Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-08-27
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Erastus j. Shepherd has been ar
rested at Laredo. Tex, charged with COM
plio.ty with Aufdemorte in the thefts from
the Sub-Treasury at New Orleans. Thirty
seven hundred dollars of the stolen money
was found on his person.
The official returns give Tate, Demo-
cratic candidate for State Treasurer of Ken
lucky, 67,597 majority. This is the tenth
time he has been elected.
The South American Commission
appointed by President Arthur is preparing
its final report, which will be submitted to
Congress at the beginning of the next ses-
sion. Since its creation the commission has
Travelled 1900 miles and officially visited
nine countries. The report will I'll 1000 or
5000 closely printed pages
Since June last $l2, 500, 900 Of gold
coin has been transported from the San
Francisco Sub-Treasury to the New York
Sub-Treasury. Absolute secrecy has been
enjoined for fear that the knowledge that
many millions of dollars of hard cash were
being moved in railroad cars across the con-
tnent would tempt the cupidity of desperate
road-agents and train-wreckers.
The Executive Committee OF the
Knights of Labor met at Washington, and
after considering the wabash strike, decided
to go TO New York to submit the grievances
of the strikers to Jay Gould.
The apple crop in the New England
and Middle States will fall below IS per cent.
of that of an averagebearing year. The
yield in England will fall below the needs of
that country.
Dutch Mormons have just held a
conference at Zwolle, at which it appeared
that the Dutch are losing faith in the Lat
| ter-Day Saints teachings, and that the con-
verts who go to Salt Lake are decreasing in
number.
A monster anti-German demonstra-
| ton was held in Madrid last Sunday. The
speeches were severely denunciatory of
| Prince Bismarck's seizure of the Caroline
Islands.
An imposing morality" demonstra-
ton took place last Saturday in Hyde Park,
London. Many vehicles, drapel IN black,
and llled with women dressed in deep mourn
ing, were in the procession. One of the carts
carried large fac-simile of the Queens let
Ter approving the work of the Salvation
Army in rescuing young girls from vice.
Resolutions were adopted pledging assistance
in enforcing the criminal act.
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Pekin to negotiate commercial treaty with
China.
| The restrictions upon the impor-
tation of hogs from Russia into Germany
have been removed.
DR.. Richard, the German explorer,
who had been reported as killed in Zanzibar,
| is alive and well.
A st. Petersburg journal says that
Russia has decided to yield her claim to
Zulhcar Pass, and denies that she has made
any agreement with Corea.
A yacht was run down by steamer
and sunk OF Abou, Scotland, several per-
sons being drowned, including the owner,
MIR. Crossman, and wife.
A fearful massacre is reported from
Berber. The population are said to be
starving, and have seized the city treasure.
The next outbreak, 1t is thought, will occur
at Algeria.
A letter written by ODonovan Rosa
| to dynamitcrs at Havre and Antwerp, urg-
ing a speedy resumption of operations In
England, is published by London journal
At Alexandria, Mo-, the large grain
warehouse OF Million s. Mason was burned
involving loss of $4,000 on grain. The
total loss was about $4,000; insured fol
$4,000.
Life-saving stations will be estab
lished at Sturgeon Bay Canal, Wis, and
PentWater, Frankfort, White River, ant
South Haven, Mich.