Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-03-15


FIVE Grand Rapids ice companies
have formed q combine and will raise
the price of &C olness.
r. II. DAWSON, mill proprietor, com
mitted suicide by hanging at Pontiac.
Financial embarrassment was the
cause.
A sAw-MILL at Ivan, Kalkaslxa Coun-
ty, operated by j. M. Calkins, was
burned. The loss is 1900, with no In
surance.
A HORSE kicked Joseph Kellogg, OF
Brooktield, Eaton County, in the head,
fracturing his skull. Kellogg will re-
cover, h. weser.
A BOY named Pugh fell under the
cars while getting OF train at Ches-
ter, Eaton County, and had one OF his
hands badly crushed.
Now THAT Howell people have &C.
cured the macintosh factory they
were alter, they are trying to get a
tannery to locate there.
PLANS are being made at jackson
for a Congregational Church at Chel-
sea, to be erected upon the site of the
one recently destroyed by fire.
FOUR successful burglaries have
taken place recently at South Haven,
and the local officials are inclined to
believe that some expert from abroad
has located there.
FIFTEEN prisoners in Flint Jail sang
hymns as loud as old-time Methodists.
the noise was so great that their con-
federates almost succeeded in saving
off the bars and escaping.
THREE boys OF Comis caught man
named Bush and sheared OH one-half
OF his mustache for fun. The young
men are now under arrest and will an
swer in. court for assault.
The Bay City Iron Hallers have
5000 which they refuse to turn over
to the receiver of the order. They
feel If they send the money away they
will Fever see 1t again.
IT has been decided to extend the
Detroit, Bay City and Alpena Railroad
to Cheboygan this season. and work
will be commenced on the roadbed as
soon as the frost is out of the ground.
AT Luther, two young men named
Levi Parker and Frank Denton, quar-
relied and fight ensued in which Fen
tons jack. knife slashed Parkers head
and neck SO seriously that he may die.
Denton was arrested.
ANNIE MARTIN, aged eight years, of
Ecorse, was run over by an electric car
while playing on the track. Her left
arm was run over and a cash cut in her
forehead. The arm had to be ampu-
tated. 1t is thought that the child
will recover.
THE Dickinson County Relief Com
mittee has closed up its business and
turned over the small amount of
money and provisions on hand to the
poor commissioners of the county. The
period of distress is practically over,
and the number OF applicants for relief
is small.
1T is claimed that Attorney General
Ellis, in his answer to the suit brought
by Gov. Rich in the salarie ,-amend-
ment matter, shows by affidavit from
the Clerk of Gratiot County in 1891
that the vote upon the salaries
amendment was not canvassed by
the County Canvassing Beard at all,
but that his returns, which were re-
jected by the State Board as irregular,
were made up by himself and forward
ed to the Office Of the Secretary of
State. The Importance of this is. that
should this fact be established 1t will
show that Gratiot really had no vote
canvassed, and while 1t returned q
heavy majority against the amend
ment it cannot be counted, and with
this county out to stay the amendment
would pull through, even if the 1000
votes fraudulently added to the Goge-
bic return be deducted from the total.
Whether or not the amendment is
shown to have carried makes a differ
I. ~
which, il failing, he would be required
to return. On the face Of 1t he APP
pears to have trump card. The
present clerk al so makes affidavit that
careful search of the record fails to
disclose that there was any canva IS
made in that county.
THE forthcoming report of the Mich
igan Labor Commissioner will contain
an interesting chapter on iron mines
and miners At present $3.50, 0Oo,0, % is
invested in the mines and in the equip
ment of docks, railways and boat lines
necessary to the conduct Of the blsi-
ness. When this is added to the fact
that Of the entire cost of the finished
forms of iron and steel nearly So per
cent. represents labor, the Importance
of the industry can be realized. Up to
dIlu lucluulHS VIC year 1919 tuo tnTco
Michigan fields shipped 70, 936, 1927 gross
tons. Contributing to this the Mar
quette range has credit for 40, 97l 900
tons. the Menominee 1s.032.3l1 tons
and the Gogebic 1852 $40 tons. In
Guiding the entire Lake Superior re-
gion, which embraces the minss Of
Minnesota, the grand total tonnage is
80, 800, 1852. A table is given showing
an almost steady gain in production
during the last ten years as follows
1884 .2,417,113 1889. g. O5l ,949
1885 2, 2S5, 249 $780, ........7 ,67S, 6Sy
1885 ........',1 26 SIT 1891. .6,O63 ,elf
1897 4.l70O7s 1892. ..........7 ,5!S
1888 ......... a, 2s3 1925 1898. 100000
The great falling off in shipments
from Michigan mines for the year 1893
as compared to 1892 and previous years
is noticeable. In 1892 Michigan pro-
duced As. per cent. of the ore mined
in the United States. The commits
sioner shows that Nov. /, 1893. but
3,673 men were employed in the Mar
quette, Mcnominee and Gogebic ranges,
ne onoipcf II c-C thu corraonondiv,rv