Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-12-31
GRAYIING MCHlGAN DEOhNotN o. loo2.


the series, over fifty-miIe course the Puritan
won by i minute ~ seconds the Genesta led
for thiSe.fourlhs OF tho distance; and at one
timo was minutes o seconds ahead. Jumbo,
the enormous elephant. was run down and
while boarding q car. The Seventeenth annual
reunion OF the Society Of the Army OF tic Cum
berland was held at Grand Rapids, Mich. Gen.
Sheridan presiding haistorm, some OF the
stones being ten inches in circumference. de-
vastated the country south OF Granite Falls,
Mimi. on the 10th drifts Of hail three feet In
depth were found, Thirty thotisQnd Poles were
expelled froIn Postn, Ptussih AMI in tetslIRtoI
the Russian Government began the expulsion ~
Germans from Poland. The Governor General
OF Enstern Roumalia was deposed by the popu-
lace of the capital city, Philippopolis, who pro-
claimed a union with Bulgaria and established
a provisional government. At Pittsburgh, the
Coroner held IN inquest on n piece of bone enc
inch long, all that was left Of the body Of John
Ostermeir, lai OF IA; the unfortunate
boy was engaged feeding rock % a erusher fell
In, and was ground 70 atoms, The tam6ps trot-
tef, .Guldsmith Mai,iI ended hef ebreef on a
stock Iarin hear Trenton n. j., at the ago Of 20
years she had trotted in 1872 races, winning 02,
her earnings being nearly S24Q,9Q0 On the 23d
Limo (Vt) sections
OCTOBER.
The work OF demolshing Flood Rock in New
York harbor, was successfully accomplished on
heled he ;I Inoafy S066o1 b5Nds " sssfSaiiife %efe
censhmed ~ the eSpipsi5i; AID tbs shock wns
fOIL over the entlfo area OF mammalian lbllnu.
Everett j. Wering an intelligent mulatto, was
admitted TO the bar in Baltimore, the first col
ored man ever authorized TO practice law in
Maryland. Te deums were sung in Madrid.
Spain, on the 10Th inst, as token of thanksgiv-
ing for tho disappearance Of the cholera; the
dread scourge eansed. eveY 100000 DEATHS dufing
Its prevaleiice Nearly loot OF snow fell in the
ishpeming (AIichl district on the Goth trains
were blockaded. Lannie McAffee made a run
Of 60O4 points In three-ball game Of bill
liarls at Yankton Dakota. Jacob Kaufman, n
II fAA
himself Of his clothing on prairie, and crawled
back and forth through h. rbqfbed-wire fence un-
til death catne, to. his telease hts, flesh, was
found hanging in shreds. Mrs. General Grant
wrote letter to Mayor Grace of New York, say
ing that Riverside Park had been selected as the
Generals burying place by his family because
OF the agreement that she should ultimately
be inferred beside him, and that no change was
contemplated. A crazy Corsican named Mattel
attempted to assassinate M. De Freycinet,
French Minister Of Foreign Affairs, in the streets
NOVEMBER,
The purchase OF the STEAMER Dolphin from the
| assignee Of John Roach was contaminated by
| Secretary Whitney The Andre monument,
| which Cyrus w: Field had erected on the Hud-
| son River at Tappan, n, ". was blown up by
| dyna1niters. Ferdinand Ward was put at work
shoveling ashes from under the engine boilers
at Sing Sing Prison. subscriptions to the Grant
| from Paris Amsterdam and Hamburg. Roachs
| great shp-yard at Chester Pa, resumed work
| on the 9th, under the management OF Une united
| States Naval Department. Tho Three Amer
| icas' Exposition OF Art and Industry opened
| at New Orleans ON the 10th, to continue through
| the winter. On his Palo Alto ranch, near Menlo
| Park, Cal, Senator Stanford proposed TO estab-
| lish great university which he is to endow
| to the extent of S20,0J0,000. The managers of a
charity fair at Reading, Pa, created sensation
| by refusing to let Hebrew woroen participate
Lewis Riei. tho leader 81 the Yebelliun N the
Northwest Territory, was hanged at Regina, the
capital, on the nth in his last moments he dis
.Io daan f1r ftHn Nuh Inn n
| bravado about it, Earthquakes were reported
| In the Pacific Ocean along the California coast
similar to those which preceded the great up
| heaval in the island of Java several years ago
| a jury at Sparta, Ga, sustained the will OF Do
vid Dickson, leaving $500, 900 to his colored mis-
| tress and child, and disinheriting his heirs. L.
| B. Jones was fined one cent and imprisoned one
| hour at Richmond, Va, for sending challenge
to fight duel. Thomas A. Doyle was for the
| seventeenth time elected Mayor of Providence
| II. /. ; the Republicans threw him overheard, bu
| the Democrats made him their candidate, and
carried him through. Gen. Javanovitch, com
nlOndis0aSi iaisi s- "a 49, -------- ----
i0'0i''' DECEMBER.
Lima, Peru, was surrendered to Gen, Caceres
| who appointed Eusebio Sanchez proyisiona
| Governor. In the far East, King Theebaw, o
Burmah surrendered to Gen. Pfendergast, tn
British Empire thus gaining control OF aoou
16O, 900 square miles OF territory at very smal
cost physician who attended Vice Presiden
Hendricks for many years stated that death wa
caused by a clot Of blood reaching the brain
Subscriptions to the Grant monument fund a
New York up to the Sd inst, amount TO abou
SlOj OOO storm on Lake Michigan on the 4t
caused the lake at Chicago to rise eight fee
above the ordinary line. A, J: Cassatt OF tn
| Pennsylvania Road, purchased the English race
| Tristan Americans said to be rapidly &C
| ouirinP the best horses In Great Britain. III
| ceremony of christening the steel cruiser Ch
cago Launched ut Chester, Pa was performe
by Miss Edith Clebume, Of Philadelphia
who broke bottle OF vino over the bow, an
| liberated n canary, nm Irish linnet ana an orlol'
Renorts were abroad in London that the ke'
Mr. Spurgeon had permanently broken dow
, from heart disease. shower OF young SIN elt'
each half an inch in length, fell at Cu1nberlan6
Maine for radius of mile. Mr. Thomas
: O'Connor Mr.. Parnells political lieutenant, az
clared i'm an interview that what is sought fC
: Ireland is n government similar in character
! that of Canada. The funeral of Herr Strassmal
4 President of the municipal council OF Berlin,
leading Hebrew was made the occasion to n
' buke Jew-baiters the Emperor sent handsom
: | wreaths of flowers to the funeral, and the CT
: | was followed by thirty thousand persons. IL
! funeral of Louis Rel took place at St. Bonifac
: Manitoba, on the 18th, with seven hundred hal
= breeds in attendance eight OF whom bore u
4 remains ON their shoulders for six miles. Be
. | jamin Louth, Sr., of Pittsburgh the inventor
. | a process for turning old steel rails into ma
3 | plate sold his right to syndicate for $500 p
! | day for the next sixteen years For purse
: 81 900, Mt New York, Joseph McCann defeat
y | w. G.. Barnes in q type-setting contest; III 10
y hours McCann set S,062b ems, Barnes stril
y measuring 1851 the type was solid minion.
: | Iesseps, the famous civil engineer and can
u builder, over eighty years OF age, was present.
by his young wife with another daught'
Rumors Of political combinations IN Gre
q Britain pointing to the concession OF home III
It to the Irish. The bill giving Mrs. Gen. Grant
Il pension of 5000 year passed both houses
Z. Congress.