Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-03-13
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

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EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAvI
LATELY OCCURRED.
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An Interesting Summary of the More Iva
portant Doings Of Our Neighbors-wed
dings and Deaths = Grimes, Casualties
and General Ncws Notes.
In the Mich gan Prison at Marquette
few days ago, Reimunl Holzhay. m,
notorious train robber and murderer
tried to kill Keeper Palliser and Convict
Meservey. A letter from Marquette fur.
nishes the following particulars of the
affair:
Deputy Warden Hawley suspected that Holz
hay intended some outbreak. and sent Keeper
Palliser to bring up this convict for search. Az
Palliser entered and turned TO lock the cell door
the same tune holding knife al HIS throat. He
! then drew Palliser to tho gate, saying 60 tne
xii me or 1 will XIII this man.
| When Deputy Warden Hawley raised his rife
| Holzhay concluded he did not want to die Just
/ then and shielded him self with Pallisers BODY.
| Finally the latter broke away and escaped.
Holiday then seized fellow convict named
Meservey and repeated the same tactics After
awhile Holzhay sat down on box In the CELL still
keeping Meservey between him and the Warden 3
rifle. For two hours Warden Tompkins tried to
reason with the desperate or get a chance to dis
arm him. Holzhay cunning and got into q
/ position where he could not be commanded from
lhe outside windows. Finally his attention was
distracted for an instant by a Ike per talking to
convict on the opposite side of the cell. His
hand, grasping the knife, was lying on his knee
warden Tompkins seized the opportunity and
planted bullet directly through the knuckes
OF Holzhays hand. The wounded despera 10
showed no signs of the intense pain hs must
have suffered. Coolly exclaiming, well, you We
done II, he arose from the box and surrendered,
tne blood streamingf from his shattered hand.
Question d by Detroit Free Press
correspondent regarding the use of his
name as congressional possibility,
Governor Luce is reI OF ted as saying:
Il have not given the matter moments seri-
Gus consideration. have no desire or inclina-
tion to run for Congress next fall Some time
ago told a number OF gentlemen who spoke to
me regarding the matter that could not accept
trict"
Would you accept n nomination in some
Il nm not, nor do expect to be, a candidate
Tor Congress from this or any other district. 1t
does not comport with my idea OF propriety to
hold one office while campaigning tor another.
cannot, consistently with my own ideas ac-
cept any nomination for another Office " lille
serving as Governor OF Michigan
Editor Brown, of the Mt. Pleasant
Tribune, is defenda in two libel suits
which will be tried 1T the present term of
the Isabel County Court. If the plain
tiffs get what they demand, Mr.. Brown
will be $751; 900 poorer than he is at this
writing
Detroit journal: A. A. Dorrance, of
Coldwater, was at one time a newspaper
publisher in Jackson. Little Jim"
O'Donnell was tie Office imp. Both grew
older as the years sped on. O'Donnell is
in Con gress, md to show his regard for
his >o]d. Rmolov or. made kim yo@4iOS, -11Ie
saying tn Lr.ad cast upon the waters
will turn up somewhere most every time.
An omnibus. full of passengers, was
run away with at Oscoda and upset. Mrs.
G. V. Hicks and Miss Van Valkenberg
were considerably cut and bruised, the
other passengers escaping without injury.
Samuel wiel, of Saginaw, fell in love
with his pretty cousin, Lisa Reis, of To-
ledo, and by mutual arrangement mar
riage was ag eed upon. The couple are
cousins, and according to the blck- num-
Der laws OF Ohio they couldn't get mar
ried; hence they went to Windsor, across
the river from Detroit, were legally and
irreparably joined, and then went to
Toledo, h d the service repeated aud are
now in position to snap their fingers at
the Buckeye hawbucks.
Some days ago Mrs. H. A. Sorg, of
a. .nsk L.
hvI bate, boiDs orIafu az TemuIn NJ n1r
home, which had been fred once, pre-
sumably by tramp who was refused food
and lodging. The Sorgs were getting
notes from this alleged tramp, making all
manner of threats. officers made thor
ough investigation, and this resulted in
the arrest of Mary Turner, the servant.
She weakened and confessel l. n was
she who wrote the notes, at the instance
Of the tramp. who is an old frien1. The
girl will be sent to the rIform school.
Bay City is to have dental college.
"A pet colt at Dansville, Ingham
County, attacked q horse drawing bug
gy, in which Mrs. Willis Dakin was
riding, and the lady was thrown from the
vehicle, sustaining serious and perhaps
fatal injuries.
The socialists aud anarchists at Bay
City have organized an will fight unjust
taxation.
Governor Luce has pardoned Daniel
Sullivan, VIII, wal sent TO Sta.e Prison
from Like County in 1885 for nine years
for assault with intent to murder. Sulli-
van stabbed a man named McKray, q
comparative stranger, during saloo n
row. He is pardoned on account OF his
youth, his excellent record in ths prison,
and the fact thit he wa5 under the in
huence of liquor at the time OF the ARRAY.
He has given the Governor his pledge
that he will refrain from the use Of liquor
hereafter.
The SdGinauidn prints a sketch of
the life, public services and death of Mr..
Douglas Houghton, the first State geolo-
gist of Michigan. He was appointed by
Gov. Stevens T. Mason in 1888, and in
1874 discovered the iron and copper de-
posits OF the Upper Peninsula. He was
subsequently drowned in Lake Superior.
Marquette will erect $4,000 opera
house for the Uncle Toms Cabin"