Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-09-19
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

An Interesting Summary of the More I'm
portant Doings OF Our Neighbors-wed-
dings and Deaths = Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
--Lt conference OF the Prohibition
lists of the State, held at Lansing last
week, twenty counties we're represented.
Prof. Osburn, of Lansing, presided, with
W. W Wise, editor of the Chicago Lerer,
as secretary. Addresses were made by
Albert Dodge. of Fowlerville; Richard
Trevellick, Detroit; VIM. Molone, Lam
sing; and DR.. Bruce, Albion. 1t was de-
cided to keep up a vigorous party organ
ization, and the following resolution was
adopted:
ResolUed, That while we pledge our undivided
moral support to any movement which Is really
| against the traffic in intoxiC ing beverages we
declare our unfalterfng faith in national prohi-
| Diuon, with party In power pledged to its en-
Iorcement as the only effectual remedy for the
evils OF the liquor traffic; and we call upon
those who believe in the efficacy of non- pa rtisa
measures to eradicate those evils to contribute
the money time and labor necessary to satisfy
themselves, as past experience has already re-
| peatedly satisfied us, Chat such measures are
wholly inadequate, proving but temporary and
unsatisfactory expedents, while no permanent
good results therefrom
Detroit Journal: "Lo, the roor In
dian, is fast learning the white mans
ways. One of the noble reds has been
pulled at Port Huron for stealing post
Office money order and getting it cashed. 4"
Michigan, remarks the Detroit Jour
nal, has about $500 school houses, ac-
commodating over half million scholars,
and the school property is worth about
$l3, 900, 600. If any one thinks this indi-
Gates that Michigan is going back to the
dark ages, let him speak up now and tell
us about it,
seven miles Of railroad between Beech
wood, on the extension of the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway, to the site of the
proposed new mill of the Metropolitan
Lumber Company.
Tho shaft of the Cleveland mine,
which extends its workings out under
Lake Angeline, has begun sending up ore.
The work of pumping out the lake will
begin before winter. The lake is $50
acres in extent and 20 feet deep, and the
work the pumps will have to do is some-
thing enormous.
1T is now asserted that the barn burn
ing episode which made William Nc
Laughlin, of Grand Traverse County, q
poor m an, was the work of White Caps,
as he had received several very sassy"
letters, making serious threats. His
neighbors are contributing lumber, work
and mnney To oct hiA. his foet ssaiI.-
Detroit Journal: Charles r. White,
manager of the Plankinton Hotel, Mil
waukee, was in Detroit yesterday looking
over the Plankinton here. 1t is possible
that he may buy the house and remodel it
so as to compete with the Russell House
and Cadillac. He is also considering the
much -talked-of project of building q
monster hotel near the proposed union
depot. Mr.. White is backed by Million
aire Plankinton of Milwaukee, and can
put lots of money into the enterprise.
The Benzie Ednner ssys William
Walter Phelps owns land and pays taxes
in that county. Henry Ward Beecher,
when alive, could look proudly to his
Benzie possessions, but since he has
passed away his estate has to suffer drain
on the pocketbook to keep the title clear.
Stephen W. Dorsey used to carry a deed
there. but for some reason. perhaps be-
cause it was too cold when he wanted 1T
warm. disposed of his Benzie County dirt.
Erastus Corning also owned over 5000
acres in Benzie, but at his death he willed
it to his son, and it is now owned by S.
s. Thompson.
Ferdinand Schlesinger, representing
the German syndicate that recently
bought six large mines on the Menominee
range, is conducting negotiations for the
purchase of the Buffalo, South Buffalo
and Queen iron mines of Negaunee. The
purchase price will be $3.50, 900 in case
the sale is made.
DIR. Avery, who went to Negaunee to
investigate the typhoid fever outbreak,
reports to the State Board of Health that
it is even more serious than stated. He
found seventy five or eighty cases evenly
distributed over the western portion of
the city. The sick are mostly miners and
their families. The water used at their
homes is generally city water from Lake
Teal, although few, use we'll water. DIR.
Avery inclines to the belief that the city
water is contaminated. On the Doctors
suggestion, the Mayor has ordered a
general cleaning up of the infected por-
tions of the city, and advises the boiling
of all drinking water.
The supreme conclaye of the Royal
Adelphi held it's annual meeting in De-
troit last week. During the past and fif-
teenth year Of organization the receipts
have been SOS, ,S6.13; sick claims, $685.
945; death claims, $5s, $3.50; and acci-
dent claims, 81 ,60O.66; all of which we're
paid out.
Frank Howard, the Bellaire safe
blower, gets ten years fn State Prison.
You wouldn't think it, but you can
reach Zion by way OF East Saginaw or
Port Huron. They used to call it Segi-
nav Junction, but changed the name re-
Gently.
About one hundred Washtenaw Coun-
ty pioneers met at Ann Arbor last week
and snapped tales of the long ago.
The Iron Belt mine on the Gogebic
range has discharged 200 men, keeping