Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-06
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.


Gov. Luce has removed JusticS
William A. Miller, of Seney for official
scenduct-allowing prisoner to es-
cape.
John McRae has been appointed
agent of the State Board of Charities for
Keweenaw County, and Curtiss Buck for
Gogebic.
Little Jake" Seligman has purchased
the entire Saginaw Union street car line.
II has fourteen miles OF track, $50 horses.
and forty cars. Receipts last year were
$55, 900. tf
The papal brief, appointing the Rev.
John S. Foley Bishop of the diocese, has
been received at Detroit.
-Sergt. Conger, director Of the State
Weather Service Bureau, has re-enlisted
for another five years of service, his third
tArn, His hand.lna rtAra are at LANSING
| w. H. Smiths little child fell into
pail of boiling hot water at Long Lake,
near kalamazoo, receiving rataI injuries.
"A number of wells in Lansing which
/
lately. The continued drought is supposed
to be the cause.
The Democratic Convention for
Eleventh. Congressional District will bo
held at Escanaba Sept. lS.
Andrew Greiner and Charles Berger,
escaped reform school boys who stole
some tobacco at Lansing, confessed, and
will be held to the Circuit Court.
There are 10, ,OOO, 900 feet of logs back
in Cass River waiting for water.
The State Executive Board Knights
of Labor will tabulate wage statistics as
completely and rapidly as possible. They
expect to put women in the field to or
ganize and instruct working girls. Can
didates for State Legislature will be re-
quired to pledge themselves 10 oil labor
bills and legislation.
"A young man named Howard W.
Sterling, of Detroit, succeeded in swind-
!. ling several private parties and two De-
} troit banks out of between $l4, 900 anc
! 5000 The announcement Of this de-
; falcation fell like thunder clap upon tho
; large circle of asquaintances which young
, Sterling had formed in Detroit. The
scheme by which Sterling raised the most
of his ill gotten gains was by negotiating
forged mortgages. 1t was the determine
ton of the Wayne County Savings Bank,
which institution was imposed upon by
Sterling, TO prosecute the offender to the
full extent of the law. The first step was
r more difficulty than had been anticipated
1t was found that Sterling had left his
and gone -'s6i fo 6is fatRGeaFss iigslsfSencss st
7, Crosse Isle. At the latter place
q il was ascertained that Sterling haC
i gone to New York, and the matter oi
= catching him was put into the hands o
70 the police Dispatches, giving descrlp
40 tion of him. were sent in all directions
r, At New York detectives were notified L
tn watch all outgoing steamers, and thi
So sr precaution proved successful. One OF tn
90 steamers was about to leave its mooring
ce when young man, answering to tn
m description given of Sterling, made
Sc rapid break for the vessel, carrying
Id ni sachel. He had half crossed the gan
80. plank when the hand of detective wS
at laid on his shoulder and young Sterlin
re- ,er was q prisoner. He was locked up IN
au. mediately to await the arrival OF Detro
tai officers.
di. Forest fires were reported as recent
ssS Tss raging to an alarming extent on the ro'
81 to Hammond's Bay and the smoke W
ca ca. SO thick over the Straits that craft g
4ie through with difficulty. A valuable ira
i Of of timber is said to have been destroye
yea ,.S1 The full extent of the damage is n
na' known.
, un- The inhabitants of the interior
.ses Pressure Isle County are having o sic
'ere of some contagious bowel complain
nly thought to be form of Asiatic chole
ims Reports come in slowly, but nine deaf
nee nee are reported. The number of fatalit
-no would probably be more IL true repo
Who could be obtained. Fifty persons are
g TO ported in critical condition, with
little or no medical resistance. The co
tSss munity is thoroughly alarmed, and
not proper authorities will obtain the corr
'"' number Of fatalities and the nature
sS scts Is the cause.
Sths ths james Bagley, clerk of the Gri
from House, of Detroit, died at the Sanitari'
iring Mr.. Bagley was born in Maine in IL
~ !, and was therefore 66 years old at the 9
'rtin- of his death. For years prior to the
he was proprietor of the National Ho
New York, acquiring handsome
NC tune, which he afterward lost in spec'
clar tions in the oil field of Pennsylva
n its Later he became post trader at
n of steele, M T. He went TO Detroi
MS Is 1871 and was clerk Of the Cass II
ME under Tyrrell Bros, remaining thro
Dem successive changes until the house
nnie demolished in 1885, when he took ch
greas of the Office of the new Griffin Ho
this He had been q familiar face TO the ira
on of ing public at the Michigan Central ID
.uim, for seventeen years, and his genial
saa kindly disposition made hosts OF frie
tions who will be taddened by his death.
anto- BaQley left relatives in New York
4ll New Jersey.
A. N. Durling, fanning-mil mani