Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-07-30
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY
OCCURRED.

dings and Deaths-CrImes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
THE 13-year-old son OF Chauncy Doug
lass. three miles from Waldron, Hills
dale County, on the territory road, haf
a gun and did not know 10 was loaded.
Neither was he aware that his mothef
was In q shed back OF the house, and he
shot her dead The boy Is crazed with
grief.
Il. ID. MARrISDALE. a young man OF
Hillsdale. and a graduate OF Hillsdales
College In this years class. was drowned
while boating on Bawbeese Lake. He
was I'm company with Miss Blanche
Spencer, OF St Augustine, Fla. aso a
student of the college, In light canof
when IL was overturned. Both wee
good swimmers, Martindale especially
being expert and quite an athlete.
They chung to the boat, but after a tina
Martindae sank. Miss Spencer caught
and tried to save him but could not
She was In the water about an hour and
was nearly dead when rescued
APPLICATION was made )v the +. a.
+. Nj. X. X Co. for permission 10 aban-
don that part OF their line between Yale
and Zion, distance of ten miles Judge
Garfield denied their motion, giving az
a reason that the people of that neigh.
borhood had bonused the road and giveb
the right OF way and were entitled t.
service. The comrany took the law into
their own hands and put several gangs
of men at work tearing up the track and
not rail was left between Yale and
Zion.
MICHIGAN stands twelfth in the list OF
States as regards the number OF pau
pers, having 1916. or these ,l6S. alf
"a s~1 A Id a
foreign born number IT'S. The follow
ing counties are reported to the census
as having no poorhouse Alger, Arenac,
Baraga, Benzie, Char.evoix, Iron, Royal,
Leelenaw, Manltou, Montmorency, Os-
coda, Presque Isle and Roscommon
AT New Baltimore, Albert Ashley,
the 17-year- old boy who killed Eber De
Cant, was released. The prosecutor is
not inclined to proceed against him.
Friends OF the murdered man are indig-
nant and will attempt to have the boy
punished.
UTICA was shocked by the sudden
death of Mrs. Elizabeth Diedrich, WIN,
without the slightest warning. dropped
from her chair dead while playing with
the children. She suffered from the
grip 1asJ sprins, but NV Thought she
had entirely recovered.
ANTON ScHUPHAFE with others was
stealing a ride on the Michigan Central
and the brakeman locked them In b x
car, saying he would have them arrested
on arriving at New Buffalo. Near the
latter place they got the door open in
some manner and jumped. Schupafe
fell backwards and the wheels cut of
one arm. He died in a few hours. The
man had been in America but year
and had worked most of the time on the
new hospital at Ann Arbor.
The Michigan Tribunen, an Ironwood
paper, has changed the name to BiOkdd-
bnytdren, and the subscribers are taking
to the timber.
APPLICATION for a Supreme Court
mandamus to compel Mayor Martin, oil
West Bay City, TO sign the monthly pay
order of Chief of Police Lennon. will de-
termine whether the Chief legally holds
his lob under the recent decision VIII cb
so disturbed Wisner Bastone, Cook,
ct al.
sP 4, ,SQ1oR fell Of a pile Of tele.
his brains out on I rail, at Monroe. :
JENNIE, the book agent who married
Celestial Lindfair, of Leslie, although
possessed of another wife in Barry
and will be brought back to Michigan.
BURGLARS entered the store of J. Van
Buskirk, at South HarIisvile. They
got away with from $50 to $500, or
which about 500 belonged to the F. &
A. NJ lodge. No clue.
CAsEvILLE, Huron County. has a sum-
mer normal school with 140 teachers in
attendance.
CAPT. MELVILLE, of Port Huron, has
a proud young bantam which has just
Matched nine California quail.
july is an unlucky month for Alpena.
Twice great fires have come near WHIP
ing out the town In that month, and the
folks are always nervous until Aug. is
reached.
ford, committed suicide by throwing
himself in front of passing express
train.
GOOD roadsters are said to be getting
scarce in Central and Southern Michi-
gan. Horse dealers who have shipped
many valuable consignments out of that
section In years past will have to work
other territory for while
LIGHTNING struck ID. +. Griswold's
house, near Worthwhile, both Mr.. and
Mrs. Griswold receiving severe shocks.
The building occupied as L. S. Il NJ. :.
depot and postoffice at Portage, KaIa-
mazoo County, was struck and burned.
GRAssHopPERs are devouring crops in
Manistee County.
THIS years Michigan crop OF peaches
is estimated at 1000, 900 bushels.
SECT socials" are the latest thing at
Manistee. The girls take OF their shoes
and stockings and hide behind screens,
with nothing but their pink and white
ankles and toes visible. The boys make
selection among the bewitcning ana
tomical display, and the owner Of the
pair of feet he picks out has to be taken
to supper.
WHfrSEr, ~ smaff to,vuoss-sa-s .--s--r---.
and Northwestern Railroad, near rs
canada, has been destroyed by fire. One
store and certain charcoal kilns are all
that is left, and seventeen families are
homeless.
ALFRED ASHLEY, IL years old, of New
quarreled with Eber De Caut
an employee OF livery stable, and killed
him by blow on the head with a screw
driver.
THE Masons' Fraternal Insurance
Company refused TO pay a IS. 600 risk on
the life of j. X. Leadbetter, a Bay City
man who was drowned while repairinQ a.