Crawford avalanche., 1888-03-15
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

The combined capacity of the saw
mills on Muskegon Lake is $1,000. 900 feet
per season Of ten hours run day.
"A Catholic priest left a gripsack with
$3.50 in it in the depot at Baraga, and some
one stole 1.-THE cash, not the depot
Among the new buildings promised
Lansing next season is an elegant brick
hotel, to be built by Hon. o. M. Barnes.
If Me- Clemens votes on water works
this spring, and the proposition is rea-
sonable one, the city will go wet by Large
majority.
Charles Greenleaf of Cambridge is re-
ported as having COW that has given milk
daily for six years, and gives no indication
of quitting now.
John Kirkwood, OF Wayne, recently
shipped some seventy head Of hogs that
averaged over 400 pounds each and sold
for So. so per 100.
The next meeting of the Michigan
cider-makers will be held in Lansing, while
the Legislature is in session, for the pur
pose Of framing cider-vinegar law.
Drilling operations at the st. Ignace
Manufacturing Company's well have been
stopped for want Of fuel. The work will
probably not be resumed before May.
Walter H. Arnold, of Eaton Rapids,
aged forty-two, and an inmate OF the Kali
amazoo asylum, took advantage of his at-
tendants short absence recently and hanged
himself.
--Claytons w. r. G. is preparing a
"parasol drill" We presume it is necessi-
tated as means of protection against the
suns" Of veterans, who are shining too
brilliantly in that section.
An effort is being made, or is about to
be made, to organize W. G. T. U. at
Belleville. Although q similar attempt
was made year ago, and failed, it is
thought the present effort will prove sue
ctssful.
The prison population of jackson on
March numbered 772. There were re-
ceived during February, 81; discharged, by
expiration Of sentence, II; by order Of the
Supreme Court, 1 transferred to the Ionia
Asylum, l; died, L; leaving 772 in prison
on March 1.
Tho Chicago Lumber Company has
bought of Meyhew Bros, of Menominee,
5000, 600 to 100000 feet of logs left over
in the Menominee and its tributaries from
last years input. The sale amounted to o
money consideration of 100000. 1t is re-
ported that the Chicago Lumber Company
has this winter purchased logs to be cut 0t
Menominee to the amount of 25, ,OOO, 900
feet.
The Detroit, Lansing and Northern
Railroad Company recently discharged
seven conductors. brakeman Of many
years experience on the road received an
order to take charge of train, to which
he replied: "Well, to accommodate You,
will run it for a day or two, but decline
the position Of conductor. want TO stay
with you always"
The Bay City Tribune says: "A gen.
tleman who has just returned from q trip
up the new Gladwin Railroad says that
there is q general air OF business from
Pinconning to Gladwin. Men are getting
out bolts, logs. and ties, and piling them
along the track. The machinery of three
shingle Ecills has gone in and will be put
mp at once to begin saving early in the
spring"
The business done at Alamo Station
of the Kalamazoo and South Haven Road
the past few months has been larger than
ever, and proves that this point is becom-
ing more and more an important business
place. During the winter there have been
shipped eighteen carloads OF hogs, six car
loads Of sheep and great quantity of lum-
Der, ties, ETC., in all 15S carloads of valu-
able productions Of that section of the
country.
A number Of years ago Samuel Trew,
of Mt. Clemens, sunk we'll on the Tru-
FAINT farm. 1t was q dry hole for twenty
five feet. Then Mr.. Trew broke through
the bottom with a stake, which sunk seven
feet into q stream of living water and
swayed to and fro in the current. Nh
Trew pulled out the stake. The we'll
filed up and the digger thereof foated
gracefully to the top on splendid volume
Of water md drifted off into field Of tur-
nips. 1t is now proposed TO see il the fire
engine can pump that well dry. II it can
not, then Mt Clemens has found a water
supply in the great subterranean stream,
indications of which have long existed.
Peter Shook, On old pioneer OF Wayne
County, died recently at the residence Of
his son, Marion Shook, aged 50 years.
Mr.. Shook was born in 1895 in Maryland.
Moving with his parents TO the State of New
York when 0 years old. he lived there
until after the death Of his parents, when
he married and moved to Michigan, settling
in Nankin on q farm three and q half
miles from Wayne, where he lived until
the death of his wife, fifteen years ago,
after which he resided with his son Joseph
until last August, when he returned TO the
old homestead, where death found him
and released him from suffering. OF
family Of eleven children seven remain TO
mourn the loss Of father. He vas good
citizen and kind friend and neighbor.