Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-10-24
NEXL CRAVING, MICHIGAN THURSDAY. OCTOBER 2ttsse

, ~, ana 5am Aehman has been arreste
as the man who has been passing tn
spurious coin.
Marcus Budlong escaped from til
Ionia asylum for insan criminals re
Gently, and DR.. Long will give $25 to ge
him back again. He is described as fol
lows: Sandy hair, full red beard an
mustache, blue eyes, slight hitch in hi
gait, talks through his nose, dull, dc
mented lcok, hernia (bunch) on righ
side, wore truss, enlarged veins on botl
legs, scar on big toe right foot, scar ol
right cheek, scar on upper portion of fore
head, bridge of nose broken, causing
somewhat fattened appearance of III,
nostrils, chin broad and prominent, will
q depression of the mouth; wore grayisl
suit of clothes"
Mrs. G. j. Towne, of Lansing, who
was the only person injured in the acci
dent to an express train at Lansing, gets
$1,000 from the Grand Trunk Company
-Advices fiom Marquette are to the
effect that homesteaders on the Ontona-
gon and 8rule Railroad grant have be-
gun proving up" at the Land Office
there, and meet with no opposition from
the Ontonagon and Brule people. From
present appearances the claimants to the
unearned grants have given up the fight
as hopeless. In such case the thousands
OF acres of valuable timber and agricul-
tural lands will speedily pass into the
hands of bona fide settlers.
The sophomore girls at the State
University are to give handsome dinner
to the freshman" girls soon.
An enormous apple crop is being
shipped at Monroe, but Jack Frost nipped
the grapes seriously.
The Governor has appointed Albert
/. Huggarth of Battle Creek, and G. M.
Wood Of Anderson. as additional Michi-
gan delegates to the National Farmers
Congress in Montgomery, Ala.
Detroit Journal: Inez Sexton,
daughter of G. G. Sexton, formerly of
the Grand Rapids Democrat, was for
merly well-known vocalist in this State.
and her eccentricities were as we'll known
as her vocalisms. She married bogus
count and repented in tears, while he re-
pented in Pennsylvania prison. Then
she sang out West, married rich man,
buried him later, and has now married
the San Francisco lawyer who settled up
her second husbands estate.
One Michigan iron mine, the Norris.
has shipped nearly half million tons of
ore this season, and will pass that figure
before navigation closes.
The annual reunion of the Michigan
Artillery Association was held in the
Senate chamber at Lansing last week.
The following officers were elected:
President, II. V. d. Baker. Hillsdale;
Vice President, NJ. d. Elliott Holly;
Secretary, G. d. Burnett, Lansing;
Treasurer, Washington Faulkner, Duck
Lake. The next annual reunion will be
held at Lansing on the first day of the
State Fair. Battery NJ of the artillery
men decided to hold its next on the date
Of the Exposition in Detroit in 1890. The |
officers elected were as follows. Presi- |
dent, A. Mcmillan, Bay City; Secretary
and Treasurer, Geo. H. Burgess, High
land. Battery L endeavored TO complete
organization but failed. Battery II de-
cided to meet with the Battery Associa-
ton next fall. The officers chosen are:
President, M. d. Elliott. Holly; Secre-
tary and Treasurer, G. A. Fridlender,
$ SoSinow.
A sickening accident, resulting in
he almost instant death of three men,
occurred at Lansing q few days ago,
while Michigan Central wrecking crew
vas engaged in clearing up freight
rain wreck on the Lansing Transit Rlil-
way. The killed we're: Peter Quinn. of
Vest Bay City, conductor, aged AZ; Geo.
Ruby, of Jackson, machinist, aged so;
Iohn Tantilevish, Of Bay City, brake
nan, aged 20. While the men were en-
jagged in lifting wrecked switch engine
rom the track the iron hosting beam of
he steam derrick broke off and fell upon
group of over a dozen workmen. All
'ut the three above named jumped aside
n time to escape serious injury. The
kulls of Ruby and Quinn were terribly
'hattered, and Tantilevish's chest was
rushed. Despite his terrible injuries.
luinn lived nearly an hour.
Chicago Tribune Ex-Gov. David HI.
erome, of S Rinaw, Mich, arrived. at the
irand Pacific recently, after an extended
nip in Northern Michigan, with a party !
I Milwaukee capitalists. He went to
inspect the recently completed Ontona-
on and Hurley Road, the first twenty !
liles of which he accepted six years ago
5 Governor of Michigan The road
ierces the Ontonagon land grant, the
tile to which has been in dispute in
le Land Department and Congress for :
everal years. Congress Geelared tho Old q
rant forfeited last wirter, and the land
pened for settlement But it hasn't \
Implifed matters much" said Gov.
erome. "The people who bought land I
om the old railway company will fight. |
means a great deal for Northern Michi-
an. Many copper mines now abandoned :
ill be opened" :
John Weinhart. who was confined in ,
le Benzonia Jail on charge of horse :.