Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-02-05
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.

Pewamo. He was veteran of the war
Of 1912.
AT Sault Ste. Marie, Reuben Mont
gomery, a young farmer, who went with
William Coulter to "see him through" at
the time he killed his father, was ar
rested as an accomplice to the brutal
murder. Montgomery belongs TO quite
q prominent family. The evidence
against him Is strong
FRANK ROSE OF Chicago died and his
were sent to Kalamazoo. The
death certificate stated that he died of
quinsy, but it transpires that diphtheria
was the cause. Many people have been
exposed, and Kalamazoo authorities are
indignant.
DELos STAPLES, OF Portland, Ionia
County, who was convicted in the United
States Court last December Of using the
mails for fraud, was sentenced to the
Detroit House Of Correction for fourteen
He ran an imaginary fruit and
grain farm and advertised widely in
country and religious papers through
Indiana, Illinois and Ohio that he had
"high grade wheat" and a special variety
of huckleberry bushes for sale at fancy
prices lie sent his patrons poor wheat
and ordinary stubbles picked up In the
woods or failed to forward anything at
all, and neglected to pay for the adver-
tlsements. About forty victims appeared
at the trial against him.
CHARLES III. HUTTON, boiler-maker,
died at Kalamazoo. He was injured by
a pony running away, and lockjaw pro-
duced death
AT Bloomfield, Geo. Hall and two sons
have died of diphtheria, and Mrs. Hall
and the last child are dangerously ILL.,
CITIZENS at Saginaw, grin with glee at
the sight of their street railway COM
pany and the M. G. Railroad in red
hot legal fight over wire cutting.
PATRICK HEATING farmer of Jones'
vile, took paris green. His recovery is
doubtful No cause is assigned.
CAPT. john NJ. MITCHELL, of Toledo,
proposes to form a stock company and
build fast boat to ply between Grand
Rapids and Grand Haven for freight and
passenger traffic, the proposed boat to
cost $40, 600 and be OF 600 tons burden.
AT BAY CITY, Michael Labiak died OF
diphtheria, and at o'clock Of the same
day his widow also expired from the
same disease. Two weeks ago an 49,
year-old daughter died OF diphtheria,
and of the four remaining members OF
the family two are i'll and not expected
to recover.
A PIONEER of Pontiac, Horace Thur
ber, is dead and buried, aged so.
AT Saginaw Chief OF Police Kain has
arrested a man who gives his name as
John Howard, alias Charles Green, on
suspicion of having been connected with
the stealing OF $1,000 worth of diamonds
in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York.
THE Sheriff of Calhoun County has
offered reward of $50 for information
that will lead to the arrest and convic-
tion of the party or parties who put
arsenic in the we'll on Bert Wickham':
premises in Verona.
AT Saginaw, eleven pieces of skin one
inch wide and seven inches long were
taken from Miss Louise Little, to bC
grated upon her sister Sarah, who wa:
desperately burned several weeks age
while dressing for a party. The result
of the operation is all that was looked
for.
AT Au Sable, Allie Grace Crenshaw, oI
miscellaneous notoriety, took nearly 6
fatal doso of morphine.
A BAY CITY grocer named Joblinsk
accepted SO Confederate bill.
S. NJ. BOYLE of Essex was told to feed
arsenic to his horses to cure scratches
He did so and buried four of the best
he had.
JUST before going out OF Office Auditor
General Tip Aplin awarded the printing
of delinquent tax lists to Republican
papers. but the Supreme Court says the
new Auditor General has right to pc
call the awards, as they were not con
tracts.
Mrs. A. G. w. CRENsHAw, wife of the
bigamist who died in prison, has sworr
out warrant for Wells Sabine, of Al
Sable, for breach of promise.
j. A. c. CHEvRIER, undertaken at Os
coda, has assigned.
A 7-YEAR-oLD son OF j. Maddox, OF
Pontiac, willie feeding chickens filled
his mouth with corn and was choked tc
death.
A 7-YEAR-oDD boy named Rice, al
West Bloomfield, was kicked in the face
by colt, his jaw bones broken and his
face made entirely unreoognizable. He
may recover.
AT meeting held at Lansing, by the
Michigan manufacturers of fruit goods
IL was decided to ask the Legislature tC
appoint commission to guard against
fruit adulteration. President Geo. f.
Almendinger. asserted that Michigan II
annually using adulterated goods to the
amount of over 100000 He said
lrfo e,tr aA A,tl
terated coffee, into which we may alsC
turn adulterated milk and then sweeteT
with sugar adulterated with glucose
We eat biscuits that have been raised
with an alum baking powder, and spread
1t with butter that has been churned ou
OF the fat of steer instead OF cream
from COW. We also eat pickles put III
in adulterated vinegar and colored will
salts of copper, and canned goods sea
soned with lead. and to close the day W.
take cup OF adulterated tea"
AT Saginaw, John L. Sullivan, the slug
ger, was challenged TO throw a heav!
trunk into a. baggage car, and did so
smashing il to bits.
THE Chicago and Grand Trunk ha
placed local tickets on sale at two cent
per mile. This indicates that the com
pany has abandoned its announced pur
pose Of lighting the Chapman law In th
United States Supreme Court.
THE body Of a newborn male infan
was found in an clubhouse in PortHuron
Sarah Cooley, of Brown City, has con
fessed to tho police that she is the moth
er Of the child.
THE Board Of Trustees of the Michi
gan Insane Asylum elected DIR. w. M
Edwards, of KALAMAZOO, to succee
Medical Superintendent Palmer, re
signed.
The ninety-three mines in the uppe