called upon to preach to Americans in the
French capital
Eastern gentlemen some time ago pur-
chased marshes in the vicinity of Monroe.
and converted them into hunting pre-
serve, comprising nearly all the fine shoot
ing territory in that district. Pot-hunters
and other sportsmen invaded the place,
and the Eastern folk, known as the Monroe
Marsh Company, sued for trespass. The
Supreme Court has decided in favor of the
Marsh Company.
Following is the earnings statement Of
railroad companies in the State Tor the
month of February, 1888: Earnings for
February, 1888. $3.50, ,3O4; earnings for
corresponding month of 1887, $5,167, ,O97.-
7s; increase for 1888, $3S2, 2O6.22; total
earnings from January /, 1888, to March L.
1888, $11, ,O07, ,656.97; same period in 1887,
1O,421, ,728.s1; increase for 1888, $685.
92S16; per cent. of increase, 5.3S.
Mrs. Marmaduke McAfferty was ar,
rested at Muskegon on complaint Of her
husband. He charges her with bigamy.
He says she came to this State several
months ago on a visit, and, unknown to
him, was married in Muskegpn last August
to one Albert Hancock, She says she
heard McAfferty was killed in Kansas, and
} thought it all right to marry Hancock.
Sometime ago she learned that McAfferty
was alive, and at once began proceedings
for divorce. She also had an injunction
served restraining McAferty from molest-
ing her or their 5-year-old boy. There
was quito q scene when the couple met.
Their friends are trying to have the matter
amicably adjusted. Pending the divorce
> proceedings the bigamy case will be with
held.
! Capt. VIM. p. Spaulding Of Sauk st.
Marie has returned from the mining coun-
try north of Lake Superior. To reporter
! he said that the finds Of precious metals
made in the interior recently have been 90
numerous and rich that there viii probably
! be a rush of people into the country ai
) soon as the season opens. II would be
afraid to tell you the value OF some Of the
t pieces Of silver that I have seen taken out,
: said he, because you could hardly believe
4 me. The silver Is found almost pure
Much of the ore averages $2,s0O per ton,
and occasionally the precious metal ID
y found in mass almost pure" The mines
' are about $50 miles from the lake. The
I most recent strike has 90 far exceeded th,
Q most sanguine expectations. Capt. Spaul.
ding is very enthusiastic over the new dis.
coveries.
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! -Arbor Day was observed at Hillsdal'
!, College by planting thirty trees on th'