Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-12-18
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.


crop report:
Wheat goes into the winter In good con-
dition In ali parts OF the State. In the
southern counties, compared with average
years, the condition is 103 per cent; I'm the
central. 90 per cent, and In the northern,
102 per cent. The condition In the southern
counties Is 20 per cent. better, and In the
central, Is per cent. better than one year
ago. The Hinsectn and Hessian fly are pres
ent, and In some localities very numerous.
They are reported from nearly every county
In the southern and central sections, and by
q large percentage OF the correspondents.
No material damage has been done.
Live stock is in good. healthy and thrifty
condition. A few cases of horse distempof
and of hog cholera arc reported, but the
loss from these diseases does not seem to be
unusual or heavy. In answer to the gen.
eral question, aAre there any diseases prev
alent among live stock?n ninety cor
respondents in the southern counties answer
ayes,n and 351 @no;n in the central counties
thirteen answer @yes,n and 1O4 "no," and in
the northern counties seven answer @yes,r
and eighty-hve 1no.n
Heavy and continued rains interfered
with the saving of cloverseed, and much OF
this crop was wasted in consequence, and
corn was not cured as well as In dry sea-
sons. Yet the continuance OF mild, open
weather to the first of the present month
has enabled farmers to close up their work
In very satisfactory manner. The area
fall plowed is reported much greater than
usual, and would have been even larger
had not the rains made many fields too wet
to plow
In the Portland House, at Bay City,
Matthew O'Shea, the night clerk Of the
hotel, was shot and instantly killed by
James III. Crosby. O'Shea and three
companions, Edward O'Malley, Dayton
d. Clark, Sheriff-elect of Oscoda County,
and Patrick Clark, a boarder In the
hotel, were in the bar-room in the rear
of the Office, looking over map Of the
southern country, from which Dayton
had just returned, when James Ii. Cros-
by came into the Office and then into the
bar-room, where he, in a half-drunken
condition, interrupted the conversation
by pushing among the trio who were
standing outside the bar, and declaring
he could show them all about the map.
He was pushed to one side by Dayton
Clark and was apparently much an
gered He moved toward the door,
few steps away, and pulled revolver,
leveling it at Clark. O'Shea ran into
the Office intending to come upon Crosby
from behind and disarm him. AS he en-
tered the bar-rcoD, Crosby turned, and
the revolver was discharged, the bullet
striking O'Shea and entering his lett
arm. Crosby fired another shot which
entered O'Shea's body under the left
arm, striking vital spot and killing
him instantly. After the second shot
Crosby coolly walked out of the hotel.
He was subsequently arrested.
THE expose of the affairs OF Louis d.
Sanborn has caused a great sensation In
Saginaw business and social circles.
Sanborn's method was unique. He
would draw note or acceptance usually
for $500, get the Endorsement OF his
friends and business associates, leaving
space on the paper to insert a figure
after the dollar mark and before the
figures 500, and on the lower line the
words fifteen, twenty, sixty or seventy,
as he desired, before the words five hun
dred. 1t is believed, apart from a few
unfortunate investments In timber lands
in Michigan, that the bulk of the money,
including his inheritance, has been sunk
in a silver mine at Winnemucca, New,
in which investment he owns a nine
tenth interest The amount of the
raised paper which Sanborn issued is be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000. Sanborn was
born and raised in Saginaw, and his past
careef has been exemplary in every re-
spect Sanborn has disappeared, and
HENRY Lyons, of Hillsdale, was gored
to death by a vicious bull.
THE Bay City Council has refused to
adopt standard time.
ID. M. PICKETT, Dearborn inventor,
has recently patented game called
quartet, which is said to be very anus
ing and interesting. -Four games can be
played on the beard, and some Of them
are said to be as difficult as chess or
checkers. Mr.. Pickett has secured five
patents in as many years.
THE Port Huron Times SAYS: "After
the examination of the brain taken from
the head of Joseph WATSON, the young
man killed during drunken row, DR..
McLaren threw it into furnace and
watched 1t as it burned DIR. McLaren
says that 1t threw out magnificent col
ored flame. The Doctor says that the
brain was saturated with alcohol and
burned readily"
NEAR Monroe, the other day, occurred
a thrilling rescue and sad tragedy.
Farmer Krieger had been attending to
business in town, and with his three
small children started for home, taking
the track of the Lake Shore Railway.
On the road is a creek, bordcred with low
bottom lands, which terminate abruptly
In high banks. Over these the railway
passes by a lofty trestle. Without any
suspicion OF danger, Mr. Krieger started
to cross this bridge. When he had
reached the portion directly over the
creek, he discovered to his horror that q
passenger train was rapidly approach
ing. He quickly placed the children on
the extreme end Of the ties, but saw at
once that they would not be out of the
reach OF the train. There was no time
to lose, and, seizing the two youngest of
the children, he jumped into the creek,
calling upon the third, a girl of IL, to
follow him. She started TO obey, but the
great height frightened her, and in her
moments hesitation she was caught and
dashed to pieces. After hard struggle
with the water and ice of the creek, Mr..
Krieger with his two little ones reached
the shore in safety.
THE West Bay-Citians will ask tho
Legislature TO rename the streets OF the
city, give them q police commission,
make special assessment for improve
ment purposes, and otherwise change
the city charter.
DURING a row in a camp near Iron
Mountain, George Riggs, deaf and
dumb man, was frightfully injured by