Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-07-07
From Far and Near.

ONEh f,uVU VlSlUOrS was Cne average
attendance each night at the Masonic
fair at Saginaw.
ALPEEA rye Is six feet four inches
tall, says the Echo. None of the ladies
will smile on Annie as she is comm
through that rye.
Roy JACKSON, aged years, while
playing at Lansing, was so badly in
1ured by a marble monument which
toppled over upon him that he died.
WM. w. OSBORN, charged with vio-
lating the United States pension laws
by the exaction OF an illegla fee in So
liciting a pension for Marion f. Bulk, of
Lansing, was held to the grand jury.
JOHN VINEGAR, of Green Bay, at
tempted to board moving train at
Escanaba, fell, and both legs were cut
off. He lived but two hours. He was a
brother OF Aid. Vinegar, of Escanaba.
FORTY FOUR students graduated
from the Kalamazoo High School this
year. Circuit Judge Geo. NJ. Buck de-
livered the address. There are also
nine graduates from the training school.
MRS. LOUISE SANDHoFF, widow of a
Saginaw shoemaker, who four years
ago blew out his brains with revolver,
hanged herself in the attic OF her house.
She was 56 years of age and had been
despondent since the death of her hus-
band.
JACOB CARLsTEIN, 16-year-old
Saginaw boy, does not like his step
mother, and his stepmother has no par
ticular love for him. He went into a
barn and, getting upon box, tied a
rope to cross timber and then around
his neck. He stepped off and was dang
ling in the air when a companion found
him and called q man, who cut the rope.
Young Carlstein denied that he at
tempted to kill himself.
The specific charge against Joseph
Hanaw, who was arrested at Jackson
on Tuesday last, is not that Of
fraud in obtaining pension. but Of TAX
ing fees'i in excess of.the sum allowed by
law. Mr.. Hanaw Is not a pension at
torney, but being a friend of Mrs. Mary
A. Lee, acted as her agent in procuring
her pension and took pay for bis SER
vices. He is held to the grand jury.
]. b. JoUBERT, keeper of a Sault Ste.
Marie restaurant, has for some time
past been printing and scattering hand
bills which contained disparaging re-
marks about Mrs. Archie Johnson and
Mrs. Ida Dean, who keep a rival restau-
rant The other night the women waited
until Joubert closed his place, and then
following him to Main street one of
them seized him while the other laid on
a score OF blows on the man face and
back'with stout horsewhip. The man
howled with pain, while q great crowd
gathered and cheered the women on.
Joubert is badly injured.
AT Wyandotte, Modest Casper, for
merly a baker, was arrested for being
drunk and disorderly, and also for abus-
ing his wife. He was taken to the city
jail and locked up for the night. Before
going to bed City Marshal Murphy and
Deputy McCloy took look into the cor
ridor wherein Casper was confined to
see if everything was all right, and upon
opening the door leading into the corri-
lor they found Mr.. Casper hanging from
he upper bars of the window by his
,oat. One of the coatsleeves was fas-
ened around his neck for a moose. He
8 very wealthy, and claims that family
rouble drove him to commit the act of
rying to take his life.
In United States Co nmissioner Nc
Mathis Court at Bay City, sat hand
ome young woman crying as il her
Ieart would break. Finally, as If wholly
Inable to control herself, she went into
Iysterics and bafiled the skill OF the
attending officer who undertook to ap-
ease her mental anguish. Her name
3 Mrs. Edna Newman, divorced from
rank j. Newman. She was charged
nth having taken from the postoffice in
It. Louis, about February 18, last, a |
etter directed to +. j. Newman, a resi- |
ent of Birch Run. The letter con- |
aimed a bank check for S11, which Mrs. |
'ewman put to her own use, passing it
pom c. r. Richardson, of Detroit, after
living 1t her Endorsement.
SOME thief broke into Levi Eckhart's1
arm at Mason and stole fifty feeces of
DOL.
The Alpena Echo thinks It is high
me the rotting sawdust and bark was
,moved from the streets of that city
nd better kind of pavement laid.
JOHN DUTcHEs lies in critical con-
tion at his home In Saginaw, as the
'sult OF fall from a scaffold by which
3 broke rib and sustained internal
juries.
THE War Department has detailed
ieut. +. A. Lewis as professor of mill
ry science and tactics at the Agri-
lltural College. The cadets will have
'ay uniforms.
THE commencement exercises of Sar-
lac High School were most en- oyable.
he whole class showed that the work
at has been done has been done well,
ID that they are well prepared to 90
It and face the world.
SATURDAY night burglars broke into
odges Il Warmers drug and grocery
ore at Parma, blew the safe, and got
ray with $500, $3.50 of which belonged
the American Express Company.
'ur strangers who were In the village
Q suspected. Sheriff Boyle offers a :
ward of S5) for the arrest OF the
Ieves.
As THE steam barge John C. Pringle
IS leaving Alpena she colided with ,
. schooner Fred A. Morse. The latter
once sunk I'm $50 feet OF water. The
ew barely escaped with their lives.
10 captain of the Iringle was thrown .
erboard by the collision and remained
the water for about an hour and a
II, when he was picked up without
any. apparent injury.
Z. G. CLAgK, of Freeland, Saginaw .
unity. was thrown from his carriage
lie driving 10 his farm and received
n serious injuries that he died. He
"a years OF age and had resided in :
yinaw County over thirty years. A (
g and four children survive him.
II jackson number OF boys, rang