Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-03-26
MICHIGAN, THURSDAY. MARCH 2e, 1896.

August Lampert, or Grand RAPIDS, shot
himself dead. He was 30 years old and
despondent.
Laben Connor, of Fenton, a veteran and
a resident of Michigan for sixty-five
years, died Monday.
The infant child of Rudolph Metzler,
not far from Grand Haven, was cremated
in burning farm house.
Otto Samberg, of Port Huron, has been
arrested on the charge Of robbing John
Forbes, an old soldier, Of $50 pension
money.
An old Pinckney boy, e. II. Stockable,
has been appointed chief clerk in the
department of finance Of the Hawaiian
republic.
The question of bonding Midland Coun-
ty for $4,000 for the construction Of q
new court house will be voted on at the
April election.
Gov. Rich has paroled Henry May
berry, Of Wexford County, who, on Feb.
Is, 1895, was sent up eighteen months for
receiving stolen goods.
The new Grand Hotel and furniture, at
Lansing, were damaged about $500 by
fire Saturday night. For three hours the
fremen fought the flames.
Four years ago the Congregational
Church at. Benton Harbor split The
Presbyterian element withdrew and built
handsome new church. Now the Con-
gregationalists are trying to get them
back again.
James Gauntlet, Of Milan, accused
young John E. Whaley of stealing $1.1O
from him, but subsequently found he had
mislaid the money himself. Whaley sued
for $4,000 damages, but the jury decided
no cause of action.
It's no trouble to get poison for suicidal
purposes at Grand Rapids. A reporter
for local paper got all he wanted, with
out question asked. He didn't commit
suicide, but he did write a very sensa-
tional article.
@. n. Rapp, who went to New York in
the interest of the West Michigan Horti-
cultural Society, reports that he succeed
ed in obtaining much cheaper rates for
fruit east of Buffalo. The rates will be
second-class, instead of double first.
The Otsego County poor superintend-
ents have brought suit against Genesee
County for $1,000 damages, alleging that
they have expended $1,000 for Mrs.
Amanda Clark's keep, when, as matter
of fact, she belonged to Genesee County.
Paul Sartor, baker at Adrian, has
been troubled with defective eyesight
since boyhood. A short time ago he fell
out of his cart, cutting deep cash over
the eye. Upon removing the bandages
he found that his eyesight had been al
most completely restored.
Richard Murphy, the chap who stole
$4O0 in cash from his former employer,
Mrs. Robert Smith, living near Flint,
came to grief at Saginaw. He made ex-
travagant purchases of champagne, en-
gagged room Mt n low resort and was
having high old time when arrested.
City and county are still quarreling
about the payment for heat in the Port
Huron city hall Mayor Boynton wanted
to get around the injunction against turn
ing off the county's heat by discharging
the engineer, on account of lack of funds.
1t was finally decided to pull the fires and
repair the boilers, which will take week
or more.
Margaret j. Tate began suit in the
Grand Rapids Circuit Court by capias
against Harrison Il. Ledyard for a $20,-
600 solace to her damaged affections. She
is the pretty daughter of the janitOr of a
business block owned by Ledyard, and
in which he had his office. He paid her,
rs alleged, ardent attentions, gave her
many gifts, and finally won her affections.
1t is asserted that he promised to marry
her after the death of his wife, i'll with an
incurable disease, but he has been wild
over a year and has steadily refused to
keep his promise. Ledyard is well known
as a capitalist, property owner and a club
member, and belongs to one of the Oldest
families in the city.
The Peoples Church of Kalamazoo,
whose pastor, Miss Caroline ]. Bartlett,
recently declared she would gladly "fel-
lowship" Col. Ingersoll, is greatly excited
over the charge that many Unitarians
have left the church, and that its members
are made up largely of 'drunkards, bias
phemers and atheists, who do not have to
believe in God or hell" The charge was
made by Rev. c.. Nj. Keene, of the Church
of Christ, in the form of letter to the
Christian Standard. Mrs. Lucinda Ii.
Stone, the well-known reformer, declared
from the pulpit that no one had left the
Peoples Church, but its membership is
apidly increasing. The very essence Of
the church is temperance. The donation
of $4,000 from Silas Hubbard with
which the church was erected was the
savings from abstaining from drink and
tobacco.
Martin L. Sweet, long looked upon as
one of the wealthiest men in Grand Rap
ids, filed trust deed to the Michigan
Trust Comnanv to SECURE crpditors He
is 7S years old, has been in i'll health for
two years and inability to give personal
attention to his affairs brought on the
crisis. The assets covered by the trust
deed include the Sweet Hotel property,
his H0lstein stock farm of 1S0 acres in
side the city limits, numerous city lots
and several small farms near town; real
estate in Blendon, Ludington, Custer,
Newaygo, Three Rivers and other points;
his interest in Brown, Hall & Co., the
Sweet Furniture Company, the Antrim
Iron Company, $50 shares in the Old Ma
tional Bank, a large block of Lowell and
Hastings Railroad shares and numerous
land contracts and mortgages. The as
sets will probably foot up 100000 or
$500,0OO, conservatively estimated. Sweet
lost heavily in a wheat deal some time
ago. His furniture factory was not a sue
cess financially and the Lowell and Hast
ings Railroad, in which he is n heavy
stockholder, used up much Of his surplus.
He also suffered heavy losses through in
dorsement. Mr.. Sweet is pioneer -four
ing mill operator and wheat buyer and one
of the earliest bankers. At one time he
held nearly half of the total of the Old
National Bank and until two years ago