Crawford avalanche., 1891-12-31
Prom Far and Near.

tccOnO cousin 10 III. IL. NOFCTOSo, VINO
brought the bomb into Russell Sage's
Office.
TnE Michigan lumber cut during 1891
is estimated at 300, 900, 900 feet below
that Of 1890, which footed up I. .0e5. 767,-
| $40 feet
THE Detroit, Bay City and Alpena
Railroad Company's Mul Lake branch
may be extended some miles into Mont
morency County.
SALES at Bay Citys masonic fair aver
| aged about $1,000 day, and excursion
| parties were run To the scene from as far
north as Alpena and as far south as De-
troit
AT Caro-, during quarrel over game
OF pedro. Jack Williams was stabbed
near the heart bv George Miller Will
Jams Is In q dangerous condition and
Miller is in jail
JOHN RYAN, a respected Kalamazoo
citizen. aged so years, fell from G. r.
IL j. gravel train and was cut to pieces.
He was not a drinking man. and the ex-
act nature of the accident is not known
lie leaves son In Chelsea
THE Governor has pa doned Thomas
Connor, sent up from Big Rapids for five
ears for an assault npan- eAsoos d.a---
satisfied that Connor was In San Fran
cisco when the assault was committed.
MIR AND Mrs. ADAM MEYEEs' s-year-
old son has suffered terribly from pain
full in uries received through being run
over by tank wagon, nearly iull OF wa
ter, at his home in Conway, Livingston
County. With skillful treatment he may
recover.
The Opera Hall at st Ignace, owned
by Legislator George Orth, burned just
before performance OF "Union Scout"
opened. Every American flag in town
had been secured to decorate the interior
OF the building and the town is left with
out bunting. The total loss is nearly
SO, coo.
OMER is now the county seat OF Arenac
County, but when the flowers bloom,
etc etc, ira la In 1892, the voters will
ballot about moving the judicial house
to Standish. The Standishites offer cer-
tain lots, etc, and the Omerites cry now,
even thus early, bribery, election
fraud"
AT Kalama 90 Mrs Peter Meintz left
her 2-year-old daughter alone at home
with young infant, while she went to
visit neighbor. The elder child played
with fire, and her Clothes caught the
flame. When the mother returned home
the girl was found lying dead in the door
yard with all her clothing burned off ex-
cept the shoes.
EssExvILLE waS visited by q dis as
trous fire. John Tennant's general
store and two frame buildings were de-
stroyed. The losses are as follows:
John Tenant $4,000, insurance 81, 600;
j. p. Decourvall, on building. SO, 900;
Mrs. Ogden, 1000 on building, insured
for 5000; Anthony Walraven $400 on
building, insured All the occupants OF
the buildings saved their household
goods.
Brock MIDDAUGH, CT Empire. Leela-
nav County, while In the Black Hills, a
number OF years ago, picked up a speci-
men of ore which lie presented to a lawyer
friend as a paper weight The sample
knocked around the sffice until a short
time ago whel it occurred to the lawyer
to have 1t analyzed What the result
was nobody knows, but IL seems to have
been satisfactory, for the lawyer has
made Brock an advantageous offer to go
to Dakota in the spring and locate the
place where the specimen was found
PRESIDENT BARNES, of the State Asso-
citation of Swine Breeders, thinks the
future looks hopeful In spite OF the pres
ent low prices of pork products. l.. +.
Conrad, of Wacousta, Clinton County,
was chosen to succeed him as President:
A. Parmenter, of Verona. was elected
Vice President; and &. IL. Mcintyre, OF
Iosco. Secretary and Treasurer. II. III.
Kinds, of Stanton, wa' chosen Pres dent
of the Shropshire Sheep Breeders State
Association, at Lansing; and George +.
Breck of Paw Paw, Secretary and
| Treasurer John T. Rich was reelected
| President OF the Merino Sheep Breeders
| Association.
THE Supreme Court decided a case
| adversely to the State which involves
| the title to 1900, 900 acres of land grant
! ed to the. 4 tate for railroad coostrnetion--
in 1886. The case In question was the
State of Michigan VS.. The Flint and
Ioe Marquette Railway, wherein only
about 10000 acres were involved, but
the decision $50 establishes the title of
the Grand Rapids and Indiana and Jack
son, Lansing and Saginaw Roads. as
we as that OF large number of indi-
| vidua s, increasing this amount to the
| larger figures. The value of these lands
| will probably reach from $1,000, 600 to
$40 600. 600. The State obtained ver-
| dict in 1890 in the lower court, but IL is
now unanimously reversed upon the
ground of lapse Of time since the rail
way company entered upon the undis-
| puted occupancy of the lands, now about
| twenty eight years. The court intima-
| ted also that the failure to establish the
| title of the state is by reason of the
negligence of State Officers The case
will probably go to the United States
| Supreme Court
WARDEN DAVIS has started new in
dustry at the jackson prison. lie has
| at all times many idle convicts 10 feed,
who are not wanted on contract work.
| These have been set TO worx making toy
| chairs, tables and cradiess He ses only
| scrap lumber that would otherwise go
| into the furnaces or the stoves but he
manages to turn out articles that deal
| ers snap at He Is in receipt Of more
orders than he can fill, and quite num-
Der of convicts fill In time in this way at
| a gain to the State His plan is work.
| ing so we'll that he intends enlarging his
workshop very soon.
THREE Kalamazoo men will erect big
warehouse, and engage in the cold stor-
/ age business on large scale.
THE German Evangelicals, OF Port
Huron, intend toning their church with
a mammoth pipe organ and stylishly
dressed choir.
TREAsURER s. o. McFARLANE, OF the
| trainmen's brotherhood at Escanaba, Is
| said to be In Canada with $1,000 Of the
lodges funds.
ISAAC MILLS, OF Carsonville, has pur-
chased the site and will build. kite
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