Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-27
Port Huron yachting enthusiasts have
orpani n Yacht club.

face with an ak ut Boyne Falls, during
a quarrel over some stock.
A Benton Harbor firm is going to try
the experiment of fattening cattle with
the refuse from vinegar works.
Wildcats are numerous around Thomp-
sonyille. doc" Ames recently killed
one that measured feet and inches in
length.
a Detroit electric light firm is negoti-
ating with the citizens of Inlay City with
n view to putting in an electric light plant
ut that city.
Henry Wooley and Mary Underwood,
both 62 years of age, fell in love at Bay
City, and Monday a marriage license was
issued to them.
Since the Maddox murder at Pontiac
special policemen patrol the streets every
night. and as n consequence no hold-ups
have been reported lately.
Leroy Bristol was convicted at Flint Of
assault and battery upon his father, an
old man, and sentenced to sixty-five days
in the house of correction at Detroit.
The Ladies' Literary Club of Grand
Rapids advanced the idea that female
criminals of the better sort be taken to
penal colonies to become the wives of
reformed burglars.
John Cliffmen, of Muskegon was beat
en- and probably fatally injured at Roth
bury, near that city, by Peter and VIII
liam Nanderburg. who claimed he owed
them So which he refused to pay.
Byron Fisher. II school teacher at Ben
nett, Lake county, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the heart with
n rifle. No cause for his act is known.
He was II years old and unmarried.
Charles King. the Port Huron drayman
who was arrested charged with compiled
ty in the celluloid smuggling and released
10y United States Commissioner Harris.
claims that he will sue the officers for
$4,000 damages for false imprisonment.
j. ID. Meinhardi, German doctor who
keeps a drug store at Whitehall, is in
trouble for trying to get along without the
services of registered pharmacist, and
making up his prescriptions himself. He
has been arrested and will be tried next
week.
A Mt. Clemens candymaker who want
ed to get his pay before it was due, hit ON
n shrewd scheme. He had Duluth
WuS
dead. OF course he had to go to the
funeral, and the kind-heartcd employer
came down with the rocks.
A report is being freely circulated that
Ottawa County will attempt to capture
four townships, Ravenna, Sullivan,
Fruitport, and Norton, off the south side
of Muskcgon County. The residents of
these townships say they have not even
been asked for their opinion in the matter.
There were 1,502 patients admitted at
the University Hospital during the year
past. OF these 500 were males and 633
females. They represented Ill occupa-
tions, the housewives leading with 454
and the farmers coming next, with 25S.
There were 30 nationalities represented,
the Americans numbering 1,210. OF the
total number, 442 were between the ages
of 20 and 30. OF the patients. $40 came
to have their eyes treated, $40 for surgi-
cal operations and 142 for nervous dis
orders.
George J. Iiillian. of Elsie, German,
with $1,000 in the bank and Il forty-acre
farm. divided his property last spring
equally between his wife, daughter and
four sons. He regretted it Immediately
and threatened to commit suicide. The
other day they were all absent from home.
He piled all the furniture in the house in
one big heap around the piano in the par
lor, putting n lot of hay under it. and set
ting fire to the barn returned to the
house and set fire to the pile he had made.
climbing on top himself. The neighbors
were forced to drag him down from the
top of the pile, and he was so badly
burned that he cannot live.
The Delta County Fish and Game Pro-
tective Association is causing pot hunters,
poachers, trappers and others who defy
the game laws no end of trouble. 1t was
supposed after the arrest and conviction
of o. X. Hessel for selling venison dur
ing the closed season in violation of the
law that Illicit traffic in game would
cease, but the apprehension at Escanaba
of Bittner Brothers and III. A. Breiten-
bach for offering venison for sale and
shipping il out of the State creates n diff
ferent impression. A man named Calvin
Hamilton, professional hunter and trap
per, was convicted for killing deer out of
season. and he confessed that he sold the
venison to Bittner Brothers.
Michigan railroads have not killed n
were slaughtered. The aggregate gross
earnings If Michigan railroads, 1t is re-
ported. reached the highest point in Mich
igan during the year 1892 The contrac-
ton of earnings commenced early in 1893
and continued from bad to worse into the
year 1894. The number of miles of rail-
road operated in Michigan is 1872, an in
crease of "a miles over the previous year.
The State has 33h miles of railroad for
every ten inhabitants. The total stock
and debt of the railroads operating wholly
or in part in this State is SLOTS, 500, 40,
an increase of $215,2SS,915. The excess
of stock in debt over the cost of the road.
is 500. 10000, or 1880 per mile of road.
The revenue realized from the operation
of railroads participating in business in
this Stnte aggregates STAG. .G26. .639. an in.
crease of nearly $50, 100000 over 1892.
The total expenses of operation. including
taxes, were S105. .O54 ,O70. leaving n net in
come for the year on traffic account OF
81 80, ,jJ9. an increase of $S,113,O00.
The passenger earnings Of the railroads
operating in this State in whole or in part
were SOL 81 l .!j3S and the freight earnings
$93.3I2, ,4S0 A total of 53,916.571 pas
sengers were carried an average distance
of 43A miles. The total number of tons
of freight moved was I6,649. 1J2. an in
crease of 100000 tons over 1892. The
average length of haul was 1J3 miles.
The total number of railroad employees is
given at 1O0,06 n decrease of 1,Ojf from
1892. The total amount of taxes to be
paid i'm July, 1904. Ivy Michigan railroad
corporations for the year ending Dec. 81,