Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-10-04
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.


dings and Deaths - Crimes, Casualties.
and General News Notes.
The members of the State Board Of
Core tion and Charities are making tour
of the State institutions.
Flower thieves are pest that Kalama-
zoo is afflicted with at present.
Reunion of ex-prisoners of war at
Ovid Nov. 22 and 20.
The Kalamazoo county house has
thirty inmates.
The Crescent Match Companys works
at Saginaw City have started up, after
having been idle since July |. The works
employ fifty hands, thirty five girls and
fifteen men ald boys.
Mrs. Royal c. sayles OF Canton, acct
dentally fell Of backward from the stoop
of her esidence and struck her back against
a bell post, inAicting serious injuries.
-Alpena has four bands now.
Tho Anderson Road Cart Company of
Lansing shipped 100 carts to North Caro-
lima oae week.
Willie Chase, of Plymouth, who was
so seriously kicked in the abdomen by a
horse, is now pronounced by his physician
out of danger.
The Kalamazoo Telegraph says: "The
grare crop is reported 10 be light as COM
pared with last years yield. Adolph
Seller, who usually brings TO market the
finest of grapes in great quantities, says
he will not have half crop. Mr.. Lin
coin s,ys his vintage will not be one-third
of what it was last year.
DIR. J. Chamberlin, of Romeo, is dead,
after severe illness of brief duration. The
Doctor had been afflicted with lung trouble
for several yolrs past. and de nth was not
wholly unexpected He had been a resi-
dent of Romeo about twenty years, and
caves wife and four children, three
boys and one girl. He was 20 years OF
O.
The Saginaw Courier says: There is
in East Saginaw a secret organizat On of
ladies' at who's, meetings nothing but ele-
waiting subjects are discussed and fIom
which go sip and scandal is exclude ed as a
poisonous thiag. God bless every oae of
its members, and my the influence they
,ler, extend uatil it is felt throughout the
entire community.
= Ergene Drecsor, of Pulaski, left his
ONE SCI tember l3 10 go 10 the State Fair
~ jack on, since which time all trace of
iim has been lost. No cause is assigned
'or hi mysterious disnPT enruncc.
lie lC2d birthday of Mis- Sarah
Campbell, who re ides with her daughter,
Mrs. Beckwith, about three miles north of
Jackson was duly celebrated, and about n
do ca of her friends made tho occasion q
.,le saLt o@e by their presence. The old
lady is remarkably healthy for one of her
G. and although she is rnaLle 10 stand,
conv>r'cs and appears to greatly enjoy
visits fiom her friends and acquaintlnces.
-Alolt fifteen of the thi ty-three
women who wer, married to James w.
Brown, the champion Benedict, since
l1S3 conf olted h m in the Recorder S
ont in Detroit The list of vic
tins includel Helen Brownleo and
Annie Winters, of Chicago, who,
with Annie NJ. Hazel, Mary Benjamin,
ma Nancy Robertson, were the only ones
called on TO give evidence against Brown.
Tho nan; min uopon Nroo fba nro ,ac,1f
ing witness. 1t was established that
Browns methoI was to advertise for
housekeeper, select as victim
the one from among the applicants
who pleased him most, and marry her
as soon as possible. He would desert
her after few days. Five clergymen
of Detroit certified TO marrying Brown to
as many different women, and the case
cu!or left it 10 the jury without argument
Brown Testified in his own behalf and
made n sorry mess of it, contradictine
himself at every turn. He professed no,
to remember any of his dupes, asserted
that he wGs only once married, and that
his wife was dead and that he had once
bee1 confined as a lunatic at New Orleans
Brown was pallid and looked like a sicl
man. 1t i; claimed that he ate soaI
stolen from the Jail washstand to give
himself that appearance and excite sym.
pathy During the trial Nancy Robert
sons indignation could not be iepressed
AID she denounced Brown MS pcrfdioui
wretch. The jury agreed with her evi
IDENTIFY, for they took but four minutes tC
find him guilty. The Judge sentenced
him TO four ye rs and six months in In,
penitentiary. The extreme penalty TO
bigamy is fivo years.
George Barnhart, who has made
practice of frequently riding on D., l.. an,
N. fieight trains from Plymouth to hi
home, two and a half miles west of tha
place, and jumping of, had so far escape,
injury until tie other evening, when il
disemJarling he underestimated tn
speed of the train, which resulted in
broken arm and several severe bruises.
Twenty-Five boys and the same mum
Der of girls are to be sent from the lisa
bella County Indian Reservation to tn
school at Carlisle, Pa.
The boiler in j. II. Freeneys shingl
mill at South Saginaw exploded, wreckin
the mill and killing William Smith, a col
ored fireman. and fatally inju,ing williar
Foley, who had just steprel into the mil
-Four or five others we're slightly hurt