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


The gold excitement in the Sudbury
District, fifty miles east of Sault Ste.
Marie, in Canada. has lcalmed down. The
frst reports brought in from there were to
the effect that nuggets of pure gold were
being picked up by the handful Each
successive report made out the gold to be
scarcer, and after awhile it will be found
that the gold discovery at Sudbury was
Just about as important as the copper dis
covery made there two years ago, or the
iron ore or the natural gas discoveries
made in st. Ignace during the last year
Reports come in from Alger County that
gold has been found in several places,
particularly along the beds of several
small rivers. All the other gold discover
les made in the Peninsula have been
quartz mines and not pla er mines like
these which are said to exist in the fast
nesses OF the county named after Michi-
gan's junior Ex-Governor.
Charles II. Wight, Assistant Super
intendent of the City Mailing Deartment
of the Detroit Postoffice, has been arrest
ed charged with robbing the mails The
Postoffice Inspectors claim that Wight
has been stealing ever since he was en-
ployed by the Government some thirteen
years ago. He had worked his way up
from a clerkship. He confessed his
crime.
"A young man went to the Bay City
police station and reported that team of
horses had been stolen from Sebewaing
He gave his name as Brown. In the
afternoon the chief received telegram to
the effect that horse and buggy had been
stolen from Sebewaing and the descrip-
ton of the suspect answered that of the
man Brown, who was arrested and the
horse and buggy found in his possession.
He gave the name of Miron Still
Mrs. E. Ogden, of Bridgewater, fell
from cherry tree and broke both arms
between the wrist and elbow.
-Ismi Martin, the sixteen-year-old
girl forger, was arrested at Detroit on
warrant charging her with uttering
forged check drawn by ]. II. Wilson in
favor of j. II. Martin, upon which she
procued $l5. A jeweler charges that the
girl obtained $50 worth Of bracelets and
rings from him and pawned them. Other
reports of her cunning swindling are
coming in from many business houses.
When the officers went to her mothers
house to make the arrest Ismi leaped out
of n window and ran like a deer. 1t took
four policemen 10 surround her and take
her to the police court In default of
$500 bail she went to Jail.
The Jackson County Poorhouse now
has eighteen inmates.
"A young man of Jackson, SAYS the
Woman's Journal, called upon his lady
love and she met him at the door. BY
some means not explained, while in the
hallway, she found that his breath smell
ed strongly of whisky. She led him to
the door, and with more of sorrow than
of anger in her voice she said: Joe, this
county has voted on the prohibition ques-
tion, and now am going to vote. l vote
no! Now don't come back until you have
got around on the side of the majority"
BY the explosion of cannon at Elk
Rapids, Johnson Ding had both hands
blown off and his eyes put out.
Fred Anderson, aged %, of Fife |
Lake, who was spending the Fourth at |
Cadillac with his brother, went in bath
ing in Clam Lake and was drowned He |
was an expert swimmer, but is supposed
to have got cramps.
Mrs. Marvin Strong, 6s years old,
who lives near Dentonville, died very
She had been troubled with |
very bad corns for some time past, and
had tried to get relief by doctoring with |
some patent medicine. They gradually
grew worse, gangrene set in, and she
died in great agony.
Mary Paine, an English woman, was
burned to death while asleep in cheap
on the outskirts of Sault
Ste. Marie. The building took fire from
4 smudge in the house and was quickly
The woman's husband es-
,aped. Both were somewhat under the
influence of liquor.
The little body of water lying Just
south of Mancelona, known as Bechsteii's
Lake, is becoming quite a resort. Hun
lreds visit it during the week, and
on Sunday the old and young
alike can be seen strolling along it's banks
Or lettering in the shade of the beautiful
naples which stud its banks, while others
enjoy themselves with boat ride. or
angling for the fnny tribe, with which
he lake abounds, and in many other ways
spend pleasant hour.
The receipts of Me Kalamazoo Post
,ffice for the month of June we're 81, 100. 40.
The number of one-cent stamps sold was
I57,62l. This is the largest sale of one
,ent stamps in one month in the history
If the Office.
The manufacturing business Of Jack
'on is not very quiet when one concern,
he Standard Manufacturing Company,
of muslin underwear, Sc
,ured orders in two days in excess of
$4,000. The factory has been started
up and the coming year will give employ
nent to 400 people.
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