Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-02

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Prison.
From Far and Near.
ROBERT UNDERWOOD, 17-year-old
Dawson kid, was fined $40 for disturb
ing religious meeting.
AMAS giving his name as JAS. Parker,
OF Detroit, was arrested at Grand Rap
ids on a charge OF wholesale forgery.
GRNsEN. the Amber bigamist. got six
months at Jackson. His wife got the
same time at Ionia for the same crime.
THE rest OF the Molitor murder cases
at Alpena will not BIO taken up until the
latter part OF the present term Of court
WHILE wedding was celebrated at
Cooper the father of the bride was on
his daathbed, but 1t had been his re-
quest to see his daughter married be-
fore he died, and he also had all his
| friends invited.
| follow him to hotel by telling them a
man had in his room pair OF shoes he
| frequently, wore and which were 3 feet
long and II inches wide. The crowd
found a pair OF snowshoes at the hotel
AN administrator was appointed at
Grand Rapids for the estate of Charles
/ n. DdDCOck, VINO QieQ HJ Now OIloduS
| In 1875. He was a United State 8 sailor
and 1t IL said that the United States
owes him several hundred dollars for
mileage.
A ST. IGNACE man bought $22 coffin
| for his wife. He and a friend took the
corpse to the cemetery for burial, sitting
on the cofhn on the way. Upon arriving
| at the grave the man concluded that he
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| He buried the woman In rough box
and took back the coffin.
The other night while party of
Indians were returning home to High
Island from a carousal at Beaver Island
their horses became frightened and ran
away, throwing them all out of the
| sleigh. John Kin-wa- ba -ka-zy, aged
| Is, was unable to proceed, and his coll
leagues being too full OF the ambrosial
to help him he remained there until
the next day. When found he was
| frozen to death. The coroner's jury
brought In verdict OF guilty.
THE Supreme Court piled up grief for
Prince Mike, the Detroit Israelite o.
| flying roll fame, who was convicted
OF carnally knowing Bernice Bickle.
| girl less than IA years of age, and sem
fenced to five years In the state prison
at jackson. The case WAS brought to
the Supreme Court by the wicked
| princes attorneys, who set up over one
| hundred assignments of error. The
| Supreme Court last week over
ruled them all and confirmed the con-
viction OF the long-haired false apostle.
The meanest man in Michigan has
lately moved to Putnam township, Glad
| win County. He went to a widow, who
! supports a number of small children by
| taking in washing, and tried to buy
| some cedar trees growing on her forty
acres. When she refused to sell them
| he declared that he needed them and
would take them anyway. This he did.
| Soon after the widows cow ate up 81
worth OF marsh hay which the woman
had permitted the man to store in her
shed. He had her arrested for aiding
and abetting the cow In committing the
larceny. A backwoods trial ended in a;
verdict of guilty and a small fine. The
widow took in a few extra washings and
| paid the fine. but was taken sick in con-
sequence and is now being cared for at
public expense. Recently the authori-
ties heard OF the case, and as soon as
the woman Is sufficiently recovered to
make complaint, the man will be ar
rested.
BURGLARS entered NJ. Robinson
residence at Dexter. They got $97.
ONToNAGoN COUNTY boomers are at
| tempting TO get.a Swiss colony to settle
there this summer.
A MAN giving his name as Austin A.,
Vail was jagged at Menominee. He is
said to be secret society fraud.
AN entirely new church society has
been organized at Muskegon, calling.
itself the Christian Free Community.
M. l.. DUNN, OF Escanaba, is said to
be perfect double of james j. Corbett.
Even their voices are said to be alike.
REV. FIR. J. A. MAGNAN, of Muske-
gon, has secured from "Paree" 800 vol
umes of choice French books for his
charge.
The t., A. A. & N. NJ. line owns and
operates $50 miles OF railroad. The net
earnings OF the road during 1892 were
$50 900.
THE NJ. &c N. E. is surveying branch
from Lake Ann to some point in Leela-
nav county, which has not yet been de-
termined.
WHILE everyone was away from
home John Andrick's residence, at
Edenville, was burned. A large sum
of money was destroyed with the build
ing.
The L'Anse Rrownstone Company is;
building a 4S5-foot crib dock at l. Anse e.
Quarrying on the Crebasso lands will
be commenced on an extensive scale in
May.
AN Oceana County farmer sold one
lone, single hog for S6S, dead weight,
and then kicked because the electric
cars had shrunk the. price Of horses
down to $50. NV 49,
The mali carrier between Kalkaska
and Fletcher has for the last few weeks
been carrying mails on horseback. He
always takes a shovel with him to make
path for his horse.
AN iron gang" of fifty men is now at
work at the new iron bridge which the
G. a w. M. is building at Menominee-
across the river. The structure when
completed will cost $4,000
BALDwINIrEs have a detective i'm
their midst, and the Baldwin Star says
that there Is general desire on the
part of the people that he shall fall into
a deep, dark hole and be lost forever"
The family Of Thomas Duffy. living
in Bunkerhill, are in lamentable con-
dition. Both the husband and wife are
i'll with congestion of the lungs and ten
children are down with diphtherla. It
is feared that two of the children will
die. The health officer is looking after
the family