Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-12-26

Muskegon comes pretty near having .
rival to tho Mabley' building Of Detroit.
The new Amason hosiery factory. when
completed, viii BE- nearly lao feet high.
The bulIet-scarred door of the house In
which Train Robber John Bmalley was
killed. near McBain. IL on exhibition In
Cadillac store. X draws like circus.
Glen Harbor people are jubilant over
the report that the D., L. & n. will be OK
tended to that point ON Lake Michigan.
Glen Harbor is said to have barber
deep enough for the largest bonts.
At Kalamazoo Mrs Julia Rice secured
q verdict for $3.50 against her fnther-in-
law, Farley III. Rice, for alternating tho
affections Of her husband. At the first
trial she secured verdict Of $4,000.
Rev. Bastian SHIFTS, of Ypsilanti, thinks
this mother-in-law business Is too sacred
TO be TESTED about. In his last sermon
he roasted the humorists, declaring the
mother-in-law Is very useful institution.
Grand Blanc is much disturbed over the
sudden disappearance Of its township
clerk, John Babcock, who also acts as
mailcarrier from the depot to postoffice
and assistant station agent of the +. 4
A.. NJ. He has large family who are
unable to account for his departure.
George w. Friant, pioneer Muskegon
lumberman, is dead. In the early days
he went to Grand Haven, building dock
and saw mill. He also owned shares in
many old lake craft. The panic of 1880
affected him somewhat seriously, and he
had since acted as overseer of numbering
operations.
A servant girl in the family of ]. H.
Hanley, at st. Joseph, is so badly fright
ened she cannot sleep. A tramp was re-
fused nights lodging. Several nights
later, finding the girl alone, he ran into
the house and deliberately fred at her
twice. The girl, in her fright, jumped
from second story window.
dad" Mcconnell, who is charged with
selling liquor on an old bumboat at Syl-
van beach, Is picturesque old character.
He was arrested in lonely cave on the
lake shore, twelve miles northwest of
Montague, which he had stocked up with
fifty rounds of ammunition and enough
provision to last all winter. The officers
surprised dad" while he was at supper,
and although they expected n desperate
resistance, with possible loss of life,
Dad submitted gracefully and insisted
on their sharing his supper.
Kalamazoo never booms, but the past
year marked very substantial growth in
the erection of new manufacturing and
business blocks. The important manu-.
featuring plants constructed and their
cost are as follows: Bryant paper mill
$125,OOO; Humphrey manufacturing and
plating plant, $4,000; G.. j. Bremen
foundry and machine shop, $1O,OOO
Clark & Dutton foundry and machine
shop, $4,000: Dewing & Sons, rebuilt
plant. 1926, 600; total, 5000, 800. The new
business blocks erected cost $JO0,000
residences, 200, $2O0,OO0; grand total
$3.50, 500.
On the old Mount farm. near Napoleon,
where the new extension of the c., ]. <
Nj. Railroad is being built three skele-
tons were found by the wo.kmen. The
Mounts were near neighbors OF che par
ents of William Filley, ''the s-ng lost
Jackson boy" who was stolen by the
Indians Aug. 3, 1887, and went to the
Jackson County poorhouse a few days
ago. Filley was with Mary Mount when
stolen. Old settlers talk of dark deeds
on the Mount place and wonder who
were the three persons whose skeletons
have just been unearthed. ,fy
Herbert Flowers, son Of respected par.
ents, has been arrested at Ypsilanti fol-
| stealing jewelry and other valuables from
! the residence of Mr.. w. II. Davis. The
| jewelry was found in vacant room
where Flowers was staying. He recently
broke into the Presbyterian Church base
mcnt, and was found there sleeping. J.
III. Miller's grocery store was broken into
the second time in two weeks. A young
man named G. Q. Chamberlain was arrest.
ed soon after and admitted the crime
Fay Cushman, of Ann Arbor, was arrest.
ed for the larceny of clothing from the
Occidental Hotel. in Ypsilanti.
The State Grange at its meeting at
Lansing committed itself to the free and
unlimited coinage of American gold and
silver, although nearly one-half of the
delegates refrained from voting on the
| question. Resolutions were adopted de-
manding that the local option liquor law
be extended to cities and villages; more
stringent pure food laws; the reduction
| of the salaries of Justices of the SUI
preme Court to $1,000; a general revision
| of the State Constitution; and the adop-
| ton of the free textbook system in all
| sections of the State. The membership
has increased 1000 during the year, there
now being 1880 members in Michigan.
A few weeks ago A. NJ. Bell, of Port.
| age La Prairie, Manitoba, shot J. Muir
by mistake, thinking him deer. The
very same day his son, w. J. Bell, Sault
Ste. Marie photographer, shot Il friend
| in exactly the same manner.
Maj. ID. ID. Flanagan, of Benton Har.
Dor, is dead. He was one of the earlies,
| pioneers of Berrien County. During the
rebellion he was second lieutenant in
Company X, Twelfth Michigan Infantry
He was confined in Libby prison.
State Salt Inspector Hills report for
the year ending Nov. 80 shows that there
are ITO salt-producing firms in Michigan
113 salt blocks and 1900 solar salt Gov
ers, with an estimated capacity Of :.,.420,-
600 barrels. There weres3, 520, 1862 bar
rels inspected during the past year. OF
which 1884, $40 were fine salt ard 1877
$50 fine bulk. The amount manufactured
during the year was 1876, 751 barrels, an
increase of 100, 1923 over 1894. Since 1869
when the product was 561,29S barrels,
the amount grew steadily till 1887, when
the figures were 1914, 300. The total OK
pense of the State inspection during the
year was $1O,22S.92. There was an in-
novation in the shipping of about 100000
barrels in bulk to Chicago warehouses,
where it is packed and reshipped. The
inspector refers to the establishment Of
the new salt district in Wayne County,
saying that it bids fair to equal any other
in the State. In quality the salt is un-
equaled.
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