Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-12-11
WEST AND SOUTH.

In Texas, at the recent election, the OIL
cial vote is as follows: Cleveland, 223, POS;
Blaine, SS,353; Butler, 1891; st. John, 3,511;
Lockwood, 2; total vote, 3lS,395. Cleve-
lands plurality over Blaine, 1874, $50; Cleve-
lands majority over all, 1880 AS COM
pared with the Presidential vote of 1880
Texas shows an increase of S5,29S votes.
ORRIN A. CARPENTER, who was charged
with the murder of Fora Burns at Lincoln,
ILL.,, a year ago, but subsequently tried and
acquitted, visited Lincoln on the I'd and
ahot at hSy William II. Burns. the father
of the murdered girl. The bullet missed
its mark.
THE State Board of Canvassers of Florida
declared on the ID that the result on the
Presidential Electors is as follows: Cleve-
land, 31,769; Blaine, 2S039; st. John, "A.
Cleveland's plurality, 3,73S.
AT the recent election in Wisconsin the
official vote for Governor is as follows:
Rusk (Rep.), 1924; Fratt (Dem.), 143,-
945; Hastings (Prohibitionist), 500; Utley
(Greenbacker), 4,274. Rusk's plurality,
1929; majority, G,450.
rTHE house of Stephen Goodwin, at
Camilla, Ga, was entered by unknown
parties a few nights ago and Mr.. Goodwin
and Mrs. Gregory and her son were muir
dered in their beds. Nothing was stolen,
aad the cause for the crime was mystery.
RESOLUTION has passed the Georgia
Legislature empowering the Clerk of the
House to employ women to perform cleric
al work. In the debate the opening of
every avenue of labor to women was fully
On the Sd four women were accidentally
burned to death: Mrs. Scribner, at Oma-
ha, Ark; Mrs. James Osborn, at Vim
cennes, Ind; Miss Minnie Messenger, at
FL Paso, Tex, and Miss Lizzie Howard, at
Omaha, Neb.
ANDREW MANN and his family, at Fort
| Spring, w. Va, were poisoned on the Sd by
drinking milk in which arsenic had been
placed by some unknown person. Two were
dead, and four others were not expected to
recover.
L.V. SIMPSON and DIR. Calhoun Lawrence
shot each other to death in dispute on the
Sd over a debt of eleven dollars at Neches-
vile, Tex.
1T was agreed on the 3D. by the General
Managers of the Missouri River railroad
lines to fix the rate between Chicago and
st. Louis at $3.50, and that between Chicago
and Kansas City at $3.50, to go into effect
at once.
THE other night fourteen boys escaped
from the House Of Refuge at Louisville,
K.ya.. by Iaeans Of a robe made of sheets
A FEW days ago Charles Hale was car
ried home at Lafayette, Ind. with broken
leg, which so frightened his wife that she
fell in a swoon and died in a short time.
| COUNTERFEIT ten-cent pieces have re-
Gently been put in extensive circulation at
Lawrence, Kan. They are brighter than
the genuine ones, having a glazed appear
ance as If coated with quicksilver. The
wreath is clumsily executed, and the
counterfeits thus far seen are dated 1875.
In the magazine of the Virginia Military
Institute at Lexington, Va, five hundred
pounds of cannon powder exploded! the
other night, shaking houses mile Off and
shattering glass to great extent.
EARLY the other morning fire in the
Hall Spring Railway stables at Baltimore
destroyed ten cars and caused the burning
to death of fifty-on horses.
WILLIAM REYNOLDS wagon, containing
three children, left its fastenings on hill
side near Knoxville, o., few days ago
and dashed down the incline, coming in
collision with a great rock. Two of the
children were killed, but the third escaped
with slight injuries.
THE death of Solomon Eversull, of Gin
cinnati, o., occurred the other night at his
residence in that city at the age of one
hundred and one years. He went to Ohio
from Virginia in 1901.
A VETERAN named William Rogers, who
lost his sight during the war, and for
years haG been grinding an organ for a
living at Carthage, Mo-, was the recipient
on the 4th of $9,312.17 pension money, and
will besides receive $72 per month for life.
On the 4th Charles Neiveille, the alleged
Baronet, who ran away with and married
Miss Whitney, of Detroit, and was recent
ly tried and convicted of bigamy, was sem
fenced to imprisonment for seven years in
the penitentiary.
AT Cincinnati Miss Kate Inn had Lee
Heller, her former lover, in Justice Court
a few days ago for threatening her. Heller
attempted to kill the girl but the Justice
prevented him, upon which Heller shot
himself dead.
Mrs. II. @. PICKETT, of Cooperstown, d.
t., wife of banker, accidentally killed
herself a few days ago while carelessly
handling revolver.
THE other day an incendiary fire in Mey.
ersdale, Nd, destroyed fifteen buildings
comprising the business portion of the vii
lage. A number of business men had re-
ceived warnings that they would be burned
out.
A. SHOOTING ARRAY occurred at Gates
vile. Tex, few days ago caused by an
old feud, during which Henry Basham, DIR,
T. H. Sauls and Abraham Sauls were fatal
~ wounded. All the parties we're well-to-
do farmers.
RAysER, SEAGRAvE a. Co., bankers, OF
Toledo, were on the 9Th compelled to sus-
pend business, with liabilities of $400,0Oc
In Chicago on the 9th Joe williams, the
negro who murdered Minnie Brooks and