Crawford avalanche., 1891-03-19
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.

portant Doings OF Our NoIghbors- We'd
dings and Deaths-Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
THE Fish Commission has planted
100000 trout this winter and has about
$500, 600 TO distribute In the State during
the spring.
H. w. CAREY, OF Manistee. Secretary
and Treasurer OF the Peters Salt and
Lumber Company, says the concern will
have busy season, and will put Is, 000.-
600 logs into the river at Manistee and
take 25,0OO,000 olt OF Lake County.
JOHN w. BBowN, OF Kalamazoo, has
been fined 1894 for selling beer at pic
mic on saloon license.
A PACK of wolves drove some men
from a banking ground on the North
Branch, in Montgomery County. into
their lumber shant'es the other day.
The beasts were wild with hunger and
made the attack in day light.
A SANDY, pine stump quarter section,
near Mt. Pleasant. has just been sold for
$4,000. AS the original purchaser got it
for S160, and the new buyer is a nom
resident and never saw his desert, tho
boom association is looking for the dupe
and dupee, claiming such practices will
keep out bona fide settlers.
A YOUNG man called at the Ionia jail
and asked to get nights lodging He
was searched, and concealed In his neck
tie were found two very fine metal-worlx-
ing saws, and now the jailer is congratu-
lating himself on what a narrow escape
he had from wholesale jail-breaking.
MANIsTEE COUNTY farmers are about
to organize a stock company to buy
goods from producers and to sell their
products to big consumers. The capital
will be IS, 600 to start with.
THE Saginaw salvationists have q GU
riosity in a converted native Turk. He
says most OF his days were spent as q
very bad man.
THERE were during last year 7,16S
school districts and 513 graded schools
in the State The number OF children
of school age was 654, 502, of whom 427,-
032 were enrolled. There were 1851
schools of all kinds, with a seating ca
pacity for 522, ,496 scholars The total
value of the school property was $13,-
S5S, ,627. There were 1861 male and H.
429 female teachers, and for the year
the former received 1894, ,644.07 for their
services, the latter So, 3S9, ,2376s. The
sum of 1891, $40. 35 was expended for
buildings and repairs, and $40, III. 13 for
school library books There was paid
on the bonded debt S349. 442.s4. The
amount realized from the one-mll tax
was S65s, 3O5. IL, and from the primary
school interest fund $795, s13.47. The
total expenditures were $5,69s, sos. "a.
There were 314 private schools, which
employed 769 teachers, and had total
enrolment of 33,975 scholars.
ISABELLA COUNTY people are very
glad over the distribution of the Indian
la lie e kwf.. l..
the tax list. 1t is also practical dis
bandment of the Chippewas
JOHN ScHUTT's baby, of West Bay City,
is dead, because the little one caught it's
clothes afire from the stove and was ter
ribly burned.
HOWARD HUNTLEY and Claude Hoag,
of Cadillac, go to the reform school for
two and three years for stealing lead
pencils.
DANIEL MCMAHON, the Port Huron
murderer, has arrived at the jackson
BFisfeRRe Gle WM6afSsd VS. fsfTf1 n fHs hs neck. He was
placed in a solitary cell. The doctor
says Mcmahon is shamming, and will
get along all right. McMahon still re-
fuses to tell why he killed Miss Murphy.
CADILLAC dedicated n $500 high
school building. 1t is beauty.
THE St Louis Presbyterian church
pulpit has been vacant for some time
because the older members want mar
ried pastor while the younger COM
municants desire an unmarried member
of the apostolic succession.
THE jury in the Crosbie murder case
at Bay City failed to agree. Justice is
not as swift there as at Port Huron.
NEAR East Tawas, Thomas Halpin, Of
Madrid Springs, n. Y, was killed by
log rolling on him.
AT Bay City; Joseph Perault, aged 25
years, and engaged hauling ice up an
incline, was caught and crushed between
two cakes and carried into the river.
When rescued he was dead.
TIE body of Andrew Pouson. bach
elor living near Kawkawlin, was found
beside woodpile six miles from West
Bay City. He had been murdered by
Henry Holackir, who hired rig from a
Bay City livery went to Poulson's
house, and after killing him tied the
body to the wagon axle and dragged It
seven miles. When found the body was
horribly disfgured. The murder evil
IDENTIFY was the work of lunatic, as
there was no motive, unless 1t was that
Holackir feared Poulson's testimony in
a counterfeit-money case in which he
(IIolackir) was indicted. Holackir was
examined for lunacy last fall and pro-
nounced sane and discharged He re-,
turned the rig to the livery. The wagon
was tracked from the scene of the mur-
der to where tho body was found by
blood marks. Marshal Dunnigan, at
West Bay City, went with Constable
Beattie and Justice Brigham to P0ul-
sons house. Finding the door licked
they burst it open, when Holackir
opened fire, hitting Dunnigan just be-
low the nose, the ball passing downward
and out Of his jaw below the ear. Beat
tie and Brigham then captured and
handcuffed Holackir and brought him to
the Bay City jail. IL was first thought
that Dunnigan was fatally wounded,
but he will recover. Constable Beattie
was shot in the hand by Holackir.
PARsoN ARSEY let up on his revival
meetings for time and shipped into
Saranac the finest piece OF horseflesh
ever seen i'm that section, His rever-
ence says his new trotter can do any
thing In the amateur line he knows Of,
and he aches for chance to test the
colt
EBENEZER O. GRosvENoR, who has
run a private bank at Jonesvile for half
a century, will incorporate the concern
as a $50. 600 State bank.
BELDTNG is in temperance and moral
spasm. Five saloonkeepcrs, one drug