Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-12-20

whisky and lot of mill machinery bound
for Owen Sound. His cargo was we'll
insured. There was crew Of four aboard
the schooner, two besides the captain and
his son. A month after clearing from
Detroit he turned up at the Canadian
town OF Tobermorey and reported that his
boat had struck rock and the cargo
shifted, and that he had ordered his two
men down to shift the cargo when the
vessel swung off the rock and went to the
lotion. His story was believed
and he had no trouble in collecting
his insurance. But later ugly rumors
were circulated about the sinking Of
the boat and there was every likelihood of
an investigation. The Captains son soon
showed up at farmers house on the shore
of Lake Huron one day, and with drip
ping clothes told the farmer how he and
his father had been in small boat and
the old man had drowned. He pointed
out the overturned boat and narrated o
thrilling story. With the Captains sup
posed death the investigation dropped.
Twelve years after some sailors of the
schooner Victor decided that the 200 bar
sells Of twelve-ye year-old whisky was worth
raising from the Explorer, and they fshed
up the wreck. They found, it was reported
at that time, the schooner was loaded with
stone, her bottom bored full of holes, and
that two dead sailors were in the forecas-
tie with their skulls crushed. Appear
ances indicated a case of cold-b -blooded
murder, but the Captain was dead and his
son gone, no one knew where, SO nothing
was done. A short time ago Capt.
Morrow and Horace Lymburner, two
former friends of Capt. Waddle, were
in Owen Sound when the saw man they
claim to have recognized as Capt. Wad-
die. He was drunk They spoke to him
by name, and the effect they declare was
magical. He lost oil signs of drunken
ness, and saying, Il am not Capt. Wad-
dle," dashed past them. Waddle, or the
man supposed to be him, was arrested for
drunkenness. Since his arrest it has
been learned, it is alleged, that the Cap
tain's son is running a saw-mill on the
upper end of Georgian Bay with the ma
chinery which constituted part Of the
Explorers cargo, and now, after eighteen
years, both these men stand good chance
of being brought to justice.
Joseph Roseberry is lad of IA years
who has several times been an inmate Of
the Saginaw lookup in the past year be-
cause OF his general bad habits. A few
weeks ago he was arrested on o charge of
stealing some tobacco from the store of
Plumb & McCausland and lodged in q
cell in the upper part of the Central Sta
ton. One afternoon while the police
were very busy, young Roseberry man
aged to push back the bolt which fastened
his cell door, or some of his chums
sneaked in and did it for him, and the
prisoner quietly took his departure. He
was not seen again for several days, when
he was captured and returned to the cell
from which he had escaped, the door be-
ing securely fastened. The youngster
supper had been served he was very
quiet, so quiet, indeed, that noise as of
something falling on the floor Of his cell
was heard by the officers below, and one
of them went p-stairs to learn the cause.
What he discovered astonished the blue
coat considerably, for young Roseberry
had almost succeeded in again making his
escape. The partition dividing his
cell from the hall was lath and
plaster wall, and by the use of q
small piece of iron found in the cell
the prisoner had torn away the lath and
plaster on the inside for considerable dis
tance above the base board and had only
to kick off the outside plaster to enable
him to get out into the hall, from which
he might have crept down stairs and let
himself out through the door used for
court purposes. After this discovery he
was put in the cage" down stairs and
will remain there until his trial.
For some time the people of Seneca,
Lenawee County, have been considering
in the vicinity of Seneca Station, on the
Wabash. A meeting of farmers has been
held and the proposition for guaranteeing
a certain number of acres of sweet corn
has been accepted, and Mr.. Phelps, who
is the capitalist interested, will soon COM
mence the erection of buildings and be
ready for an extensive business next
season.
1t is reported that David Cameron,
living near Milo, shot deer weighing S23a
pounds. This is probably the largest
deer killed in Oscoda County this season.
The December State monthly crop
and weather service report says that wheat
goes into the winter in about the same
condition as one year ago, or 81 per sent.
Of the average. During November il was
slightly improved in the southern and
central counties, and suffered some in the
northern. The average yield of clover
seed in the State for this year is LAS
bushels, nearly one-ffth of o bushel
above the average for nine years, but the
acreage harvested is three-eighths below
the average. The condition of horses is
SO per cent; cattle, %; sheep, 95; swine,
9S. Bushels of wheat reported marketed
in November were 629, GIG, and since Aug.
l, T.154, 900. The rainfall for the month
Of November was below the normal In ali