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after tramps during the year just closed.
In 1891 the expense was $3,54I.
Maud Fshpool is missing at Grand
Rapids. and il is thought she has COM
mitted suicide by jumping into the river.
A big. muscular masher insulted II Bay
City girl. She hauled off with an UNI
brella and sent the wretch sprawling
away.
The Ionia insane asylum is overcrowd-
ed. and Supt. Long serves notice On war
dcns of State prisons that he can accsot
no morelpatients.
The Kalamazoo River is on Il rampage
aud covers all the low land about Kala-
mazoo. surrounding hundreds of houses.
which are reached only by boats.
L. III. Sipe, IA Saginaw veteran. has look
ed up the soldiers who died in Anderson
vile prison. There are just $40 Michi-
gan graves in the Andersonvile cemetery.
Chief Justice McGrath. of the Supreme
Court. laid aside the ermine Of his Office
Wednesday and left for Detroit. where
he will re-engage in the practice of law.
His departure from the bench leaves the
court in the hands of Republican judges
for the first time in many years.
A Detroit paper said that Bishop Rowe.
of Alaska. had been in charge of an In
dian mission at Sault Ste Marie. The
good bishop recently preached to his old
time Indian" parishioners. They are
not only exclusively white people. but the
most highly educated people in town.
There is cheerful idiot at Bear Lake,
Manistee County. who somehow got the
idea that it would be IA great joke to stuff
someone's chimney full of rags and watch
him be smoked out. He tried il on the
local photographer, with the result that
the building narrowly escaped dcstruc-
ton.
Farmers of Altoona County are elated
over the State tax apportionment. The
Auditor General intended tn spread on
the rolls II tax of S4. 900. but made a mis-
take and put il at only S4V0. The Board
of Supervisors took advantage of the mis-
take and now the only concern that is felt
is perhaps they may get II double dose
next year.
The Supreme Court has filed an opin-
ion in which the validity of acts passed
previous to the last five days of the Leg
islature, and not signed by the Governor
until after the Legislature had adjourned,
the custom of Michigan executives to sign
acts in this manner, and the constitutions
ality of many acts of the last Legislature.
as well as many others that have for
years been accepted as law. was involved
in the ruling made in the case decided.
Mrs. Ed ID. Wyrang created Il scene in
the Probate Court at Kalamazoo because
her husband had her stcp-daughtcr whom
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by Mr.. and Mrs. Judson Chaplin. She
complained because she was not notified
and cursed the Chapins, declaring they
were not fit to care for the girl who was
Wyrang's daughter 10y former wife.
An attempt was made to get Mrs Wy
rang into an insane asylum in November,
but physicians declared her not crazy.
When she left. she declared she had moth
ing To live for now. and wanted to 20 To
the asylum.
George w. Love. the Bellairc man who
killed an Indian woman, and got II life
sentence, broke down when he reached
Jackson and begged piteously for some
kind of work. Warden Chamberlain
promises to refer his request to the Prs-
on Board. Loves insanity plea during
the trial fell very fiat. He limpcd about
as if one side was paralyzed. When
blindfolded he couldn't tell how many
pine were stuck into him. However, il
was shown that he carried wood in Jail
and skinned tho cat" on horizontal bars
Several insanity experts testified in
Loves behalf, but the common sense of
lay witnesses proved Il cold-bloodcd muir
der, without provocation.
John Sullivan. IA farmer living a mile
south of Grandville, committed suicide
by taking aconitc lie was about 10
years of age and until six months ago
was bachelor and very saving of his
money. He married Il widow with four
children, and to buy shoes and clothing
for the children broke his heart. He had
many quarrcls with his wife, and Satur-
day she declared she would commit sui
eide. lie said if anybody died he would
be the one. Monday morning he took
enough acOnite to kill horse and lay
down to die. The drug did not work
as rapidly as he expected, and getting up
he went to the barn and did his chores.
and then returning he again lay down
and two hours later was dead.
Mrs. III. G. Hathaway. of IIillsdale.
fell and dslocated her hip the other night,
while preparing for bed. She is over ~
years of age. and il is feared she cannot
recover. She is very well educated old
lady, and though at present poor, was
very wealthy during the war. when she
was the lady principal Of n school in one
of the Southern States. Her property
was confscated by the United States
Government, leaving her without any
money of her own whatever. Her hus-
band, wealthy Presbyterian minister,
owned II large amount of property i'm Chi
cago, but lost it all in the great fire Of
1871. In spite of all her troubles. Mrs
Hathaway is an exceedingly bright aud
cheerful old lady, though she has not
single relative left her OH earth.
Edward Cross, deputy sheriff OF Ovid.
was found Tuesday morning lying on his
face i'm the road in front Of the residence
of Daniel Babcock. Il farmer living near
Owosso. He was buried in the snow AMI
unconscious. His hands and feet were
so badly frozen that amputation will be
necessary. and his ears and nose were
frozen so severely as to dis6gure him
He said that Monday evening stranger
representing himself to be an officer from
Saginaw. asked him to 20 into the coun-
try to assist him in recovering a stolen
team of horses The trip was made in a
blizzard, and on reaching the spot where
Cross was afterward found he said the
stranger sandbagged him and left him in
the road TO freeze. The motive of the
assault was undoubtedly robbery, but his
money was in his inside vest pocket and
was overlooked.
Chicago capitalists have organized
company and will soon begin the man
ufacture Of aluminium clay bricks at Ben