Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-07-16
WESTERN.

The great strike Of the conductors
ANYWAY company is over, and the cars of
the various lines are again running. The
strike lasted eight days. AT the outset the
employees were treated with the most
naughty contempt were grossly insulted by
having a communication reciting their
grievances torn up in the presence OF the
messenger bearing it, and the officers or the
company refused every tender of mediation
or advice from the Mayor and other officials
looking to a settlement of the trouble
claiming that there was but one side
to the question, and that they would never
while.the strikers stood firm, public sympa-
thy sided unanimously with them, the rail-
way company found it impossible to resume
operations on its lines, Notwithstanding 400
policemen were placed at its disposal, and
finally unbent so far as to hold a confer
ence, through its President with the strik-
ers. An agreement was Immediately reached
by which the conductors and drivers re-
turned to work. The substance of the
arrangement was that the charges against
the sixteen men whose discharge caused the
strike were to be Investigated by the Presi-
uent, anu, IL not susthlneu, the ineh W Uo
reinstated.
Secretary Chamberlain, of the Ohio
State Board OF Agriculture estimates that
the total wheat crop of the United States
this season will amount to 300,000,OO0 bush
els, against an average of 451, 900, 900 bush
els and last years total of 513, 900, 900 BUSH
els. The coming wheat. sep IN. bbo iIe.i Is
Uses an average crop.
General Schofield advises the War
Department that no Cheyennes have yet been
in Kansas and no citizens have been killed.
"A hundred young MON bors of tho tribe have,
however, left the agency. An order has been
issued for the concentration Of all troops
that may be available in the event of a Sc
rious outbreak.
The Apaches were defeated near
Guasabus, in Sonora, with loss OF forty
killed and fourteen prisoners.
A cyclone in three sections swept
through Oshkosh, Wis, cutting different
paths through the city and demolishing or
injuring hundreds of houses. The Expos;-
ton Building and ST. Pauls Church are in
RUNS, and st. Peters Catholic Church is
badly wrecked. Roofs were blown from
stores, the rain damaging the stocks and all
the smokestacks in town were leveled. The
greatest havoc was wrought in the lumber
district, and in the residence section some
dwellings are barricaded by fallen trees.
Twenty people are reported injured one or
two fatally. In the district north of the
town farm buildings stock, and crops suf-
fered severely. A storm at Waupaca, Wis,
destroyed several small structures and blew
down trees and chimneys. Nineteen barns
and six houses at Lind, Wis, were wrecked
and crops destroyed. The cyclone followed
path six blocks wide at Madison, en-
failing heavy damage to buildings, resi-
dences, and churches. At SpaIta several
structures were leveled, and at Plainfeld
Ai~.srsl down nr nm
rooted. Tobacco shops at Edgerton and
Stoughton were razed number of horses
and cattle being killed. A cyclone affected
great damage in the vicinity of Allegan,
Mich, and funnel-shaped ''whirer" near
Monticello, MIMI, shattered buildings and
tore up the prairie in spots. many persons
making narrow escapes with their lives.
Striking mill employees to the num-
Der of 1000 paraded the streets of East sagi-
nav, Mich, and compelled several of the
mills to stop running, but offered no violence.