Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-03-20


came here TO secure option ON the Wheeler
shipyard. proposition was drawn up and sen
10 s Englsnd do Tor acceptance. telegram has beer
has been accepted and contract signed for the
reorgantzau n OF the Wheeler company. Tn,
present plant was put in for S75o0U0. The reor
ganization increases the capital TO % 500 900, o.
/ which the Wheeler company takes one-half
The management OF the new company viii be re
Saat ts,ned py NM MI Whoel,r. Boiler works. fonn-
machinery for all kinds OF vessels win be built
and smelling works and rolling g-mill to manu-
tempia.ed. The contract signed nv tie EngIisI
capitalists is on the way ht re and will be for
warded TO Washington for Congressman Whesl.
ing for the enlarged plant viii be erected at once
and when they are completed 5000 workmen viii
be employed.
The following Michigan pensions have
been granted:
Original Invalid-James McKenna Kalama-
zoo; Watson b. Conklin. Allen; Alonzo +. Hop
kins, Wexford; Joseph Fox, An Sable; Harris
crsnsT Chase East SoSo SOrdsn ho Thomas a oas Nc.
VIM. III. Sheridan, Detroit Almon W. Bennett
Grand Rapids; Isaac Ploss, Grand Island; Geo.
9Ts WiIs dss Eureka Curtis c whsslsE Jackson
peer BENJAMIN +. Campbell, Hillsdale; James
Gillespie. aims house, Wayne Walter Billing,
Mert Hsran1 as%o9n pog Grand JSnctCn
Grand Ledge; Jasper Morley, Lake; Ezra
9. Towner. Grand Rapids; Ami Whit
Sys nsy euh1nSy Daniel Beebe' Quincy; George
Sturgis; Charles Harvey Port Huron: James
Saunders. Saginaw City; Paul M. Blake, Hast
gdeceesedl, Vaudeville; George s. Drake Wake
lee; Richard Woods, Elk Rapids; Geo Sayer,
Munithi VIM. Ross, Hopkins station; John
easier, Eaton Rapids; James M. DeCater Hud-
sonville; sylvester Chesebro Yates James De-
Long (deceased Hopkins; Oscar ID. Martin
Paw Paw; Eugene c. Woodruff, Factoryvilie !;
Paw; Frank H. osgood, Bunker mi; Charles
Mumford, Medina; John N. Waite. Hudson
Vile.
Increase-George w. Mellen, Athens Charles
A. Hannaford, So1on; Charles T. Ford Potter
Vile; Henry Benedict, Birmingham; John Mar
shall, Flint; Aruna Holbrook, Eaton Rapids !;
Carson City; Frederick L. Coss, North Stand;
benjamin Stall, Three Rivers Joseph Gilling-
ham, Union City John stebenhar, st. Morris |;
Albert w, Rock Forts st Hill; William Griffth,
White Cloud; Eugene Richardson, Hartford !;
Charles ID. Cowles, lansing Thomas Hayden,
Metamorai Silas w. Bradshaw, Lapeei Ger
maze w. Williams, Plainwell Frederick Han
ming, Cambria; Robert W. Warn, Columbia-
Vile; Marcus ID. Elliott, Holly Jacob Zimmer-
man Manchester; Levi Miles, Intermediate;
tln; VIM. A. McCombs, Sherman City; Vim. II.
wilson, Metamora; George Galisha, Olivet
Thomas Brown, Ashley Jonathan M. Hamil-
rurvis, Alma VIM A. Mosfer, Williamsville:
James Cranshaw. Detroit.
Reissue-sumner l.. Clark Durand Andrew
). Kelley, Adamsville; August Meisel, Bay City;
John Quick, Harbor Springs Isaac Simon, now
Isaac Sander, Grand Rapids; Frederick Piatts
I Port sanillac ohm w: Lathrop, heading
Battle Creek Martin II. kellogg, ogden Cen.
trei Albert +. Horton, Webberville; Abraham
Rapids.
Reissue and Increese-wm. White, Dewitt.
Restoration and Increase-Lewis W. Pearl
Benton Harbor.
Restoration and Reissue-Henry Van Dusen
deceased, Tustin.
.9sEtgin9hl Milo %sIrfte g. 8f
John Gilbert, Adrian; Catherine mother OF
Joseph RODGERS, Gallon Eliza, mother OF
George II. Weaver, Quincy; Geo. A., father Of
Oren s. Reynolds. Cadillac Minerva l., widow
OF Mar rshall Ferguson, Bloomingdale Wealthy
widow OF Henry Van Dusen, Tustin; Nancy a.,
Bourne. formerly widow Of Leonard Cook,
Jones navy.
"A recent dispatch from Bay City
says: The stockholders in the ship
yard company have concluded not to
sign the English contract, and the deal is
off. The reasons given by Mr.. Wheeler
are that the labor organizations of Bay
City are already interfering with busi-
ness, charging him with violating the
alien contract, which he says he has never
done. The present company only en-
ploys q thousand men at the most, while
the proposed English company would
have hired 5000. Real estate in the
vicinity of the proposed works had al
ready advanced about 100 per cent. but
the bottom having dropped out of the
-s-l----, .a-v PrTO1D nave BunU DICK TO
whst they were before the big ship-yard
was talked Of"
"A load Of logs which measured IL, 280
feet was recently drawn by one team at
the camp of Fitzpatrick, on the north
branch of Thunder Bay River. The load
contained twenty-six logs. and was drawn
three miles. 1t is the largest load of logs
ever drawn in the Alpena lumber woods.
1t was eighteen feet high.
During the month of February there
was inspected in Michigan $50, ,449 barrels
of salt, OF which 1915 barrels was in
Saginaw County, 53,226 barrels in Bay,
1925 barrels in Manistee, 9,416 barrels
in Mason. 2,4l9 barrels in st. Clair, 5, lO2
barrels in Midland, and 2l5 barrels in
Huron County.
Port Huron's tunnel is within 200
feet of the river.
-Standish, Arenac County, has 1000
population and daily newspaper
The Sebewaing Huron County, coal
is pronounced superior to the jackson
product, and will be pushed for all it is
worth.
William Lowe, q noted hotel thief,
wanted at Halton, Clare County, was ar
rested at East Saginaw.
During the last sixty days, says a
Lansing correspondent, the following an
nual specific taxes we're paid to the State
Treasurer: Michigan railroad compa-
nies, $l95, 5,979.77; telegraph companies,
80, 1920; telephone companies, Sl2,-
3O3,5l; express companies, S2,133.64;
river improvement companies, $50; fire
insurance companies. sos, ,9o5. l6; life :n-
surance companies. $39, 4O2. 76; guarantee
insurance companies, $72s. SO; plate glass
insurance companies, $ls2. 90; boiler in
spection companies, $635.6l; mining
companies, $es6.S6; total, $3.50. 3O4.6S.
-Evart wants Touring mill, and is
willing TO put up bonus for one.
Congressman Chapman. of Michigan,
has introduced in the House q resolution
authorizing the Detroit Railroad and
Telegraph Company to construct a tun-