Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-11-04

f0rty-hye minutes.
Kalamazoo has discontinued the STONE
yard fer county prisoners, becassxe the
men didn't do enough to make Il pay, al
though the yard Is full nearly all the time.
VIM. Booth of Orion, after spending
nearly two years in Alaskan gold fields,
has returned. He is not very wen salts
fled with the Eldorado and advises all to
keep away.
Archie Campbell of Bannisier gave a lit
tie fellow OF that village some chewing
tobacco. 1t made the lad sick. The boys
father caused CampbeM's arrest and he
was fined SIS.
The barns on the farm Of DIR. h. r.
Miller, located one mile outside the city
limits, burned, together with their con-
tents. One horse was cremated- Loss,
$1,000: partially covered by insurance.
Incendiarism was the cause OF the fire.
George III. Murdock, Jr., OF Berrien
County, is trying to sell to Ottawa County
the odd Berrien County Jail, at Berrien
Springs, and have IL removed to Grand
Haven. He offers 1t for $1,000. The sup
ervisors have appropriated $4,000 for
new Jail.
While Elmer Crossley was crossing the
Fayette branch Of the Lake Shore Rab-
road at Jasper, the cast-bound morning
train struck his wagon, demOlishing IL and
throwing the young man ten or fifteen
feet in the air. He is injured badly, but
will recover.
Lynn Welcher. ia. Reidel, Logan VIII
liams, Julius Garrison, Fanny Temple,
five members of "A Prodigal Father
company. which gave Sunday perform
ance at the Grand Opera House in Grand
Rapids, were fined So in the police court
the next morning. This marks the be-
ginning of new struggle to open Sunday
amusement houses in the city. A test
case will go to the Supreme Court
The people of Athens, Calhoun County,
have supposed ever since October, 1896,
that their village was an Incorporated oue,
but it was recently discovered that il was
not. because Of the failure OF the county
clerk TO record the petition and survey
after the Incorporation. Consequently the
village council has been doing business all
this time without authoroity. The matter
has been fixed up now, the missing pOr-
tion of the proceedings having been filed
in.
The fishermen OF Charlevoix County, IN
Guiding the extensive Beaver Island
plants, have organized to test the new law
creating a close season. An injunction
will be asked for to restrain the warden
from the seizure Of nets. Failing in this,
the matter will be taken to the Supreme
Court. The fishermen will fight the law,
believing that IL is not only unjust, but
that it is not calculated for the ultima Il.
good of the industry. The fisheries cen
tering at Charlevoix are the most ez-
tensive on the lakes. Eight steam tugs
are employed besides many smaller out
fits.
At Marysville, Frank Hanson is under
arrest on the charge Of attempting tn
burglarize the house Of Harvey Kendall
He was caught in the act. Hanson lived
in house boat ut Idiewild park all sum-
mer, lately moving it over to the Canadian
side. A week ago Kendalls honse was
broken into and robbed of 800 worth Of
stuff. The officers suspected Hanson and
have kept n close watch OH him, with the
result that he was caught as he was en-
tering the house a second time. The
house boat was brought across the river
and three trunks full OF pluDder found
The stuff stolen from Kendalrs house Was
recovered.
Thomas A. Doxater, a brakeman on the
Chicago and West Michigan Railroad,
was run over last June. He was taken
to Buttcrworth hospital. Grand Rapids,
where both legs were amputated- The
man died two hours later. Instead of
ia. a. N. Ill al
the dead body to the widow, they were
cremated in the hospital furnace Now
Fanny Doxater, the widow, begins suit
against the railroad. the hospital and the
doctor for $4,000 damages, and the suit
in based not only on the loss OF the hus-
band. but the injury to the widows feel
ings in cremating those legs.
st. .Joseph's Catholic Church in Calm
met was the scene of n murdcrous assault.
Just ut the close Of the service the con-
gregation was startled by the screams OF
Il woman, which came from the rear Of
the church. The ushers who hurried to
that part Of the edifice found a woman
beating another woman over the head
with potato masher. The infuriated
woman was pulled away, and the woman
she assaulted was taken to the hospital
with broken head. Her assailant was
taken to jail, where she was recognized
as the divorced wife Of John Pioutz, n
saloonkeeper. The woman who was as
saulted has been living with PioutE for
n year.
There is a pretty row ON at HiIlsias
College, which has been brought on by n
fight for purer athletics. Albion WINS
scheduled to play there. The fnrgest
crowd of the season was on the grounds
when the opposing elevens made their mp
pearance. Capt Myers wanted to play
Coach Duffy Mt full back, but Albion
refused TO consent Then Manager Cass
suggested that the elevens play the game
rs athletic clubs, but Prof. Burnham of
Albion refused to countenance any such
arrangement The affair causcd mcre or
less ill-feeling, and the sequel came when
il was announced that Chas. Cass, man
ager Of the college football team, had bcen
expelled from college because Of unmaniy
conduct at meetings of the athletic board
of control; for neglect of studies, and for
having insulted members Of the faculty
during Saturdays tronble with AIbics'e
team. 1t was also announced that Capt
Myers is suspended from athletics for neg
,ect OF studies and for playing men not
students under assumed names Many
students are threatening to leave IL Cass
and Myers are not reinstated, bnt the con-
servative element supports the faculty
Chns. Worden, aged Is years, was killed
nj Ogden, while nutting. He was bunting
nuts from tree with heavy bnber
,vbc IL sIipnad o,,t of his hu nd M n furzsek