Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-08-20
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.

and General News Notes
JACOB IsAACs, an Indian carpenter Of
Manistique, died the other day, full of
years-just how many years nobody
knows, but he was very old The Man
istiQue Stars obituary notice sums up
his life In this wise; ale was good In
dian. even before he died. z,
Gro. PENDELL, formerly OF Saginaw,
whore his father still resides, fell from q
building at Fort Smith, Ark, and broke
his neck.
LIGHTNING struck the barn on, Cen
Soper's farm at Marlette The structure
with hay, grain and implements burned.
and also the team OF Frank Dorlands.
who was visiting there. The loss is
Sl,t00; no insurance
A CURIOUS freak of nature at Iron
Mountain recently was the Matching OF
chicken with three legs and the same
number OF wings.
Brown CITY Is get-even place. An
officer there arrested d. and d., and
he swore like a pirate during the per-
Torrance of the act When the d. and d.
got through being defendant he became
complainant, and had the officer arrested
under the clue laws for the crime OF pro-
family.
ThD plant OF the Howell Manufacture
ing Company and the Samson Barrel
and Basket Works burned. Nearly five
acres of ground were burned over, a
large amount OF material being con-
sumed. The loss is sec, 900. with an I'm
surance OF S14. 600.
PAUL j. KING has recovered damages
In tho sum of $4,000 from the Ford
River Lumber Company for the loss OF
an arm.
CHEBoYGAN COUNTY was visited by a
soaking old rain, but 1t is said to have
come too late TO benefit
L. c. BRITrEN's big barn near Brigh-
ton burned, with patent farm machinery
and the spoils of the harvest, the loss be-
ing 81, 500.
TWELVE row boats and two steam
yachts carried large party Of men who
spent day without success in search
ing for the bodies of Frank Winterhal-
ter, Adolph Wideman and George Damn,
drowned In Saginaw Bay.
JACKSON was crowded with delegates
TO the annual State Maccabee- JnbiIes-.
The DECORATIONS were very elaborate,
and the 10000 visitors who came to the
city were welcomed in royal manner
IT was the greatest jubilee In the history
of the tent, and its officers are very en-
-thusiastic. The report OF Great Record
Keeper Boynton showed that tie order
had just completed the most prosperous
year of its organization. Upward of
10000 new members had been taken in
to the order. There are now 20.
knights in the State, and it's member
ship exceeds by 1000 that of any similar
seeiety in the State nnrina -tha yoar-
the organization OF the ladies, with
distinct Organization as an auxiliary
branch known as the Hive, had been ac-
compllshed with fattering success. There
are now eighty-five hives in the State,
and every one is represented at the
jubilee. The grand parade was over
two miles In length. Mayor Weather
wax welcomed tho visitors, and Greet
Commander Linton responded in behalf
of the tent
MARTIN Orr, a Milford veteran, had
jolly good time with the boys of 81 at
Detroit. Then he went home, fell off
load Of straw and broke his thigh.
THE D., l. & N. did the largest
amount of passenger business encamp-
ment week in the history of the road.
A PARADoxICAL celebration at Jack
son Prison was held by the incarcerated
ones in honor of Emancipation Day.
BREEvoRr is the name of a new POST
Office in Mackinaw County.
JOSEPH BRADLEY, one Of the Chippewa
chiefs of the Isabella County Reserva-
ton. should quit civilization for time,
go back to the occupation OF his ances-
tors. and do some quick, deep scalping.
A year ago some villain poisoned his cat
tie, and recently paris green was placed
in his pasture. His span OF work horses
are useless for this season, and perhaps
for all time to come.
MIR AND Mrs. CARL FRIcK, passen-
gers on a q. K & ]. train, stopped at
Kalamazoo for a lunch Mrs. Prick
suddenly fell tosh S sldwalk and was the
mazoo, has been held to the Federal
Court on charge of opening his en-
ployers' letters.
IT is predicted that Michigan real es-
tate will go.up25 per cent in the next two
years, in consequence OF the "bustingS
of the short-lived booms farther west
A MAN named Olds. of Gladwin, met
death under train at West Brandon.
James Manly, OF Tecumseh, has also
departed this life in the same way,
REESE has hopes that coal mine will
be opened and operated there.
RICH deposits of manganese have been
found near the Mastodon iron mine.
THE stock subscription condition hav-
ing been met. the featherbone. corset
company will be removed from Three
Oaks to Kalamazoo The capacity Of
the factory will be doubled anG ESQ girls
employed.
BAY COUNTY has settled for 81, 200 the
claim OF Jane Douglas who, In 1857, fell
through a hole In the Third street
bridge, being crippled for fffc-
WHILE thnashing rakingS horse shoe
was carried into La!ngsburg farmers
separator. and true to the mission for
which IL was made. IL proceeded to kick
tho stui1ing ont of that machine.
WIrn the Old striped beetle post,
which has become so used 10 paris green
that II likes 10, and with q new pest, po-
tatoes have had rather hard time this
year. The new destroyer l. worm
which imbeds itself In the stalk, speedi-
IL causing whiting. But there'u be a
fair crop Just the same.
JOSEPH Rose was moving ut Ray, Ma
comb County, and as stern and elderly
a harvest hand as Father Time himself.
steeied his impartial cutting machine In
TO a iumble bees nest Father Time
was badly stung and was also kicked by
the p,unging horses Being over 20
years of age, he will be laid mp for all
summer. even II he IL not garnered him
self by the re entless old sickle man.
WILLIE KANE threw two stones at
Myrtle Goodwin, an Oscoda girl OF the