Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-06

the Michigan Asylum Tor Criminal In
sane at Ionia.
Thirty volunteer teams engaged in re-
moving the records from Berrien Springs
to st. Joseph.
Escaping coal gas caused the death Of
the 16-months-old daughter of w. X.
Cowden at Galien.
Mark Jones, an employe of the Postal
Telegraph Company Mt Chicago, IL down
with the smallpox ut Adrian.
Joshua Wade, farmer living two
miles north Of Battle Greek, was found
dead In his bed under suspicious circum-
stances.
The Probate Judge Of Manitou county
has heard only one case in six years. His
salary during the same time was 81 200
per annum.
Even the worm will turn. A Michigan
man has sued widow for breach Of
promise to marry. This Is strictly In line
with equal rights.
1t cost Congressman d. d. Aitken
81, $50 to be elected. Chairman Russell,
of the Prohibition State Central Commit
tee, spent 81, 1851.
-Four girls escaped from the Industrial
Home at Adrian. They got as far as the
postoffice. but the cold, chilly wind soon
drove them home again.
Four Muskegon boys, ranging in age
from IA to Is, were arrested in cave
that they had dug in a bluff. The cave
was stuffed full of plumber.
Hugh MCGEE, aged Is, was arrested ut
Kalamazoo for stealing q pocketbook
and $40 from #. s. Persing's coat pocket
In his store; $50 recovered.
George Mussen was shot in the thigh
by the accidental discharge of rife
while. hunting near Alpena. Mussen
halls from Saranac Lake, N. Y.
A Canadian customs officer named
Howe, of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont, fell un-
der the cars near Trout Lake, Chip
pewa county, and one Of his arms was
cut off.
st. Ignace minors who are found on
the streets alone after o'clock at night
will spend twenty days in the city lock-
up as a preventive against their doing o
again.
The Marshall School Board has APP
pointed two truant officers to canvass
the city in order to ascertain how many
children are out of school in violation of
the compulsory school law.
Deputy Game Warden Rivard captured
two carcasses of venison and a number
They we've being shipped to Indiana from
Bay City contrary to State law.
On complaint Of Postofflce Inspector
Eugene Parsell. Louisa Holm, of Flint,
was arrested by United States Marshal
William A. Miller for using Cancelled post
| age stamps. She waived examination.
Molten, the labor agitator, who had
much to do in causing the strike of the
miners Mt Ironwood last summer, and
| who was arrested ut the time and locked
| up, has been in Jail ever since, but last
week was released without anything be-
ing done toward trying him.
Edwin G. Dewolf. nsnior engineering
student, is under arrest ut Ann Arbor
charged with stealing some $500 worth OF
instruments and tools belonging to the
mechanical laboratory. Professor NJ. r.
Cooley had been missing articles for some
time. They were found in Dewolf's
room.
The Kalamazoo City Council ended the
lighting controversy by voting to buy the
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| apparatus and site for $12, and
contracting with that company to run
lights until the plant is installed at %
all-night lamps.
| At Muskegon, Martin Dowd and Frank
Johnson discovered the body of Hans
| Hanson lying twenty feet from the shore
| in Lake Michigan. There was $751;. 4.
| in his pockets. Hanson is the second vic
tim of tho Antelope's crew lost at Grand
Haven short time ago whose body has
been recoi cred.
SO many deer have been killed in Iosc1
County this year by hunters who use
dogs that il has been suggested that thu
| Board of Supervisors offer n bounty fol
every deer hound killed while on the tract
| of a deer anywhere in the county. Thi.
might prove more effective In putting
stop to huntih with dogs than any mum
Der of game wardens could.
John B. Britain. of the Clarendon
hotel, Grand Rapids, against whom there
are pending four complaints for violating
the liquor law and one civil suit in the
Circuit Court, unexpectedly sold out his
interest and cannot be found. He lef
behind enough money to pay all his JUS
debts. In all the cases against him ht
was released on his own recognizance.
The Legislative Committee of tn,
Michigan Teachers Association will sub
nit report for adoption by the associa
| ton converting ut Lansing next month
which will recommend the enactment
by the coming Legislature of law pro
hibiting the employment of any teacher
in the schools of the State who is ad
dictcd to the use of tobacco in any form
also for provision making the truanc.
law more stringent, and that none bu
citizens of the United States be employ
ed as teachers.
Here's true story: A Kalamazoo Sol
of very respectable parents stole some
thing while on a spree, and was sent t.
the House of Correction. The enormit.
of the offense bore heavily upon him, ant
he determined to lead an exemplary lif,
upon his release. Radiant with hope, h,
hurried home, only to be cruelty ordered
out of doors. He got work in Adrian, blu
in two days his story was known, and h,
was discharged. Then he went on ,
farm. After two months faithful work
he was again sent adrift. Aud so on TO
five or six months. Finally, in sheer de
spair he stole livery rig for the express
purpose of getting back to prison. TIL
jury found him guilty, of course, but tn
Judge had learned his story. Sentenc
was suspended, aud the young man wen
to live with the Judge. He is one of tn
most prominent citizens of Michigan
now.
An Ionia clerk in the employ Of T. A