Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-21
Father Bogacki, the Bay City Polish
priest. was arrested on two counts. He
gave 81 900 bail for his appearance.

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its spread.
Five Muskegon residences, all of them
vacant except one, in the old settlement
ut the harbor entrance, burned the other
night. II necessitated lively work to save
the Crosby warehouse.
The Common Council of Negaunee is
composed of truly good men, and they
have enacted an ordinance providing that
no resident of that city must play cards
or shake dice on Sunday.
A number of abandoned mines in Ke-
weenaw County may be reopened. Capt.
talists are having the delinquent taxes on
the properties examined. and may acquire
possession by purchasing the tax titles.
If they do, the mines will in all probable
ity be again put into operation.
A couple of months ago boy working
for Charles Peake. of Harrison, found
roll of $500 in greenbacks in an old tin
can. He gave it TO his employer, in re-
turn for suit of clothes and a gun. Since
then there have been couple of claimants
for the wad, but Peake still holds il.
James Draper, a pioneer, died 1T his
home near Jackson of old age lie was
born in New York in 1917, and when a
young man drove blooded horse to Mich
igan. Over fifty years ago he purchased
the farm on which he died. He leaves
a widow and six children.
While skating on the mill pond at Mar
shall with other boys Sunday afternoon
j. Wilson, aged Is years. broke through
the ice and was drowned, his comrades
being unable to render assistance. The
body was recovered two hours afterward.
The skates got caught in the rubbish at
the bottom of the water and prevented the
body from rising.
Mary Erickson. of Iron Mountain, was
badly scalded and her life was despaired
of on account of the fact that the skin on
the scalded parts would not grow. Six
men offered the skin necessary to cover
the bare places. and the surgeons remoy-
ed 264 pieces from their arms and grated
them upon the woman, who will now
probably recover.
Glenn Blood. the young ex-convict who
shot Sheriff Snow of Kalamazoo. has
Ewaived examination before Recorder Peck
and been bound over to the Circuit Court
for trial on the charge of assault with in
tent to kill. He walks back and forth
III tHt jan lNEitttihS 'hat ht
did not have double-barreled gun so he
could have shot both officers. One of his
sisters was punished by q teacher i'm the
public school and Clem went to the school,
found the teacher and knocked her down
with stunning blow. He would have
been arrested for that had he not com
mitted worse crimes.
The Michigan crop report for January
says that 163 correspondents in the State
report that wheat suffered injury during
December, while J0S report that il did
not The average condition Of Eve stock
is reported as follows: Eorses, 81 per
cent; cattle. 9S; sheep. 0S: swine, 90.
Compared with one year ago, there has
been an increase in the prices OF all farm
products excepting corn, oats. hay, hogs
and dressed pork. The average increase
in the price of wheat is % cents per bushel
and of fat cattle 20 cents per cwt. Corn
has declined nine cents and oats three
cents per bushel, and hay S5.39 per ton.
A .'masher." who clerks in Holland
store and visits the postoiiice unnecessar-
lily about dozen times day. recently re-
ceived a letter reading: "Sweet Boy-I
love you: you know not who / am, but
have often admired you from a distance.
l have noticed you going to the postoffice
and take this method of reaching you"
The clerk was in the seventh heaven of
delight till he turned the page and read:
Now, you blathering idiot, come back
and go To work. You have kept the track
hot between here and the postoffice long
enough. This is good way to cure you.
Now hustle. i will attend TO the mail
hereafter. YOUR EMPLOYER
G. NJ. Bently, who perpetrated fraud
upon the Royal Arcanum whereby he Sc
cured $4,000 upon the aneged death of
Henry $. Ballentine, of Port Huron, by
fraudulent proofs of death. was arrested
upon charge of perjury. The complaint
was made by w. o. Robeson. of Boston.
supreme secretary of the order. Bently
was Immediately arraigned upon the
charge. Upon the advice of his attor-
ney. Seward l.. Merriam. he refused 10
plead and plea of not guilty was enter
ed by the court. bail being fixed at $1,000.
Bondsmen were secured. Bently made
full restitution to the order, it is said.
upon the supposition that no criminal
proceedings would he commenced. and
the new turn of affairs is in the nature
of surprise to some of his friends.
Labor Commissioner Morse of Michi-
gan has prepared an interesting chapter
on the eight-hour day which will he in
corporated with his report to the Legis-
lature. He has made POLL of the employ
ers and employed of the State, with these
results: Out of 1850 employees of manu-
featuring concerns. 3,49S favored an
eight-hour day, and LOO were not in
favor of it. Of those who favored it
2.7SS made the condition that wages
should not he reduced, and sos were will
ing to suffer a cut. OF the total S96 did
not believe that the average man could
do as much work in eight hours as in ten.
Twenty-Five per cent of the employers
favored an eight-hour day, and only one
half of these were willing that wages
should not be reduced. All the employers
declare that it is impossible to do as much
work in eight hours as in ten. Those who
opposed the eight-hour day urged that
current expenses remained the same with
an eight.hour day as with tcn-hour day.
Mr.. Morse's report will contain an arti-
Gle by Samuel Gompers on the desirable
ity of the eight-hour day, and George III.
Barbour, superintendent of the Michigan
Stove Company, has presented the en-
ployers' side of the question. On the
whole, the commissioners report is IN ex-
ceedingly interesting document.
Omer is having boom. A stave mill
and 50-barrel Touring mill are among
the industries recently located there. and
contracts have already been let for TWEEN
ty new residences to be erected in the
spring.
Bishop Richter of Grand Rnpids nrriv.