Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-10-17
At Bay City Capt. Hugh Reynolds
owner of the steamer Germania, died

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The principal street amusement afford
ed to Pontiac citizens is that made by
the frequent grounding of the first car on
the new electric railway, which jumps
the track as "A matter of routine.
Pontiac streets, which have, during the
process of construction of the street rail-
way. resembled alleys, will again be torn
up by the new city sewer system.
John Il. Condor leased Powers opera
house in Grand Rapids for three years,
succeeding w. III. Spooner. He was for
fourteen years manager of the Temple
opera house in Duluth
L. w. Tisdale for thirty-twO years
agent of the American Express Company
at Saginaw, has been placed on the re-
tired list and given a pension. He is
succeeded by Millard Perry.
At Ann Arbor the Students Lecture
Association has engaged David b. Hill,
Henry Watterson, the Rev. II. De Witt
Talmage, Theodore Roosevelt, and J. w.
Foster to lecture this year.
The Kalamazoo County poor fund of
$4,000 is completely exhausted and has
been overdrawn $1,000 already. The
county looks after the city and county
poor, the city having no fund for that pur-
pose.
Mike and Frank Mahoney, brothers, at
Standish, were looking from the shore
over Saginaw Bay Monday when they
deserted an object that looked like a
wreck. Although tremendous sea was
running they put out in a small boat to
the rescue. An hours haSd rowing en-
abled them to see that it was a thirty y-foot
sailboat bottom up. and to it was lashed
Albert Newcomb unconscious and more
dead than alive. He said the sailboat was
capsized in Friday nights storm and he
had been in the freezing water ever since.
Saginaw workmen engaged in exca-
waiting, discovered box containing Il
human skeleton. 1t created a temporary
sensation until it was ascertained that in
1862 Henry Wrightman, member Of
Company *, Twenty-third Michigan In
fantry, was buried there while the regi-
ment was in camp in that vicinity before
starting South. While engaged in athletic
sports Wrightman received injuries from
which death resulted. A year later an
attempt TO locate the grave was fruitless.
The remains We're re-interred by the G. A.
Il. Wrightman enlisted in Flint.
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has'come to light at Port Huron. Some
years ago an old and respected citizen
died and his remains were inferred in a
lot in Lakeside Cemetery. Recently the
deceased's son removed to Western
State and previous to his departure sold
the burial lot. fathers grave and all to an
other person for $15. This purchaser be-
coming dissatisfied with his bargain, re-
L. H. I,t@
not wishing the old mans bones to be de-
posted in the potter's field, purchased n
single lot and had the body inferred
therein.
In the spring Of 1892 j. ii. and Il. J.
Fitzgerald and ID. III. Runnells estab-
lished on the st. Clair River one of the
most extensive and complete machine
shops on the lakes. The shops were To-
Gated in the residence portion of Port
Huron. adjacent to some of the most
beautiful homes in Port Huron, and the
owners of the latter complained that the
smoke, dirt, odor and noise from the
shops and the boats stopping there con-
stituted nuisance which should be sup
pressed. The court below enjoined the
shops and the Supreme Court in passing
on the injunction says that residents are
supposed to be protected from such an
noyances as smoke, SCOT, etc, and manu-
factories must seek locations in which
discomfort will be brought to the least
number
James NJ. Goodell, a prominent attor-
ney of Corunna has caused the arrest Of
Fred Wildermuth, the proprietor of the
leading hotel in Owosso, for selling liquor
to his son. who is under age. Young
Goodell got drunk, was arrested for dis
orderly conduct and fined. Mrs. Delos
Hanna, of Owosso. caused the arrest of
Fred Peterson and Fred Bartell for keep
ing their saloons open Sunday, when Mr.
Hanna got drunk and was arrested to
keep him from killing his family, which
he had threatened to do. The City Coun-
Gil passed an ordinance prohibiting the
opening of n saloon on Exchange street
this being one of the principal streets in
OwossO. The action was taken to prevent
the Gates brothers from opening up after
they had bought building and fixtures for
opening a saloon.
As Schuyler Avery was drawing some
piles down hill at Adrian, the load
tipped. throwing him and his brother off
also his 6-year-old son, who was caught
under one log and pinned to the ground
face downward, six others pilling upon
him. All had to be lifted before the child
was released but fortunately the boy
fell in enough of a hollow to prevent him
from being crushed. and the doctor says
no bones are broken, but the spine is
hurt.
Cuyler J. Barton, of Ann Arbor charg-
ed with arson. pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to five years in Jackson. This
ends a sensational case, which has been
pending over two years. Several fires of
incendiary origin destroyed about $780,
600 worth of property in various parts Of
the county during the past four years.
About year ago Barton, farmer, was
suspected. Several fires were started in
Unadilla and Ann Arbor, and Indignation
ran so high against Barton that he be-
came frightened and went to Chicago.
Later he was arrested and admitted to
bail. The fires were started by machine.
The scheme was to use four short pieces
of candles, connected with fuses in such
a way that when the first candle burned
out IL would set fire to the second, and so
on, the fuse from the fourth candle lead
ing to a bottle of explosive compound.
Barton was thus able to be miles away
when the fire broke out.
The new steel schooner Tyrone went
ashore Tuesday at midnight at False
Presque Isle. The boat was running four
miles an hour when she struck, and ran
out well forward. The boat is reported
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