Crawford avalanche., 1890-07-24
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.

An Interesting Summary OF tho Moro I'm
portant Doings of Our We'd
dings and Deaths-Crlmes, Casualties.
and General News Notes.
Julius M. Case, of Marquette, who
died recently at the Victoria Hotel, in
London. England, is thus referred to in q
cablegram 10 the New York Sun:
Case was very popular among his friends,
although he cultivated one or two amusing
eccentricities TO a degree that was some-
what objectionable TO tho British. One OF
Cases fads was his collection OF walking
sticks of all manner OF odd and bizarre
patterns. The moro grotesque stick was
| that he saw In shop window the surer he
was to buy it. Ono OF his sticks had tho
head OF a bulldog. life size. and Case would
calmly carry Il in the street; unmind.nl OF
look at him. Another cane had the head of
monkey. which. whom a spring was
touched. stuck out its tongue and w,nked
its eyes, and Case was fond OF walking
down Piccadilly with it un der mis- ARM
blinking and lolling its tongue. whilo he
appeared absolutely unconscious that he
was attracting attention. Others OF his
sticks contained perfume fountains. jack
in-the- box whistles. and similar instru-
ments OF torture.
Case's favorite cane. however. was one
that served as q sign in umb ella shops. IL
was something like flv, feet long and had q
buckhorn han lie six inches in clrcumfer-
ence and at least three feet In length.
With this small tree It was Cases delight
TO go out in Pail Mall and Piccadilly in
search OF dudes. Whenever he found a
gilded youth carrying n walking-stick by
the ferrule end. with its handle downward.
after the fashion affected by the London
masher, Case would take his big stick by
the extreme tip. holding 1t up with elbows
akimbo. put small eyeglass with black
rim in his eye. and ranging himself about
two feet In the rear OF his victim. follow
him until no reversed his cane or OF into a
cab to escape his tormentor. II the hapless
masher attempted TO tire his pursuer out,
the Michigan man. never looking to
right or left and with impasslve
countonanoe and solemn mien. would follow
the other from Regent street to Hyde PAX.
or until more exaggerated specimen of
the genus was flushed. So regularly did
Case avail himself OF this amusement that
ho became. during his three or four
months stay In the metropolis. quite n
woll-known figure in several prominent
tloroughfares. and tales OF his persecution
OF the mashcrs have more than once ap-
peared In the London newspapers. His
wife was with him at his death. but his
four children wore at his homo in Mlchi-
gan. He was the son OF n former Lieuten-
ant Govern or OF Michigan, and was gradu-
ated from Ann Arbor University. He leaves
q fortune estimated at $5000.000. and his
life was insured for Sl5o.00O. Mrs. Case
body.
Daniel Whitaker. a young man 20
years old. ard Gully DeLton. boy l3
years old, we're drowned while bathing in
the Huron River at Belleville.
"A new postoffice has been established
at Russell, Isabella County.
j. r. Esselstyn has established q silk
berry trees to feed the worms.
Maj. William Ludlow, in his report
for appropriations in Michigan waters,
recommends the following expenditures:
Frankfort harbor, $25.0O0; Portage Lake
harbor of refuge, $4,000; Manistee, $751;
0 0; Ludington. 5000; Pentwater, $40.-
900; White River, $4,000; Muskegon,
$50, 900; Grand Haven. 100000; Black
Lake. $25, 600; Saugatuck, SIC, 900; South
Haven, $50, 900; st. Joseph, $35, 900. He
reports the expenditures of the past year
as follows: Frankfort, $50, 500; Portage
Lake harbor Of refuge, Sl75, 900; Manis-
tee, 1925, ,000; Pentw ater, $37, 900; White
River, $4,000; Muskegon, Ssl 900; Grand
Haven, $500, 900; South Haven, $2l, 800
Maj. Osterman recommends an appropri-
alton of $26,O for the Monroe harbor.
AT Bay City Little Arthur Asman,
aged IL, lost his life in trying to save a
comradO Who had fallon into tho wator.
The little follow was genuine hero. He
had rescued four other boys from a
watery grave so far this year, and was al
ways ready to risk his own life for an
o.her's. Arthur and his brother, accom-
panied by a companion, were standing on
a small floating raft, when the smaller
boys went TOO near the edge, and fell in.
In q moment Arthur said to his brohter:
"I'll Jump in and get him out" These
were his last words, for as soon as he got
his companion out he sank, and was
drowned. His body was recovered in
half an hour, but all attempts at resusci-
tatiou proved of no avail.
The regular monthly crop report
issued from the State Department at
Lansing, compiled from the reports of
1920 correspondents, gives the acreage of
wheat SO. 2o5 lass than one year ago, and
this, with the rust and large amount OF
smut" reported, reduces the probable
yield in excess of 1000, 900 bushels,
stated in special bulletin. The number
of bushels Of wheat reported marketed
during June was 926, $50, and the total
number for the eleven months previous,
l4,0l2, 430. The area planted to corn is
6 per cent. less than In average years.
The average condition is 9l in the south.
ern, 92 in the central, and lO3 per cent
in the northern counties. The condition
of oats is SO in the southern counties
/ and 81 in other sections. The area ol
potatoes planted is per cent. less than
the average, and the condition is SO pei
cent. Meadows and pastures are slightly
below, and clover sowed this year above
the average. The apple crop will not
exceed so per cent. of an average. TLt
condition Of both apples and peaches
has materially declined during the
month, some correspondents reporting I
total failure.
The Saginaw water works arc self
supporting.
%. II. Peters, of the Saginaw Eren
ing Mems, has been appointed Secretar,
of the Northeastern District Agriculture
Society, to fill tie vacancy occisioned b,