Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-03-12
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.

| portang Dohngs OF our NoighDOrs-We w cd
dIngs and Deaths-CrImes, Casualties.
and General News Notes.
ONE Of tho most atrocious crimes In
the history of Hillsdale county occurred
In .Hillsdale. The victim, Mrs. Susanna
walker, is widow about As years old
and lives alone After hard days
work she went homo late She was
aWakend by some one bursting open the
front door. She was struck on the left
side of the head and face a number of
savage blows with heavy club, which
rendered her unconscious. When she
regained consciousness, she said man
had broken open the door and saying
something about revenge attacked her.
Officers arrested Dave Walters, a man
about 35 years OF age. When taken to
the jail and examined close'y blood was
found on Walters shirt in number of
places. He claims the blood was due to
a ferret biting his ear. The attending
physician says there is no hope of Mrs
Walkers recovery. Her head is pounded
almost to jelly.
THE last Agricultural College bulletin
tells farmers how. Canada thistles, red
root, MULLEN, toad flax, rib grass, and
narrow dock look, and how to kill them
without the use OF hoe. The instruc-
tions are sent free to anybody.
THE big propeller Russell Sage,
beached below Cheboygan in storm last
November, will be pumped out and res
cued by the Port Huron Wreeking Com
pany. 1t is loaded with iron ore.
Fred Emmont, of Saginaw, who kept
a dead mans name on the pay roll of tho
Flint & Pere Marquette Road and drew
the dead mans salary, has been sent to
jackson for eighteen months. He con-
fessed
| THERE Is more room for hard-workers
| up in Antrim County than the people
know what to do with, and this is given
as a possibility: c. Kalbseisch and his
boys have cut off two acres of his poor
est timber this winter, with the following
cash results therefrom: Logs, Sl0s; block
wood, 800; kiln wood, $3.50; total, $65s.
AS Mr.. KalbHeisch carries his green wood
over and seasons 1t, selling it in the fall,
$500 is to be added to the above total,
making $s5s, or forest product of $429
| per acre.
AT Detroit William p. Wells, one Of
the most distinguished Michigan lawyers,
dropped dead in the County Court, just
after having finished an argument. He
| had been Collector of Customs under
| President johnson, was Chairman of the
| general council of the American Bar
Association, Kent professor Of law in
the University OF Michigan, and one OF
the leading Democrats of the State. He
was born at St Albans, VT, in 1881.
CHARLES G. LEARNED, of Port Austin,
is dead. He was "A years cd, and had a
| farm OF 800 acres under tillage.
TIE residents of interior Africa would
do we'll to send a missionary TO Saginaw
to tell the officers that IL Is not humane
to allow an inhuman mother to exhibit
two-pound baby at a freakorium for So
| week until the moastrosity dies.
W. H. EASTMAN, OF Antrim County,
| says It's irony OF fate when the one Of
his horses not insured was killed in
runaway accident, and its matc, with
500 policy on his heal, escaped without
injury.
THE Bay City Mission saved twenty
three sinners last year, and it will take
$3.50 to get as many this year. Charita-
! bic people are beginning to think the
per capita price is too high.
TIE st Clair County Savings Bank
will be the title OF new bank in Port
Huron. 1t will have home-nickel-in-
the-slot system, with once-a-month
collection.
JUDGE STEERE says there are many
dreadfully tough places in Chippewa
County, and he wants a grand jury to
see about them.
TIE Presbyterian ladies OF st. Louis
are publishing a cook book to help pay
the church expenses.
KALAMAzoo's big capsule concern has
been merged into an indianapolis COM
pany, and therefore the celery city
walls.
A CHILD was recently born to James
Hamilton and wife, OF Bessemer. The
strange part OF the item Is the fact that
the parents are 20 and 65 years old.
THE Democrats have nominated John
o. Champlin to succeed himself as JUS
| tice of the Supreme Court
LOUIS j. BARNES, OF Sagin aw, and the
| daughter of prominent citizen were
| just repeating the vows which would
make them man and wife, in the presence
of large company of friends, when he
was arrested, at the instance OF Ida
| George, charged with being the father
of her child. The prospective bride
tainted, but upon recovering declared
She would marry Barnes anyway. Upon
trial, Barnes was convicted
CONTRACTS have been let for twenty
five new buildings at Durand. They are
mostly for Homes.
JUD CROUCH, of Jackson, who for
seven years has been under $50, 900 for
his appearance to answer for the famous
Crouch murder, is now free. The case
was nolle prosecuted.
TIE Michigan p OF l. have decided to
make no union with any other order.
THE Supreme Court has established
the right OF County Clerks to suppress
the files In legal cases at their discretion.
The opinion holds that in divorce cases
the public Is certainly not interested,
and that the pubic interests would be
best subscrvcd y tho charges in divorce
cases were never published.
JomN ii. DESMOND, Of Port Huron,
gets the app1'h;mcnt OF mechanical en-
ginecr in tho Railroad Commission ers
Office. lie has been q Grand Trunk en-
ginoer nineteen years
An effort Is now being made to get
Uncle Sam to realize Saginaw Is con-
colidated and wants only one Postoffice.
Tho red tape necessary to the abolition
Of tho West Side Office is now being un-
wound.
JAMES CALLAHAN was found hanging
from his road cart, dead, near Pontiac.
Ills horse became frightened and the
man fell to tho ground and was dragged
until life was extinct.
TIE Provincial Board OF Health, of