Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-22
WEST AND SOUTH.

Mimi, walked three -fourths of a mile TO
the Omaha depot in an atmosphere thirty
degrees below zero, and within five minutes
thereafter expired from heart-disease. He
was born in New York city in 1923. He
served seven terms in Congress, was three
times elected Speaker of the House, and
became Vice. President in 1869. Since re-
firing to private life he had spent much
time in the lecture-held.
Ex-TREAsURER REED, of Wilmington,
o., was ON the 18th said to be short $4,000
in his accounts.
On the morning of the 18th striking en-
ployes (mostly Poles) of the Oliver Chilled
Pillow Works at South Bend, Ind, assem-
bled at the works and pc rmitted no person
to enter, manning those who made the at
tempt. Several persons were wounded by
the rioters, and great excitement pre-
vailed. The Veteran Guards, G.. A. r.,
turned out and stopped the riot. More
trouble was expected.
A BOILER exploded the other morning in
a saw mill at Smithheld, o., killing three
men and mortally wounding two others.
In Alabama the recent cyclone caused
great destruction of property in Hale,
Perry, Bib, Chiffon, Macon and Green
counties. The path of the storm was half
.-.sl.. .-ss1, E;,ya ist an s,. li-.a=
and numerous horses and cattle were
killed.
WHILE intoxicated English sailors
boarded q British bark the. other day at
Portland, Ore, and fight arose between
the crew aboard and the intruders, marlin
spikes and hand spikes being used with
deadly effect. Three men were fatally
wounded and several others were badly
injured.
w. w. O'BRIEN, Of Chicago, the noted
crimi nal lawyer, died on the 18th, of
peritonitis, in his fifty first year.
A MOTION ia the Illinois House of Repre-
sentatives on the 18th to proceed to the
election of a Speaker and Clerk was
promptly declared by Speaker Haines to
be out of order, he claiming to be the pre-
siding officer- A long argument by Mr..
Linegar was followed by an adjournment
to the 14th.
CHICAGO scalpers were on the 18th SELL
ing round-trip tickets to New Orleans for
So. while the regular rate was $40.
GREAT suffering and loss Of stock on the
north and south sides of the Rcd River, in
Louisiana, caused by floods from recent
rains, was reported on the 14th. At least
five thousand head of stock were lost.
The dedication Of the new capitol build
ing at Bismarck, ID. T., occurred on the
evening of the 18th.
AT Charleston, s. G., two colored men
were crushed to death few days ago by
the caving in of a pile of fertilizers at the
works of Wilcox, Gibbs e. Co.
r AFTER seve al months of idleness work
was on the 14th resumed by four tobacco
factories at Lynchburg, Va, and others
were preparing to start giving employ
ment to two thousand colored laborers.
THE other night while intoxicated Lewis
and Harry Priest, brothers, were killed by
a train near Delaware, o.
On the evening of the 14th the remains
of Hon. Schuyler Colfax, who died sud-
denly at Mankato, Mimi, arrived at South
Bend, Ind, and were escorted to his late
residence by numerous sorroYing friends.
A SHORTAGE of $4,000 was discovered on
the 18th In the accounts of Thomas II.
Graham, cashier of the Baltimore q Ohio
works at Mount Clare, Md. He was miss
ing.
THE Warwick County (Va.) Grand Jury
on the 18th found indictments against nine
teen office holders of that county for fraud.
AS the Grand Jury was still in session it
was thought that other indictments would
follow.
AN insolvent banker of Augusta, Ca,
George p. Curry, was found guilty of lar
ceny on the 14th and sentenced to five years
in the penitentiary. Curry is worth $780,
900.
The Nevada Legislature on the 18th re-
elected John p. Jones (Rep.) to the United
States Senate.
THE Legislature of Wisconsin met at
Madison on the 14th. Edward s. Miner
was chosen President of the Senate and
Hiram o. Fairchild Speaker of the House.
THE West Virginia Legislature convened
on the 14th at Wheeling. George +. Price
was elected President of the Senate and b.
+. Dennis Speaker of the House.
A joint resolution was proposed in the
Indiana Legislature on the 14th fixing the
terms of all county. officers at four years,
and making them ineligible for more than
one term at time.
In the Michigan Senate bills were in
troduced on the 10Th TO amend the Con-
stitution so as to prohibit the traffic in
liquor, and to re- establish capital punish
ment for murder.
In Eastern Texas heavy rains had on
the 18th washed out railroad tracks, seri-
ously impeding travel.
The death OF Judge ]. w. Dunlop, OF
Kansas City, from wounds received by the
accidental discharge of pistol, occurred
on the 18th.
WHILE intoxicated. Michael Nancy, a
farmer of Saxton Station, No., started
home the other night, but took the wrong
track, got bewildered, and, lying down,
was frozen TO death.
THE inauguration of Governor Hughes
of Arkansas, took place on the 18th.
A SETTLEMENT was recently established
by four Mormon elders near Spartansburg,
s. c., and twenty three Indian converts
from York County had been taken there
The death of Thomas Farrell aged one
hundred and eleven years, occurred on the
18th at st. Paul, MINI.
CHARLOTTE Hook, aged forty FIVE
hanged herself recently at Baltimore
when about to be arrested for spending
$500 belonging to another which was left In
her care.
ON the 18th the bodies of two young men
Thomas Harvey and Samuel Knox, were
found in Brush Pond, Greene County, Ind.
where they had been drowned New Year,
Day while out bunting.
A STOCK dealer named Samuel william,
was murdered the other night by a high.
wayman near Red Key, Ind. The ASSASSIN
fed without securing the 81 900 his victim
] possessed. :.