Crawford avalanche., 1885-08-06
NEWS CONDENSED.
Concise Record OF the Week
EASTERN.

A dispatch from Mount MacGregor
says; The letter from Mrs. Grant put in the
Generals pocket whom he was laid in his
collin simply read: Farewell, we meot
again in better world IL also contained
alock OF Mrs. Grants hair. Mrs. Grant Wis
itcd tho remains Thursday morning, and re-
mained alone with them seven or eight min
utes. Then she went to her room and re-
mained there until evening, when she again
visited the remains.
DIR. George +. Shrady, one OF Gen.
Grants medical advisers, publishes in the
MedicH Record OF Aug. l an extended re.
view of the surgical and pathological as
pc cts of Gen. Grants case" He believes
that the disease had its inception In the
month of June 1884, and gives a
succinct history OF the progress
and treatment of the case from the day In
October last when Genera. Grant first cal ed
on DIR. Fordyce Barker his family physician,
up to its fatal termination. 1t suggests no
rather intended 10 he q connected narrative
for the benefit of the medical profession, be-
ing largely couched in terms familiar only to
that body.
An effort is being made by Col
James f. Coogan, of New York, to buy the
house in which Gen. Grant was born at
Point Pleasant Ohio, now the property OF
Michael f. Hirsch. In answer to an inquiry
from CO.. Cocgan, Hirsch offered to sell the
house for $4,000. Col. Coogan replied that
he would give $4,000. Mr.. Hirsch has been
offered more than this, and evidently real
ICES the value of his possession.
Stanley Huntley, newspaper writer
well known in the West, having been con-
nected with newspapers in Chicago and St.
Louis, and later achieving reputation in the
East by the popular "spoopendyke Papers, -
died in New York last week.
A deficiency of $40, 900 has been dis
covered i'm the accounts of Henry Conover
late Assistant Cashier of the Manufacturers
and Traders Bank of Buffalo, N. Y, who
died suddenly last week. The officers of the
bank claim that its soundness is unaffected.
The American Benefit Association"
and the american BENEFIT Society,"" of Bos-
ton, have been declared fraudulent concerns
by the State Insurance Commissioner of
Massachusetts,, and will be suppressed by the
authorities.
A Mount MacGregor dispatch of the
LIST INST. says: A considerable number of
people came to the mountain to-day TO view
the remains of the dead General. The ex-
pressIon of the face remains very natural
A magnificent floral memorial was received
from eX-Gov. Leland Stanford, of California,
and Mrs. Stanford representing the "Gates
Ajar,' composed of two gates six feet high
by five wide, composed Of white and purple
immortelles, spanned by an arch inscribed
with the name ~. S. Grant" and with II
fight of steps ascending to the half-openel
gates.
A New York dispatch of the 1st
inst. says: preparations for the great mil
itary pageant which is to be the principal
feature of the Grant funeral on the Sth, con-
tinue with great zeal. With the exception
of the vast number of details which will
now take care of themselves, these prepara-
tions may now be called completed. Gen.
Hancock has appointed all his aids, and is
now occupied during every working hour of
the day in receiving and answering applica
tions for place In the line, One hundred and
fifty dollars has been offered for
the use of single window on
Broadway on the day of the funeral.
The decorations of the City Hall, where the
body is to lie in state, were finished today
and are very imposing. The building is be
ing girdled with electric lights, so that the
somber center of interest while the remains
NaA
General Hancock issued an order charging
Major General Alexander shaler with the
formation OF the escort column of troops, in
which the army and navy and commissioned
State organizations VIII be represented"