Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-08-20
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A new gaS-Well was SCruck at thu
lay, Ohio, yielding 7J,COO cubic feet per hour.
There is considerable excitement at
lshpeming, Mich, over the alleged discovery
of rich gold-quartz vein.
The new census puts Minneapolis
abe d OF st. Paul. The former has popu-
alton of l2a, go. and the later III, S97,
The Piegan Indians lost but one man
in their recent skirmish with cowboys at
Giiln Is, Montana, ins tead of twenty, ~ at
first reported.
The Illinois State Department Of
Agriculture received a letter from State
Tntomolo ist Forbes stating that great dam
age was being done by grasshoppers to crops
in tho northern portion of the State.
Maxwell, the alleged murderer of @.
Arthur Preller, reached st. Louis on the 10th
inst, and was met at the railway station by
several thousand curious people. The prison.
err still maintains do yged silence whenever
questioned about the hotel tragedy.
1t is alleged that four distillers who
1t had heeD discovered we're using the 'thick.
ened-staves" whisky baTre's havs compra-
missed with the Government the sum to be
paid amounting to $4,000.
The Court of Commissioners of Ala
bama Claims will expire by limitation Dec.
81 An enormous amount of business re-
mains unsettled and an effort will probably
be made TO induce Congress to prolong the
courts existence.
Defective drainage has caused an cpl
demic OF typhoid fever at the Morris Plains
Insane Asylum, New Jersey.
In race between bicyclists and q
team of horses near Erie p, the horses be-
came frightened and ran away, throwing the
driver and killing him instantly.
It is reported that the Anthracite
Coal Companies have determined to reduce
the output OF tho mines TO the extent OF s00,-
coo tons during September, and contemplate
an advance in prices October !.
Jasper w. Umberfield, New York
boy OF seventeen, committed suicide at the
cottage of n relative in Port Chester, after
shooting and dangerously wounding J. M.
Carpenter, cousin, of about the same age.
The tragedy is attributed to an unbalanced
mind, the result of overstudy.
The Attorney General of Pennsyl-
vania proposes, it is said, to take Official nc
ton to prevent contamination of n bargain
Vania Railroad Company by when r7cunsoii-
dalton of certain lines is proposed.
Waldo p. Johnson, o prominent law
yer of Missouri, died at Osceola, in that
State. lie represented Missouri in tho
United States Senate at the outbreak of the
war, and was expelled for dlsloyalty. He
was afterward member of the Confederate
Senate.
Ann Hogan, colored, age 120 years,
died near Vicksburg, Miss, last week.
At Graham, Ga, the house of Simon
Ashley, colored, was burned, and the dead
bodies of his four children found in the
ruins 1t is thought they were murdered,
and the building fired to destroy evidence of
the crime.
Montreal hospitals are completely
filed with smalI-D ox patients In fact, there
is not sufficient room to provide for the
stricken.
A sensation has been created in Lon
don by the marriage OF Lord Chief Justice
Colerdge to Miss Amy Augusta Jackson
Lawford. The ceremony, which was per-
formed quietly at the residence of the
brides mother, is said to have been fastened
by threats of an action for breach of prom
Use against his lordship. Tho bride is an
English woman of 80, whose acquaintance
Lord Coleridge made on the steamer in
which he returned from America two years
ago.
Cable advices are to the effect that
all Europe enters upon its vacation season
with prospect undisturbed by war.