Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-04-07

the EtEs
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CHARLES T.. HARRISON, Of Grant,
Huron County, was stricken with paral-
ysis and died. He was born In England
about the year 1907.
JAMES BUTLER, the burglar. who es-
capped from the prison at jackson. has
been captured at Windsor. Ont, and. he
is now in jail awaiting extradition.
A FLOCK OF wild geese were cleaning
In the corn stubble at Pinckney, Liv-
ingston County, for over a week, but q
goose never goes into camp without
throwing out pickets, and no one could
crawl within gun distance Of them.
AND now it Is the superintendent Of
the Oceana County House who is ac-
cused by one of the female inmates, and
an investigation Is to be made. The
investigation at the Calhoun AMI Mecosta
County houses showed that the charges
were trumped up.
PATRICK WARD and Edward Moore,
who reside at Marysville, were on their
way home In an intoxicated condition.
They got into a row with William
O'Toole, proprietor of saloon, during
which Moore drew a pistol and shot
O'Toole. He will be tried for murder.
JUDGMENT was taken by default I'm
the Circuit Court at Lansing against the
Union Mutual Accident Insurance Com
pany of Chicago for $4,000. in favor OF
Louise @. Hessler, mother Of Edward
HI. Hessler, who was killed by Detroit,
Lansing and Northern train at Grand
Ledge two years ago.
Gov. WINANs has issued an order
directing Attorney General Ellis to In
vestigate the charges against Dennis
Hebron, Sheriff of Schoolcraft County.
and he will proceed to Manistique for
that purpose. 1t Is optional with him
vnder the statute whether he will con-
duct the investigation before the Circuit
Court Commissioner or Judge Of Probate.
EDWARD BALDWIN, of Harrisville,
was recently convicted Of killing a deer
out Of season, and Justice Beech fined
him $50, in default to go to jail for thir-
ty days. Baldwin's attorney considered
the fine unreasonably large, and APP
pealed to the Justice to reduce 1t. The
Justice held that he had no power to do
so, and the Attorney General has now
confirmed his Judgment.
WIN. PRATT, living mile and a half
west of,Bentley postoffice, was in Bent
ley on business, and while there bought
bottle of whisky. Returning home he
met two men who helped him drink It
He became drunk and did not awake
until his clothes began burning. Pass
ersby came to his rescue. Pratt says
the men robbed him of $40 and then set
fire to his clothes. It Is feared his in
juries will result fatally.
AT Pontiac, Miss Belle Stroud, 13-
year-old daughter of the proprietor OF
the American House, was in Ed Stevens
meat market making purchases for the
hotel, and made some remark about buy
130-pound porker that was hanging
from the hook. One word led to another,
and finally Stevens told her that she
could have the pig If she could carry it
home, whereupon she lifted 1t from the
hook, swung it up to her shoulder and
in trice 1t was at the American House.
THE rumor having prevailed that there
was an outbreak of diphtheria at the
Agricultural College, Secretary Reynolds
is out inf an official statement to tho
effect that the only fact upon which 1t
could be based was that young man
who occupies the room in which there
were two cases OF diphtheria last term
is afflicted with sore throat, and although
the room had been vigorously fumjgated
the State Board of Health, he has been
kept under quarantine. Although there
were no signs of dlphtheria, it was
deemed safer to take the precaution I'M
der the circumstances.
The residents Of Pressure Isle County
despair OF ever bringing the alleged
perpetrators Of the famous Molitor MUIR
der at Rogers City to justice unless the
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a petition signed by all but one of the
ten members of the Board of Supervis-
ors asking him to instruct the Attorney
General to prosecute these cases. The
petitioners say that the cases have al
ready been twice continued at great ex-
pense, the Prosecuting Attorney is q
confirmed drunkard, and that the de-
PENDANTS and their attorneys rely upon
keeping him in office, boldly asserting
that as long as he continues to be pros
ecutor nothing will be done in the mat
ser. The Governor has not yet an
nounced his decision.
MONDAY morning, Abraham Cooley,
n well-to-do farmer, aged so years, liv-
ing one mile north of Richmond, muir
dered his wife In cold blood and then
finished his horrible work by committing
suicide. Mrs. Cooley was his second
wife, TO whom he had been married
about year. She has two sons In Chi
cago, and one is supposed to be In Texas.
They are children by her first husband.
and she had daughter, 10 years old, by
her second husband, from whom she had
been divorced, she having been married
three times in all. Mr.. Cooley
had five grown sons. The motive
which prompted this terrible deed
can be best judged from a paper in
Just been written. 1t read as follows:
THE act which am about to commit I
hope God will forgive me for. Lib has
robbed me OF my happiness, and is now
agoing to rob the family, because the
law allows woman to do as they
please, and for other reasons not be-
coming of woman. / told Mr., Wicks
that he must look to her for the money
he let her have, as l would not be
responsible for II, The papers Is In the
little box in the tool chest. Mr.. Acker.
, please pay those checks to Frank and he
can settle with the rest of the boys.
Sell the farm to my son and he can pay
the rest of. Goodbye to my family.
Don't bury Lib on my lot. Search her
boxes and take what belongs TO me.
WILLIAM BUSH, OF Chippewa Town
ship, went down to Mt. Pleasant and
assaulted beefsteak. While endeav-
oring to masticate a section of 1t he
laughed, and it slipped down into his
windpipe and lodged there. Two or
three doctors were called in, and they
unanimously agreed that Bush must die
He had baen unoonacioaia two honra