Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-03-14


further purchases until theiripresent stock
is reduced.
The paragraph published by us few
weeks ago, says tho Birmingham Eccen-
trio, stating that the Tack Company was
running both night and day in order to fill
its orders, has brought much anxiety to
certain former residents of the town, now
scattered here and there. That the quiet
of the town should be disturbed by day is
bad enough, but that the nightly slum-
bers of its worthless be disturbed is past
belief.
j. J. Anderson, retired, wealthy
business man of Monroe, was driving on
the ice on the Raisin River with Rev. t.
g. Potter, -whan-ths- ics~broks and Let
horses ard cutter into the river. Potter
was rescued, but Anderson was swept un-
der the ice and drowned.
Tho Grand Trunk ferryboat Transit,
which has been oat of commission for
several years, was burned at her dock at
Windsor. Loss, $4,000.
Vt has come to light, says special
telegram from Pontiac, that an attendant,
H. F. Taylor of the insane asylum so in.
jured patient named William Davis that
he died in half an hour. While passing
a corridor Davis struck Taylor in the
neck with his fist. Taylor flew into
passion, lost his senses, and grappled
.tl. Il. N,,Eo
fed in the hall before help could be OBJ
tanned. II is charged that Taylor, who
had Davis by the waist, raised him and
threw him across the arm of o heavy oak
bench. He followed this with his weight,
and held him down. AS each weighed l60
pounds, the fall was terrific. When help
arrived Davis was ordered to go on his
daily walk with the other patients. He said
he didn't want to, and either fell or was
pushed down seven sters of the stairs
with an attendant on each side. The poor
fellow was then walked over mile. He fell
to the ground several times, but was
compelled to go on. At last he died, and
was carried up stairs. The Coroners in
quest showed that every rib except two
was broken on the left side. His chest
bone was broken in the strongest part,
aud the knees aud elbows were skinned.
During the walk the ragged edges of the
bones had sawed off the bones and arter.
les until the whole body was filed with
blood. He was terribly injured. host
of officials and five lunatics testified at
the inquest in the asylum parlor that the
whole thing was do1e in self defense.
The Prosecuting Attorney thinks there is
ano her side OF the story. The jury re-
turned verdict that the man was killed
in self-defense.
Eddy, Avery & Eddy have shipped
5000, 900 feet of logs by rail from Lake
Sation to Averill, where they were banked
on the Tittabawassee.
Burglars blew open the safe in Cook
& Co.'S hardware store at Bellaire. The
doors were blown to pieces and the con-
teats damaged, the money being destroyed
by the explosion. Citizens tracked the
thieves in the snow and overlook man
near Central Lake, who gave the name OF
Frank Howard, of Bay City. Howard
showed fight and emptied one revolver al
his pursuers, one ball striking Town
Treasurer Adams, in6ictiug serious
wound. Howard took to the woods and
Adams was taken back to Bellaire. An.
other party started after Howard and
when cornered he again pulled o gun, bu
finally surrendered.
In the Circuit Court at Detroit de.
cision has been rendered in tho suit
brought by ID. M. Richardson against X
A. Alger and C. II. Bull to restrain them
from selling certain stocks in the Diamond
Match Company. Richardson transferred
to them this stock as security for indorse
ments on commercial paper, with the un-
derstanding thlt they were to receive one
half the dividend during the term of in
dorsement. They were indorsers for $85,
900, and received in oil sos, 400 in the in
vestment. They now claim that they wer
not only entitled to this, but to their pro
portion of the profit, making in all abou
$l37, 900. But the court found that thei
compensation should be $67, ,033, which i
one half Of the net proceeds during tn
! time of Endorsement. 1t also orders tina
} the stock be transferred back, and also tn
excess of money received, with interest a
per cent.
"A church fight has been inaugurate
( at Ste Ring by the arrest of DR.. Frank
Abbott and wife, William Lutz and wife
, and l.. II. Tiratt and wife, oil prominen
people, for stealing and taking out Of tn
I NJ. f. Church lamp. which started th
present heated and bitter feeling betwee
0 the Presbyterian and Methodist societies
Both sides were represented in court b
Q attorneys. To give security for costs on
of the trustees gave q chattel mortgage o
I one Of his yoke Of oxen. People wen
Y from distance OF twelve miles to liste
: to the evidence, but owing to flaw bein
: found in the papers the defendants wei
. discharged. They were Immediately re
{ arrested. Meantime the lamp mysteri
r ously disappeared from the Odd Fellowi
1 Hall, where it was taken the day it wa
r distracted from the church, and the MOI
: vigilant efforts failed to discover the hid
ing place. The war is still on.
+ "A remarkable railroad accident oc
g Cured at Marquette, on the South Shol
: Road. A heavy freight train loaded viii
8 mining machinery pulled out on the spJ