Crawford avalanche., 1892-09-22

HENRY GRIFFIN's residence In Mndf-
con was burned. part Of the contents
was saved Some defect In the kitchen
cook-stove Is said to be the cause.
AT Bay City Alexander Badaur was
sentenced to two years In State prison
for stealing $50 from Captain Edward
Bradley from the schooner s. p. A.
THOMAS WRIGHT and James Thomas,
the Parma burglars who pleaded guilty
at Jackson on Wednesday, were sen-
fenced to seven years each In State
prison.
BAY Cry will take time by the fore
lock and fumigate all OF the public
schools twice day. Twenty-Five pounds
OF sulphur will be used at each school
building. s
THE contract for building the con-
densed-milk factory at Howell was
awarded to Joseph Tunnard, of Fowler
vile, for the sum OF $15,277, he teing
the lowest bidder.
THE Alpena officials have taken
hand in the drumming, yowling, and
parading of the Salvation Army there.
and twelve OF them are under arrest as
disturbers of the peace.
ONE HUNDRED Saginaw County SOL
diers departed for Port Angels, Wash
ington, to take up claims OF Govern
ment land there under the auspices Of
the Land Claim Colony Association OF
Michigan soldiers.
GEORGE GREENAwAY, one OF How
ellis wealthiest citizens and a respected
pioneer. died at his residence In that
city, after an Illness of five or six weeks
He left a large family Of growa-up sons
and daughters. 81 II
AUGUST PETERS, employed I'm A. B.
Paine's brick yard, at Payne's Station.
just south Of Saginaw, was killed by a
bank OF clay falling upon him. He was
40 years old and his home was at Fow-
leryille, where he. has wife and five
children.
AT Lansing, Jesse B. Hamilton, for
twenty years prominent State official.l
committed suicide by walking TO the
river and deliberately drowning him.
self. He was 40 years old, and during
the past few months had been subject
to attacks of insanity.
A WYANDoTTE scrapper and a Wyan-I
dotte barber had a fight the other even
ing, and when 1t was over the former
had only one thumb. The missing
member was subsequently elected from
the barber's mouth. A warrant for
mayhem Is out, but the barber got out
before the warrant did.
MRS. MARGARET HART has been fur
nishing entertainment for the people OF
Oakley. Aug. 81 she came to the viz
lage disguised as q man, but soon COM
menced to act SO much like a woman
that she was sentenced to the House OF
Correction for one year. During the
night she made rope out Of her apron
nd har al 40. ha,. M I
comes the inquest.
THIRTY-Two Swedish emigrants from
Liverpool, by the Allen line steamer
Circassian and the Canadian Pacific
Road, and bound for the Northwest,
were quarantined at the Canadian 500
by Deputy Collector of Customs Carle-
ton, who acted on instructions from
Washington. They are in good health,
but Will be washed and thoroughly dis
infected and their baggage fumigated-
BAY CITY census enumerators re-
ported $3.50 chi. of school age in
the city.
IT Is announced that ecided change
for the better has taken place in Con-
yjct HuntleY's condition, and there are
strong cnantes Tor MS Recovery. uunU--
ley was shot through the bowels while
trying to escape from the State prison
AFTER full year of almost continu-
Gus sleep, May White, of Stockbridge,
the young school teacher who has puz-
zled the medical fraterity Of the State.
at last shows signs of returning con-
sciousness. For q month past the
stupor in which she has lain has grown
less profound, and last week she was
able to open her eyes and recognize her
parents. Monday, for the first time In
twelve months, she sat up In bed and
partook of solid food. Hitherto she has
subsisted on liquids alone. The at
tending physician believes she is now on
the road to recovery. When first at
tackled with her strange mala1y she
weighed 148 pounds. Now she weighs
but So. Otherwise she seems In fair
health, although all her senses have
grown dull and her memory Is almost a
blank.
For the Michigan crop report, which
was issued by the Secretary OF State.
returns were received from AIS towna
ships. Statements received from thrash
ers up to Aug. % give the average yield
OF wheat at IA. .S3 bushels in the southern
counties, 1887 in the central, and 1903
in the northern. These figures Indicate
a total yield of about %, 500, 900 bushels
In many instances wheat is reported
badly shrunken and is thought to be OF
poor quality in all parts OF the State
Farmers marketed 1859, 1897 bushels in
August, or 579.S15 bushels less than in
the same month last year. Oats will be
above IN average crop, about the same
yield as last year being reported In the
southern section and q greater yield
in the central and northern countless
Potatoes are estimated to yield so per
cent of an average crop In the southern,
20 in the central, and S6 in the northern
counties. This is a better showing i'm
all sections than last year. Winter
apples will be less than. half Of last
years crop, and peaches will yield 81
per cent. for the State.
THE Bay City Board of Health has
bought ton Of copperas, which Is to be-
distributed throughout the city.
THE Mt. Pleasant Improvement Com
pany has accepted the plans submitted
by Architect Hollister for a $4,000
building. for the Michigan Central Nor
NAL School and Business Institute.
THE Detroit, Grand Haven and NIL
waukee Railroad Company Is construct
ing a modern station at Ovid.
FRANK LAMoTTE, employed at Jona-
than Boyce's mill at Essexville, fell a
distance OF ten feet broke two ribs.