Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-28
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Cattle on the track caused the wreck
ing of an express train near Mount Vernon,
Ohio, but only the conductor received serious
injuries.
A tornado which passed through Al
ton, H.. wrecked several buildings. A stroke
of lightning fred a undergrad in st. Louis,
and caused its destruction.
w. c. Whitehead secured q judg-
mont in Indianapolis for s17,5OO against the
Indiana, Bloomington and Western Road for
injuries received in an accident.
The Yosemite stage, says San Fran
cisco dispatch, was robbed by highwaymen
near Clark's Crossing. The passengers COM
prised several members of Raymond's excur-
son party, who were robbed of everything
in the shape of money and jewelry.
Forty buildings at Lansing, Ia, were
destroyed by fire, the losses aggrcgating
100000. A fire ut Merrill, wis.,, destroyed
property valued at $4,000. Charles X. Smith,
of Menasha, Wis, suffered the loss of $50, 900
of lumber. Forest fires ragged to the north and
west of Tawas City. Mich, burning TO the
tops of the highest trees.
A dispatch from Plymouth, Pa, re-
ports that the epidemic there has taken
fresh start, and great dependency exists
among the people. There were fifty patients
One block of track for the surface
railway on Broadway, New York, has been
laid at Fourteenth street Jacob Sharp be-
gan his fight for this franchise in 1851, his
chief antagonists BEING A. T. Stewart and
Commodore Vanderbilt.
A contract has been made with five
telegraph operators in New York to proceed
to Siam and spend three years In the postal
service, teaching the Morse system. They
are to receive 500 per month and all ex-
penses.
The tifying house of Elias Black
Sons at Prestonville, KY, was burned.
Loss $25, 900.
The proprletors of the Galveston
(Texas) Daily Neios have established branch
Office at Dallas, where the paper will be
printed simultaneously with the issue at
Galveston.
Secretary of the Treasury Manning
mas uppofnJcu commrruccor prOuru0s.o~,s.--
Gals of the Treasury Department to consider
the propositions to renew the existing con-
tracts for fiber-paper, and to decide whether
or not it is wise to continue the use of
distinctive papers for bank-notes. The use
of the fiber-paper is opposed on the ground
that il renders the note less stable and in
Jurcs It's appearance, while 10 OGors ado
quate security against counterfeiting. The
flber-paper was introduced on the theory that
it could not be counterfeited, but this notion
has been exploded. 1t is now believed that
mechanical precautions against counterfeit
ing are no longer efectual, and that the best
safeguard is to secure a clean, fine note
which will retain TIN ough long use a distinct
appearance. Secretary Manning thinks that
the artistic appearance of the notes and Sc
curities should be improved. To accomplish
a change for the better in this direction the
fiber-paper must be given up, for the fiber
spoils the finish. 1t is the intention of the
Treasury Department TO improve the backs
of the n ation al hs nh nataa--nr ha-ohJaot of
this change is not merely to attain greater
artistic excellence, but to render counter
feiting more difficult The first attempts at
improvement will be on the national bank
notes and the silver certificates. The con-
sideration of the fiber-paper question has
brought to Washington representatives of
many of the leading paper manufacturers.