Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-05-14
VOLUME XVIII.


ensuing year..
McEwan Brothers & Co., of Bay City,
lost 1000 cords of slabs by fire starting
from locomotive spark. No insurance.
Orris Haskins, living several miles
south Of Climax, Kalamazoo County, COM
mitted suicide by cutting his throat. De-
spondency.
During a severe storm at Muskegon
lightning wrecked the home Of III. w.
Nelson, instantly killing his son William,
IL years old.
Tuesday was the sixth anniversary of
the death OF Bishop Borgess. at Kalama-
zoo, and appropriate exercises We're held
in his memory.
Robert Stewart, of Battle Greek, during
the past winter has killed nearly 300
horses for their hides. The bones are
made into fertilizer.
A horseman living near Union City
drives a horse whose upper lip is adorned
with heavy white mustache about four
inches long, curled up like a typical
Frenchman's.
John f. Tobin, switchman employed
10y the Michigan Central ut Bay City,
fell upon the track and one pair of trucks
passed over his legs at the knees, from
the shock of which he died.
Charles Vosslier, of White Oak, Ing
ham County, while out hunting Monday,
accidentally shot himself through the
right hand infiicting injuries that will
make amputation necessary.
Samuel Finney and Louis Jiroux, Of
Marshall convicted at Jackson Of circu-
lating worthless paper money, were SEN
fenced to pay fines of 500 each or in de-
fault pass ninety days in Jail.
The Port Huron City Council has pass
ed a curfew ordinance requiring every
child under 10 to be off the streets after .
o'clock at night in summer and 1880 in
winter, unless accompanied by parents or
guardians.
A suit has been commenced at Jackson
against Warden Chamberlain by Charles
H. Price, alias Clarence Prentice Tiller,
a convict at the prison, to compel him to
turn over a sum alleged to amount to $500
to brother of the prisoner, Theodore
Tiller. Clarence Tiller escaped from
prison about two years ago and borrowed
some $500 from his brother. He was re-
captured and this sum, with other valua-
bles was taken from him, it is alleged, by
the prison authorities and is now in the
possession of the warden. The convict
desires to return this money to his broth
er, which request is denied by the warden
and board of control.
Benjamin Westby, of Detroit, was
knocked down by an electric car April Is.
When he recovered consciousness he was
a raving maniac. The only injury he sus-
tanned was a slight cut above the eye. The
hospital physicians were puzzled and
council of physicians was held. A pc
cular concavity was discovered in West
bys skull. The vertex had been forced
inward and evidently pressed upon the
brain. The family recalled that ten years
back the boy had fallen from railroad
train, striking on his head and driving the
bone into the brain. Since then he has
been more or less light headed. 1t was
determined to trephine his skull. A dis
tance of about two and half inches was
cut out and the patient has now entirely
recovered his reason.
The business men of St. Joseph who
signed the Law and Order League consti-
tuition are being boycotted, and now the
Congregational Church, of 400 members,
with three exceptions, have given notice
that they will not support the league or
ganiZation by the Methodists. Mayor
Starr, at the meeting of the City Council,
referred to the attacks made upon the
city officials by Rev. Mr. Brady from the
Methodist pulpit Sunday, and the Coun-
ell, by vote, advised the Mayor to re-
taliate in a public speech Sunday. The
reverend gentleman was referred to as a
donkey. The boycott began by the sa-
loon men refusing to buy ice from the ice
company, the manager Of which signed
the constitution. The boycott has now
spread to nearly all lines of business. The
fight is only in its infancy now, as the
Council reappointed the old officials.
Kalkaska people are watching the
weather closely and anxiously these days
On the sand plains adjacent to the vii
lage on the west, which comprise hun
dreds of acres there grows in favorable
seasons hundreds Of bushels Of luscious
whortleberres, of which all who will may
pick. Sometimes in favorable seasons
from $4,000 to $4,000 is paid out for
this kind of fruit, and this money goes
largely to women, boys and girls, and en-
ables them to purchase many luxuries
and necessaries which they otherwise
would go without. For the first time in
twenty years the crop has proved total
failure for two consecutive years. Just
when it would have done the most good.
The promise of a full crop is excellent at
this time, and il the weather continues
favorable it will undoubtedly be one of
the largest ever known and furnish for
several months a nice little income for
many people.
John Simonson, formerly a Birming-
ham boy, was retained recently in a tres
pass case before justice in little town
north of Bay City, with an ex-judge
pitted against him as opposing counsel
The ex-judge deluged the jury with an
eloquence lavishly illuminated with an
acrobatic style of gesticulation. AS he
warmed up to his work he shed his coat,
vest, collar and necktie. He stabbed. per-
forated and gashed the air with his index
finger, cutting it into all kinds of swirs
and acute angles. When the ex-judge sat
down it looked as though the jury was
with him. Lawyer Simonson then bowed
solemnly to the jury stripped off every
thing in the gents outfitting line but his
socks, pants and shirt, then he turned n
handspring and gravely took his seat,
without saying word to anyone. A pro-
found stiffness lowered over the court
room for a few seconds. then the court,
jury and spectators broke into a roar of
laughter. The jury saw the fine point in
the sarcasm, and Lawyer Simonsons eli
ent won the case.