Crawford avalanche., 1891-06-11
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.

speech and manner, but he has nothing
to do He does not even lounge about,
and yet he seems never to have anything
on his mind or to be going anywhere.
He Is mystery, and often l wonder II
he lives In any given place, because he
Is visible everywhere.
AUGUST STEINBAcH, "a years of age,
while attempting to beard moving
tran at Ishpeming, lost his balance and
fell under the wheels and was killed.
III things go on as they are going
there will be financial talent enouoh I'm
the Pennsylvania State Prison to start
bankers club. or all the unlucky States
In the Union, Pennsylvania seems 10 be
In the worst fortune, for its banks go
up like champagne corks at q wedding.
The best thing that thu Pennsylvania
who has money to do Is to put II safely
in his inside pocket and come to Michi-
gan, whore the political and financial
atmosphere Is pure Free Press.
If / had as much money as a Penn
sylvania politician can't resist tempta-
tion, I'd dig monument to myself as
tall as an artesian well.-WiItIs Hdl0ktns.
TRAVERSE Cry will be second-class
postoffice after July l, the only one in
Northern Michigan.
BERTHA WILsEY, aged II, living at
Alamo, committed suicide because disap-
pointed in love-
A SIGN on railroad restaurant not
hundred miles from Detroit reads:
DINNER READY
You don't have to waitl
We have men hired to do thati
On the banks of tho Cedar River,
about one mile northwest of Gladwin, a
farmer keeps quite number OF hogs
and pigs, which run In the field at their
pleasure. A short time ago he com
menced to miss some OF his young hogs
Night after night some of them would
come up missing. He searched the
neighborhood, but to no avail Then he
shut them up in a tight pen, but still the
depredations went on until, at last, he
set a guard to watch the thief Night
wore away and no ono molested the
pigs. 1t was just at the break OF day,
and as the watchman was about to seek
repose, ho heard commotion among the
haoa.- -~---~rr.-o~sa.tsrs nUor 20 get
sight OF the burglar, he saw a monster
snake crawling away from the pen with
a shoat With a stout ironwood hand
spike he killed the snake, and, upon
measurement, IL was found to be 10 feet
: inches long. The snake will be stuffed
and presented to the Detroit Exposition
Company.
Mrs. SMITH, a clairvoyant, told George
Lee farmer, living few miles from
Sault ste. Marie, that he should stop try
ing to make money out of the products
of his mortgaged farm. She told him
that II he would dig in the vicinity of
large boulder on his farm, at thirty feet
depth. signs of gold would appear, and
that when he reached 100 feet his for
tune would be made. This prediction has
produced veritable fever in the neigh
borhood of the Lee farm. George Lee
is hard at work digging for his fortune.
Two thousand feet OF plank have been,
taken to his farm for cribbng. His
neighbors have confidence In his labor
and are helping him bear the expense.
The mon are now down about forty feet,
and claim to have found gold and to have
brought TO the city excellent specimens
The neighbors Of Mr.. Lee have for years
been collecting specimens found on their
farms, and some have every indication
Of being gold-bearing.
A COUPLE Of verdant Monroe County
elopers, both deaf mutes, wandered into
Toledo to get married. They could not
make IL and left for Monroe to carry out
their original intention.
DICK BAssETT, tho Grand Traverse
hermit, has been made happy. He
served throughout the war with West
ern regiment, and served with great gal
lantry. He was several times wounded
in battle, and to this day carries three
or four rebel bullets around in his body.
During his wanderings after the war he
lost his papers, and was unable TO prove
up his claim for a pension. This did not
worry him particularly, as the fish OF
Traverse Bay and the product of his
island home are sufficient for his pur-
poses. Last fall the interesting story of
his life was told to the Detroit Ne,Ds, to-
gether with a description of his hermit
homo and his mode Of living. The pa
per fell into the hands Of the Captain or
the company in which Bassett served
during the war. The Captain lives in
the East, and remembering Rassett as
one OF his boys, he opened communica-
tion with the hermit The correspond
ence has resulted in Bas:ett getting
pension, with goodly sum of arrears,
the Captain being able to furnish tho
missing links in the chain Of evidence
required at the pension Office.
IHEARD an elderly gentleman patron
izingly say to a man not yet away from.
the delicious privileges of youth: "Yes.
he's we'll informed, but he has learned
about all he knows from observation.
The speaker was a learned man in the
bookish sense and he is not to be patron
lied because of IL, but he has observed
so poorly that he did not realize how
stupid IL was--in -in--him- to o---nat atrnniZa
the man who has observed well. In
these days Of whole continents of paper
and oceans of ink, with steam aud elec-
tricity as controlling powers, the man
who has not become learned by observa-
tion is not, in the language OF the street.
"a James dandy. Free Press.
Two MEN found boys skeleton in
the woods near Tawas the other day. A
few pieces OF clothing we're recognized
as part of the suit Daniel Long wore
when he disappeared three years ago.
The parents claimed the whitened bones
and buried them In the family lot.
JOSEPH HANG, a farmer living near
Saginaw, was killed by the discharge Of
shotgun he was loading.
A HUNDRED MILLION feet of logs have
been bought in the Upper Peninsula by
the Hall a Munson Lumber Company, OF
Saginaw. The logs belonged to Alger,
Smith & Company, are to be shipped by
rail TO Bay Mills, and cost 81, 500, 900.
1t will take five years to fill the contract
THE streams, OF Altoona County, are
bristling with trout, the result Of q
plan ting four yours eg0. cora hhenony'
OF Killm.aster, is so FAR the champion
this season, having landed a speckled
beauty which weighed Ga pounds.
WHILE unloading ore from the schoon-