Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-09
CRAWLING. MICHIGAN THURSDAY, AUGUST g. 1883.

at Ontonagon, and assumed charge Oh INC
Catholic Church in the village. He Is
now the oldest priest in the diocese, hav-
ing teen in the ministry thirty three
wears; he has been laboring very hard at
Ironwood, and thought he would take the
more quiet and less laborious parish in
Ontonagon.
The population of Copper Harbor
has dwindled down to seven families.
The Manistique Pioneer says that the
east pier extension is grand thing, and
that there is plenty of water in the chan
mel now.
Hugh McKinnon, on Black River, has
huge wolf for a family pet. 1t was
caught in a trap by one of +. II. Stinch-
fields foremen. He muzzled it, and put
il in boat and rowed it across Black
Lake to Mr.. McKinnon's place. 1t stands
about three and one half feet high.
WIN. Perkins & Son, Of East Sagi-
inaw, are putting up portable saw-mill
to cut about 10000 feet of lumber daily
on the farm of Joseph Burgess, three
miles north of West Branch. They will
also cut cedar shingles, posts, etc,
The planing-mill and warehouse OF
the Western Lumber Company at Manis-
tique has been destroyed by fire, causing
a loss.of $4,000, with no insurance.
One year ago Mrs. Adeline c. Hotch-
kiss died in Detroit, leaving $780, 900 es-
tate to New York heirs. When the es-
tate was settled, Dr. Hugh McGregor
Wilson stepped in with apparently out
lawed notes aggregating with interest
S4O,O 600. He claimed that small pay
ments had been made on each, thus pre-
venting them from becoming outlawed.
AS he was q poor man and the notes had
never been indorsed or secured or sued
upon, the estate became suspicious and
had them submitted to experts, who,
after q minute examination, pronounced
them forgeries, one having been raised In
bungling way from SlS to $4,000, and
another from 900 to $4,000. From ap-
pearances both were raised recently.
About fifteen years ago Mrs. Hotchkiss
and her son, who had a two-thirds inter
est in the estate, lived at Lockport, N. Y.
as did also the doctor. The son was taker
sick and soon died, being attended by
DIR. Wilson. Mrs. Hotchkiss and Viii
D sol soon after came to Detroit. Three
4 wears ago they were arrested for the mur
J der of the son. His body was disinterre'
: and arsenic traces were found. 1t wa
s uncertain whether it had been admins
9 tered to him while alive or used by tn
= undertakers. so both were discharBcu
Monroe Collins, of Rives, raised u
: : bushels of,rye on nine acres OF groun
this season.
: "A certain young man OF Milo IS Will
" ing to bet $50 that his horse can max
the distance between Mic and Mack Cit
!, inside of thirty five minutes.
p The Lake County officers might {
~ we'll release Doc Andrews from the chart
n of numbering Julius G. Bailey, the Col'
20 water schoolboy. The boy is now mf
es grown and resides in Chicago. His brotl
no er, j. W. Bailey, lives at l25 West Jacl
be eon street, Chicago, and another broth
ho is foreman for Boardman & Rose, b
,,o linemen of Kalamazoo. Julius work
90 there in hardware store three years aft
in leaving Lake County, in March, 1881, a
ba two years afterward drove baggae
no wagon in Kalamazoo. When he return
=, he said the old man was dead and
= widow didn't like him. The death-b
n confession is merely hoax.
zoe --Ismi Martin, the sixteen-year-C
elf girl forger, was arrested at Detroit oil
,ov warrant charging her with uttering
forged check drawn by j. II. Wilson
-, favor of J. II. Martin, upon which
-. procued SIS. jeweler charges that
~ girl obtained $50 worth of bracelets o
,o1 rings from him and pawned them. OF
;nc reports of her cunning swindling
, coming in from many business hous
lon, When the officers went to her moth'
- house to make the arrest Ismi leaped
of a window and ran like deer. 1t t.
four policemen to surround her and t
sn' her to the police court. In default
- $500 bail she went to jail.
~ Professor L. G.. Carpenter, of
aoo Michigan Agricultural College, after
NJ ing 10 Colorado and looking over
grounds, has decided to accept the o
-. made him by the Board of Agricultur
"a that State. The position offered is
t;no professorship of physics and engineer
20 in the State Agricultural College,
,on, meteorologist and irrigation engineer
-, the experimental station established
-, der the provisions of the Hatch bill.
experimental work offers wide fiel
-, which almost no scientific work has
-. done, and in a field that has very stl
a.. popular support. The Board ole
NJ salary of 1900, an assistant at So
sufficient to secure a college grady
- and good and growing equipn
Michigan will be sorry TO lose Profe
Carpenter. but wishes him success in
new home.
cont. The outlool, this year is for h
no.,s crop of nut-boaring trees, and &C
Mrs quently the small boy rejoices.
Mrs. The new Union Depot ut Sault
ed. Marie is completed.
ed in Fully 800 people listened to the
ine to well sermon of Rev. NJ. w. Haynes o
re on First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo
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