Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-06-16

cessful Attempt at Suicide nc Beiknsp-l
| Little Lucy and the Pistol.
From Far and Near.
FREIGHT CONDUCTOR MoFADDEN, oi
West Bay City, was run over by car al
Kawkawlin, his left foot being terribly
| smashed.
THE Saginaw Board OF Trade reor-
ganization was perfected, with member
| ship OF over $50. A board OF nine direct
ors was elected. and the Hon. VIM. L..
Weber was elected President and II. O.
Knapp Treasurer.
HuBINGER's store at Frankenmuttt
was entered by burglars and quantity
OF goods carried of. A saloon was also
entered and quantity OF liquors and
cigars stolen. It Is reported the total
loss amounted to several hundred
dollars.
CHARLES CLARK, an elderly man and
a cripple, living at Wixom, was knocked
down by an itinerant salesman of cheap
silverware and robbed of $500. Clark
was choked considerably, but his in
1uries are not serious. The peddler was
captured.
AT Kalamazoo, little Lucy Babcock,
aged 10 years, found an old 22-caliber
revolver In the garnet of Aid. j. j.
Morse's house, where she was visiting.l
and accidentally discharged 1t. The
ball was taken out near her shoulder
blade. The chances for her recovery
are considered good.
AN electric storm near jackson did
considerable damage. Joseph Stone
had two horses killed which he had re-
Gently purchased. He had mortgaged,
his home to buy the horses. The barn
OF Job Sergeant was struck and one
horse killed. Other slight damages
were done throughout the city.
A4-YEAR- OLD boy named John Waw-
risynaik, at Bay City, was picked up by
fellow named Crazy Joe" and thrown
to the sidewalk with such force as to
rupture the drum of his right ear and
otherwise injure him. The attending
surgeon says II the child RECEIVERS he
will be deaf in one ear the remainder OF
his life.
HON. G. STUART DRAPER, regent of,
the University, and one of the most
brilliant members of the bar in Saginaw,
departed for Europe few weeks ago,
accompanied by his wife, to test the
efficacy of the Carlsbad waters in
restoring his falling health. A cable
ing that Mr.. Draper is worse. his stom-
ach trouble having been aggravated by
| the voyage. He was completely run
down before starting on his ocean voy-
age,
WILLIAM DIEz, 90 years Of age, lived
with his mother at Belknap, Presque
Isle County. He didn't agree with the
old lady On farming questions, so on
Monday he lay down in the road, placed
the muzzle of his Winchester to his left
breast and pushed the trigger with q
stick. Pretty soon he discovered he
wasn't dead, and repeated the services.
When found he had lost confidence in
Winchesters, and was trying to open his
| jackknife to cut his throat. Three hours
afterward he died.
Tom ATKINSON, while repairing the
floor of a harness shop in Midland the
other day, found box in which was a
lot of gold coin, the exact amount being
kept secret by the finder. The box
also contained a copy of the Detroit
Post of Oct. 30, 1870 During the year
1870 Hank harrington, who killed a
saloonkeeper at Au Sable, for which he
served twelve years In prison, and was
drowned while crossing Lake Huron,
| lived in the building, and is thought to
be the owner of the pot of money, which
his son, who has engaged lawyer to
urge his claims, believes to have been
from 5000 to $4,000.
LOUIS JENIsoN was killed at lumber
camp in Newaygo County. He fell in
front of a logging truck and wheel
crushed him at the hips.
MRS. GEO. F. HOOD, wife OF a Bay
City insurance agent, prominent lady
in tho Congregational Church, and an
old resident, died of dropsy of the heart
after short Illness.
AN Ontonagon girl, 10 years of age, is
raising a luxuriant growth of fiery red
whiskers, and because her ma won't let
her shave and wear pants she threatens
to run away from home and be a man
anyway. - ''r.-~'
JOHN MCDONALD. aged 81, Is under
arrest at Port Huron charged with hav-
ing feloniously assaulted an ageo wom-
an on Sunday night, breaking into her
house for the purpose. Her assailant
was masked.
BY measurements made at the State
Board of Health the rainfall for the
month Of May was 6.31 inches. In 1880
the precipitation was 6.81 inches; in
1883, 6.31 inches. in 1890, 6.22 inches.
The normal rainfall for May is inches.
Two LADIES were candidates for
school trustees at the Kalamazoo annual
election, and, as a result, fifteen times
as many votes were cast as last year.
The present trustees were elected by
the following vote: Henry E. Hoyt, 799;
Frank Henderson, 1855; Mrs. j. E.
Clough, 1876; Mrs. Rachel Upjohn, SOL.
Two other tickets were in the field, but
received only small vote.
For several weeks past Saginaw bus
mess houses and saloons have been vic
timized by swindler who has system
atically passed raised bills. Each vic
tim kept quiet, hoping to trap the coun-
terfeiter, and the result was that he was
able to pass surprising amount of the
notes, which were 50 bills neatly altered
TO $40. From $50 to 200 of these have
been scattered and good money given in
return. An arrest was made which it is
thought Is an important one. Frank
Alexander, well known in the Saginaw
Valley, was taken into custody at Bay
City and brought here charged with the
crime. 1t Is claimed that business men
In Bay City and other Michigan towns
have been taken in, presumably by the
came crook.
ERNEST WHITNEY, OF Bentley, had
hand crushed between two cars few
days since, and though 1t was promptly
amputated blood poisoning set In and he
died.
AT Lansing, at the eighth annual ma
tional conference of State Boards Of
Health, resolution was adopted giving
as the unanimous opinion Of the confer