Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-09
The Census Bureau has announced the

The census Bureau has announced the
population of Michigan cities as follows:
Cities. Pop. Inc.
Coldwa Ter. ....,..................... 5,462 Iol
fnttle Creek. ...................... l3,OO o'vzI
Jackson. .,........ ............... z9.Ity s'oda
Monroe. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 52i6 316
Ann AIDor' '''''''.'.'...'..''''..'. c'y1 t'no
apsllanu. u.'.'..s................ o,zo d'daa
Detroit. .2OS,G6o 69,329
EX-Gov. ALPHEUs S. FITcH, Of Ann
Arbor, recently celebrated his S6th birth
day.
HoN. f. L. WooDMAN, of Worthwhile,
Wayne County, has been subscriber to
the Detroit Free Press for fifty consecu-
tive years.
LUMBER, 54,G45 feet; shingles, 1890;
lath, 1850, are the figures of Saginaws
shipment during September.
Mrs. SUSAN CECIL, nearly 100 years
old, and probably the oldest woman in
the State, died in Milan, Washtenaw
County, this week.
AN elegant bank building is to be
erected in Newberry, Luce County.
THE weekly crop bulletin has been dis
continued for the season and instead a
monthly bulletin will be issued beginning
November 1.
WILLIAM MORRIS, of Reed City, we'll
known farmer, was thrown from load
of wood and instantly killed by the
wheels of the cart passing over his neck.
A MEETING of the Michigan Board Of
Pharmacy for the purpose of examining
candidates for registration, will be held
at Lansing Wednesday and Thursday,
Nov. and 6.
EDWARD SoPP, of South Lyon, set his
gun against fence while he climbed
over. In doing so he struck his foot
| against the trigger, the charge plowing
| big hole in his breast and causing in
slant death.
CHELSEA has two-story frame house
about half mile from the center Of tho
village that is haunted by strange faces
and a woman and boy spooks. Some
claim to recognize the faces as belonging
| to people who have been recently buried,
and this lends terror to the situation.
TIE Peninsula Land Company, at
| Newberry, is starting a fifty-three-acre
experimental farm upon which to show
immigrants what kind of dirt Luce
| County Is made Of
THE Supreme Court calendar for this
| term contains 200 cases, the most on
record. Kent County furnishes twenty
cases and Wayne County One-fourth OF
the entire number.
IRON MOUNTAIN has a cow club. On
| joining each COW owner pays into the
| treasury 10 cents for each cow in his
possession, aud when a members cow
dies an assessment is made and $40 is
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| fee the assessments are all the members
pay into the club, and as the member
ship already exceeds 1870 comparatively
Insignificant sum Is levied upon each.
Three claims have already been paid.
CHRISTOPHER T. HEWITT, of Mt. Glenn
ems, has written to the Superintendent
of the Castle Garden Labor Bureau, New
York, imploring aid in securing wife.
He has siXty-eight broad acres, he says,
and SO, 600 in hard cash, and wants
a wife 40 years old. He claims that his
moral character IS vOuched for by tho
Mayor and Circuit Judge of his town,
and stipulates that the future Mrs. HewI
tit must come to him as house.
keeper, and give him a chance to study
her disposition before he marries her.
JAMES WATERMAN, who has resided in
Worthwhile, Wayne County, for upward
of sixty years, died of cancer few days
ago, aged Sc years.
Gov. LUCE says the reason he did not
pitch into the lotteries sooner was that
he could not do anything as long as the
man was uscu, out as SOON as ne knew OF
the company establishing agencies he
sent out his warning letter,
THE Flint and Perc Marquette Railroad
has accepted plans for a new $4,000
bridge across the Saginaw River at Wesl
Bay City.
THE laborers of the Au Sable Lumbe,
Company have seen lots OF bears going
south this fall and from that argue thai
il Is going to be a severe winter.
THE Presbyterian congregation of Ish,
peming is going to build a $l5,00j
church.
THE Chicago and St. Paul Railroad
having purchased the Milwaukee an(
Northern to get connection with the
$500" Road, is now trying to make ship,
ping arrangements east by the "SooS
line.
UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT INsPEC'
TOR ScHELL is at the $500" and making
Il lively for the aliens. He has chased
back one gang of fifteen Dagos aud
several smaller parties of would-be
American laborers.
A TERRIBLE tragedy was enacted in
Saginaw last week. Albert Palmer,
well-known drayman, aged about 81
years, was shot through the heart and
instantly killed by his brother, VIM. III.
Palmer. Both men, while drinking in a
saloon, got into an alteration. William
went out and returned shortly afterward
with double-barreled shotgun, which
he pointed in a threatening manner at
his brother. A bystander grasped tho
barrel of the gun and pulled IT to ono
side, when Albert whipped out O revol7
yer and fired at William, the shot pass
ing through tho finger of his right hand.
without further ado William again pre-
sented tho gun at the breast OF his
brother and fred, the load Of buckshot
passing through his victims heart, maxi
ing a CHASTITY wound. Alfred fell with
out murmur, his legs bent under his
body, and, with vivid, upturned face, he
lay, while in his right hand he grasped,
with the grip of death. the weapon with
which he had tried to kill his brother.
CADILLAC has a Hubbard squash that
weighs seventy-ive pounds.
IoNIA COUNTY farmers have to sell
grapes for $40 per ton.
West BAY CITY is to build a S41, 900
bridge across the Saginaw River.
1T Is understood that when the Signal
Service Is transferred from the War De-
partment to the Department OF Agricul-
ture, i'm accordance with the bill now
about to become law, II will be placed
under the direct charge Of Assistant
Secretary Willis, formerly President Of
the Michigan Agricultural College.
Il. ID. Verify, OF Portland, Ionia
County patentcd a novel flower stand.