Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-01-30
A tree 100 feet high was cut In BaraSs
County. 1t made 10000 feet of logs.

inaw, was erected In Detroit about sixty
seven years ago. The next year mill
was erected north Of Pontiac, and three
years after that the third mill went up on
Black river. near Port Huron.
George Il. Lawrence, of Flint. IA pen
sioner of the late war, caused a little sen
sation by marrying his own wife, to whom
he was united forty years ago in Sara
toga, N. Y. 1t seems he couldn't get a
certificate of his marriage in Saratoga
County, because he didn't know where
it had been recorded, and in case of death
he didn't want his wife to have any
trouble In proving legal marriage.
A queer, nondescript home is squatted
on the roadside, near the little hamlet Of
Sand Hill, Wayne County. 1t is composed
of rough boards, driven into the hillside
and banked to the roof with drifting
sand. The roof is thatched with manure
and the crude front door is garnshed with
n large decorated light of ground glass,
fit for palace or a Pullman car. The
hermit who occupies this place is Of good
family, well educated, has lots of rich
relatives and no justfable grounds for
hiding in the earth. He is 30 years old
and rather handsome.
Lansing is all agog over a sensation in
high life. Edward w. Sparrow. the
wealthiest man in the city, whose inter-
ests in pine and mineral lands are said to
be worth nearly a million dollars, has
brought an action in the probate court
to have his sister, Miss Henrietta Spar
row, declared insane. Mr.. Sparrow tes-
titled that his sister had been afflicted
with epilepsy, that she had had brain
fever and had suffered from erysipelas.
He relates for the first time u story to the
effect that in 1889 his sister commenced
suit against Potter Palmer, of Chicago.
for 5000 damages claiming that she had
been insulted by an attache of the Palmer
House, who ordered her out of the parlor.
Levi Pettibone Pennington miller,
is on the high road to fortune. Three
years ago he leased the Punambico mills,
two miles west of Pennington. for a term
of years. There are two claimants to
the mill property, John Hardenburgh, the
former miller, and Detroiter. Harden
burgh forbade Pettibone paying rent to
the Detroit claimant, and the Detroiter
countered by forbidding rent being paid
to Hardenburgh. This gives Mr.. Petit
bone the mill, during the term of the
don't cost him cent" Levi is in the
same position as the Dusty Miller" in
Mother Goose's Rhymes" 'As the
wheel goes round he gathers in his
wealth." and he is waxing rich.
Food Commissioner Storrs, in a bulle-
tin tells Of the trials and tribuations with
which he has to contend. He finds that
some pure foods are being sold, but great
deal of il is adulterated. The percentage
of pure foods on the market he is pleas
ed to say. however, is increasing. Out
of 80 samples of goods analyZed % We're
pure and "a adulterated. Three out of
four samples of vinegar were found to he
distilled vinegar colored with caramel.
One out of four samples of buckwheat
flour was found pure, the rest containing
wheat and corn -four. Three samples of
cinnamon examined were found to be
principally cassia. Five out of six sam
pies of cream of tartar were found To con-
tain either corn starch, phosphate of lime,
alum or gypsum. Nine samples of mus
tard were analyzed and only three were
found pure. The favorite scheme for
adulterating honey is to put small piece
of comb honey in jelly glass filed with
glucose or can syrup. Refuse of every
description finds it's way into ground pep
per and there are concerns which make a
business of manufacturing an article es-
pecially intended TO adulterate il.
Mike Dougherty, of Pennington. must
stop blowing his go-to-bed horn, even il
the majesty of the law is invoked. Mike
is Senator Warmers porter in big
hardware store. and when the Business
n IL Al .
at night they employed Mike to blow
horn which would be the signal for inn
| mediate closing. The sundry rights which
Mike thereby thought himself entitled to
have proved annoying. for he overdid the
business. The horn which he had made
for the blowing is about ten feet long
| and when he sets his lungs at work back
of that horn the sound can be heard to the
last house in the village. Every sleeping
babe within the half-mile radius is awak-
ened by Mikes terrific blast and that's
what causes the difficulty. The irate
townspeople formed n league and have
hired lawyer to get out an injunction
restraining Mike from using his horn.
Mike says he is backed up by the Busi-
ness Mems Union, and he Is going to blow
that horn at 8 o'clock il he wakes every
infant in the State of Michigan The
parents are az determined as Mike. and a
lawsuit is certain unless the Business
Mems Association calls him off.
Bishop George ID. Gillespie, of the Epis-
copal diocese of Western Michigan, is a
member of the State Board of Correc-
tions and Charities. He was asked about
the reported investigation to be made of
the charges of brutality in the treatment
of prisoners at jackson. "We will make
an investigation of the prison il the Gov
ernor orders it, said he, ''but the law
gives the board that authority only upon
special order of the chief executive. We
made our regular inspection of the State
prison on Jan. of this year and found
nothing special to report upon, aside from
what will be covered in the biennial re-
port next year. Yes, we know that they
chain refractory prisoners to cell doors
and that they occasionally use the strap,
but that Is done in every prison in the
country. i really think one of the most
effective methods of furnishing prisoners
is to lock them in their cells upon re-
duced diet, but the men in actual charge
of them don't seem TO think this is Sc
we're enough. At our last visit to Jackson
they were building separate cell room
and separate workshop, where the more
desperate of the prisoners will be kept
more closely guarded. If they have been
treating them brutally an investigation
will probably be made, but have heard
nothing of it."