Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-10
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Forty thousand persons visited Gen.
Grants tomb last Sunday. Subscriptions to
the Grant monument fund In New York have
dropped to an average of about 500 day,
and the hopelessness OF raising by popular
subscription the amount originally intended
is now admitted, even by the committee hav-
ing the enterprise In charge. 1t is said that
not ten per cent. of the committee have yet
even visited the rooms.
Native miners in Jefferson and Clear
field Counties, Pennsylvania, threaten vio-
lence aga nst labor imported from Hungary.
About 1000 coal miners are on strike along
the river in the Pittsburgh district. The
Utica Steam Cotton Mills and the Mohawk
Valley MILE, employing about l,0)0 hands,
have resumed operations. Single packers
and lumber pliers at Manlstee, Michigan
struck for an increase or wages. The strike
OF coal-miners in the Mahoning Valley has
ended in virtual triumph for the men.
The cotton worm has nearly de-
stroyed the crop in parts OF North Carolina.
Indiana's corn crop is estimated by the State
Board of Agriculture at 140,000,0OJ to 1907
OOO 900 bushels. Deadwoo1 and vicinity was
visited with a snowstorm last week. The
dispatches state that the outlook for grain Is
gloomy in the extreme. Experts pronounce
the disease which Is prevailing among the
| Goodwin herds near Kankakee, Ill,
Texas fever. Sixty cattle have already
died, and as many more are sick. Texas
fever is said to exist in Mills and Pottawat.
TAME Counties, Iowa. Corn in portions OF
Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin was seri-
ously damaged by frost last week. Two
thirds of the cranberry crop about Berlin,
Wisconsin, was destroyed.
The President returned to Washing
ton on Monday, the 18th inst, much improved
In health. Miss Cleveland is expected at the
White House about Oct. l. brilliant social
season is contemplated. The President has
purchased, for $1,000, a fine span OF Ham
bletonian horses.
United States troops were sent tc
Rock Springs, Wyoming, the scene of q
massacre of Chinese by miners, TO preserve
order and arrest the ring-leaders. large
number were arrested and jailed, and will be
tried for murder and arson. Thirtyfoul
bodies have been recovered, and it is be
lieved as many more are buried in the
debris of burned houses. Cinnamon al
S Sa55S Sps Snt e RoeS sSr1gt the
Evanston. Two companies OF infantry have
been sent to Rock Springs, and one company
with Gatling gun, to Evanston. Genera
Manager Galloway OF the Union Pacific
says that mining operat ons will not be re-
sumed in any OF the camps in the disturbed
territory until all employees are assured OF
full protection.
Charles Williams, drunken negro
at Chattanooga, Tenn, shot and instantly
killed street-car driver named Folk Mitch
ell. At night an Infatuated mob forced thoiI
way into the iron-clad Jail with sledge ham.
mers and chisels and battered down the door
OF Williams cell. He was dragged to the third
story OF the jail by four of the leaders of the
mob and a rope placed around his neck
The assassin maintained a stolid lndi Ter
ence, and did not utter word. He was no,
| given time to pray. After he had been So
curely tied the rope was placed around a
beam, and he was suspended between heaven
and earth.
Cholera has made its appearance al
Novara, Parma, Genoa, and other Italian
cities. In Spain the daily average number
of new cases and of deaths from the disease,
though still very large, is steadily diminish
ing. The epidemic continues at Toulon,
where the situation is very serious.
1t is alleged that the commission
which made the indemnity awards which
were paid out of the Egyptian loan was a
farce and fraud of the worst kind, claims
being allowed for which only very shallow
pretexts existed, and far in excess of the
amount which should have been granted.