Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-01-02
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

Portant Doings OF Our Neighbors-wed-
dings and Deaths = Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
The Detroit Free Press says that "a
syndicate formed by Mr.. ]. r. Hopper
has been quietly negotiating for con-
trolling interest in the Detroit Tribune.
and they have secured it. A majority of
the stock is pledged to the Hopper syn
dicate, and will be transferred early in
January, when the annual meeting of the
Tribune Company occurs. This will be
the signal for Mr.. Stone to step down
and out of the management of the pa
per, and for Mr.. Hopper to assume the
reins of control. When the change
comes, Mr.. Clarence A. Black will go in
as President of the company, and Mr..
W. H. Elliott as Secretary. Mr.. Hopper
will direct the policy of the paper. The
capital stock of the paper is 800,
$50, 900 of which is paid in"
AT East Saginaw, the other night,
George Mcleod and John @ 0onnell cut
q hole in the plate-gass window in Rich
Bros store, and had secured half
dozen watches, when they were sighted
by policeman. In hastily Withdrawing
his arm Mcleod severed an artery in his
wrist, from the effects of which he
nearly died. Both were arrested.
-otsego Herald: Northern Michigan
is full of railroad surveyors locating new
lines, extending old ones, and what is
more, the work of the surveyors is fol-
lowed by actual building. 1t won't be but
few years more before this north
ern part of the State will be cut up with
railroads like the southern.
Some weeks ago the All Saints Epis-
copal Church at East Saginaw was sold
under mortgage foreclosure and was bid
in by w. @. Atwood. Henry Gamble, who
held second mortgage, filed a motion to
have the sale set aside on the ground that
it had been adjourned for thirty days and
was sold after the lapse of only four
weeks, thus precluding the rights of Gam
BILE. The court granted the motion and
set aside the sale.
Leland, Leelanaw County, has been
| suffering from chicken thieves for some
time. A few nights ago "squawking"
was heard emanating from an abandoned
furnace, and investigation revealed a great
flock Of live birds, while in another COM
partment we're several hundred pounds Of
dressed fowls. Somebody had literally
sprinkled the dressed fowls with paris
green.
The new directory of Port Huron
and Fort Gratiot, just issued, gives
total population for the two cities of &c.
103, Port Huron having l3,44l and Fort
| Gratiot 2.262. There are eleven churches,
ten newspapers, and forty saloons in
Port Huron, while Fort Gratiot has
three churches, one newspaper, and ten
saloons. The number of secret and be-
nevolent societies in the two cities is
seventy four. The area of Port Huron.
as given by the City Engineer, is exactly
900 feet over three miles in length, from
north to south, and one and one-fourth
miles from east to west. The foot of
| Sarnia street, on the st. Clair River, is
claimed to be the most easterly point in
Michigan.
| With no less than three Uncle
Toms Cabin" troupes, with their Top
sizes and Markses and muleses roaming
about the State, the Portland Observer
submits that the recent Johnstown disas-
ter may have been only a judgment upon
the people who went to see the chestnutty
old play.
"A Port Huron paper says that Gen.
eral Poe has recommended an appropria-
tion of $50, 900 for the purpose of dredg-
ing Black River. The importance of the
improvement is shown in the fact that
during the season just ended l73, ,450 tons
of freight were brought into the river by
boat.
Detroit Free Press: Geo. Fred.
Lewis, the amiable oarsm an, hunter, ed
| itor, farmer, miller, fisherman, antiquarian
and all-round good citizen Of the Saginaw
Valley, has "a dictionary of the Otchipwe
language explained in English. This
language is spoked by the Chippewa
Indians, as also by the Ottawas, Pottawa-
tamies and Algonquins. with little differ
ence. For the use of missionaries and
other persons living among the above
mentioned Indians. BY the Rev. Frederic
Baraga, Roman Catholic Missionary
among the Otchipwe Indians, Cincinnati,
1853" There are few copies of this
valuahle work now extant and Ered's
copy is all the more precious because
Bishop Baraga presented it to Rev. Geo.
Dufield, at Lapointe, in 1856, and Rev.
Geo. DufReld, the second, presented IL to
Geo f. Lewis in 1881. deal Of specu-
lation concerning the meaning of Chicago
having appeared in the Bay City Press
Mr.. Lewis turns his dictionary on the
dispute and settles IL by the following
quotation from page l6s: "Jikd0, s.
polecat, fitchat, fitchew "a stinking little
beast;) pl. tcGO. From this word is de-
rived the name OF the city of Chicago.
Jika0ong, at Chicago, TO or from Chi
cago."
Mt Clemens will come out of dark
ness and establish an electric light plant.
Daniel Hubbell, aged so, died at Pom
tiac few days ago. He was pioneer in
Oakland County, and many of the older
residences and business blocks in Pom