Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-16
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

"utCHWuW Is ruiz or Iett-hanued cOmpll-
nents for the Fairy Isle"
Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick McCullcn have
celebrated their golden wedding at
rhomastown, Saginaw County
-Oli hunters say that prospects, arc
scod for plenty of sport next month, the
marshes being full of ducks, and they are
,ounting the days until September /, when
ihe slaughter will commence.
During the past twenty years over
1000 0OO,O 600 feet of logs have passed
Trough the Menominee River Boom Com
oanys work, at Menominee-enoug il is
igu'ed, to make two-inch plank ioid,
sixteen feet vile, around tho world.
The Ontonagon Miner says that the
season in that section is about one month
late.
Two commissions have been issued
from the Adjutant Generals office ut Lans-
ing. One to Maj Charles r. Hawley, of
Bay City, to lie Lieutenant Colonel of the
Third Regiment, vice Lieut.. Col. Don
nelly, resigned. and the second to Lieut
+. B. Lyon, of Company II, Third Regi-
ment, Calumet, to be Major.
There are now more than 900 patients
at the Kalamazoo Insane Asylum.
The postoffice in Saginaw City was
entered by burglars, rear door being left
open and packages of postage stamps
just received from Washington, amount
lag to Sl,5jl, were carried away.
Nearly fifty new houses are being
erected in the fire district of the Third
Ward at Alpena. Many of them are in
every respect better than those which were
destroyed by the late fire.
While a freight train was pulling
through Petoskey, Mrs. Martha Hause
attempted to c:oss the track in front of it
and was instantly killed. She leaves
three children and q husband.
The camp meeting at Riverside Park
has closed.
Vice President Brice has Just given
orIers TO Chief Engineer Latcha of the
Duluth South Shore and Atlantic Road
to go ahead and build line from Iron
River to Duluth. 1t has been the inten-
ton of the old management O, the South
Shore to use the Northern Pacific track
from lion River TO Duluth, but the North
ern Pacific does not feel like extending
accommodation TO the new management.
the Canadian Pacific. The new line will
bo built as fast as men and money can
build it..
The naoH&hly y-erer report for August
has been issued from the Office OF the
Secretary of State. 1t is made up from
reports from SCI correspondents The
yield of wheat will greatly exceed the
earlier estimates, and may be in excess of
$4,000, 600 bushels. The quality is first
class. The whole number of bushels re-
ported marketed for the year ending July
81 was 1881 1888, and the amount esti-
mated in farmers hands of the 81 crop is
100000 bushels. Oats are estimated TO
yield thirty-six bushels per acre in the
southern counties, twenty-nine il the
central, and twenty-on in the northern
The condition of corn is D3 per cent, po-
tatoes 92, meadows AID pastures IS, and
clover sown this year 50. Since Aug.
all crops have materially improved, and
orn and potatoes promise nearly q full
average cop. Iho area planted to pota-
Toes in the southern counties is per cent
oh ho ba H., - 4
75per cent. of an average crop, but is Of
fine quality. Apples promise about 30
FER cent. of an average crop, and are re-
Ported falling from the trees.
Monroe people feel very confident that
their gas well will be n success.
Serious forest fires are reported in the
vicinity of Bad Axe, Huron County
During the late electrical storm at
Lansing ball of. fire appeared in the
fireplace at o. +. Barnes residence, and
after playing around for about minute
and a half went up the chimney and dis
appeared. The ladies were nearly fright
ened out of their wits.
""SOO NuhSsiy, VI Lansing, repOseu
confidence and $50 in bills in his money
drawer while he went to attend a meeting
of the Arbeiter Society. Later when he
returned the bills were missing, and a
hole in the rear of the drawer caused him |
to smell q rat" He moved the counter
forward and three very healthy rodents
appeared and disappeared nearly at the
same ms ant. They left their nest be-
hind, however, and in that was discovered
the missing money. Luckily the bills
were but slightly damaged.
j. Stears, of Kalam lzoo, reports that
his fruit cop is very fine. He has 1000 |
peach trees in young orchard and 400
in aa old one that are loaded, and his pear
trees are alFo loadel with fine fruit. The
work of thinning out is now in pi yress.
The new Methodist parsonage at Mt.
Pleasant is 10 cost $4,000, and will be
built at once, the contract having been let
George Rummele, of Frankenmuth,
Saginaw County, has n fractions COW, that !
in one of her freaks kicked over the large
heavy door of his barn so it fell on Rum
mele's ll-year-old sol, breaking both !
lis legs. 1t is hardly expected he will
recover.
Fire at East Saginaw destroyed J
Charles Lees planning mill and lumber
ward Mt n loss OF so 600 and fan dwelI