Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-03-27
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

| An Interesting Summary of tho More I'm
Portant Doings OF Our Neighbors-w We'd
dings and Deaths = Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes..
| Last August Mr.. VIM. II. Landon, q
respected and we'll do Ingham County
farmer, in fit OF anger struck an In
dian lmed Joseph Donegan with plow-
handle, resulting in his death. Mr..
Landon has just been convicted, at Ma
SON, of manslaughter, and sentenced to
three years in the Jackson prison. Much
sympathy is felt by their neighbors for
Mr.. and Mrs. Landon.
"A little son OF j. NJ. Ford, of SaRi-
nav, fell into an abandoned well and was
drowned. Ford his commenced suit
against the owner Of the property for
$4,000, claiming that the well was not
properly covered.
Bay City has Worlds Fair Club.
1t is made up young men who are anxious
to attend the big show at Chicago. They
will pay 80 cents per week into the treas
ury, and they hope by this means to Sc
cure enough to make things howl when
they get to the fair.
Patrick Quinn, one Of the oldest resi-
dents of Monroe County, is dead. He
was native of Ireland, had resided in
the county over fifty years, and was 81
years Of age.
An East Saginaw man has invented
anickel-in- -the-slot sire eet-car door which
is calculated to take the conductors
place. In order to get upon car which
has one Of the doors, it will be necessary
for the passenger to drop a nickel; then
the door will fly open, but the moment
the passenger is inside his weight drives
the door shut, locking it securely against
everything but another nickel
Mrs. Z. b. Farrar, of Evart, thought
the cook stove was cold, and she began
to polish 1t with some electric compound.
The fire wasn't out, and Mrs. Farran dis
covered that fact just about the time there
was fash and she was enveloped in
flames. She put out the fire and threw
the burning brush upon tho floor. A
Newfoundland dog grabbed the brush and
carried 1t out doors, and the damage was
past. Then Mrs. Farrar discovered that
her hands we're severely burned.
Rev. H. L. Corey, of Sault Ste. Merle,
has been elected by the Presbyterians of
Greene stle, Ind, as their pastor for the
coming year. He has accepted.
The steel steamer City of Chicago,
built at f. w. Wheeler & Co.'S yards in
the presence of 10. 900 people. She is the
first steel craft built at Bay City, is owned /
by Graham Il Morton. of Chicago, an | |!
will run between Chicago and Benton
ID nbor. She is beautiful craft, 2l3 feet !
on the water ne, 223 feet over al. 33
feet nodded width and l3 feet nodded |
depth. The steamer is to have compound |
beam engines, two boilers and feathering
paddle wheels, with all modern improve I
ments In the way of outfit, incandescent
lights. water works and electric bells.
She will have seventy state-rooms and
Will be finished in hardwood, furnished
with plush and velvet carpets, etc. The
cost will reach $22O,OOO Her speed is to
be seventeen miles an hour.
Fire destroyed Rust Bros saw mill
1t Bay City. Loss, $4,000; insurance.
S25. 900.
Last October Ch'rles P. and Charles
3. Farr We re- ininrad nv The ...e-I4s---s
load OF hay on the streets OF Fort
iratiot They have sued the city for
IS, 900 each.
The wiseacres of tho Agricultural
College announce that q great mary
state bounties are being paid for redpole
innets and Rrosbeaks, the killers and
county treasurers believing them to be
parrows
Two years ago Church & Co., the
alera,us makers. abandone the scheme
o establish works at Port Huron. be-
ause natural gas couldn't be found there.
lilton Wood, Church's chemist, will or
anize n company with $780, capital
nd locate at Port Huron. He will
nanufacture salerstus by new process
nd employ l5o men.
Congressman Whiting thinks he can
ecure $25OOo appropriation for the
redging of Black River.
The Mayor of Ionia has notified the
aloonkeepers OF that city that the law
gainst op'n saloons on election DAYS
lust be respected.
Henry Gage, of Roscommon, told his !
life he was glad she was dying, and be-
ore her body got cold filed himself with ,
nm and then disappeared, leaving his ,
hildren unprovided for and the body of ,
is wife to the care of citizens of the ,
'wn, who gave it decent burial.
DAVID Erskine, chore-boy at the /
lger House, Clare, was hired to work G
'om early morning till o'clock p. m.
Or SIS per month. Once installed in I.
flee he was required to work about half
he night, and he has sued his employer :
Dr. $54.sS for overtime.
Exc Blair will not be a memter q
the CHI rokee Com omission, as Presi- g
ent Harrisoa has appointed Ex-senator
ngus Cameron, Of Wisconsin, to the q
lace. \
Kate Krouse is cook at the Bay Coun-
; Jail, but she doesn't let that fact make |,
or too proud, says the Detroit Journal {
ate he's plethoric bank account, and, 1
'tter still, has some property in sebe- v