Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-10-08
LATER N-WS ITEMS.

The late census gives Massachusetts,
population of l,941,48 an increase OF
i5s,3sO since 1880. Boston is given 800, 4O6
Inhabitants, against 3s2 $50 FIVE years ago.
Seven veterans who were discharged
from tho Brooklyn Navy-Yard last spring
on account of the depletion of the appro-
prlation have been remstated under the
civil-sarvice rule.
The Postmaster General has decided
that no special deliveries of mail shall be
made on Sunday.
The Navy Department will expert
cnce some difficulty in getting detailed de-
signs for the engines of the new cruisers,
and the Secretary may have to go abroad
for them.
Commodore Queen has been appoint
I'D to the command of the Washington Navy
Yard, to succeed the late Commodore
Semmes.
L. w. Hooper, late Judge at Helena,
Ark, is charged with having issued bogus
bonds to the amount of $1,000.
The street-car drivers at Wheeling,
W. Va, who are on a strike, threw stones
and dynamite cartridges into the cars, and
The negro Mehane, who outraged
and killed Mrs. Walker near Milton, North
Carolina, a few days ago, was taken from
the officers who were conveying him to Yam
ceyville and lynched.
The President has appointed the
appointed the following consuls: owen Nc
Corr, of Colorado, at Ecuador; John Corn
well, of Texas at Cairo; Thomas II. Jerni-
gan, of North Carolina, at Montevldeo, and
Lewis G. Reed, of New York, at Barbados.
It is reported that the President has
secured a successor to Mr.. Eaton, of the
Civil Service Com mission, but that his name
will not be announced until the latter re-
tires, Nov. ]. 1t is also reported that the
selection has the approval of George william
Curtis and other prominent reformers.
Rains, drought, and worms have
done much damage to cotton and corn In
the South. Heavy rains prevailed South and
East In Virginia wind and rain did con-
siderable damage to persons and property.
Heavy frosts visited portions of the West
on Saturday, but no damage is reported,
corn being out of the way. The straits of
Muckfnuc ana Vicinity were CreaUou ON sun
day to a severe snowstorm.
The engine of train on the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad was thrown from the
track near Kamloops, killing one American
and FIVE Cinnamon.
A large amount of stock has died
from hydrophobla in Guthrie County, Iowa.
oh De tha ha. 90
mers in Moultrie County, Illinois. State
Veterinarian Holcomb, of Kansas, reports
that hog cholera prevails in between thirty
and forty counties in Kansas.
William Boohwalter, of Circleville,
Ohio, threatened ito kill the first niger who
passed" Samuel Tbbs was the victim. Mr..
Bookwalter was drunk.
Four cars broke away from the first
section of circus train near Fergus Falls,
Mimi, and running backward on a heavy
grade struck the engine of the secon sec
ton. Five men were killed and many others
seriously wounded. Nearly two hundred
men we're asleep in the wrecked cars at the
time.
The Democrats of Colorado nomi-
mated Wilbur +. Stone for Supreme Judge
and adopted resolutions favoring the free
coinage of silver and the enforcement of
the presumption and homestead laws against
corporations and syndicates.
Over four hundred deaths from small
pox occurred in Montreal during the week.
Rioters gathered around the Exposition
Building, which had been turned into q
smallpox hospital, intending to destroy the
building. They shot and severely wounded
the sentry, when the Victoria Rifles which
occupied the grounds, appeared, and the
rioters took to their heels.