Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-23
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.


HURON COUNTY dealers have shipped
an average of 1900 bushels of potatoes
| per day since Oct. /.
SOME scoundrel put paris green in the
milk pans OF Farmer John Ncy, of
| Cooper's Corners, Huron County. Tho
| poison was oppOrtunely discovered, so
that no harm resulted.
A cAvE-IN at the Ludngton mine,
| Marquette, buried five miners. Two
| were taken out not seriously hurt and
three dead. James Fisher, w. II. Davis,
and William Bailey were killed.
SACK, the hair-cuttcr," has clipped
the trcsses from his seventh victim in
Detroit, Miss Libblc Merrill, aged IA,
who lives at No. 1?7 Abbott street.
THE entire shift of men employed at
| the Volunteer mine, Palmer, were pois-
oned by eating caaned meat. The pro-
fessional chemist was poisoned, too, but
he quickly analyzed the stuff and found
an antidotc that saved the party, but not
until several of them had been made
very sick.
THE vacancy caused by the resignation
of Prof. Henry Wade Rogers as Dean of
the Law Department OF Michigan Uni
versity, who resigned to accept the Presi-
dency OF the Northwestern University at
Evanston, Ill, has been filed by the Re-
gents by the appointment of Prof. j. c.
KnOwltOn. President Rogers was APP
pointed nonresident lecturer in the Law
Department, and will deliver series of
lectures before the law students.
MICHIGAN patents: George j. Brown,
Grand Ledge, fence; Joseph l.. Cox, Bat
tie Creek, paper feed mcchalicism for
printing presses, paper web tension de-
vice for printing machine; John G.. Erd,
Saginaw, flue hole cutter; T.. ). Glover,
Battle Creek, tool holder; William A.
Havens, Stockbridge, rein holder; Steph-
en- O. Hickok, Allen, fruit gatherer;
Anderson c. Marshall, Corunna, steam
road vehicle; James McGary, East
Tawas, car clasp; Franklin s. McKenny,
Detroit, lacing hook; Seymour w. Pere-
grine, Grand Rapids, fastening for stated
furniture; Seymour w. Peregrine, Grand
Rapids, drying kiln; August Pranke, De-
troit, combined shutter fastener and
slate operator; August Pranke, Detroit
shutter worker; Edwin o. Roraback,
Saginaw, crater; Robert d. Scott, Pom
tiac, road cart; Jabez Il. Shawhan, De-
troit electric motor ear; Clifford STANCE,
NcgaunCc, store service apparatus.
JUDGE COOLEY has left Ann Arbor fol
Washington, to attend the meeting of
the Inter state Commerce Committee.
THE moneyed mon OF Bay City cannot
sec why they should put up a bonus to
obtain the Gale Sulky-Harrow Company,
of Brantford, and the company will stay
rinrht ,,rhasa it is
ALIEN. DERRY. Of Alpena, was stand
ing besi lc the capslan of q dock, when
the thing turned around suddenly and
Derry was Knocked senSelesS by q blow
under the jaw.
III. III. THOMAS, OF the Bay City nitro
glycerine factory, says that the reason
80 few peOp'e are killed in nitro
glyccrine factory explosions is because
the chemica themselves give warning
som, minutes before tho blowup comes
They always act queerly at such a time,
and when they do the employees 90.
THE local option law stands the test of
the Supreme Court The case brought
by Van Buren County saloon-keeper
last June to decide the constitutionality
of the measure was decided last week
and the law is pronounced valid. Van
Buren, was the first county to vote for
prohibition under the law, and soon after
IL became operative John w. Tcck pre-
sented his liquor bond to the Township
Board of Bloomingdale for approval.
The board threw out the bond and Teek
board to acceptit. Fifteen objections to
the cOnstitutionalty of tho law were
raised by Teok's lawyers, the most seri-
Gus being that it enabled the people of
counties to suspend the general laws of
the State, and that Ii invested the Board
of Supervisors with judicial powers by
authorizing them to exercise discretion
ary powers in ordering the suspension OF .
the liquor traffic after the voters had
declared in favor of such suspension.
The court decides that the power vested
i'm the supervisors by the law is a trust
involving The exercise OF discretion, in
vestigation and inquiry, but not neces-
sarily an exercise of judicial powers.
Regarding the other objection the court
holds that the Constitution authorizes
delegation of legislative power for local
purposes, and that the Legislature may
suspend or authorize legislation which
will necessarily operate to suspend the
general law in particular localities.
This principle, says the court, Is In rec
ognition of the right of local self-gov-
ernment. The validity Of the law is
upheld in every feature.
THE last Michigan monthly crop re-
| port estimates the total yield OF wheat In
| the State for this year at 23,700, 400
| bushels. The average yield of wheat
per acre is nearly one and one-fourth
greater In 1890 than the average for the
| past ten years, but the aggregate prod
uct is less than the average product
| in that period by more than 100000
| bushels. The average weight OF the
crop per bushel is in the State iifty-nine
pounds; i'm some counties il runs as high
as sixty-one. The total number OF
bushels of wheat marketed in August
and September was 3,577,5l2, which is
| /, 32S, 100 bushels more than was market
ed in the same period in 1889. The yield
| of oats is I'm the southern counties 25.Gl,
| the central 3O.06, and in the northern
| 1852 bushels. The average yield in the
/ State for the past ten years has been
| 33. 26 bushels per acre. Barley yields In
/ the State is. 20 bushels per acre. Corn
Is estimated to yield in tho State SO
bushels OF ears per acre. Tho crop ma
tured without material injury from frost.
| Potatoes in the State yield SO bushels
per acre, or about half an average crop.
Winter apples will yicld about 27 per
cent. of an average crop.
AN epidemic of fever is raging In Bay
City.
1 A MAN named Vincento was killed and
John Marshall seriously injured by a
falling derrick at the Chaplin mine, lsh-
pemiDg.
THE log rafters on the Saginaw River
have habit OF towing their RATS to the
mouth OF tho river aud then taking
their time about trcaking them up.