Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-01-24
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

1nN0EGbtInK -
portant DoIngs of Our Neighbors--Wed-
dInps and Deaths = Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
Tho State Treasurer has issued sup
Elementary report, covering a period OF i
six months previous to Dec. 81, 1883,
show ng balance in treasury June 80, ST.
1888, ,567; receipts for six months, $l,O97,-
4l9; disbursements for the same Period, |
81, ,s57 ,sl2; lalarce in treasury Dec. 81,
$42S, ,Sl2.
The amount of lumber cut in Presque
Isle County in 1888 was 100000 feet by
stationary mills and 800, 900 feet by porta-
BILE mills, total of 5,9O7, 900 feet.
Mrs. N. S. Allen, o resident of Leba-
non, Clinton County, for thirty-fve years,
dropped dead of heart disease.
Mrs. William Tedswell, aged Al, in
apparently sound health, died suddenly at
Adrian.
Saginaw is soon, for the first time, to
have n hook and ladder truck as part OF
its fire department outfit. This truck
will be completely equipped, not only
with ladders but nlso with hose hoists,
door openers, Babcock hand fire extin-
| guishers, crowbars, axes, etc. 1t will have
one Boston extension ladder fifty feet in
length, and q complete set of shorter
ones, varying from forty-fve to twelve
| feet in length. This will enable firemen
to reach the upper windows of the highest
blocks which that city has at present.
The Pere Marquette Boom Company
during the last season RATED sos, 900 logs,
scaling ll5,OOO,OOO feet. There is in
boom limits 100000 feet, but ns three
railroads have dumped logs into the river
above boom limits all summer and up to
this time during the winter, it cannot even
approximately be estimated how many
mil ion feet is in the river at present. SO
says the Ludington Appeal.
As an evidence that the past yelr mas
been prosperous one among farmers OF
Ionia County a gentleman who makes a
busi css of loaning money on farm Sc
,urity said the other day that during the
year just closed he had received more
! money from his loans than at any time
during the past six or eight years. No
only had the interest been paid, but large
sum, upon the principals, also.
According to the Sentinel Merrill is
almost sure to have roller process -four
ing mill very soon.
AT present the Stats laws make nc
provision for bounty on wolves killed II
The Upper Peninsula. If a county wants
to get rid of these pesky critters 1T must
pas, a lesolu ion, as ontonagon did some
years ago, giving bounty of SO for eacf
Volt k lied.
Fair & DaKlyne, who operate mil
i. at Harrisville, manufactured 10000
feet of lumber last season.
Bernard Rice, who has been jnnito
of the State Senate for the past twenty
r 6vo years, will remain in Saginaw thi
Tint,r.
, Captain William Smith, an old an
is Nell-known lake captain, died at the resi-
q denc, of his son-in-l law, ID. A. Boelkins
l. in Muskcgon. Mr.. Smith sailed the lake
for q number of years rs clpt lin OF differ
ant vessels, but had lltterly retired.
will be remembered by many as captal
OF the Minerva in her earlier years.
5. The Bay City Plow Works, located
no McEwanville, hive commenced operation
~ in elrnest, and is another good bushes
= enterprise added to Bay City's alread
n la,ge list of manufactures. The prosel
4 pi oductiol is o1ly twenty five plows da
bat nm eighty-foot addition to the worl
viii be erected and the capacity largely il
crossed.
A large qulntity OF logs are noy bcir
moved over the Pinconning branch of Il
ad Micli an Central ard banked on Sagino
NJ Bay.
-Sackridor & Hoffman, of Oakle
= manufa tured 200, 900 feet of lumber Ia
season.
Tho attorneys of Isabella County ha
organized q bar association.
The Michigan Central Railroad Coz
sst pany has three different sites in Wow 1
at the new depot at Bay City.
Peter Rutledge exhibited in the off
of the Richmond Exchange piece
WOO cut from a tree, or rather two tre
N that is quite a curiosity. It is q pot
ID Of birch tree firmly elgrafted into p'
of an ironwool, and the two so firm
grown toz. ther rs to form one solid pie
Ct Ct Of wood.
u2S The business of the +. W. Whee
= shipyards at Bay City has been roorg
!, lied as a stock company under the na
of +. W. Wheeler a Co. The new co
pany intends to employ over 1000 n
and to make things boom. They will co
mence work at once, building wood
rms iron and steel vessels. They will also b
old dry-docks, machine and boiler works,
If sides carrying on trade in the transpoi
ton line.
, -Chappelle g. Nichols, OF Saginaw,
banking 500, 900 feet of logs daily.
AT Ludington mine Swede, mar
4: John Dyson, fell down shaft 300
\ deep, and was instantly killed. He
VI wife and seven children.
The Star coal mine at Jackson
been abandoned. IL has been filled v
water severil times recently, and cons
erab,e money has been expended in
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