Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-08-26

Gently Parsons made complete restitu-
ton OF the stolen property and Prosecut-
ing Attorney Eaton entered an order in
the Circuit Court asking that the pending
cases against Parsons be nolle pressed.
Peter Bons. the man who confessed to
the murder Of Pearl Morrison, and who
is in Jail ut Crystal Falls, set fire to the
mattress and bed clothing in his cell at the
Jail Sunday afternoon and then yelled Tor
assistance. The sheriff called to Bons,
but received no reply. A stream of water
was turned on and Bons was found to be
very much alive. 1t is believed his scheme
was to get the sheriff to open the cell cage
in which he is kept and then he tBons)
was to make break for liberty.
The Masonic picnic association of Hills
dale County held its annual picnic at
Bawbeese Park. About 5000 people
were in attendance. There are twelve
Masonic lodges and five chapters of the
Order of the Eastern Star in the county,
and they were all we'll represented. An
address was delivered by Rev. X. Os-
borne, and Mr.. Thompson OF Jonesville
read an original poem. w. j. Sampson
of Hilsdale was elected president of the
association for the next year, Miss Elsie
Cottrell, secretary, and l.. 5. Ranney,
treasurer.
Mercie, the 14-year-old daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. A. NJ. Wheeden of Jackson, was
terribly burned Sunday by her clothes
catching fire from an oil stove and died
after three hours of suffering. The girl
saved the extensive dairy barns on the
farm by her great presence of mind. The
stove was in one of the barns and the
hired man being ill., she attempted to light
the stove to heat water for scalding out
the milk tins. 1t did not burn properly
and she sent her brother for assistance
In the meantime Mercie apparently saw
the danger and dragged the stove from the
barn, but in doing so she herself was
fatally burned.
George w. Howell is under arrest nj
Muskegon, charged with forging bond.
Waterman Hunt OF Chicago being tho
complainant. Mr.. Hunt represents the
firm OF Merriman. Collins & Company OF
Chicago, wholesale grocers, with whom
Mr.. Howell held position as travelling
salesman. AS he made his own collec-
tons it was required of him to furnish
bond, which he did with DIR. Benjamin ID.
Kings signature as surety. A few days
ago DIR. King was notified by Merriman.
Collins & Company that Howell was in
arrears $714.S3 and that he as surety was
liable for the amount. DIR. King imme-
diately notified the company that the
bond was a forgery and Mr.. Hunt imme-
diately swore out warrant.
Labor Commissioner Cox has been in
vestigating the coal miners strike in Sag
NAV. He secured figures from the books
of the Saginaw Coal Company, which in
dictate that the miners were not poorly
paid, many of them receiving better wages
than skilled mechanics earn. The com
missioner is inclined to think that the
Ohio and West Virginia miners have
grievance and ought to be paid higher
wages, but he cannot see how their cause
is to be helped by n sympathetic strike by
the soft coal miners in this State. The
product OF the Michigan mines, he says,
does not and cannot enter into competi-
ton with the coal mined in West vir-
ginia. 1t is consumed by Michigan man
ufacturers and Michigan railroads, who
employ Michigan men to work for them,
and the miners cannot help their West
Virginia brothers by striking in sympa-
prive hundreds of Michigan laborers and
mechanics Of work The labor commits
sioner finds that the men in the Saginaw
mine were being paid seventy cents per
ton for coal screened through n seven
eighths inch screen, while in the Ohio and
West Virginia mines they were being paid
but 81 cents for coal screened with one
and "a half inch screen. The wages re-
ceived by the Saginaw miners run from
S31.50 to $S1. 80 per month, the eight-hour
day being the rule. The lowest wages
pal in July for twenty-four days work
was S31 80. One man in twenty-four
days earned $37.52: another in twenty
two days received $52.24: another $54.12.
and so on. Wages are paid in cash and
there are no store orders. Men received
for day work from $1.2j to $1.75. The
track men are paid 81
Frank Raby, one of the quartet who
broke out of Jail at Benton Harbor few
weeks ago. was recaptured I'm Arcola, ILL.,.
and is back in Jail to await trial on
charge of larceny. He processes ignor-
ance concerning whereabouts of the 9TH
crs.
The Michigan Salt Association has adj
vanced the price on salt in all markets out
west ) cents a barrel and in the home
markets s cents a barrel, which brings
the price up relatively the same in all
markets. The price was advanced be-
cause the amount on hand Is much less
than last year.
George a. Lyon, an Owosso blacksmith. |
36 years of age. got tired OF life and cut
his throat from ear to ear with a razor
completely severing the windppe. The |
doctors think he cannot recover. Domes-
tic troubles are said to have caused the |
act.
Battle Greek claims the distinction OF |
having sent the first woman into the Klon-
dyke gold fields. Mrs. Annie II. Moulton. |
daughter OF eN-Mayor Clement II. Thomp- |
son. She had been clerking in store |
at Oakland, CAL, and when the news Of |
this discovery was made public she re-
signed her position and took the first /
boat that sailed. with the first party o.
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