Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-03-05
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED

portant Doings of Our Neighbors-Wed-
dings and Deaths-Crimes, Casualties.
and General News Notes.
THE Ansell Spool Company, new
concern at Alpona, has contract for
making 3OO,O 600 cedar gtl-net floats.
PETER OLSEN, the crazy man who
killed dog Al Saginaw, is now in the
Bay County jail. A prisoner who was
discharged wore away Olsen's suit of
clothes and gold ring, which Olsen had
traded for his worn-out toggery.
THERE must be near one million pieces
of cedar now piled on the various wharves
in Alpena City.
a SCHOOL meeting was held in the high
school room at Bad Axe, and on account
of the tobacco juice next morning the
pupils sent in petition to have the room
cleaned. No attention was paid it, so
they struck for better quarters. and
compelled school to stop and the board
to clean out.
THE Kalamazoo jail birds will be de.
MED tobacco and cards, and each will be
expected to work eight hours daily from
this time ON. The Supervisors decided
to make the place one OF punishment
rather than pleasure.
CYRUS w. CLARK, of Ionia, dug up
cracked skull near spring on his farm.
There was evidence that il had been
owned by pioneer, who probably fell n
victim to an Indian war club
TIE Ballou basket factory, from
Beckett, Mass, is Belongs latest prize.
A building will be built for il at once.
The concern is capitalized at $4,000.
WM. WATERS, an impecunious Sag
inawian, took unique way to raise the
wind by entering Mrs. Heid's bake-shop
and with die away expires sion asking for
a cup of hot water, as he had hemor-
rhage of the lungs. While the kindly
woman stepped into an adjoining room,
William tapped the till IS worth He is
languishing behind the bars.
WEST BAY CITY has, discovered a gang
OF kid chicken thieves who peddled its
booty around the streets. Most of the
boys will be sent to the reform school.
THE straits at Cheboygan are clear of
ice, and the old salts predict navigation
by March -.
Mrs. JOHN BURNS, of Saginaw, ia.
tally burned herself and her little child
by attempting to clear the floor of some
kerosene which she had spilled by touch
ing match to it.
ISABELLA COUNTY has eighteen shingle
mills, all in fnll blast.
AT Iron River, Joseph Hollase, Polish
miner, angered by some boys who had
been throwing snowballs at him, shot
Peter Doctor, bartender, and Edward
Scott, Chief of Police, wounding both
mOrtally. The crowd which gathered
about the scene of the shooting at
tempted TO lynch Hollase, but the Sheriff
rescued the murderer and placed him in
the Crystal Falls Jail
AT Manistee, Johannes Salamonsen.
arrested on suspicion Of the murder Of
Record Carlson, made full confession
He says that he put sixty grains OF
strychnine in n flask of whisky, and
when he came TO Manistee with Carlson
induced the latter to drink the mixture.
Carlson became violently i'll, and, on a
pretense of securing "a doctor, Salamon
sen took out his friends pocketbook con-
tanning his keys and then left him to die
ina vacant lot. In Carlson's trunk he
found SlG5 in money, the possession OF
which led to his being suspected Of the
crime
BALDWIN is now without lawyer. 1t
is too good to support one.
GEORGE SEITz. of near Saginaw, died
very suddenly the other day. Poison
was suspected, but the Coroner's jury
found no grounds for such belief.
PETE MIXER, an Austrian miner, walk
ed into No. l Tamarack shaft, near Red
Jacket He fell a distance Of 300 feet,
crushing every bone in his body.
The owners of the steel steamship
Emily i. Reed, launched at Wheeler a.
Co. IS yard, West Bay City, are consider
ing the advisability and practicability OF
placing her oil the Atlantic Ocean The
success that has attended the Macknaw,
and the possibility of light freights on
the lakes this season, have caused them
to look i'm the direction of the East
Wheeler & Co. have been written to re-
garding the project OF cutting the Weed
In two for transferring through Welland
Canal.
REPUBLICANS have nominated Judge
r. NJ. Montgomery, of Grand Rapids,
for Supreme Court Justice.
JOHN CANFIELD, Michigan's salt aud
lumber king, has given 240 acres of land,
beautifully situated TO Manistee for park
purposes, and offers to give locations to
all manufactures that will come.
AT Kalamazoo, George Belts, dis
charged employe of L. NJ Kesele, oil
merchant. was arrested for turning the
faucets in all the oil tanks in the house
and flooding the place.
Six of eight children in the Prosser
family, at Walkerville, died within a
month Of diphtheria.
Mrs. MARGARET ROBINSON died at
Saginaw from an overdose Of mar otic
poison in the shape OF Dover's powders,
which had been prescribed for her in
regular doses, but which she took by
spoonfuls.
The Manstce and Northeastern Rail-
road is freak. The road is 65 miles
long, and il was built and equipped en-
tirely by private capital, and to-day there
Is no mortgage uLon it, not a cent in
stock has ever been sold on II, and not a
bond has been issued. 1t is probably the
only road in the United States which can
make similar showing.
THADEUs Rowe, OF Kalamazoo, has
just won $4,000 suit for Kansas City
property which has been in the courts
for five years.
JOHN G. KIEsEI, of Bay City, was
found dead in an old slaughter house. He
was large property owner, 81 years old,
and IL is supposed he became stupid from
cold and died in the house while seeking
warm place.
A MOUNT PLEASANT justice sentenced
an Indian TO thirty days in the Detroit
House of Correction, but when the Of
ficer arrived at the bastile he was re-
fused admittance because the commit
ment was for less than sixty davs The