Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-01-23

Van Buren, County's treasury was en-
riched by $SO6.Y1 during 1895 by fines and
costs in criminal cases.
The number Of chattel mortgages in
Saginaw during 1895 showed decrease
of about 20 per cent from those of 1894.
Cheboygan telephone patrons will here
after get their phones at yearly rental
of $12 for business places and $40 for
residences.
A prisoner who wanted to say good
BILE to the Au Train jail just broke hole
through the ceiling with pump handle
and vanished.
Mrs. Dell Johnson, of Grand Rapids,
was curling her hair and set fire to her
clothes. She was horribly burned about
the face and body.
DIR. G. A. Hughes, a former resident of
Flint. was murdered at Wallace, Idaho.
He incurred the jealousy of a husband by
seeing the latter's wife home.
A livery barn loafer at Port Huron in
suited the daughter of Byron Buckle
ridge. The angry father caught the fel-,
low. wiped the ground with him and pum-,
meled him within an inch Of his life.
Josie Murphy. who attempted to drown,
herself at Saginaw. imagined that the.
spirit Of her father appeared to her and
prompted her to all sorts of mischief, such!
as running away from home and striking.
people with pokers.
George Garside, the Kalamazoo wife,
beater. who il in jail has weakened COM,
pletely and transferred all his property to
his wife. He has confessed and will,
throw himself on the mercy of the court.
He can be given ten years in Jackson,
under the charge against him.
The swamp and forest fires which have
been smoldering near Pinckney for sev-I
eral months, have at last been extinguish-l
ed. Two fine cranberry marshes were
ruined, as well as forty acres of 6nel
swamp land in Marion township and n,
big tract Of hardwood timber near Port
age lake.
Al Blank, who was arrested at Port
Huron for passing a worthless bank BILL
and afterwards got into the clutches of
Uncle Sam for having a gold-plated nickel
in his possession, was yesterday discharg-
ed by the Federal authorities. He'll have
TO stand trial for the $40 bill matter,
however.
At Manistee, Andrew Noren, % years
of age. had just climbed out of a farmers
wagon, having been hunting, and caught
a ride into town. He grabbed his gun
from the bottom Of the wagon and the
hammer caught on the box. exploding the
rifle. The ball entered the right breast
at the nipple and caused instant death.
Justice Kimball of Benton Harbor, has
been kissed. but not, at least on the oc-
casion referred TO. by sweet young girl.
A Hebrew peddler was so much over
joyed at his release from Il trivial charge.
that he went up 10 the man of law, threw
his arms around the portly frame and
planted Il hearty smack on the judicial
lips.
Rev. X. II. Claiborne, pastor of 81.
| Iukes Church. Kalamazoo, in Il sermon
announced that he was pleased that Col.
| Ingersoll did not pick his church to eulo-
| gize. He did not want praises from a
man who did not believe in God. the Bible
| or the birth of Christ. Several other
| preachers scored the Colonel on his ad-
| dress.
Capt. G. Il. Belknap, of Grand Rapids
of the Chickamauga Commission, will
| go to the old battlefield in April or May
to locate twenty more markers. indicat-
ing the places occupied by Michigan com
mands. Capt. Belknap expects to com
| plete his book on Michigan at Chicka
mauga before June. 1t will be published
by the State.
| A north Michigan justice. while trying
his maiden case, could not forget the
| parliamentary training he had received
He cleared his throat and asked: "What
is your pleasure, gentlemen?" The pris
oner's attorney replied: May it please
your honor. l move that the prisoner be-
discharged" Second the notion" said
the prisoner, and before the attorney fol
the people could get his wind, the motion
was put and carried, and the prisoner dis
| charged.
William Grice, the man arragned al
Benton Harbor charged with murderous.
ly assaulting Minnie Spaenk, of st. Jo-
seph, will not be prosecuted by County
Prosecutor Hamilton, as he believes Miss
| Spaenk labored under a hallucination
and that there is not sufficient plausible
evidence to warrant the proceedings
Many citizens are disgusted with the turn
| of affairs. 1t is announced that Attorney
| O'Hara will prosecute in behalf of the
Hanleys, for whom the girl was work.
ing at the time of the assault.
| For some time past certain Calhoun
| County veteran has been in the habit OF
spending his pension money soon after
he received it in ways which conflict with
the admonition, Look not upon the wine
| when ii is red" For a couple of pay days
however, burglars have visited his hous.
| between the time of his receiving his
money and his spending it, with the con.
sequence that he had no money to blow
in. His wife, however, could explain
the burglar theory satisfactorily if she
wished by showing him bank book good
for just about the amount he thinks has
been stolen.
Henry Depue, of Ann Arbor,. has sued
for a divorce from his wife on the move
plea that although he is amply able and
entirely willing to support her, she has
made life burden to him and driven
away every earthly joy by filing his
"house, beds and rooms with roomers and
boarders, devoting her time and attention
to the care of strangers" and compelling
him to cook his own meals and spend his
evenings and nights in melancholy lone
illness. His wife is a pleasant little body
but thoroughly infatuated, IL would seem
with a desire to care for the students OF
the university instead of her husband.
William Donahue, switchman in the
Grand Trunk yards, was killed Will,
coupling cars at Battle Greek. He wa.
making a running switch and was caught
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