Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-08
WEST AND SOUTH.

binary number of saloons, while brewery
was in full blast
The firm of Etzel, Hutchinson az Co.,
dealers in toys and notions at st. Louis,
have failed for 100000.
For the second time within two years |
KY, was recently laid waste |
by fire. The loss was estimated at $'o,oO"
THE other day Charles 3. Campbell, Pro-
bate Judge, fed from Watertown, ID. T.,
taking with him s. 900 belonging to the
oeurt asaa I,Eivatv oitiHeas'
OK the SOth ult the two days session at
Decatur of the Illinois State Prohibition
Conference adjourned sine die An adj
dress to the people of Illinois was adopted,
calling on all voters to stand firm for VIC
tory in 1888, and to help the organization
in the work of gaining converts TO the
cause.
PLEASANT ANDERSON, residing near
Blakesburg, Ia, was seized by a band of
masked men the other night and hurried to
n schooishonse, where mock trial was in
dulged in, the sentence being death. They
then hanged him to tree. A year ago
Anderson was acquitted of the murder OF
Chris McAllister, but feeling prevailed In
the community that he was guilty, and the
lynching was the result
AT Baltimore Leopold Van Zechan, son
of General in the Saxon army, was suf-
located recently by gas from stove:
In the Mahoning CO., Valley iron man
ufacturers have agreed upon a reduction OF
ten per cent. in the Wages of employees.
sTRukINd miners OF the Hooking Valley
and attacks on railroad bridges were be-
gun. A Sheriff with large posse was on
the trail of the mob
AN infantry company and six troops of
cavalry under Command of Colonel Hatch
of the Ninth Cavalry were on the got ult.
ready to start from Leavenworth, KAN, on
an expedition into Indian Territory TO re-
move trespassers from the Oklahoma
Reservation.
ARMED men now patrol Fulton, WI Va,
and even women carry revolvers, to pre-
vent recurrence of the robberies which
have been recently committed. Suspicious
characters have been driven out, and il
they return will be shot. The first thief
caught will be hanged Immediately.
FOURTEEN buildings at Pierre, ID. IT..
were destroyed by fire few days ago.
The other day st. George Best, of Cin\-
cinnati, after being sentenced to threel
years in the penitentiary for disseminate
ing obscene literature, swallowed poison
the heroic efforts Of physicians.
THE United States District Court at Gin
cinnati on the 3Oth ult sentenced five men
to Jail for from one to six months for ille-
gal voting and two others were given half
year each for hindering citizens from de-
posting their ballots.
The doors of the Newton County Bank
of Neosho, Mo-, were closed on the 30th
ult. Liabilities, $4,000; assets, $4,000.
IT is said the Pope has made known his
intention to confer mark of distinction
upon Miss Caldwell, of Virginia, who ten
dered S3O0,00 to found Catholic Univer-
sity in New York.
ADvICEs received at Bozeman, M. T., on
the 1st stated that cattle were starving to
death in the Madison and Yellowstone re-
gions. The snow was two feet deep on the
level, making it impossible for the animals
to get at the grass.
THE other day Messrs. Derosset and
Pass engaged in duel with shot-guns in
the streets of lockwood, Tenn, and both
* AT Fort Fort Benton, NJ r., the Thermometer
registered fifty.six degrees below zero on
the 3lst ult., and fifty-one below at Fort
Keogh. The average during the past six
teen days was thirty-one degrees below
zero.
In Indianapolis on the LIST a package of
! $500 in currency, consigned by bank in
that city to the Treasurer of the United
States, was distracted between the express
| Office and the railway station.
THE boilers of the tug Admiral exploded
in the Chicago River on the evening of the
3lst ult., and five men were blown &c
pieces.
DURING the year 1884 the total of marine
losses on the great lakes was 81 SOC, 600
The aggregate of the losses, given by
lakes, are as follows: Michigan, $2O5,671
Superior, $457, 400; Huron, $261 800; Erie
$172,7 Ontario, $17s,s0O; making a total
by important disasters, of $1,276, 400. 9th
er minor mishaps, $223,6O0.
A FIRE at Evansville, Ind, originating
in the dry goods house of Miller Brothers
destroyed property valued at $250,0O0 thu
other day.
WILLIAM PEARSON, a wealthy faImei
and strong spiritualist, residing ineal
Chehalis, Wy. T., imagined a few day
ago that he received an order from high
er power to kill his infant child, and did 81
with hammer. When he had finished b,
showed what he had done TO his wife, VIII,
was also spiritualist. He then said tina
II she would cut her throat he would do tn,
same. Both were found the next morninJ
falf-frozen, with their throats cut, but not
yet dead. Pearson had revived sufficient
to state what is above related. He and hi,
wife would probably die.
On the Baltimore a. Ohio Road, neal
Grafton, o., wedge was driven In a froj
early on the morning of the 31st ult.
wrecking passenger train. The engin,
was hurled to the bottom of n creek, tn,
driver being killed, and the fireman wa
scalded to death by escaping steam. Foui
persons were injured seriously and a mum
Der badly shaken up. The financial los
was $4,000.
AT Hot Springs, Ark, a prohibitory
liquor ordinance has gone into effect, will
limit of two years.
The German bark Lille was recently
wrecked near Petrolia, CAL, and the frs
officer, the cook and three seamen wer,
drowned.
MRS. CHARLES SELLERS, of Dayton, o.
while handling pistol recently supposed
to be unloaded fatally shot her husband.
THE loss Of eight lives resulted from tn,
stranding of the Norwegian bark Lena re-
Gently on Hog Island Bar, near Birds Nest
Va, in fog.
On the ID the coolest weather recorded
at ST. Paul, Mimi, was noted 80 below
zero. Throughout the Northwest the tenn
lpnrature ranged unusually low, marking