Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-04

for the past score Of years, died Mt his
home. He was well known about thu
State. He was 50 years old. !
VIM. Zienenbein, living at Jackson, ate
a piece of pie his daughter had sprinkled
with strychnine for the purpose Of poison
ing mice In the pantry and his life was
only saved by the prompt administration
of emetics.
The annual statement of the Farmers
Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Hills
dale County for the year ending Dec. 81,
1896. shows 81. 754, 438 Of propertyiat risk.
The liabilities of the company Mt that date
were $2,230.27; $780,. OF was paid for
losses during the year, and 81, 459 for off,
GERS salaries. ft
The validity of the law giving minority
stockholders representation upon boards
of directors was sustained by the Supreme
Court In an important opinion In the case
of Dusenbury against the nine directors
of the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance
Company, who were elected at the last
annual meeting.
Prominent Kalamazoo business men are
organizing a stock company with $4,000
capital stock to purchase the Buchanan
cutlery plant apd manufactured goods. II
is now in the hands of the Michigan Trust
Co. for sale and Kalamazoo expects to
secure it and establish factory there
which will employ 125 skilled workmen.
Senator Mcmillan has added to the
Shakespeare library at Ann Arbor, found
ed by him in 1882, an excellent copy of the
third folio edition of the plays london,
1864. This last copy is even more rare
than his previous gifts. The Mcmillan
Shakespeare library now contains oil the
four folios except the first, and of this
the university has Staunton's excellent
photO-lithographic fac smile.
Chas. s. Ford's examination on the
charge of having had a hand in SNUG
Cling the furniture from the Ionia prison
in 1896 will soon be held. He was re-
leased on 500 bail. Ford says he is en-
tirely innocent in the matter and claims
his prosecution a part of scheme of GER
tain parties to protect themselves by lay
ing the blame on him. He only asks that
his many friends in the trade and else
where suspend judgment until both sides
are heard, and refers all questions to
his attorneys, McGarry & Nichols.
Richard G. Monks. the forger, has been
landed in Ionia reformatory by Sheriff
Kuntermann. On the way to prison
Monks gloried in his forging operation in
Bay City, saying he was complete sue
cess as far as he went. ''But have one
regret" said Monks. "What is that?"
asked the sheriff. 81 am sorry 1 did not
make that draft for 1915 instead of $175,'
he answered. Monks had reference to the
hra Int ha Nh TON nj
Bank after securing the signature of
John r. Simonson, his attorney, for iden-
LITIGATION.
Sheriff Snow of Kalamazoo had very
cold ride Sunday and hard one, too, but
he landed the men he was after. Jack
Myers and Ben Boss are alleged to have
broken into the City feed barn Saturday
night and taking out their own peddling
wagon, on which the charges had not been
paid, and blankets and corn. They left
at midnight and the sheriff caught them
near Moline at / o'clock Sunday after
noon and arrived home after a 7O-mile
drive ut o'clock Sunday night. One of
the men had his nose frozen. 1t was a
cold drive.
The Ann Arbor Light Infantry has
is gain of $500 over the profits of last
years show and that in spite of the fact
that the expenses were several hundred
dollars higher than last year. At it's
meeting the infantry passed resolutions
urging Representative Sawyer to use his
best efforts to have the present Legisla-
ture provide relief for Privates Kelly and
Lint, who were permanently injured ut
the encampment of 1896 by premature
explosion. This movement is expected to
be followed by similar ones from all the
companies of the State.
Lyman l.. Benson, Of Kalamazoo, who
was stricken with apoplexy last week,
died Tuesday afternoon, aged u years,
never regaining consciousness. He came
to Michigan from his native State, YER
mont. in 1888, and eleven years later en-
gagged with w. G.. Pattison in the staging
and livery business. He went to st. Paul
and took charge of the same business in
1850, where he remained twenty years.
A few years ago his ventilating appara-
tus attracted considerable attention from
the authorities at Washington as a means
of ventiating the capitol building. 1t
also attracted attention i'm foreign coun-
tries.
The house of A. Z. Vandawater, situat-
ed three miles from Belleville, caught fire
from defective chimney Tuesday morn
ing, and Mrs. Vandawater, two children,
a boy and girl of IA, and Miss Anne
Vandawater, a sister of the father and
husband, persisted i'm the flames. Their
bodies were burned beyond recognition.
The other inmates of the house barely es-
capped with their lives by jumping from
second-story window. They walked in
their night robes and barefooted through
the snow, about eight or ten inches deep,
to the house Of a neighbor one mile away.
Their feet and hands were frozen and
they are still in very critical condition.
The father is almost distracted over his
terrible loss, and 1t is feared he will lose
his mind.
A new swindle is being worked in n
number of Michigan cities by two con-
federates, in this manner: One of the
swindlers goes into store and purchases
a small article, paying with one, two or
five-dollar bill that has been previously
marked. He gets his change and departs,
and in few minutes the other swindler
enters the store and purchases a cigar
or some other article, and after waiting
a moment asks the clerk why he does not
give him his change. The clerk informs
him that he has not yet paid him. The
swindler insists that he has and remem-
bers it very distinctly, because the bill he
handed him had a very peculiar mark
upon it, which he describes. The clerk
looks i'm the money drawer, finds the bill
as described, gives him his change and
apologies for OBTAINING him.
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