Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-21
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.

dings and Deaths-Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
AN extra freight approaching the
| yard a. Shepherd ran into fourteen
loaded log cars, wrecklng the engine
and the caboose The men on this train
jumped and escaped injury. The force
OF the collision started thirteen log cars.
down the grade, through the Shepherd
| yard, to mile south OF Shepherd, where
the rest OF the train was being loaded
with logs, crashing into the cars stand
Ing there with frightful effect. The
killed were: " Blgelow, Clark Il. Stru-
BILE, Sherwood Clark All lived at Shep-.
herd. Thirteen others were injured.
Church bells rang, the fire alarm sound
ed and surgeons and citizens in car
riages rushed to the wreck and worked
TO extricate the injured from the pile OF
logs, cars, and tlmbers. Some OF the
injured were not employed loading, but
had gone down just for a trip The
accident occurred on the bridge over the
"Cat Hole" The water saved several
from death, though Bigelow was prob
ably drowned. The injured were quar-
tered at farm houses, except few who
were able to be moved to their homes.
The dead were taken to the town hall
to await the inquest.
THE sock-knitting machine at the
Jackson prison turns out thirty-six pairs.
each day. The machine is one of the
old-fashioned kind which does not manu-
facturo all the toe, and three convicts
have learned to knit like ancient grand
danes to finish off these points Last
year Warden Hatcn -cunUravv0u
Chicago firm for the yarn at very low
figure, and specified the color to be blue.
After the sock had been knitted, worn,
and washed, each separate foot covering
developed several colors, from a bright
red to frost-bitten green, and then il
was discovered that the firm had taken
up lot of shelf worn yarn, thrown the
whole batch into a cheap blue dye, and
sent 1t on. Captain Purvis is willing to-
make oath there were fifteen different
colors in each sock.
A sKILLFUL craftsman secured $1,000
in cash from the vault OF the Marinette
Iron Works at Menominee. He success
fully worked the combination, and SO, 600
of the amount belonged to George
Townsend, Jr., who once lost big sum
by the failure OF bank, and was now
acting as his own banker.
VIM NILES, the boy who was SEN
fenced to the Detroit House OF Cor
rection, indited the following resolu-
ton, which the Sheriff found above
the door Of his cell: al here by promis
that ! will never take any thing that.
--'orr'o boivng TO rue aney more may this
be good lesson to begin on | was Per-
swaded to do this or l would not have,
done 1T at all. Gentlemen Forgive my,
past my Futher want mead to be For
given. / am now sencensed for 90 days
misery and sorrow this is ALL W. Niles. -,
Below he had sketched two hands Joined,
and the words, ain Friendship hoping to
meat"
SALLIoTTE & CHITTENDEN, of Ashley,
who lost by fire S25, 900 worth of slaves,
hoops, and the machinery to make them,
have concluded to rebuild in partial
way. They have a light iron tramway
four miles into the forest, and the timber
must be finished.
1T might be well to pause moment,
and remark, amid the forest-fire excite
ment, that the huckleberry crop has,
been ruined by the flames If the
Legislature had only passed that bill
for the protection OF huckleberry
swampsi
THE Finlanders of Michigan are to
have daily paper and the place of pub
LEGATION will be Red Jacket These peo-
pie now comprise nearly one-fourth of
the population of Iioughton, Kcweenaw
and Ontonagon Counties
EscANABA has seventy six and Menom-
inee seventy-four shops whose business
IL is to moisten thirsting threats of NOR
tai clay.
WILHELM LrNsTED, of Manistee, was
carrying a key of beer upon his shoulder.
when he slipped and fell, probably
fatally injuring himself.
SURVEYORS and the West Michigan
Roads attorneys are at Williamsburg.
and will run new survey around the
town unless something fair is done about
the right OF way.
THE Canadian Government will build
its 500 lock 1O6 feet wide instead of 81.
owing to the increased traffic between
Ontario and Lake Superior ports.
THE flood dam on the Main River at
Alpena has gone out, and now it Is
feared several million feet of logs will
be hung up until next season.
Mrs. ABRAHAM SMITH, the mother of
the Bay City Cain, Robert SIN tn, has
died of broken heart She was 56
years old, and grief absolutely drove her
TO Che grave.
FOREST fires have created terrible
havoc over widespread territory in the
State. The losses equal those OF the
famous fires OF 1871. Thousands of peo-
pie are homeless, hundreds of thousands
Of dollars worth of manufactured um-
Der and saw-mills have been DESTROYED,
Ind untold millions of feet of standing
timber leveled. NewayQo, Clare, and
Dceana Counties are the greatest suf-
'erers.
A FIRE broke out in the lumber yards
Of the Ford River Lumber Company,
Ford River, near Escanaba, and de-
'troyed about 5000, 600 feet Of lumber.
In response to call for help, two tugs,
he Harris and Delta, went from Esca-
laba to fight the fire. Some of the lum-
Der was piled up on the bay shore, and
me laborer, name unknown, got caught
the piles and shore, and jumped
nto the water to save his lifc But be-
ore help could 4get tn him ha was
.a.tasa sH-.aa..
THE Bay City. Caro- and Port Huron
is wailing for its pa, Col
Boone, and there is a suspicion that the
nsty infant has been deserted. The
'oionel has not been heard CT in several
weeks
THE Northern Extract Company has
roken ground at Alpena for its works.
viii erect $50, 0C0 worth of buildings.
nd has purchased six acres OF land. IL
'ill employ from seventy-fve TO one hum
red men in the works the year through.
|. nj. Hosick is President, and Il. M.
'aber Secretary; w. Il. Taher, of Chi
ago, Manager. About $4,000 cords of
emlock bark per year will be used