Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-07-09
WESTERN.

Azari, Silvestri, and Gelardi, three
OF the FIVE Italians implicated in the Caruso
murder at Chicago, were convicted and the
death penalty fixed by the jury. Mercnrio
and Bova were declared not guilty. The
murder was one of the most fend-
fish in the criminal annals or
Chicago. The victim was a friend, COM
panion, and fellow-countryman of the assas-
sins. While he was being shaved by one OF
them, two others threw a rope over the neck
of the unsuspecting man, and, after choking
him. till lifo was extinct, hurried, out pur-f
chased large trunk, and packedthe remains
into Il. They then shouldered the CHASTITY
freight, went into the street. hired an express
wagon. carted the body to the depot and
shipped it to Pittsburgh. Two OF
the murderers were arrested in New
York while in the act of purchasing passage
TO Italy with money taken from the clothes
of their victim.
The trial of Joseph @. Mackin, of
Chicago, for perjury in connection with the
recent election fraud inquiry, resulted in a.
verdict of guilty, and a sentence of five
years Imprisonment in the Penitentiary.
The sensation of the week in Chicago
has been the great strike of ths N.'s'Asstes-
and drivers of the West Division Horse Rail-
way Company, causing total suspension OF
street car trafhc on the West Side, embracing
over half the population of the city. Public
sympathy was entirely with the strikers, and
attempts to run the cars were met with de-
termined resistance on the part of the pop
Mace. Tho company would start cars out
from the barns guarded by squads
of spoliee and =. Deputy Sherihs, but
vast crowds would block the tracks
drive the men from the platforms
and return the cars to the barns or turn
them upside down in the streets. Several OF
the drivers and conductors were ASSAULTED
with stones and clubs and severely injured
and a number of the strikers arrested OF
charges of iiot and disorderly conduct A
one time Mayor Harrison appeared on TN
scene and attempted to reason with the mon
hut he was compelled 10 beat hasty re
treat. Omnibuses, express wagons, ant
other oonveyances did large business II
carrying passengers.
At an incendiary fire in Cleveland
mother and two children were burned I
death, and a number of persons injrue
in leaping from windows.
Estimates of the coming Minnesot
and Dakota wheat crop place the same
"a. OOO. 600 and 24,OOO,OO0 bushels, rcspe'
lively.
Dispatches from ST. Paul intimat
that the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Pa'
Railroad has absorbed the Fargo Souther
Railroad, running from Fargo to ortonyill
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Henry Grotenheimer, Cincinna
commission merchant, made an assignment
Liabilities estimated at $4,000, and asse
between $50, 900 and $4,000.
Adolph B. Spreckels, charged wit
assault and intent TO murder M. H.
Young, proprietor of the San Francis
Chronicle, has been acquitted by jury
Heavy rains in Kansas have RESULT
disastrously to crops in low lands, and CO.
PEELED many families to move away. Ra
xxav traoks have been washed out and bridg
swept away.
Three hotels, eight shops, and sc
eral saloons and dwellings at Peshtlgo, w
were destroyed by fire, which broke out
tho Duket House. The loss reaches $751;
II is feared at Tombstone that Lie
Hanna and six men, who were sent fr
Oputo to SAN Beranrdino in charge OF
prisoners captured in the recent fight at
former place, have been massacred, as u
have not reached their destination, and
traces of them can be found. The set
ments ON the Mancos and Dolores River
Colorado are threatened by the UteS
the Governor has been appealed to for
lection