Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

Barnums great elephant Jumbo was
run into by a railway train and killed near
st. Thomas, Canada. A dispatch from To
ronto gives the following particulars of tho
accident:
The animals were being transferred from tho
tent to the car on the London and Port Stanley
| Hallway track which was struck by n freight
train on the Air Line, which crosses at St
IN Lhomas me baby elephant, which was stand
| Ing alongside Jumbo, was also struck by
the train, and had leg fractured. The
keeper of Jumbo did not. it Is learned, see the
! train approaching. Jumbo gave the alarm OF
the danger first by trumpeting loudly. This
attracted the attention of his keeper, who was
leading the animal, He tried to get him of the
ITsk nut SamR % fssped sfTa S Mh terror At
heavy freight train, struck the elephant
on on, the side, causing him him to make a
striking Jumbo and cutting badly into his side,
ran over one of his legs. The cars coming against
the locomotive with great force sent it crashing
against the beast with renewed force, after
which it was deraied. A regular stream of blood
rushed from the injured side of Jumbo as he
lay painting and moaning across the track and
in an hour or so he died from loss of blood and
the great gashes plowed in his ribs and side by
the front OF the engine. The engine was badly
broken up.
The anniversary of Mexican indie
pendence was celebrated in the City of Mexi-
co by grand civic and military procession,
in which twenty thousand persons partici.
pated.
There is no perceptible abatement of
the ravages of smallpox in Montreal The
cholera has practically disappeared from
Marseilles. The yellow fever is abating at
Vera Cruz.
The Cincinnati Price Current esti-
mates the corn crop of the country at $780,
600, 900 bushels, an increase of n per cent.
over that of last year.
The annual statement of the North
ern Pacific Railroad shows decrease in
earnings of over 81, 100000 as compared with
last year.
Twenty-nine deaths from yellow
fever have occurred at Guaymas since Sept.
l, and the disease has appeared at Hermo-
sillo and Mazatlan.
A yacht capsized in Lake st. Francis,
Ontario, and two of the three occupants per-
ished after night OF exposure. The
schooner Edwin Post has been sunk OF BED.
loe's Island, ana its captain and steward
drowned.
In a Montreal restaurant six men
were found eating, while n boy afflicted with
virulent case of smallpox lay in an adioin.
Ing room. The lads father was serving as a
juror in a murder trial, and the Judge, being
informed of the circumstances, discharged
the jury, after which the court was cleared
and the building dislnfected
The Montreal committee acting in
behalf OF Riel, the condemned rebel have
issued an appeal asking French-speaklng
people TO assist in saving him from the gal
lows. Riers counsel has gone to England TO
ntercede in his behalf.
The number of failures in the United
States and Canada reported for the week
was 1855, of which 81 per cent. were those of
small traders. The number for the proceed.
ing week was POI, and for the corresponding
week of 1884, pa. Brddstrccrs journal in its
commercial summary says:
No gain on the recently reported Improvement
In trade circles is recorded by the special tele-
grams 70 BI'adsreeFS received yesterday. In
most directions the full measure OF the move
nent Is maintained, but that is all. IRON Chi
cago, 81. Paul. st. Louis, Cincinnati, aud De- |
tr0it at the West comes the word that interior |
purchases are as heavy as previously Iron IL |
slightly hriner and in better demand. Prices |
lre unchanged. There is no prospect OF any |
boom, Steel rails are encouragingly in demand, |
but no more. sale OF 800 tons 40 $50 Is re- /
ported. The movement OF dry goods from Job |
)ers and agents continues active as hereto |
ore noted, and the firmness in prices OF prints |
md of bleached and brown cottons is fully sus-
aimed.