Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-07-23
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Senator Henderson, of the Senat
Committee on Territories, has Just completes
a tour of New Mexico, and as a result vii
hle report next December against its ad
mission as a State.
The Georgia Legislature, by vot,
OF l22 to Ill, passed general option law To-
counties which have not already adopted
prohibition.
| j. j. Howard & Son, bankers
Cartersville, Ga, made an assignment Thell
liabilities amount to $40, 900.
There is great excitement in the vii
lage OF Stepstone. kentucky, over the kill
ing of three men by Marshal Jerry Oakley.
Oakley represents the local option party,
and his victim were identified with the liquor
interest. Friends of both sides are arming,
and further bloodshed is apprehended.
An Ell Paso, (Texas) dispatch states
that an east-bound Santa Fe passenger train
was wrecked near Wallace, Texas, by strik-
ing culvert which had been washed out by
a rain-storm. Engineer Wilson, two firemen,
and an extra fireman were killed, and one
passenger, name unknown, had his leg
broken.
Petroleum has been discovered at q
depth Of 1,22O feet on mountain near Ell
mira, N. Y.
The Rev. DIR. s. Ireneus Prime, for
forty-eight years editor of the New yn-i.
Observer, died at Manchester, VT, aged II.
The car-shop and other buildings of
the New York and New England Railway at
Norwich, near Boston, were burned. Loss,
100000. J. b. Kings & Co.'s plaster of
destroyed by fire Saturday afternoon. The
loss is placed at $500, 600, with insurance of
S120, 900.
At Hoboken, New Jersey, John
Gaunt, while intoxicated, murdered his wife
with butcher-knife. The couple had been
married thirty years, and had FIVE children.
Gaunt is in jail.
In an accident on the West Jersey
Railroad Engineer, George Murphy, who, by
remaining at his post, prevented "A shocking
loss of life, was killed, and number of pas.
sengers slightly injured.
Notices have been posted announcing
the suspension of work throughout August
or the Utica Steam Cotton-Mills and the Mo-
49, %.
thought the suspension may continne for
longer time. overproduction is given as one
of the causes of the stoppage.
In the contest for the League base
ball championship, the Chicago nine still
maintains the lead. with the New York, Prov
idencc, Philadelphia, and St Louis CLUBS rol-
lowing in the order named. The Boston and
Detroit clubs are tied for the next place, and
the Bufalos are at the foot of the class.
Chicago has won As games, New York AZ,
Providence 81, Philadelphia 81 and Detroit
and Boston 20 each.
John Roach, the ship-builder, has
made an assignment TO George Il. Weed and
George w. Quintard. His preferred claims
amount to about Sl22,OO0 No statement is
made in regard to his financial condition, ex-
cept that the trouble about the Dolphin, and
the more recent decision of the Attorney
General that no valid contract existed between
him and the Government are the causes lead
ing TO the assignment Roach has ex-
pended great amoaanta- of -r,aosaess ON tha-Dol
nbin and the three new steel cruisers, tue
Boston. Atlanta, and Chicago, and sees no
wav by which he can be reimbursed. 1t is
said that the trouble with the Govern
ment has preyed so heavily on his mind that
IL has been necessary to keep constant
watch on him. when he found that there
was no prospect of being reimbursed by the
| Government he decided that the best thing
he could 90 would be to make an assignment
He had S3l, 900 in bank which he drew Out
and paid to his men. His employees number
1850. :.
A dispatch from Centralia, Ill, states
that the apple crop in that vicinity VIII ~
larger than for many years past.