Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-23
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.

porsant Doings OF Our Neighbors--Wsd-
AinRs and Dsaths--crisnes, Casualties
and General News Notes
The July crop report, embodying en- es-
Innate OF Michigan's wheat crop for the
current year, is issued. The estimates are
based on the number OF acres In May AZ
shown by the returns OF Supervisors and
the average yield per acre rs estimated
by crop correspondents The number or
acres OF wheat In the state In May OF
this year, as shown by returns complied,
was 1851, TIA, and multiplying by the
estimated yield per acre gives "a, 67i,558
bushels as the probable total yield In
the state This Is an average per acre
OF 10. "a bushels in the southern coun-
ties, IL. 40 In the central counties, and
IL. "a in the northern counties. The area
In wheat this year is more than 10000
acres greater than harvested In $780,
The number Of acres OF wheat harvested
In 1890 was approximately LABS, 2O0:
yield, $4,000, 900 bushels; an average or
Is. 90 bushels per acre. The area planted
to corn Is somewhat less than that OF
average years and the condition OF this
crop is somewhat backward, as Is also
that OF oats, owing to the cold, dry
weather Of May. More potatoes than
usual have been planted In every section
"
Ito below that of average years. The
drought has also affected meadows and
pastures. Heavy and prolonged rains
are greatly needed in the central and
northern portions OF the State. The
apple crop in the southern sections Is
now estimated at two fifths, In the CEN
trail at one third, and In the northern at
one fourth OF an average crop Peaches
promise four-ffths, three-fourths, and
one-half of an average in the same Sec
tions respectively.
A SAGINAW man Is credited with get
ting the best of his tailor to the tune or
SIS. He Is capable OF expanding his
chest eight and one-half inches. and az
ter suit of clothes had been made for
him, tried 1t on, and, by expanding his
chest, made the tailor believe 1t did not
fit him, the result being that SIS was
knocked off the original price.
THE 1O-year.old son OF Frederick w.
Wrege a carpenter at tho +. Z. M
Railroad, was drowned at Winonal
beach on Saginaw Bay. He went with
the bootblacks and newsboys' excursion,
given by Rev. b. Hunter.
AT Cadillac, Cobb & Mitchell's new
sawmill was destroyed by fire. The loss
| is. S45, 900 and the insurance $27. 0O0.---
|
and family, consisting OF three daugh-
| ters. partook OF some dried meat, and
| ware shortly after taken with severe
| stomach pains and nausea. Doctors pro-
nounced 1t poison.
THE Saginaw boomers have made an
other catch. The Soper Manufacturing
Company, which is located at Flint and
| employs about forty men, has swallowed
the tempting bait and will move to Sag
NAV.
PRIVATE detectives have been pur-
chasing whisky In bottles from Manistee
saloon keepers who had only q beer
I fIcense AN thfslwfH como out at the
trial OF the victims, Of whom there arc
many.
A SLICK swindler has been collecting q
dollar apiece from Northern Michigan
farmers for worthless certificate that
entities the holder to purchase goods in
the larger cities Of the State at whole
sale prices.
A LETTER from Petoskey, written by a
man who has just come through from
Hancock, states that the reports OF for
est fires in the Upper Peninsula have
been greatly exaggerated. He found a
few scattered frs along the route and i'm
places the atmosphere was murky, but
there was no "mass of fames," no gangs
OF men guarding tracks and battling
against fire, and no bridges burning.
The train was not once CONF elled to
stop on account of fires and the tele-
graph wires were working and 40 poles
J down.
AN Alpena man named Morrison has
! invented a fax machine which linen
mill men pronounce great invention.
EVIDENTLY the roller skating craze IL
not dead yet. A rink is being erected
at Bay Port, summer resort on Sagi
nav Bay.
REPORTS from the mint counties indi
! cate that the crop Is going to be shor1
one. Cut worms have been getting Il
their deadly work and an advance II
peppermint drops is looked for
I Az Indian hnrvin1- grnnnd- has bod
= Aipena.
u THE Shiawassee County Farmers al
lance will meet at Lansing, July 20,
elect officers.
= HARDLY a week passes that Bay Gig
: does not report q missing man JOSEF
!. Sophia is the last
= THE Lake Odessa evaporator will stR
: up as soon as an apple makes Its appel
; ance in that burg. 1t will employ eig1t
cen men. IA
NAUBINwAY boasts of barber VI
recently shaved man In two minuEi
Whether the victim lived or died Is ~
stated. III
a THE wheat crop of Ionia will be ~
!. weeks late, but will be unusually laWe
o There will also be large yield OF pWa
e toes and grapes.
q ABOUT two months ago three mel
n struck Alpena and announced th#
n selves as authorized to organize n
Is mers Mutual Insurance Company ~
If Altoona, Oscoda and Alpena CounBi
70 They succeeded in obtaining sumHo
l. money from large number OF the ~
" mers, for which they gave no wriM
s. receipts, Int did giveq-most -comforo
K promises. They pr missed that in q |1r
I'VE weeks the company would be @
ganiZed and all subscribers would receIt
policies Nothing further has tce
heard from the organizers.
An Evart man named Luther Russo
r is the inventor OF a mechanism whereof
n when the brakes on the locomotive al
m set, every brake OIL the train is instant
Sc in action.
q The approx mate earnings of the Oh
Ia eago and West Michigan system for Il
In month Of June. 1891, were S794, COO; Il
I'd the corresponding month last year, S75t
q 900; showing an increase OF $4,000 II
en- June, 1891. The approximate earninl
en- Of the Detroit, Lansing and Northel
b. system for the month of June, 1891, we
ar S53s. 900; for the corresponding mon
Az last year, $500, 900; showing an increa
IN Of $4,000 for June, 1891. The earnin