Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-09
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

great time Emancipation day. "A large
procession was formed and marched to the
fair grounds about noon. In the after
noon speaking occupied the time until 4.
Hon. w. @. Atwood, Of East Saginaw,
was President of the day. Mayor Loen-
necker welcomed the guests. His speech ,
was responded to by Mr.. Atwood. Hon.
d. Augustus Straker, of Detroit, delivered
an grafton. Baseball and other sports
occupied the remainder OF the afternoon.
In the evening grand dress ball was
given at Assembly Hall, which closed the
celebration.
j. G. butcher, living in Kalamazoo,
met with serious accident recently,
which will probably cost a total loss OF
one of his eyes. While at work on his
brothers. farm, gathering and cutting tim
othy hay, strong gale or wind arose and
blew a spear OF the cut hay into Mr.
butchers eye, causing painful and dan
geious injury.
Mullins Brothers, OF Ironwood, evil
IDENTIFY wish to please everyone, for they
advertise as having in stock chamber
sets and parlor suits, cradles and cofins,
elegant pictures a nd handsome clerk.
They judiciously neglect to mention the
sex of the clerk, and therefore will at
tract young men as we'll as young ladies.
Elmer Sly, of Plymouth, Wayne
County, shot and killed turkey buzzard
that measured six feet fIom tip to tip of
wings. These foul birds are not often
seen in that part of the country.
Mrs. Amasa Moshier was buried at
Plymouth, Wayne County. She was an
old resident Of the place, was " years old,
was universally esteemed and her funeral
was largely attended.
The cornerstone of the Court House
at Bessemer has been laid.
The murderers of the man Bedard a'
Massey, Richardson and O'ConnOr, have
been arrested and taken to Sault Ste
Marie.
Capt. Clough, we'll known ut Sault Ste
Marie, committed suicide at the Pacih'
Hotel. The autopsy showed him to hav
' been in a wietched state of health, and h
q must have committed the deed to end hi
troubles.
An Injunction has been issued by tn
Circuit Court at Bay City enjoining tn
LAYING of a track on Third street, betwee
Washington avenue and Water street, b
y the Bay CITY Street Railway Company
The bill Of complaint is signed by holder
- of $4,000 worth of property. This cas-
= vvi4t-tost- .s-~el;aity of che szelnsirs fran
chise hell by the company. 1t is stionG
ly asserted that one of the objects of IL
LAYING of the track on Third street is
= prevent the entrance Of company fro
the west side OF the river, which will ne'
~ essarily have TO go into that city by WI
of thlt street.
A lO-year-old son of Wentwort
). Woodbury., of Saginaw. was the victim
. terrible accident The boy was yisitil
his grandfather, Mr.. Bailey and was in
d, field with some workmen some distan
,t- from the house When a team of hors
ne ne that had been at work were unhitched
boy was placed on the back of one of
- animals in order to give him ride to
barn, bat on entering the door the la
head struck against n rafter and he
thrown off the horse, his foot catching
pS' the harness, which had been left on.
ion to9 accident frightened the horse and
wheeled and ran ont of the barn, and til
- circled wildly about the barnyard, dri
ging the unfortunate boy on the grou
and kicking him repeatedly, and it '
- not until the animal had kicked hims
entirely free of tie harness that the
was rescued. He was unconscious fo
long time, and Dr. Newkirk, of Bay q
was summoned The bone Of the bC
road right leg was badly shattered near
nee hip and his head terribly cut and brui
:. from striking on the ground and be
. kicked by the horse, but the physician
hopes of his recovery. The little fel
- could not be moved and his mother
Il. gone to care for him.
-Train No. 27, the east bound frei
train, engine No. 1926, and the W
near bound pas senger train No. 80, engine
rect 1903. on the Wabash, collided at BE
- Vile, which is the regular meeting p
of the two trains, and the order is for
27 TO sidetrack and wait for No. SO.
M stead of this No. 27 went sweel
sea around the curve west of the station
crashed into the passenger train, LII
esti- the locomotive off the front trucks
Iiects s forcing the passenger train back a
- forty car lengths. No damage, save
: 10 tie two engines, resulted from the
- lision. No one was killed or init
The engineer of 27 has been on the
several years and feels the accident
deeply. He says he forgot about
. tracking Had not the engineer oi
sold. soId' 90 reversed his engine on seeing the
paid, ger, terrible accident, probably IN
- ing the loss of many lives, would
u. been the result.
"A severe thunder and rain storI
Cured in the vicinity Of Calumet re
". Lighting tore the roof of Coo
IV boarding house at Red Jacket, and
IN Adolph Bajore was badly injured and
Jb4 Ezra Michaelson of Jackson was kill
William Fame, Jr., was arrest
work. East Saginaw, charged with attempt
kill William Gates. Tie parties We