Crawford avalanche., 1890-07-24
Tho following Michigan pensions
have boon granted:

Original Invalid = Samuel Conkiin tde
ceased), alias Samuel Brown, Lawton; Georgs
DeTot Ssya H.nsy % BCdsh
breckenridge James X. Valley selkirk
Chauncey NJ. .Braddock. Hazelton; John Priest
Asn ison
| Edwin M. Loveland, Melita; Stephen A. Conk.
I'm, Hartford; John NJ. Wahl, Particle; Charles
Montnsy Sy EMmst %Ia, John KoOPHs Reese Dsnte
G. centsrSiiIe; fi % lewis III n BrSocHway. SH % sagi sS
inaw city; Nicholas Conklin, Kalamazoo
South Monterey yyI Auburn D. Carlton, Diamon.
dale; Daniel q. Alcumbrack, Grand Rapids
John @. Griffin, Detroit; Edward B. simpson,
| Burton Byron Stevens, Fremont; Benjamin
D. Baptiste Detroit; Timothy Rowe, Cambria
| Mills Daniel w. Altenburg, Ithaca John De-
| witt, Potterville John Duckering Milford
Alonzo Wall, Holly; Chas. IL. Loper. Harbor
Increase-Benjamin Hewitt, Clio; Robert A.
De Collier, Northport; Darius Downing, Huron
neld, Dandy; Thomas Pollard, Freiburgers
| Freeland Gray, Grand Rapids Luman Harris,
ssiiaRaiae siN GhaFiss Hegrxs IhiheE9lfg
Patrick L. 0Brein Berrien Center; Matthew
Elisha Pratt, Hilllards; chiiIon II. Kunnels,
Corning; John II. Baldwin, Ganges; Cyrus
King Buchanan; John s. Paul. Morenci; JOS
eePhn Mison 1rS VIM hrot T. Blaeesee
G. North, Adrian; silas A. Howe, Holly; Mel
con +. Bowen, Kalamazoo; Jonathan McFall,
hSGioTd to,nS Ira Tngsis Flint James . Ru.
James Gibbs, Mears; Hiram Hadden, Kalama-
zoo; David Grant, Detroit; John Y Hatfield,
Eaton Rapids; Elijah H. Lamb. Midland; Ed
AbneT Mckay soldiers ,Homel, Grand
Msg1s ulysses Jackson w1iiSsSn %isonss %%
i. Gilpin, Berlamont; J. X. Brooks, Brighton /;
Joseph G. Barnum, Spring Lake; George Darli-
dier's' Home; John s. Gordon, Tekonsha; Jacob
II. Reed, Six Lakes Andrew j. French, Saginaw |;
Luther M. Ellison, Portsmouth; Francis p.
Pontiac Granger F. Anson, Bellevue Edmund
Q. Morris, Big Rapids; Charles Hinnan, eyl-
vester.
Reissue-John t. Craig Cambria; William
Staley, Plainwell Jacob X. Strayer, Riverdale !;
William Vandeventer Calkinsville Patrick II.
Burke, Kalamazoo. Charles T.. Marsh, Cam
Glendale; Archibald II. Springstein, Pontiac ;
Stephan L. George. Lansing.
Original Widows. Etc.-sophia J.. widow Of
Otis f. Ballard, Somerset; William, father of
John Cameron, Grand Rapids Soldiers Home) /;
Elsie f., widow Of julius Jonnings, Sheridan /;
Mary j., widow of Samuel Conklin, alias Sam
Sheseley Mason; Pauline @. Luscher, former
widow Of John Myers, Marshall Robert, father
OF Austin Engle, Mosherville.
The total of iron ore shipments from
the four Lake Superior districts for the
season up to the end of the shipping
week was 2,ss9,233 gross tons, says a
Marquette dispatch. The excess over the
same period for 1889 is 53s, 262 tons. The
shipments for the week are the larg-
est of the season for q similar period,
reaching an aggregate of 1870 tons.
The Marquette range has been in the lead
al the season, with the Gogebic in hot
pursuit. The older district made O squirt
during the week reported, and is now
4G,525 tons ahead of its vigorous young
competition. The reason for the GoRebic
land docks, there teirg lack of vessels
to receive it The vermillion is still be-
hind lis shipments Of 1889, while the
Menominee range is gaining rapidly.
The shipments by nges are as follows:
Marquette, 900, 1872; Gogebic, 9l3,597;
Menominee, 1854; vermillion, 2sl, 1856.
As regards individual mines, the Norrie,
with total of 2Ss, $50 tons, is SO, lac
ahead of the Chaplin. The Ashland comes
third, though at long distance. The
Lake Superior and the Pittsb1rg and
spectively. both having crossed the lO0,-
600 line.
Near Owosso, Shiawassee County, a
well-to-do farmer named Perry Com
stock, aged 60 years. shot and killed his
wife, and then shot himself. The cause
of the tragedy was largely quarrel over
wife two or three years ago. Shortly
afterward be married Miss Mary Collins,
about % year, old. Quarre's have been
constant, and finally Mrs. Comstock de-
cidei not 10 remain with her husband
and went to neighbor's, whore she spent
the nj hit. Fearing wrath of his adopted
father, Ollie, youth OF II, spent the
night in the barn. The boy was sent
after Mrs. Comstock the following m orn-
ing, and she returned home. Another
quarrel followed, and Mr.. Comstock got
his gun and followed after his wife, who
meanwhile ha ran down the road about
twenty rods. A single shot killed heI
instantly. Comstock then returned
home, and, after Intellectually chasing
his adopted son around the barn, fired
one shot through his own breast. Fear
ing this would not kill, he deliberately
took off his coat aud fred q second shot
from the repeating rife and died in
stantly.
-Sag;naw's. West Side temperance
hall is to be transformed into frst-clasi
opera house.
-Oscoda County Supervisors will asl
the people 10 raise $4,000 by bonds fo
the purpose of building a jal and Sher
IFS residence.
Capt. Paul Boyton gave one of hi
exhibitions of his rubber suit work q
Sault Ste. Marie in presence of 2O,OOI
people.
"A Bay City funeral procession wa
disturbed by one of the horses in lin,
running away. Mrs. Campau was
thrown out and badly hurt.
Bay City has an s-year-old bo!
named Stanley Lowell who is exciting
the neighbors. He is said to be coming
Bogardus, Carver, Cody and oil the rest
Three bulls eyes out of four is his record
Gov Luce has appointed Lewis ID
Eastman, of Menominee, Circuit Cour
Commissioner for Menominee County
vice Howard E. Thompson, resigned.