Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-05-08
Tho following Michigan pensions
have been granted:

Dnl Joseph w. Mime, Merldihn V0ne- M
Miller Columbiayile samuel Davis, Diehton
Byron Goodrich Chnrlotte John w. Sweeney,
pettysyile; Smith Kini:sbury, Corunna; julius
TSes Se asis S,d cnSs g. So.RTSsh Detroit Wm n
Clalrei VIM. III. Brock, Parshallvllle Lean
der d. Burdick, Chssaning; George on
Tsr s,,ds Gr1Rd n uRapiSs james Piper an1 Grand
ton Lake; Charles I. Denton, Urban
Henry w. whitten,i East Saginaw navy
Ypsian chas issTsx Tasbury ssar Grand Rapids
Elijah O. Taylor, Thre, Oaks Mark r. Vining
Ypsilanti; Samuel J.SWilliams. J. Eaton Rapids
Luther b, Wolcott Hiilsdaie; Lorenzo o. Hol-
den, Mackinac Island James McIlveen, Clark
ston Job Allon Slater, Indian Lake Benjamin
Gowen Conrad Peaster, Vermontville iona.
than W.. Marvin Pine Grove Mills; Timothy
Ellsworth, Yankee Springs John Davis, Niles
Bronson; Aaron Finch, Lansing; VIM. H.
Inci ease-Wm. II. 'Raricl, HilIsdale; OSCAR H.
Barber. Dunarvdale; ,Alpheus Beatty. Ogden
Center Chas. w. Bump Pontiac; George Kopp,
Detroit George Norris Ypsilanti Asa Brown,
cSaPisa Gaisy % or George shaw. PAIN
well; Reuben Ruhlman, Nashville; Henry
Deadly, Middieville; John Riemersma. Holland
Robep. f. Bigbee, Chase William Graham, De-
troit Andrew j. Annis. Maple Rapids; Thomas
Boyd Detroit; Henry }. Curkendall, Bay
sPringA Peter s: p. Lamphier, Inlay City;
ma Geo. N. Cottrell, jackson; David Bellinger,
Mill Gro We: Garrett Kerrigan, Grand Rapids
Thomas iBiddle, South Haven; Dustin Woodin,
Millburgh William Caldwell. Venice Center
Ellis II. Gage, West Bay City; George A. Reed,
Lakeviews James X. Woods, Buchanan Norton
r spaulding, Dundee; Edwin A. Bunker.
Wilcox. 0w osso; David Burriss, Lakeview; Ira
Nelson, Eden.
Original Widows, Etc.--Annetta, widow of
of Harvey p. Olmstead, Hanley; Honora,
widow OF Michael Kelley. irving; Julia, widow
of Abram Leonardson, New Haven.
Edward Murphy, who was sentenced
to prison for life for murder and placed
in solitary confinement for ten years, has
been proven innocent. The solitary con-
inement converted Murphy into a harm
less lunatic, and steps are being taken to
have him sent to the asylum. His friends
oppose this, as they think he has suffered
enough.
Iron Mountain proposes to build o
$50,0o0 hotel, an electric railway and q
mile or two of pavement, and still the
hetallic elevation is not boasting any.
Detroit dispatch: The decision of
the Supreme Court declaring the liquor
law invalid causes great deal of jubila-
tiol among the saloon men. There are
1000 of them in Detroit, and the decision
means gain of $500 per year to each Of
them and loss OF 100000 to the city.
Besides. the old law, to which the city
must now revert, enables the saloonkeep-
er who perjures himself to take out beer
license alone and then sell all kinds of
liquors under it. The new law was de-
signed to prevent this kind OF work, be-
sides securing higher license. The old
law, except in it's low-license principle,
worked we'll in country towns, but in
Thus the city, in the difference between
the high and low licenses and the evasion
Of the whisky license, will lose heavily
before the Legislature can make new
law.
The trial of G. T. Wright, who killed
Officers Marshall aad Thurber at Otter
Greek last August, came to a close at
Benzonia last week, the jury rendering a
verdict of guilty of murder in the first
degree. He was sentenced to life impris-
onment in the Jackson Penitent:ary.
The Mt. Pleasant Enterprise, at the
instance of the Business Exchange, has
issued neat little folder, which in small
space tells the world at large that Isabella
County is the glrden spot of Michigan,
and Mt. Pleasant q healthy, prosperous,
growing, moral, intellectual young city.
Lansing dispatch: The Lansing ma
sons, bricklayers and plasterers have de-
cided to inaugurate nine-hour working
day on Monday, May ~. It was first
proposed to fall square in line with the
ei2ht-hour movement. but nine hours was
agreed to os a compromise. 1t is under
stood that the contr motors will accede to
the mems demands.
The Executive Committee of the West
Michigan Press Association has decided
to postpone the next annual meeting until
June, 1891.
Rockford celebrated Arbor Day by
planting 200 trees.
-Richarl Smith, of Bad Axe, leader
of the Prohibition forces OF "the thumb"
for many years, died recently of pneumo-
MIA.
The enterprising people who are max
ing summer resort OF Harsens Island
will probably run an electric railroad from
the island to Agonac.
John Estep, q Muir stock dealer, has
sued Isaac Balch, Lyons farmer, for
$4,000 damages for sander, claiming
that Balch charged him with using false
weights.
Two sneaks broke into barn at In
dian River and stole several bottles of
patent medicine from peddler's wagon.
Then they robbed hen-roost, went TO
Indian Point, ate the chickens, and got
drunk on the medicine. They are now
in cheboygan Jail.
Rev. Father Crowley, of the Mount
Pleasant Catholic Church, is one Of the
most successful priests in the State. In
five years he has received fifty eight Prot
esiants into his church, four Of this num-
ber uniting since Easter.
Port Huron has subscribed the money
asked for by TIE projectors OF the saler-
atus works. and operations will bs begun |
at once. About one hundred men will be |
employed when the works are set going.
William Close and William Billing I