Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-08-01

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Bay City, was gutted by fire.
This paper usually accepts anything
.he Marquette Mining Journal says as
true, but when it says that 1900 men are
employed at tho Chaplin mine We hesitate
yes. wo hesitate.
When Michael Higgins and August
Johnson, of Marquette, had scufis
which resulted in Higgins being thrown
in front of an engine and killed, Johnson
was arrested on charge of murder He
has since been released, as it was shown
Higgins was not thrown there intention
ally.
Michigan pensions: Original invalid
Michael Ryan, John Morehead, Thomas
Thorsby. Francis ]. Lyon, Nelson Shen-
dee, Charles f. Severence. Increase
Charles w. Pierson, Handy Austin,
Ulysses G. Cass Reissue-Philip Crow
foot, Luke Bordeau. Reissue and in
crease William Smith, Jr. Original
widows, etc.-Harriet t., widow Of Ly-
man s. Elliott.
The Grand Traverse Masonic hall is
at last an assured thing, says letter from
that town: 1t will not be built by the
lodge but by stock company. A stock
holder must be Mason, and the lodge
takes half of the stock issued. The
amount of stock is $4,000, divided into
800 shares at $25 each. Each share
holder can pay up the total amount, or
10 per cent, with s per cent annual in
terest.
IS. s. Hopkins, Macomb County
printer, has become preacher. The
Detroit Journal man guesses he never
pied" form.
The monthly meeting Of the Michi-
gan railway passenger agents was held at
Bayport, on Saginaw Bay, last week.
Special rates were announced as follows:
One fare round trip to soldiers and sail
ors' reunions at Pontiac and West
Branch; one cent and half each way from
all points to encampment of State troops
at Goguac Lake, and one fare and third
Gus parts of the State. All special rates
made will expire after Aug. l.
The State Department of Public In
struction has arranged for forty -nine
| teachers Institutes to be held in Michigan
during the summer. In most places the
institutes will be held for two weeks, but
in several instances will be continued for
three and four weeks. Four have already
been held, namely, Gladwin, Branch,
Midland and Ghiawassee counties. Fol-
lowing are the dates and places of meeting
of those yet to be held:
August 5-Barry, Hastings; Genesec, Flint
Ionia, lonia Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Leelanaw,
! Maple City.
| seph; Charlevoix, Boyne City; Clinton, st.
| Johns Hillsdale, Hilsdale Lapeer, INLAY City
Livingstone, Howell Macomb, Utica Monroe.
Dundee Oceana, Hart Washtenaw, Hps1lanu
August i9-Antrim, BeIlaire; Cass, Cassopo-
! lis Delta, Escanaba; Eaton, Charlotte EmInet,
| Harbor Springs Houghton Calumet Lenawee.
| Teeumseh Mackinac, st. Ignace; Mecosta Big
Rapids Montcalm, stanton; Newaygo, Neway-
GO Oakland, Milford Saginaw, Saginaw City;
August 26-Alpena, Alpena Cheboygan,
Cheboygan; Chippewa, Sault Ste. Marie; Grand
Traverse, Traverse City Gretiot, IthiGs Ing
| ka, Kalkaska Marquette, Marquette; Menom-
| inee, Menominee; Missaukee, Lake City On
tonagon, Ontcnagon; Osceoln, Evert; st.
! Joseph, Constantine.
Detroit Journal: Mosherville has two
women who will wager they can chop
more wood than any other two women in
America.
Capt. Geo. w. Fowler. ex-City Mar
shall of Lansing, has instituted libel
suit against the Journal for proclaiming
him dead-beat and stating that his
name was on the black list of the Lam
sing Business Mems Association.
in the United States Circuit Court
at Detroit, last week, DR.. George f.
Hunter, of Holly, Oakland County, re-
covere a judgment against that village
which will take about $40 from the
pockets Of each man, woman and child
inside the corporation. The verdict was
for $40, ,OOO and the cost of three trials
and the population of Holly is about
l,200. The case is of several years
|
Hunter for personal injuries. Severa
years ago he was called 10 attend {
patient at night, and he started in car.
riage for the house, which was some dis
tance away. AS he passed up q mair
street his horse and carriage came in con-
with house moving windlass, or cap
stan, which could not be seen in tn,
darkness. DIR. Hunter was thrown from
his carriage and sustained injuries which
have resulted in his permanent disabilit.
for. active work AMI has wrecked hin
physically.
The weekly bulletin of the operationi
in the Lake Superior mines reports that
Another weeks shipments of ore will brin
the grand total of lake shipments OF ore 10
1889 up to 5000 900 TONS against some 800, %
tons at the corresponding date OF 80, snip
ments are already more than million tons A
tss of the output last season at this time
Ore was struck in crosscut OF Tn
} Aragon shaft, at Norway, on the Me Me
nominee range, few days ago, ago. anl a91
Another great work has been begun recent
ly on the Menominee range. 1t Is to iroi
mining what the Tamarack shaft was 70 coppe
mining four years ago. The Hamilton Or
! Company has begun work on q shaft which is
, be sunk 1000 feet TO the ore. The shaft viii
of full working size and its sinking viii requir
the expenditure of an immense amount OF none!
The competition of half dozen lines of railroa
for the ore earring business Is slowly but surel
reducing rail freights, and the building OF powe
full vessels for the orc trade must as certainl
reduce lake freights.
, Detroit journal: Twenty stalwart
D hungry Polacks stole wedding feast Q