Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-10-18

frightfully burned about the head and arms
by pan Of boiling water, into which she
had placed some gasoline for laundry pur-
poses, taking fire from an oil stove. Her
clothing caught frs and her flesh was
burned to a blister. She was not fatally
injured. 49,
Peter Osterberg, a prominent Jackson
County farmer. went crazy and attempted
to take the lives of his,wife and children,
who only escaped by fight. He was cap
tured, bound and lodged in Jail. He will
be sent to the Kalamazoo Asylum.
st. Ignace merchants are doing some
ground and lofty kicking against the dock
age rates charged there by the Duluth and
Atlantic Railioad Within the last few
weeks the rates have been more than
doubled and now five cents hundred
straight is charged.
The Mackinac County jail has again
been condemned, and it will either be tin
kered up or a new one will be built.
The Toledo, Ann Arbor & North
Michigan Railroad Company have leased
and will operate the new road between
East Saginaw and Durand, just built by
the Toledo, Saginaw & Mackinaw Com
pany. Freight traffic has commenced,
and passenger service will begin on or be-
fore November l.
Last June, Owen Doyle and Edward
McCaig went to Saginaw City from the
Au Ores drive. Doyle gave his time to
McCaig to collect and the latter obtained
the money, $45, thereon and skipped. He
returned lately, was arrested on charge
of grand larceny and bound over to the
Circuit Court and jailed in default of bail
to awPit trial.
Nineteen societies of the German Aid
Society, in various parts of the State,
have sent funds to the amount of $9sl.S5
to assist members of the order at Alpena,
who were sufferers at the big fire in July,
Detroit Lodge sent 1926 of said amount.
The donation has been divided in sums of
from $40 to $50 among the members
who were burned out, according to the ex-
tent of their loss.
M. II. Sherman's large general store
at Okemos was burned. Loss, $3, 500; in
surance, $4,000. The Odd Fellows occu-
pied the second floor as q lodge room.
Their loss is $1,000, with an insurance of
$4O0.
There are now forty three patients in
the Delta County Hospital, seventeen of
whom ale "down" with typhoid fever.
The hospital is taxed to it's utmost in pro-
viding accommodations for the sick.
The postoffice at Acme Grand Trav-
erse County, was relieved of $40 and
some sJunrps Few nrghs9 as0. riI0 s,-s~
was blown open.
--Belleville wants an elevator, laundry,
tailor furniture factory, or any industry
to give employment TO its workingmen
Plymouth wants harness shop.
Tho Clark -Bigelow syndicate has
bought over 5000 ncres of land from
Charles Hebard & Son. Tie land is in
Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, and
can be reached by n three mile extension
of the Hancock and Calumet Railroad.
The price was 1913 per acre.
Miss Irene Hoyt, who has been in
| Tololto and Moltreal with counsel, at
tending to legal business, has left for San
Francisco, but will soon return to attend
to proceedings instituted in connection
with the Hoyt estate ut Saginaw and
Detroit.
Laundering in the Upper Peninsula
| will he far in excess of what it was last
season this coming winter, while the
prospects are that below the Straits the
cut will be proportionately smaller. This
will about equalize the output for next
! season in the State. In the vicinity of
Escanaba the work of getting out timber
will far exceed any former year. The
Harman Lumber Company at Foster City
is preparing to put in l3,O00000 feet dur
| ing the coming winter, and like others in
that section has commenced operations.
The annual product of this company's mill
is 10000, 600 feet of lumber, 5000, 900
shingles, 30, 900, 900 cedar posts and 1000
ties. The company now has in stock
5000, 900 feet of lumber and is making
daily shipments to Chicago via Escanaba.
| Mr.. Geo. Il Davis has assumed con-
troll of the Duluth, South Shore and At
lantic Railway, rs acting Superintendent,
vice Mr. A. Watson resigned.
The total shipments of lumber, etc.,
during the last week from Alpena are as
follows: Lumber. ), l26, 900 feet The to-
tai shipments of lumber, lath, ties, cedar
posts, shingles, etc., from the commence
ment of navigation, is as follows by ves-
sells that reported at the Custom House at
Alpena: Lumber feet, 1872, 2O5, 900; shin
giles, 7,3l4,OO0; lath, 52O7, 900; cedar
posts, $4,000; railway ties, $4,000;
grapevine poles, $1,000; trap-net stakes,
1880; cords of cedar, 1856; cords of
match timber, 22O; cords of heInlock
bark, 26.
AT the United States fish, hatchery in
Alpena there is now about 100, 900 shoal-
trout eggs. They are from the Middle
Island, and the collection of the eggs and
their transportation to Alpena has been
under the management of Henry Bolton.
The hatchery superintendent will attend
to the hatching of the fish, and when they
are ready to be planted Mr.. Bolton will
convey them 10 Long Lake their future