Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-10-29
the States Property.

The states Property.
THE total value OF property held by
State charitable and roformatory In
situations foot up, according 10 the hg-
ures OF the Board of Corrections and
Charities. S5,1s3.2s4. The asylums OF
the State have 3,707 inmates, the schools
1850, the prisons 2,703, and the So
called reformatories 1920. There arc
$40 employees in the asylums: the monthly
payroll being s14.44T, and 1T In tho
prisona their payroll being 1880 a
month. 1t costs S915,5is year to run
the asylums, seas, 700 to run the schools,
$5e, $50 TO run the prisons, and S164, 62&
70 run the reformatories.
ADELBERT PRATT, who had his foot
crushed In Bliss Bros. mill at Saginaw
last spring, sues them for $1,000 dam
ages
REPoRrs to the l. o. o. F. grand en-
campment, I'm session at Lansing, show
that the total membership of the order
in the State is $4,000.
DIR. GATES young wife pleaded guilty,
at Bay City. of stealing SIS worth of jew
elry and was released on suspended sem
tence She is q kleptomaniac, u is said.
A BAY CITY policeman walked by
clothing house dummy five or six times
before he discovered that IL was live
man standing bolt upright In an awfuily
drunken state.
THE total deposits of the State banks
in Michigan are $4s, 472, ass and their
total capital is S9,212, 500. Their loans
and discounts are $40, 372, 794 and their
total resources 500. 425, 500.
GEN. j. S. FARRAR and Col. E. NJ.
Irish have been appointed to see that
Michigan IL properly represented In the
military display at Chicago next year in
honor Of the Worlds Fair.
THE wife of Kalamazoo blacksmith
named Nathaniel McNames is one of the
heirs to the House estate in England
and the Netherlands, her share Of IL be-
ing estimated at half million.
Mrs JAMES WITHEY locked her g.
year.old daughter Nellie In the house.
at Port Huron, and went ont to do some
washing. The little girl, while attempt
ing to start fire with kerosene, was
terribly burned and died
A BAY CITY family were taken with
alarming symptoms after eating guam
tity of English walnuts. The physician
said they had been poisoned with minute
quantities of prussic acid which had
formed in the kernels.
CADILLAC is bound to have season of
prosperity during the next decade. ID.
A. Blodgett having fully decided to har-
vest his crop of pine in Wexford County.
Operations will begin the present sea-
son and continue until the next Board
of Equalization can find no ground for
raising the coun;y's apportionment OF
State taxes.
AT Rogers City, the alleged murderers
of Albert Molitor have been admitted to
bail, so that the most the prosecution
can hope for now is conviction on the
charge Of manslaughter. The cases OF
the supposed conspirators have also
been continued to the January term OF
court The bonds of the defendants
were fixed at IS, 900 each, and all sue
ceeded in giving bail with the exception
of informer Repke, VINO is still in jail.
BROWN CiTY's new opera house was
opened with a grand bal.
JOHN CASEY was convicted of UNI
breila-stealing at West Bay City and
sentenced to ninety days at the Detroit
House of Correction.
Earrings of several Michigan railroads
for the first six months of 1891 were
$43, O33, Gle, against $40, 1855, $50 for the
corresponding period OF 1890.
DAVID GREENFIELD was struck by a
boom and knocked from the boat in
which he and his father were sailing,
drowning in Saginaw River near the
mouth.
EscANABA Is after new railroad
and Editor Phil. j. McKenDa pauses in
the fierce war he is wa9ing on the c. e.
NV. line to stop the press and announce
that it's got to come.
THE c. & G. T. suit to test the consti-
tutionality of the Michigan 2.cents-a-
mile law has been advanced on the cal
endar of the Federal Supreme Court and
assigned to the full bench.
HOG and other trains will not be run
through the Port Huron tunnel The
disinfectants and anti-s eptic compounds
that would be required after one had
passed through would bankrupt the
LEE BUIn, an Tonfa drayman. hid $40
In waste basket The chinese spirits
are just that mnch ahead, II the pig
tail josh house theory is true, for the
money went up in smoke when Mrs.
Bull started fire with the baskets con-
tents.
THE average number of inmates I'm
the Alpena County poorhouse Is less
than five, but 1t cost $1,000 to run the
institution last year, or an average of
about SO day for each inmate, and
they have not had pate de foie gras at
each meal either Somebody Is to be
called down.
CHAs. THOMPSON, an Alpena high
school pupil, did not have his lesson. and
Prof. +. M. Root ordered him to keep
his seat at noon when the rest were dis
missed. Thompson attempted to sneak
out, and regular Graco- Roman en-
counter took place between him and
the "Prof.," the latter after being the
under man in several fops, coming out
ahead.
THE situation in Menominee County,
where the Super isors refuse to pay the
state Tax apportioned before the law
cutting of a big share OF her territory.
and attaching IL to Dickinson County
took effect, is not new one. The same
legal questions were raised when Goge-
bic County was created. Attorney GEN
eral Ellis suggests that Dickinson Coun-
ty collect as local levy sufficient to pay
what would be her proportion OF the
State Tax.
FRANK MCGURRIN, formerly Of Kala-
mazoo. wrote 2S4 words in one minute,
when he lowered the shorthand record
of the world by thirty-four words. at.
Portland, Ore. Later iu the same day he
wrote oil words in fifty-nine seconds
He pounded out 1870 words per minute on
the typewriter.
A WOMAN named Graf 65 years of
age, who has never recovered from a
severe attack OF Ia grippe last winter,