Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-01-16


tice medicine, but who find the Michigan
law too fiimsy to operate against them.
The cause of the book agent was vindi-
Gated at Ann Arbor when Circuit Court
jury brought in n verdict of $3.50 for
James Williams, of Detroit, against John
Rockwell. Williams took orders from
large number of farmers near Chelsea
for book called "John Bull Uncle Jona-
than and Johnnie Crapaud." The book
was refused by the signers as not up to
pretensions. and Williams brought suit
against one of them under the contract.
The case has furnished great amusement
for large crowd.
The Lake Mountain Mining Company,
capitalized at $1,00O,0O0, has leased its
five gold mines located near Sitka, Alaska,
to syndicate of which ex-Gov. A. Il.
Swineford of Alaska, formerly of Michi-
gan, is at the head. The lease is for five
years and includes the Lucky Chance,
Nickel, Cleveland and Haley K Sons
placer claims and porphyry. Assays run
as high as S55,OOO ton. y. III. Stewart
of Kalamazoo is president; John Cudahy
of Chicago, vice-president, and M. q.
Clark of Madison, Wis, secretary and
treasurer.
Nelson Rivard, 50 years old, Detroit
bachelor and a hermit. living ON the
Crosse Point road. made determined and
successful attempt to commit suicide.
When his friend, Pishea, called at his
hut he found that the old man had evi-
IDENTIFY been engaged in some bloody deed.
A search revealed the body Of Rivard in
the well. 1t appears that he had smashed
himself in the head with an AK and then
tottering to the well threw himself in
head first. Rivard had been moody of late.
and had often said he would end his lonely
life.
The case of Juror Charles +. Coles, Of
Bancroft, charged with contempt in talk
ing to his fellow jurors in the celebrated
sidewalk damage case of Mary II. Ather-
ton VS.. the village of Bancroft, was be-
fore Judge Daboll in the Circuit Court
in Corunna. After hearing the witnesses,
the judge gave him, and also Juror Fuller.
who first heard the conversation and talk
ed with the attorneys, without notifying
the judge, severe reprimand. The judge
said he believed he would be justified in
fining Coles, but he was punished enough
with the reprimand and the publicity Civ
en- the case.
The ministers of Lapeer are mad clear
through, and they projose TO make it hot
for John J. Graham, the proprietor of the
Abram House, for using their names on
printed invitation announcing n grand
dancing party. Graham, it appears. is
sued his invitations, which contained as
committees the leading men of the city.
| The ministers have held a meeting, and
propose to preach against the dance and
endeavor TO kill it. They say the very
presence of their names on the invita-
tons will have bad effect on the mem
bers of their hocks. There was talk Of
a criminal prosecution against Graham.
Many years ago David Bowen ran ho-
| tel on South Jefferson street, Battle
| Greek. He owned considerable property.
| When be died he left life lease of all his
property to his widow, who soon afterward
! married. She subsequently sold several
| acres OH 1.-The fats" to III. III. Brown. al
though she had no right to do so. Since
| then the property has passed through sew
cral hands, until it is now all improved
| and covered with residences The last
! purchaser was A. II. Henry, who divided
the land into village lots, and sold them
off to the parties who afterward built up
on them. John Bowen, of Battle Greek.
and Ed Bowen, of Marshall, brothers of
David Bowen, have commenced suit in the
| Circuit Court for the recovery of the
property, which is now worth many thou
sands of dollars.
| After seven months imprisonment at
| Manstee for defrauding creditors, the
| Dummers, father and son. were released
| Saturday, after satisfying the First Ma
| tional Banks claim by turning over to it
az prosecuting creditor property known
as the Dummer homestead, worth in the
neighborhood of $1,000, subject to a mort
| gage of $500, given to legal counsel for
services in futile attempt to secure their
release by appeal to the Supreme Court.
Charles III. and Henry C. Dummer were
sent to Jail under the operation of the
| fraudulent debtors act their board being
| paid by the bank. In August, 1894, the
| firm, which had conducted a clothing and
| furnishing goods store for several years,
| closed its doors after the members had
assigned their property principally to rela-
| tives so as to leave in the lurch several
| creditors, among them the First National
| Bank for eight hundred. IL has been
| freely asserted that the Dummers have
other property, but this was strenuously
denied by them, they claiming to have
| turned over the last cent. Owing to the
prominence of the defendants and the
case being almost without precedent since
| the fraudulent debtors act was passed, il
has attracted considerable attention.
The Supreme Court is considering the
| application of the regents of the univer-
sity for n mandamus to compel Auditor
General Turner to allow per cent in
| terest on the university trust funds. This
| rate had been paid until recently, when
| Mr.. Turner ruled that the general law
making the legal rate O per cent in all
cases where no other rate was specified,
applied in the case of the university. Han
chett & Hanchett, in their petition for the
| regents, maintain that from 1874 to 1894
| per cent had been paid. The fund was
| really loan to the State, and the per
cent interest was fixed by an implied con-
| tract. No legislation has changed the
rate. 1t is claimed that Turner not only
refused to pay the per cent rate from
Jan. 1 to Sept. 30. 1895, but transferred
from the university fund to the specific
tax fund $10,4S7.32, n sum equal to the
difference between interest on the univer-
sity fund computed at the rate of per
| cent and the amount actually paid from
Jan. 1, 1893, to Dec 81, 1894. They ask
the Auditor to restore S14.444.36 in all.
The lumber cut of the seven Alpenh
mills last year was 101, 745, 900 feet, abont
100000 less than in 1894. About 3O,-
100000 feet of logs will come from Geor.
gian bay the coming season.
Poormaster Rowe stated before the Ben.
ton Harbor Council that the physicians