Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-01-21
Record Of the Week.

MRS. LIZZIE GUhNEl bJuinDleu over ~
washtub at Grand Rapids and broke her
arm.
JOHN KoTALA fell from staging in
the Cleveland mine and dislocated his
spine.
THEY are prospecting for coal with
steam drill in Oregon Township, Lapeer
County.
FRANK MARSH took aconite at Battle
Greek instead of la grippe medicine, but
the doctors saved him.
REV. VICTOR H. HUBERT, preacher
without parish, died suddenly OF pneu-
monia at Battle Creek.
MISS NELLIE BELKNAP, daughter Of
the Congressman, was married at Grand
Rapids to Charles f. Bonsfeld.
CA. PIATT shipped 900 dozen eggs
and three tons of butter and nine tons
of poultry from Hubbardston during 1891.
A. z. KINGSLEY of Muskegon, has a
Washington" penny, one of the rarest Of
American coins, for which he has been
offered $40.
AT Twin Lakes, few miles from Kali
amazoo, Charles Campbell, the 20-year-
old son OF Farmer Jacob Campbell, broke
through the ice and was drowned.
The Board of Patients in the Asylum
for Criminal Insaneat Ionia only costs
40 cents day now, the lowest figure yet
reached by any asylum in the State.
MIDDLEBURY, Shiawassee County, is
infested with a poison fiend who goes
around destroying peoples valuable
horses and cattle in a most mysterious
way.
JOHN BARTHOLOMEW, a 60-year-old
one-legged veteran, who enticed little
girls into his candy store at Grand Rap
ids and misused them, was sentenced
to seven years Imprisonment atJackson.
LYMAN V. d. Cook, ex-Sheriff of Liv-
ingston County, City Marshal of Howell,
died Of pneumonia, aged about 40 rears.
He was a member Of The Tenth Michigan
Volunteer Infantry, and a prominent
Mason.
| DURING 1891 there were 7,710 vessels
that entered the ports in the Grand Haven
district and 1907 that cleared. In but
three other districts In the country was
that number exceeded-the Chicago, Mil
waukee and New York districts.
Two New LoTHRoP men are languish-
| ing in the Saginaw bastile in conse-
| Quence of being in contact with clover
seed for which they could not account.
| Wide-tired wagon wheels told a story
that they could not dispute, so they
owned up.
The Bar Association of Grand Rapids
rendered banquet to ex-Chief Justice
| Champlin and Justice Montgomery, of
the Supreme Court. About sixty at
torneys were present, and number OF
speeches, full of eloquence and humor,
were made.
AUGUST GERMAN, a farmer OF Wat
son, Allegan County, committed suicide
| by cutting his throat with tableknife.
He had lost great deal of sleep caring
for members of his family who were i'll
with la grippe, and is supposed to have
been temporarily insane.
FIFTY years ago Mr.. James M. Van
Auken brought his blushing bride to the
wilds of Shiawassee County, near YER
non, and the other day they celebrated
their f1ftieth anniversary in good, golden
style, the like of which they never
dreamed in those old pioneer days.
AT Grand Rapids, Jacob Barth died
| OF pneumonia. He was one OF the best
known Hebrews in the State, and had
held high Offices in masonic circles. Mr..
Barth was treasurer of the Masonic
Home Association, and has held nearly
all the offices in the gift of the fraternity.
| THE Michigan Central Railway Com
pany has purchased the Chicago and
West Michigan Company's interest in
the freight depot at Grand Rapids for
/ $10O, 900. The Michigan Central will
build a brick depot next summer. The
| c. & w. NJ. built last year in connec-
ton with the D., L. & N.
JAY NJ. BARNES, who disappeared from
Grand Haven, Dec. IL, is feet inches
high, 20 years old, but looks younger,
weighs 110pounds, has light complexion
and blue eyes, and wore, when he left,
dark suit, gray ulster, and gold watch
and chain. James Barnes of Grand
Haven, his father, would like to learn
his whereabouts.
FRANK STEIN accompanied Patrick
Carey from Sagola to Iron Mountain,
where the latter got time checks,
amounting TO $110, cashed. When, later,
Carey was found near Sagola with his
skull crushed with a stone and the
money gone, Stein was suspected of the
murder and arrested. There are also
circumstances which connect John Sykes
with the crime-the man arrested on
suspicion at Crystal Falls.
IONA people are going to toy with the
buzz saw again. Just because they
sometimes oversleep, they will place a
chime whistle on the wagon works, to
shrek and yowl at ON unearthly hour in
the morning, to awake babies and set
them to screaming, but especially to
disturb the fltful slumbers of the sick
and turn the tide of life toward the
grave. The fewer bells and whistles
the longer and happier do people live.
WHEN Herman Larsen, OF Crystal
Falls, struck at Elias Johnson with his
knife, he evidently intended to have him
fall in two directions, but his skull was
too thick. The knife started in at the
top of Johnson's head, divided his fore
head, nose and upper lip evenly, glanced
from his upper teeth and came to a
standstill on his breast bone. Larsen is
in jail upon charge Of assault with in
tent to do great bodily harm. Some
people would argue that he accomplish
ed It.
The mortgage sale of the stock Of
Cohn Bros, of Port Huron, was about
to begin when small creditors swore out
an Injunction. They were afraid that
they would be frozen out
w. A. AUSTIN sold his Montague gro
Gerry store TO Herren a Co., and credit
ors who we're left out In the cold have
attached property which he made over
TO his wife are are trying TO repleven the
stock of the store, which is prudently
left locked up.