Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-07


Postmaster Watson and Murray Bent
ley, merchant, of Rhodes, are under
arrest for defrauding the Government.
An old resident of Newburg chewed to-
bacco constantly for fifty years. He
stopped suddenly. The next day he died.
At Wilmot John Slichting was chop
ping down tree when limb fell sudden
ly, and striking him, inflicted fatal in
juries.
Several Lapeer merchants were swim
died by means of counterfeit s. bills
passed upon them by man who was
dressed as farmer.
An Osseo man recently dropped dead
while chopping wood. Warned by this
fatality, number of husbands there are
letting their wives incur the peril of such
an exercise.
William Gee, who lives south Of Belle
vile, attempted to thaw out an iron
pump in the barn by putting stray around
it and then setting fire to the straw. Loss,
about $1,000.
Out of 1885 graduates of the univer-
sity literary department, POS have gone
into the ministry. There are besides these
| ffty-six active foreign missionaries. So
Ann Arbor isn't such an awful place, af-
| ter ALL
A Glare County man got into an argu-
ment with his father concerning the rela-
| tive toughness of dry or seasoned hemlock
knots, and became 50 riled up about it
that he left home and went to live with
his uncle.
Samuel Francis, within a few hours af-
ter his release from Jackson prison, was
bowling drunk on the streets. He had
blown in not only the $3.50 in money
given him by the warden, but a brand
new suit of clothes.
| If you want to live long, 60 to Mt.
| Clemens. In fact, nothing short Of q
train wreck or cancer will kill you there.
The town had only fifty deaths last year,
| which is only 1-3 to the thousand, the
| lowest death rate In the United States,
SO the citizens claim
Lenawee County farmers in their insti-
tute agreed that it was profitable to feed
wheat to hogs. Some claimed profit as
high as $1.1O bushel for such wheat,
and others all the way from 60 cents to
| 81. One farmer thought II would pay to
feed wheat to pigs even If wheat brought
81 in the market.
William A. Miller, of Flint, who was
marshal in 1868 and 1869, claims the
credit for introducing the first Sunday
and early-closing saloon laws in Michi-
| gan. Michigan was laboring along under
alleged prohibition at that time. Flint
was overrun with blind pigs, and Mr..
Miller, in sheer desperation, forwarded
a measure to regulate the evil.
Lewis Robb, charged with the attempt
ed assassination of Fred A. Hobbs, in
Benton Harbor, Jan. %, 1892, was found
guilty. When the judge asked him If there
was any reason why sentence should not
be passed, Robb replied: Nothing; only
am innocent, and you will sentence the
wrong man." Judge Coolidge then passed
sentence-ffteen years of hard labor at
Jackson.
G.. j. Eskine, of the "1492" company,
had always lived South, so between
Grand Rapids and Muskegon he took a
notion to stand on the front end of the
baggage car and see the engine plow
through the drifts. AS the train dashed
on Eskimo soon lost interest in the drifts
and tried to keep warm. The train passed
several stations. When Eskine was res
cued from his perilous position he was
nearer dead than alive, his ears, face,
nose and hands being badly frozen.
Belief that the hull of the steamer
Chicora is still afioat is daily strengthen
ing at st. Joseph, and that sooner or
later she will be found. This is the
theory on which a great many persons
base their belief that the hull is still
afloat. When the upper decks were
blown off, the anchors were released, and
no one being at the lever to control them
the full chain ran out, which was S25
feet to each anchor, enough almost to
reach any place and securely anchor her,
and that she will be found so is strongly
believed.
Mrs. Mary Wright, of West Bay City,
had a little farm of forty acres which
Joseph Manassah coveted. He induced
the old lady to deed the property to him on
his verbal promise to trade it for desir-
able place and to give her life lease.
He was to take charge of her affairs and
to give her the proceeds Of the sale of her
personal property. Then, it is alleged,
Manassah sold everything and pocketed
the proceeds, turning Mrs. Wright out of
doors. Judge Maxwell has righted the
wrong by ordering the farm restored and
the value of the personal property made
good.
Mrs. Oliver Vedder, who died at Sand
stone recently, was a remarkable woman.
She had lived on her farm sixty years,
helping with her own strong hands to
clear and till the land and accommodating
quite fortune. When 75 years old she
worked with her hired man in the har-
vest field. Her death was due to injuries
received from being dragged over the
frozen ground by a team of fractions
horses she was driving. Besides 204 bed
quilts and 100 dresses the eccentric wo-
man gathered she had so pounds of tea
tied up in many little packages. One of
her quilts contained 5000 pieces.
During terrible snowstorm a man who
was walking from Seney to a lumber
camp in the vicinity was overcome by
fatigue and the cold and while in this con-
dition was found by another pedestrian.
The latter tried to help the first one back
to town, but was unable to. He then dug
hole in a snowbank, told the man to
crawl in, and covering him well with
brush put some snow over that. He then
went on his way, and when the storm
cleared the next day returned with
party to find the man he had covered up.
The latter was sleeping soundly when
found, and had not suffered In the least
from the cold.
Fifteen or sixteen New Haven young
IL e. he.