Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-17
WESTERN.

The storm which visited Washington
Court House, Ohio, almost demolished the
town. Every public building and business
house in the place, and about two hundred
residences, we're destroyed. Ten persons are
known to have been XII ed, and over a hun
dred wounded, several of them fatally. In
Lancaster County, Ohio, the storm was Sc
we're, ten persons being injured, and many
buildings wrecked. At Troy, Upper San
dusky, aud other Ohio towns, the
damage was extensive. Near Adrian,
Mich, $780, 900 worth OF property is re-
ported to have been destroyed by tho eie-
ments, ana at Dublin, Ind, twenty build
ings collapsed. Reports of serious losses
from wind and lightning come from other
points in Indiana Michigan, and Wisconsin.
The damage to lake shipping was also very
heavy, aud several lives were lost.
The schooner Erie Wave capsized off
Long Point, Lake Erie, the female cook and
q passenger being drowned. The schooner
Advance was wrecked or Sheboygan, Wis.
Two vessels, with their crews, were lost Off
Two Rivers, Wis.
Capt. Bradbury, Deputy Warden of
the Missouri Penitcntiary, was dangerously
stabbed in the back of the neck by prisoner
named George Patten.
Reports from Minneapolis say there
is more demand for -four, both for export
and domestic consumption, but that the
millers are not selling at all freely as the
offers are mostly below the price they WISH
President Adams, of the Union Pa
cinc Railroad, says the floating debt of the
10 pu blish the terms of the agreement. It is
rumored at New York that the company has
sold n certain amount OF bonds for cash, and
placed another block of its securities as col
lateral for a loan.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad will be completed oct. l through
from Kansas City to San Diego and San
Francisco.
Mrs. DIR. Marshall, Mrs. Paul, and q
lady friend were drowned at Browns Valley,
Minnesota, by a boat capsizing in Lake
Traverse during a storm. One body was
recovered.
The individual losses from the recent
cyclone at Washington Court House, Ohio,
will exceed S25O,OO). About one hundred
families are reported by the local relief COM
mittee TO be in neeI OF assistance.
Samuel b. French, private banker
OF Milwaukee, failed for $4,000 and J. c.
wessenbern, dry goods dealer OF Appleton,
Wis, was closed by the Sheriff, with liabili-
ties OF $4,000.
The cases of treason against Capt.
Couch and other Oklahoma boomers on trial
before the United States Court at Wichita,
Kas., have been dismissed by Government
counsel.
Manager McVicker, of Chicago, has
secured some excellent attractions for his
fine theater during the Exposition season.
Following Mr.. Denman Thompson, who now
hol Is the boards with his delightful charac-
tcrization OF Uncle Joshua whitcomb, the
honest old New England farmer, will appear
In succession Lotta, Joseph Jefferson, G. w.
Couldock, and a number of other brilliant
stars.
Muskegon, Mich, special: Clar-
ence and Herbert Morrison, of this city, went
20 South Haven in n small salboat. and left
that place for home just before the recent big
storm set in. They we're accompapie led by
two other young men. Nothing has been
heard from them since. They were un-
doubtedly caught in the storm on Lake Mich
iean and lost"