Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-01-07


David Wri1ht, OF Flainfeld, while the
owner was at church.
SENATOR SrocKBRIDGE is laid up with
Ia grippe at Washington, and w. X.
Bates is just getting out again.
HARRY BAoLEY. stepson Of Matthew
Bardon, OF Saginaw, was killed by the
widow In Detroit
CONGRESSMAN O'DoSNELL, who has
had IA grippe for the past ten days, felt
so much better that he yentured out.
He suffered relapse In consequence.
COL ROBERT ID BURNS, Of Kalama-
700, q well-known member OF the Loyal
j egion, and for years trustee OF the
Michigan asylum, died OF heart disease.
Two JACKSON prison employees were
Jealous OF each others authority, gotin-
to fist fight at the institution, and had
o lively cotillion before they were sep
| aiated.
JOHN PRovosT's sawmill boiler in HUI
ron, Huron County, exploded, killing his
wife and daughter instantly, and so
badly hurting Provost that he will prob
ably die.
THE M. C. r. r. has just paid SO, 600
for the privilege Of killing one boy and
injuring two others at Mason last Sep
TENDER. The cause was an unprotected
| crossing.
| ELMER CRANE, OF Pentwater, the %
| year Old boy captain, who commanded
tig grain carrier, and who is charged
with embezzling, is believed to have gone
to South America
AT Pontiac, Daniel Hartnett and T. A.
Baldwin were sentenced to five years In
1 IAAlrn g. Ia
Lacey to three years for larceny, and
Theron Graham 10 three years for big
amy.
AGED Mrs. Compton, who was assault
cd by her insane daughter, Mrs. George
| ID. Seaman, three months ago. never re-
covered from her injuries and was buried
from the Home for Aged Women at Bay
City.
A SHOOTING ma CHI was sad affair for
Tawas City. A gun in the hands of Ed
ward Walker was accidentally dis
charged, and the bullet instantly killed
his friend, Fred Moorehead, who came
with him from Pennsylvania when the
two left the old home to find fortune
| In the West.
A BoYIsH Pontiac man slid down the
banisters whershe got up In the night TO
| go be ow and fix the furnace Well. a
persons hand gets out of practice when
he hasn't rehearsed thing for a long
time. and local chronicler observes
that this mar needed fixing more than
the furnace when he came to a sudden
stop on the first floor
ALEXANDER X. PIX, banker at Ub-
ley, and late a resident of Detroit, died
under rather peculiar circum> tances A
report that he committed suicide Is de-
MED and statement of what purportS
to be the true circumstances of his death
j. to the effect that, having been taken
Ill, he arose and went down stairs TO
take portion of epson salts. BY mis-
take he swallowed a quantity Of paris
green. His mistake was discovered
when the poison began to get in its
work, and doctor pumped him out.
He seemed to be little the worse for his
experience in the morning, but on arriv-
ing at his bank to open up in the morn
| ing, he fell over dead. Investigation
showed that he died from the rupture of
blood vessel caused by his vomiting af-
ter taking the poison the night before.
AT Kalamazoo Stephen s. Cobb died
at his home of typhoid pneumonia after
two weeks illness, aged II years. Mr..
Cobb was pioneer of this State, coming
here from Vermont in 1912, and for
thirty years has been a leading capital
ist He held numerous local Offices and
was Michigan's first Railroad Commits
siOner His reports were ranked next to-
those OF Charles Francs Adams Jr OF
Massachusetts,, by the United States
officers, and they were read in European
countries He spared no effort in max
ing the railroad system Of Michigan as
perfect as practicable. His quick per-
ception and keen foresight enabled him
to guard the great interest OF the people
In connection with the roads and at the
same time to be just to the corporations.
GRAVEYARD insurance has kicked up
n stencil again. this time I'm stock bridgas
III. N. Forbes, aged IS, died, when II was
discovered that C. X. Brownell, q SON.
in-law with whom he had been on bad
terms, had an insurance policy for
80, 90 on his life. 1t also appears that
in Chelsea great mary people have in
dulged in this class Of speculation, and
the disclosures have created an old-t time
sensation They recall the fact that
b fore the law passed to prohibit the
existence of graveyard companies in the
State, in the little town of Buchanan,
four years ago, an old man was on the
verge of the grave, and pc icies on his
life were written amounting to 5000,
and not one cent OF this was in the name
of any relative Of the old man or of any
one who had even passing interest in
his health The holders of the policies
stood by wat hing his decl ne; and when
physicians gave up hope business was
almost at standstil for several days
Finally IL became known that he was
dying. An agent for one OF the grave.
yard" insurance companies lived in the
town. and after midnight he was cal ed
out OF bed TO write another policy, which
he did at q ruinous premium rate.
II. l.. SMITH, Cleveland travelling
man who was taken i'll at Saginaw, died
there.
DURING 1891 sixtJ six teachers insti-
tutes were held in Michigan, at cost of
S12,69
+. ID. CoTrRELI- member of the we'll
known Marine City family and a nephew
OF Don M. Dickinson, was buried at that
place.
JAMES SMITHsoN, a Lansing negro,
Ratchet He Jailed, but drowned himself
in the cistern.
THE Supreme cou has decided that
the seating OF Senators Morrow and
Friedlander was valid, thus establishing
the legality OF the act creating Dickin-
son County.
THE lack of snow Is sadly interior ng
with lumber operations near Cadillac.
Cobbs & Mitchell have closed down one
of their camps on that account Bust
ness In general suffers more or less ON