Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-02-11


PETER COUTURE, aged 20, of Bay
City, Is dying by inches. His legs are
gradually turning black and all vitality
leaves them.
JAMES TOBIAS, OF Lansing Township,
was killed by Michigan Central train
last October, while crossing the track
on his way home. His wife has now be-
gun suit for $4,000.
Ice cutters may be interested To
know that State law with severe PEN
alties appended requires them to post
danger signals at points where they are
removing the Icy covering from sheets
of water
A MAN claiming to live at Escanaba.
John Collins by name, was arrested at
Port Huron, having a large number Of
watch chains on his person. His two
companions were given fifteen minutes
to go back to Canada, whence they
came.
CHARLIE PETERS, of Saginaw, had a
lucky escape from terrible scare and
perhaps even from death also. Shortly
before the fire his father took him from
the Inflated hospital at Indianapolis, en-
pertaining well grounded fears lest the
thing should burn.
MISS GERTRUDE CoBB, OF Kalama-
zoo, has been appointed by the Michigan
Board of Worlds Fair Managers Chair
man of the Committee on Women's
Work for Kalamazoo County. She is
talented young lady and is every way
fitted to fill the position acceptably. I
FRED BAUM, of Saginaw, did not wish
to freeze, and not having enough bed
clothes he helped himself to some from
his wife's bed, from whom he had been
separated for some cause. Now he is
considering In Jail whether life is worth
living, or whether man might not just
as well freeze to death.
NJ. +. CHALK, of Superior, Wis, has
been offered $1,000, all expenses and an
insurance of 900 on his life IL he will
undertake a submarine search for the
treasures in the Pewabic, sunk off AL
pena twenty years ago. If this search
is successful he will also receive half
of the treasure, valued at 100000. =
THE express messengers on the D., l..
d N, inasmuch as the express business
was very light, asked the railroad com
pany il they could handle the baggage
also, expecting extra compensation.
The express company heard Of 1t and
made the men do the work, paying them
selves an extra So month for every
man.
HENRY GoLDBACKER, an orphan Of
Bay City, was sent to Paul Helmreich
| by the truant officer, but by mistake
went to Fred Helmreich. After two
months stay, he went to Bay City al
most frozen to death, and complained of
brutal treatment. Suit has been COM
menced by the truant officer to recover
compensation for the boy Henry is re-
ported to have been forced to work a
whole week with frozen hands.
| AS THE laws now stand, the State OF
Michigan can neither afford protection
nor administer correction to boys be-
tween the ages of 10 and IL years.
They cannot be committed to the State
Public School at Coldwater as a safe
guard against evil after they are 10
| years old, and under the squaw-buck
amendment they cannot be committed
to the Reform School as youthful Offend
ers until they are II. 1t is a queer state
of affairs and the Central Board has
asked Attorney General Ellis for advice
| in constituting the statutes. The Penal
Board doesn't see how it can run exact
| ly counter to the law, but is disposed to
{. construe the statute literally, that the
| best interests of the public may be con-
served, If the Attorney General says
they may.
CHARLES NORTON received ten years
at Jackson, being tried at Grand Rapids
for feloniously assaulting Eva Pencil.
aged 10. .
THE latest hotel dead beat" Is re-
ported from Port Huron. He registered
as Walter Chickering, travelling pho
tograper.
FRANK DAVENPORT, of Jackson, while
being snowballed by a number of boys,
shot Fred Nelson with an air gun, knock
ing out number OF his teeth.
A JACKSON jury was out twenty three
hours in the case of William Cahoon,
| charged with assault with intent to do
great bodily harm, and found him guilty
of assault and battery.
| A SANILAC CENTER juror was so drunk
the other day that it took the combined
efforts of the whole court to waken him,
the Judge having adjourned court for five
minutes to accomplish the feat.
FRED A. Boards stock barns at
Ruby, near Marine City, were destroyed
by fire, together with twenty-one horses,
twenty head of cattle, several thousand
bushels of grain, and a large quantity OF
farm machinery.
WEXFORD has followed the example
of Cadillac in refusing to pay $4,000
bonds guarantee to the L. A. A. a. N.
NJ Road. By the time the matter is
settled the town will probably find it
very expensive to let the matter be taken
| into court.
! The committee of the Sons of New
York, an organization of former natives
of the Empire State, held meeting at
| Kalamazoo and decided to have the an
nual reunion Feb. 10, all arrangements
to be made by the ladies, as leap-year
| feature.
| SOME people are never content unless
they are in court in some capacity. A
storekeeper of Iron Mountain, named
Frezinsky, has sued A. Kalitt for AZ
cents, being the estimated value of two
old boards which Frezinsky claims Kalitt
picked up i'm his back yard.
BIRMINGHAM school officials are
nonplused on account of large num-
Der of petty thefts from pupils, not be-
ing able to find trace of the guilty
parties.
A MAN living north of Watervliet, who
was known to be niggardly TO his wife
during her life, became conscience-smit-
ten after her death and put % cents in
| the coffin. Port Huron Times. This was
undoubtedly intended as the usual obo-
lus for Charon to take her over the dark
Styx. II he'd had experience with the
Port Huron Ferry Company, he knew
that she'd have to put up or get of the
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