Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-02-07
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THATsHAvE
LATELY OCCURRED.

An Interesting Summary OF the More I'm
portant DoIngs of Our Ncighbors-wed-
dings and Deaths = Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
The summer of 1888 was the dryest
this State has experienced for thirteen
years, so says Mr. Conger, who is at the
head of the Michigan weather service.
The Roman Catholics have acquired
q site and propose to build in the near
future church in Newton Township,
Mackinac, probably at Gould City.
John M. Cary, of Bad Axe, says this
season thus far is a fac simile of that of
thirteen years ago. That winter he had
charge of Whitney 4 Co.'S lumber bust
ness at Bad Axe. and had about 1000, 900
feet of lumber to remove to Port Hope.
Up to the last of February there was
practically no snow. About that time
there was big fall, and by employing
ting the last of his lumber at the Port
Hope on election day, but the sleighs went
back on bare ground.
Fred Palmer, at Rochester, who is
| about ~ years old, got hold of q revolver
that hs supposed was empty, and, placing
the muzzle in his mouth, snapped it. In
stead, however, of being empty it was
loaded, but, as luck would have it. the ball
had been abstracted by showmen. who
were 20 use the gun for stage purposes,
and blank cartridge substituted. The
pistol was discharged, and the wad from
the blank" entered tho boys tongue, in
ficting painful wound, tho unruly mem-
Der soon swelling TO such an extent as to
make it impossible to swallow. Proper
treatment will soon bring the young man
around all right.
The Governor has appointed the fol-
lowing officers: Trustees OF the Michi-
gan Insane Asylum, Foster Pratt of Kali
amazCo, and Erastus W. Bates; OF the
Northern Michigan Asylum, Thomas 7.
Bates of Traverse City, and John Ben
jamip, of Grand Rapids; of the Michi-
gan Deaf and Dumb Institution, Edwin
T. Darlington of West Bay City; member
of tho Fish Commission, Hoyt Post of
Detroit; of the Board of State Prisons,
| Uppe; Peninsula, James NJ Wilkinson
of Marquette, Eli b. Chamberlain of st.
Ignace, and Edwin F. Perkins of Che
boygdn.
| Some time ago John Sullivan, of
| Sand Beach met Canadian fr end to
whom he was relating some true fish
stories. Among other things he expa-
tiated upoa the great size to which Lake
Huroa trout often attained. He mon
tionel twenty pounds as about the larg-
| est hn had ever seem. The friend was a
| loub;er aad wage,ed Mr.. Sullivan S5
that he could not produce q lake trout
that would weigh twenty pounds. Few
larga trout have been takel this winter,
but the hacker of Lake Huron fish await
ed hts opportunity. 1t came when George
Smith captured trout that dressed ex-
actly thirty pounds. The fish started for
the Dominion by express. and has y this
time doubtless convinced tho tolbter
that there are some big things besides the
Canadian debt.
The -four mill at Chcybogan, is run
ming right along on grain taken there Ly
rail from Duluth and other centcrs. Tho
mill has boen successful from the start,
whic gives its owners confidence in Che
boyean as q manufacturing city, and this
is what is needed to induce other indus
tries 10 locate there.
The body of Frank A. Martin, clerk
for the Trowbridge Lumber Company, was
found beside the Lake Shore track, near
one of tho street crossings, in Detroit. He
WIS in the habit of going in from his work
on the 6:20 train on that road, and 1t is
supposed that he was killed ald thrown
rom the train. His skull was crushed in,
aud a.club, one end of which was clotted
til blood and the dead mans hair, was
found near the body. The affair Is
shrouded in mystery. One story in cir
culat.on, but impo ossible to confirm, is that
some one on the train threw a club which
killed him. Nothing had been taken
from the body.
ALEX. Johns, the negro who ran away
10 Chicago last fall with Ida Lytolt, the
l3-year- old daughter of Hiram Lyl olt, q
farmer in Lebanon, Sc. Johns County,
pleaded gu lty in the Circuit Court TO o
charge of abdu tion of girl under lf
years of age, for immoral purposes.
Earl Wilcox, of Greenbush, Clinton
County, has a lemon tree about twenty
years cd, and this year raised a small
crop of lemons. A sample of tho fruit
measured eleven and half inches in its
largest circumference. 1t was beauty
Two boys, one 10 AID the other IL
years old, were arrested in West Bay City
on the complaint of the mother OF the
younger. she saying thnt he was vicious
and unmanageable. In the posse sion oI
! the boys we're found two butcher knives,
steel kuuckles, three loaded revolvers
cartridges and other articles, all Of which
they had stolen. The older of the two
was sent 10 the State Re orm School and
sentence was suspended on the younger.
Rev. Father Leayy, of Monroe, dice
cs email -rcx ccrsrectel While st.erd:n;
sufferers ia the plague stricken city Of
Deer6eld.
The good work Of the Ionia County
Fishing Club is rapidly extending Al
Lyons club was organized to operate n