Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-27
Dealers are paying but 20 cents pen

George Brown, the Inlay City farmer
who went suddenly insane few weeks
ago, died Sunday night.
William Wanemaker killed three large
tiger cats near Wales, st. Clair County.
He refused $50 for their pelts.
There are $4,000 900 feet of logs in tran
sit from Canada to Cheboygan, and 30,-
100000 more coming this season.
At Central Lake, Antrim County, Eu-
gene Shay was run over by a car IN n mill
and so badly injured that he died in few
minutes.
c. Il. Mathis, a contractor and build
er, Of Adrian, was struck by runaway
horse Tuesday, and had his collarbone
badly fractured.
The 1S-months-old child Of John Flow
ers, of jackson, died Tuesday morning
from the effects of being accidentally
scalded the day before.
The wheat crop near Bay City is dou-
ble what it was last year, and farmers
fear they will glut the market and still
further depress prices.
John II. Craig, of Cheboygan, missed
$40 he had in his trousers pocket, and as
he trousers were gone also, he thinks
some one came in an open window and
stole the whole outfit during the night.
ID. G. Miller, the Jackson ex-convict,
who was bound over for stealing $40
from Mr.. Klegger, appears to be phi
lanthropist He says he took the money
so Klegger would not spend or lose it.
While bathing in the st. Joseph River
at Benton Harbor, George Goddling, aged
NJ 4
were swept off a sandbar by u swift cur
rent and both were drowned in sight of
friends.
At Kalamazoo Frank b. Doyens' son
set fire to the drippings from n whisky
barrel in his saloon. The barrel exploded,
knocking cut the front of the store and
throwing kegs against the ceiling. No
one was hurt.
Philip Burton, aged 10, an apprentice
in Wheeler's shipyards, at Bay City, got
to scuffling on a scaffold with one Mac.
Donald. Both fell fourteen feet. Burton
was killed. but Macdonald was only
slightly hurt.
The ladies in Manistique are at the
head Of the movement for the establish
ment of an industrial school in that city.
The prospects for the institution are
bright, and the ladies are enthusiastic
over their probable success.
Robert Whyte, the 2O-year-old son Of
Deputy Sheriff Whyte of Saginaw, pick
ed up strange looking metal object which
he proceeded to investigate, the result be-
Ing an explosion and the mutilation of
three fingers and the palm of the hand.
The annual tristate band tournament
held at Adrian attracted twenty-five
bands and several thousand people. The
parade, besides civic, military and frater-
nal organizations, included fifty hand
some floats. The next place of meeting
will be either Monroe, Mich, or Lima,
Ohio.
At Grand Haven Ray Coates, slayer of
Enos Lawrence, ut Holland, was, Sat
urday afternoon, found guilty of murder
in the first degree. Mrs. Lawrence will
soon be tried as an accessory. 1t will be
remembered that Coates slew Lawrence
in bed and threw the body into the river.
Then Coates ran away with and married
Mrs. Lawrence, who is his own sister,
the guilty couple being captured near
kalkaska. Coates confessed the murder,
but claimed self-defense.
The large sawmill, shingle and salt plant
of X. G.. Peters, at Eastlake, operated
by the Michigan Trust Company, shut
down, throwing about $50 men out of en-
ployment. The company on Saturday an
nounced 10 per cent. reduction in wages,
and the Polish laborers, constituting 30
or 40 per cent. of the entire force, refused
to go to work. Under the reduction COM
mon laborers would get from 90 cents to
81, some running as low as 75 cents.
Supt. Carey says the company can better
afford to lie idle than to run under pres
ent prices and sluggish markets.
The general depression in the lumber
trade has greatly deprecated the value
of medium grade lumber. High grade
stock is much sought after, but would-be
purchasers are not willing to pay even
a fair price for it. "The almost exclusive
demand for high-grade lumber" said a
prominent Bay City lumberman, sis
without precedence in the history Of the
trade. Despite this fact, however, there
is no increase in the prices offered for such
stock, and the amount on hand, compared
to an inferior grade, is proportionately
SO low that the dealers are reluctant about
disposing of it until there is a decided in
crease in the prices offered"
Some startling statements were made
| before the State Board of Equalization
by the representatives of the counties rel
ative to the depreciation of property since
the last equalization was made in 1891.
The representatives from the agricultural
counties say that farm property has de-
creased in value fully 30 per cent. The
Upper Peninsula representatives assert
| that there has been q great slump in the
value of mining stock, occasioned by the
| development of the Mesaba range, and
that many Of the copper mines are inact-
i've. Marquette County was equalized in
1891 at $23,00O,OOO, but it is asserted
| that the valuation of the county Is now
less than $1O,0OO,OOO. Thomas b. Dun.
stan and Prosecuting Attorney Streator,
| of Houghton County, asked that the val
uation Of Houghton County be reduced
nearly one-half on account of the depre.
| citation of mining stocks and the destruc-
| ton of the timber in the county. The
county was considered in 1891 the richest
| in the State. and its valuation was fixed
| at $40,O0O,0O0. 1t was stated that the
loss to the county from the depreciation
| of mining stocks alone would amount Ia
over $11 100000. The startling state.
ment was made that the celebrated Calu.
met and Hecla copper mine would be ex.
| hausted in ten years. Keweenaw and
other mining counties ara also claimed
to be in a sorry plight on account of the
slump in mining stocks.
| Nehemiah Henry Smith, father Of Mrs
Lucy Thurman, the well-known temper
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