Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-11-06
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.

dings and Deaths-Crimes, Casualties.
and General News Notes.
THE farmers in the vicinity of Grand
Ledge are hauling into market many
wagon-loads of the largest and best po-
Latoes ever marketed there, and get from
30 to 60 cents per bushel.
JOHN W. CASIPFIELD, the oldest living
settler in Port Huron, is dead aged 81.
He came to Michigan from New Jersey
in 1892, residing at Detroit and Ann Ar
Dor, and locating at Port Huron in 1888.
FRANK STAsCHAK, Of Roscommon, was
instantly killed by some logs falling on
him at st. Helen.
TIE residence building of the Altoona
County Poor Farm burned last week.
Everything in the buildings and cellar
was saved. The buildings cost IS, 200.
No insurance.
| In Is reported that large boot and
! shoe factory, emp Dying 1000 hands, will
move from New England to Belding this
winter and make the town boom.
A NUMBER OF Saginaw merchants have
been victim zed by the bogus check
| racket.
MUNIsISe, Alger county, is experience
ing boom, and lot OF new houses are
in course Of completion.
An Eastern syndicate wants an option
| on the Union street railway OF Saginaw.
IT took jnst six months for letter to
go from Laird to L'Anse, only 20 miles.
BENZONIA is reported to have grown
more the past summon than it has in 10
years before.
SEVEN well-to-do Port Huron men
have formed tho Port Huron & ST. Clair
River Railroad Company and will build
broad gauge road TO Marine City.
CHARLES SNIELIcos, farmer in Chip
pewa County, attempted to commit sui
eide by shooting himself. He may re-
cover, hut the chances are against ii.
Lack of work and dislike to sec his
family in poor circumstances led him to
attempt to leave them to hustle for
themselves.
TIE citizens Of Clare are talking of
putting in an electric light plant.
BAY CITY has opened new CONNER
cial bank.
TIE Attorney. General has decided
that the law requiring the Secretary of
State to file q copy of the tickets with
the County Clerk is not mandatory but
directory.
THE schedule of assets as fled by r.
G.. Peters with the County Clerk in
Manistee shows over SO, 900, 900 in sight,
and in case the creditors are able to
realize upon the property as listed every
6Sffct aihfotnt or assets as given In the
schedule is S6, 34s, ,522.13
A PoRT HURON dispatch says that
William Pelett, who murderously as
saulted the O'Haras, Of Smiths Creek,
has made full confession and duplicates
the Bowen woman. She advised him to
visit Smiths Creek and rob the old
couple, telling him that they kept their
money in an old stocking. He went
there and secreted himself until evening,
when he went to the house, asked for
drink, and struck O'Hara, as at first re-
ported. After he had stabbed him, he
became frightened and ran off. Both are
held for examination. The O'Haras are
recovering from their wounds.
TIE Will of tho late Judge Isaac p.
Christiancy, which was drawn six years
ago by the venerable jurist himself, dis
poses of an estate valued at about S12, 900.
A BOLT Of lightning struck f. j. Ack-
erman's' house at Davis, Macomb County,
smashed the chimney, broke the furni-
ture, nearly scared the people to death,
and then snealSed ont of the back door
MERRITT JERSEY, who lives near Ro-
meo, recently jumped over q fence, and |
in doing so ran a silver the size of a pipe |
stem into his foot. He could not pull ii |
out, so he whitfield IL off even with the |
foot and went about his business. In |
hammation and lockjaw followed and it |
took two doctors TO save his life by am |
putating his foot.
Ex-SPEAKER ID. p. MARKEY, of Sagi- |
nav County, has been appointed Prose
cutting Attorney of Ogcmaw County by |
Governor Luce, to take the place of De- |
we're Hall, resigned.
DAVID LAWRENCE recently escaped
term in jail at Bay City by promising to
turn his property over to his wife. The |
charge against him was wife-beaxng, |
and they have a way of making such |
persons sweat in Bay City. Lawrence
did not keep his promise and is now in
jail, with very good chances OF going to
the house Of correction.
DETROIT Journal: Stanley Kowalski
and Clara Woods were to be married at
G o'clock a. IN. in Bay City. The groom
was so anxious about it that he could
not go to sleep the night before, and
when he did doze off forgot to wake up.
Everything was in readiness, but the /
groom came not, and the wrathy father
went looking for him. IL was 8 o'clock
before the matters were settled, and
then the wedding went right along.
DUNCAN KIPPEN, employed in a lum-
Der camp I'm Gladwin County, was in
stantly killed by being caught under
rolling log. His home was in Saginaw,
where the body was taken.
w. DICKSON, an Indian boy Of Pincon-
ming, Bay County, was driving yoke of
steers, when they became frightened and
started to run. The boy was more
frightened than the steers and dropped
dead in his tracks from heart disease,
induced by the fright
HENRY KRoPP, Of Good Harbor, Lee
anaw County, has been arrested for
and selling Illicit whisky at his
farm house near Traverse City.
THE valuation of Alpena County, as
equalized, is SO, $4,000
A BAY CITY crank ate forty-nine
clans on q wager and wants TO make
match.
MANIsTEE dispatch: The report sent |
10 Dun's Commercial Agency distinctly |
states the direct liabilities OF II. G.. Pc
Iers as between S75O,0OO and 100000