Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-02-20
GRAyIING MICHIGAN THURSDAY FEBRUA
III. Writ Newkirk has been appointed

yer, uhbu ueou que AOI ciBut yooAps hnD
no thought of resuming practice, and ex-
re:ts to be plain, ordinary printer un-
til the end Of his days.
Charles Joyce, Michigan Central
brakeman, fell from train at Saginaw
and was cut to pieces.
State Oil Inspector Platt has filed his
annual report with Governor Luce. II
states that 27l, 745 barrels of oil were i'm
spected and 6S6 rejected. The fees ex-
ceeded the expenses by $40, ,455.5S.
"A petition has been sent from Bay
City to Congressman Mckinley. Chair
man of the Committee on Ways and
Means, asking that a clause be inserted
in the tariff act providing that if any
country impose an export duty on pine
States, the pine or spruce sawed
lumber imported from such country shall
pay an additional duty equal to the
amount of such export duty.
Railroad Commissioner Rich has is
sued an order requiring all railroad CON-
panies in the State to prohibit the string
ing of street railway electric motor wires
over their tracks at less height than
twenty -four feet above the rails. He
says that these heavily charged wires
will be fruitful of danger to trainmen on
the tops of cars unless raised sufficiently
high to prevent all possibility of contact
with them.
Tho directors Of the Michigan Base
Ball League. consisting of Grand Rap
ids, Lansing, Jackson, Flint. aud Manis-
tee, met at the State capital last week.
Muskegon was formally admitted as a
member of the League. new constitu-
tion was adopted. specifying that the
monthly expens of each club shall not
be over 5000, including salary list and
all other expenses, and providing fine
of $1,000 for any club breaking over the
expense limit. Each club is required to
make to the Secretary each month q
sworn statement of its expenses. The
salary OF umpires was fixed at not over
$75 a month and hotel and travelling ex-
penses. May 13 was settled upon as the
date for the season TO begin, each club TO
play 100 games.
An etfoit will be made by a number
Of anti-consolidation SITS to prevent the
union of the two Saginaws. Judge Isaac
Morton, of Detroit, has been retained by
them, and he went to Saginaw q day or
| txuO nd Of of 1ou
on Mayor Stark, of Saginaw City, th
/ notice that lie would apply to the Su-
preme CouIt on the 18th inst, for a er-
resrInu It's action or reD. providing FOR
On ection under the cons o 'idation char
ter. The case will be followed 10 the
end. The act of the Legislature at its
last session providing for the consolida-
tion of the Sa ,inaws, under the name of
Saginaw, fixed Msr:h as the time for
tie elect on OF the officers of the new
city.
The new law relating TO the adoption
of ch ldren is kicking up bobbery all
along the line. A 7-year-old girl was
adopted by the Seabalds, of Port Huron,
and when the new law went into effect a
p an was set on foot 10 recover the girl.
1t was alleged that she was being reared
among improper surroundings, and jury
| recommended that she be put in charge
OF Catholic priest. The priest was i'll
Mt the time and the child was sent to the
country. Seabald kidnapped the young
ster, but the authorities found it out and
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James Andrews, of Pontiac, who
died two months ago, left Sl4, 900, the in
terest OF which Is to be used for the sup
port and Leneft of twenty-five of the
most needy widows in oakland County.
Gov. Luce has ordered the removal
| from Office of Calvin w. Cummings, of
Mackinac County. Cummings is q JUS
tice of the Peace, of a playful and
festive disposition. He was recently
fined by a brother Justice for drunken
ness and disorderly conduct. The Gov
ernor decided that the charge of habitual
drunkenness made against Cummings
was fully proven, and directed his re-
moval on that ground.
! John Leadbetter, prominent lum-
berman, recently met death by drowning,
at Bay City. He had gone to the wharf to
superintend work on steambarge OF
which he was one of the owners, when
he slipped off the plank leading TO the
boat, and was precipitated into the river,
drowning before assistance came. Mr..
Leadbetter was one of the foremost lum-
Der shippers on the chain of lakes and
had wide circle of acquaintances.
William Walton, OF williamsi on,
Ingham County, and his son-in-law we're
hunting rabbits, waltons gun was acci-
dentally discharged, the shot entering
the son-in- laws leg, inAicting serious
wound.
-Barrabas Gilroy was a blacksmith
on Sugar Island. near st. Ignace. He is
dead, and French doctor who attended
him says the man literally died from spon-
taneous combustion. Gilroy was work.
ing over his forge when he inhaled the
heat and q FIRE started within his body,
the victim suffering the most excruciat-
ing agony until relieved by death. Great
Jumps of burning flesh dropped from the
mans body while he was yet alive
George Buchanan, of Port Huron,
has been adjudged insane and taken to