Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-07
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS,
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.

and General News Notes
| SHERIFF Hutton. at Monroe, went into.
q cell occupied by two colored tramps,
| and they made desperate assault and
| attempt TO escape. He shot one dead
and fatally wounded the other The
dead one is a motor Gus Detroit crook,
"Kid South" and the other is Tom
| Hart, barber
FIRES are raging fercely In the woods
| Of Gladwln and Clare Counties, and
much property is threatened. Skidded
logs owned by Jonathan Royce. and
valued at $4,000, were destroyed.
Moan TISDELL and Blanche Watson,
OF Bay City, have made business OF alb
Quoting girls and taking them to vile
resorts In the northern part OF the State.
Four victims are discovered, and the
mscreants who entrapped them are held
in So, 600 bonds.
THE Hollis Tack and Nail Company,
OF Pittsburg Pa, will move part OF it's
plant to Port Huron, Ia consideration of
! 100000, either In bonus or stock sub
scribed, and s. S. Hotchkss, OF Column
bus, Ohio, will transplant carriage
| factory there for the sum OF $4,000.
THE Wheeler Company launched an
| other steel boat for the Atlantic coast
trade, from the West Bay City yard. 1t
| is called the Keweenaw, and was put in
| to the water In two sections. The two
parts will be towed 70 Montreal, where a
| dry dock will be utilized for putting
-tirons- toaathor- again and when the YES
| sci leaves Montreal 10 will be complete,
| and no one will be able to tell that IT
took such a long voyage with all the
| part forward OF the engines separated
from the other. The pan OF launching
in halves will be watched with interest
by every shipbuilder on the lakes.
DETROIT was seriously disturbed for
several days by strike among the
street car employees. and several men
were badly hurt. The men finally OBJ
tanned all they demanded, but settle
| nent of this trouble was no sooner made
than the employees OF the Michigan Car
| Works, about ], 200 men, struck, involv-
ing the Peninsular works also. Many
men were assaulted. Shorter time and
increased pay is demanded.
AUSTRIA and Italy fought at Calumet,
in the person of two miners. Italy
plunged knife through AusJria's back,
and then fled. The injured man says
the assault was Malta arrangement
AT Milford, Fred SHELTON, a young
man OF about 21 years, was arrested for
passing counterfeit silver dollars. The
-Iaolds were found upon his person, and
he confessed to having made the spuri-
Gus coin.
A WARRANT for s42O, s65 has been is
sued by Uncle Sam in favor q Michigan,
this being the States share of tho
direct-tax fund. The sum of So, 500
was withheld from the amount applied
for on account of arms furnished to the
| State
CIR Or N%Trx 10 fNlo In,
which to live. 1t has come good ways
out of the woods, and has not a cent Of
indebtedness. toanre.
| A MAD DOG was shot at Bay City. The
animal was found racing up and down
Third street, and during one trip he bit
| chunk from mans leg.
THE Mt. Pleasant Creamery Company
report shows that there are eighty-one
stockholders. and that S6,374 was paid
out for cream which when butterized
sold for $10,723, with net profit OF 1926.
This is about % per cent. profit on
actual stock paid In, and the conserva-
tive stockholders are jubilant
THE Attorney General will got 81. 500
year, the amendment to that effect
having been carried by about 500. a.
cording to the figures received by the
Secretary OF State. iit
c. BIGELow, vice A. c. Banker, re-
| moved, has been appointed Postmaster
ut Clay Hill, Wexford County.
FRANK SAvARIo, Malta fva-centa
man Of Saginaw, goes to Jackson seven
years for an assault.
SAGINAW has accepted plans for
$4,000 poorhouse.
LIEUT.. A. d. NIsKERN, OF the Orchard
Lake soldier factory, has been assigned
to duty at Fort Asslnaboine, Mont 49,,
II II. MORSE, of Alpena, has an offer
OF s332, 900 for tract of pine on Van
couver Island He says 1t is worth
| more. t,l3i.. tt.t
ST. LOUIS has got Yeringtons COM
mercial college away from Alma all fast
and tight, and now IL is bearing down
hard for furniture company and stock
is being taken rapidly. 1t also has a
flax mill ghost for side show.
Dir. J. RANNEY, Of Kalamazoo, went
to Carlinville, H.. just to preach to a
| congregation he used to lead so years
| ago. This was the ostensibie object Of
the pilgrimage but not the romantic.
The venerable doctor went TO Blooming
| ton, Ill, and there was married to Mrs.
| =. Y. Stewart The bride in her child
hood days was an inmate of Mr.. Ran
ney's home in PENNSYLVANIA as an adopt
ed daughter
THE Michigan Buggy Company, Of
Kalamazoo, has decided to abandon its
| $4,000 suit against the American wheel
trust Both sides are sad to have made
! concessions and the buggy people con-
| cluded the trust was all right and did
not break its contract to furnish wheels.
| 1t is expected other suits of the kind will
also be dropped.
THE e,ght-year son OF Samuel
| Tyson, of Kalamazoo, was run over by
the cars and had both feet cut of. Won
| THE old soldiers of Saginaw have or
| ganized a county battalion. These arc
/ the officers Colonel, T. ;. rease. Tfer-
| tenant Colonel, f. A. Stlmson. MAJOR.
w. J. Morris; Quarterma iter, l.. Burn
ham; Chaplain, l.. Wilcox; Surgeon.
| Walden DE Clarence
! FRANK STEVENSON, of West Branch.
| had both arms crushed by q freight
train. Amputation was necessary, and
the boy will probably die. ss...,,
No LESS than thirteen boats (sail and
steam) entered Frankfort harbor one,
| day. Immense quantities OF homlock
bark and cedar posts are being freighted
from Frankfort to Chicago aud Mllwau-
kec by lake.
ALTOONA COUNTY elected lady school
directors in five out of tho nine town
| ships. In fact in that section the wo.