Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-11

falling into bat of boiling water ut the
Eagle brewery. He has wife and three
children dependent upon him.
The postoffice Mt Hillsdale was moved
into its new quarters In the Sutton block
Saturday night. The citizens and busi-
ness men In the south end of the city are
jubilant and those In the north end corrc-
spondingly depressed.
The Supreme Court reversed for the
second time the finding of the jury In the
case of the estate of Robert Walker of
Kalamazoo VS.. the Lake Shore and Mich
igan Southern Railroad, which was given
Judgment for 81, 300 for causing his death.
1t has been tried four times.
The Supreme Court refused to hear the
application for mandamus to compel the
Detroit Common Council to call a special
election for Mayor on the ground that
Pingree vacated that Office by qualifying
for Governor. The court referred the
petitioner to the Wayne Circuit Court.
Mrs. Mercy s. Smalley, of Jackson,
purchased the stock and assets of the
Crown Paper Co. from G. e. Townsend,
who as trustee held the stock on two chat
tel mortgages. The property was inven-
toried at $4,000 and was sold for $4,000.
The business win probably be continued.
| The will of Charles Willard, the Battle
Greek hermit, stipulates that $4,000 be
given to the public schools of Battle Greek
| for the erection of library building, $780,
600 to the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation of Battle Greek for building, and
SAC, 900 to the Baptist College at Kalama-
zoo, and the remainder to be divided
among the legal heirs.
| Thomas Lake, the foreman of the agri-
cultural department at the school for the
deaf in Flint, went into silo for some
feed, when the ensilage caved in and
buried him under several tons of the fod-
der. He managed, however, to keep his
face clear, and thus escaped suffocation.
After several hours of labor he was dug
out and he will recover from his terrible
squeeze.
| A 14-year-old girl named Churchill,
while tramping through the country, was
| taken in by farmer near Grass Lake
Saturday. She claimed to be looking for
her fathers residence, but could not tell
where her relative resided. A report to
the Jackson police resulted in the depart
ment ascertaining that she had escaped
from the Good Samaritan Home She
has been on similar escapades before.
Sheriff Knapp, of Roscommon County,
has just received from the Auditor Cen
eral a writ to serve on parties cutting lum-
Der on the east half of section II in Rich
field township The description is State
tax land and has about $500 delinquent
taxes against it. The original title is in
Smalley & Woodwork, of Bay City, and
J. c. Guilford, of West Branch, and
Charles Blanchard is alleged to have been
cutting the timber, of which there was
about 100000 feet.
The case of the city of Muskegon vs..
the county of Muskegon, which was af-
frmed by the Supreme Court in favor of
the city, involves very important prin-
ciple. The county has been collecting de-
linquent personal tax from the city wheth-
err the city treasurer had been able to
make his collections or not. OF recent
years this delinquency has become quite
burden on the city treasury, and recent
ly a fight was begun. 1t was claimed
that the city treasurer could not be made
to turn over to the county what he had
not collected, and this contention has been
upheld. It's general application through
out the State will radically change affairs
$50.
Nelson De Long, an attorney of Muske-
gon, was last year appointed by the Mus
kegon Circuit Court to defend an INDECENT
prisoner charged with the crime of assault
with intent to do great bodily harm. The
prisoner was convicted, and De Long
upon his own motion and without any
order from the Circuit Court, took the
case to the Supreme Court by a writ OF
error. The conviction was affirmed. DE
Long thereupon presented claim against
the Muskegon County Board Of Supervis
ors for S356.SO, Of which $500 was fol-
his services and $15G.S0 for printing the
brief and record. The Supervisors declin'
ed to allow the claim and the Circuit
Court refused to issue mandamus to
compel them to do so. BY certiorari the
case was carried to the Supreme Court
1t was held in an opinion that De Long
cannot get his money. The right of APP
peal in civil and criminal cases, II is said
is statutory, and there is found no au
thority in the statutes for an attorney ap
pointed to defend a prisoner in the Circuit
Court to appeal the case upon his own
motion. If an attorney chooses to appeal
case upon his own motion, the court
holds, he must look to his client for com
pensation.
James Richards, an eccentric old farm
er, living n lonely life on his farm six
or seven miles northeast of Ann Arbor
was fatally wounded and robbed Saturday
night. Richards came from England il
1852 and took up a peculiar existence
He refused all friendships, lived in a mere
hovel, sustaining life by the barest neccs
stiles and scraped and saved, his ONLY
object appearing to be the amassing OF
money for it's own sake. Sixteen year.
ago he was robbed of several hundred
dollars, distrusting the banks and keeping
his hoard about his person. The losi
drove him to insanity and landed him In
the asylum ut Pontiac, where he remained
for about three years. Returning home
he took up the old life, only placing hi
savings in the bank. At the timeeof hi
death he had about 81 200 in the bank
This change in his custom was not gen
orally known, hence the attack of Satur
} day night. Shortly after retiring tw,
men demanded admittance and on beint
refused crushed in the door. The old MAJ
defended himself stubbornly with pitch
! fork, and the miscreants were obliged I,
shoot him in order to overcome him. The.
then ransacked the house, finding onll
, about $50. and fed, leaving their victim
! to die. He fingered i'm terrible agony un
} til Monday forenoon, when death came
1t is understood that the murdered maj
has daughter living in England. NJ
other relatives are known to be alive.
, Some of the leading ladies of Bentol
Harbor blacked their faces and gave
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