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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-01
General Grants Financial Troubles.

New YORK, Dec. 29.-It was learned
Saturday that executions had been issued
under the judgment rendered against Gen
eral Grant in favor of William ii. Wander
bilt for S150,OOO which the General bor-
rowed the Sunday before the failure of
Grant d Ward, which the General used
TO help them. The execution COW
ers houses i'm Washington and PhiladeI-
phia, farms near st. Louis and Chicago, and
all the Generals relics of the war, swords,
medals, gifts from friends at home and for
eign rulers, his pictures and bric-a-brac, and
even the engraved card of thanks awarded
him by Congress. Mrs. Grant has consented
to waive her interest in the real estate so
that Mr.. Vanderbilt may be fully Sc
cure. The St Louis farm Is valued
at sos, 900 and the Chicago :. farm at
$4,000. But the Generals friends ara
fearful. that all the -lroRertY .Jmay
here last week became acquainted with this
action, and has quietly set about relieving
his old comrade in arms. Mr.. Vanderbilt
has consented TO release his debt for $780,
900. Cyrus w. Field has undertaken to
raise part of this, and General Sherman
has gone on to Philadelphia and Washing
ton TO interest gentlemen there to raise the
balance
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-01

prisoued after . desperate struggle with
the officers.
A PROPOSITION has been made by Bos-
ton woman 10 start a fund with q subscrip-
tion OF $50 200, the income 70 be used an
in the primary schools.
In drunken fight the other day at Mon
tana, Pa, one man was fatally shot and
two others were fatally stabbed.
THE British ship Lomby, loaded with oil,
while riding at anchor in the bay of New
York a few days ago, was run into and
sunk by the steamship Cornwall. The loss
was $4,000.
THE Lake Shore a. Michigan Southern
Railroad directors ON the oath decided to
declare no dividend for the last quarter of
1884; and the directors of the Michigan
Central also separated without announcing
a dividend.
THE firm of Ward, Stanton & Co., steam
boat builders at Newburg, N. Y, failed a
few days ago, throwing large number OF
men out of work.
The dry goods firm of Elliott Bros. &
Co., of Philadelphia, have failed for $227, :
600.
DURING gale a few night ago eleven
barges, the property of the New England
transportation Company, foundered in
Long Island Sound, and two tugs and
twenty-five barges had not been heard
from.
UNKNOWN parties assaulted Mrs. John
Greenridge a few days ago near Green
ridge, Pa, who left her unconscious, and
she.was frozen to death.
MINERS and coke-drawers in the Con-
nellsville (Pa.) region propose to organize
union to resist further reductions OF
wages by the coke syndicate.
A FEW mornings ago 10000 barrel oil.
tank exploded at West Junction, N. Y, the
shock being felt in Elmira, five miles dis
tant, and houses near by were badly dam
aged. No one was hurt. The loss would
reach $4,000.
On the 26th Baltzer Gehr died in Craw-
ford County, Pa, aged 103 years and six
months, and Thomas Van Vain died at
Syracuse, N. Y, aged 1O4 years and eleven
months.
THE death of DR.. William Darling, the
distinguished New York physician, oc-
Cured the other morning. In the delirium
which preceded his dissolution he deliv-
cred a complete and coherent lecture on
anatomy.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-01
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

BOMBAY dispatches state that heavy
rain-storms were damaging the India cot.
ton crop.
NEWS has been received confirming the
report that Germany had taken possession
of the Admiralty Islands, the Islands of
New Britain and New Ireland, and por-
lions or the New Guinea coast. A protest
against Germany's action on the part of
the British South Pacific Colonies was be-
ing prepared.
DISPATCHES from Spain ON the 23d stated
that great storm was raging on the pc.
ninsula. Several ships and railway trains
had been wrecked. There had been no
telegraphic communication with Europe by
land wires for three days.
PIcToU (Can.) Hdvices of the cd say
there Is no truth whatever in the report
that John Lowder, the father of George
Lowder, who was hanged there last June,
had made a death bed confession of the
murder of Peter Laz'er. John Lowder has
not been sick, is not dead, and has not
confessed.
AROUND the prisons in London extra
guards were placed on the oath as a pre-
caution against the operations of the dyna-
miters.
THE residence of Nine. Albani, the singer,
at Vile d'Avray, Partisan suburb, was
recently entered by burglars, who stole a
quantity of valued souvenirs of her career.
In the Southern Provinces of Spain two
severe shocks of earthquake were expert
enced on the 10Th. The convent at Seville
was partly destroyed. Many people were
injured by falling walls.
A FIRE early the other morning de-
stroyed the farmho of Benjamin Du-
fresno, at st. Martins, Can, and Mrs. Du-
fresno, a boy aged three years and a lady
aged eighty persisted in the flames. The
remainder of the household were badly
frozen while seeking shelter two miles dis
tant, one girl dying soon after.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-01
EArAL FLAMES.
Three Lives Lost by the Burning Of Q
Hotel and Opsra-House La Racine,

Three Lives Lost by the Burning Of q
Hotel and Opera-House la Racine,
wis.
RACINE, Wis, Dec. 29.-About one
o'clock yesterday morning the loud report
OF an explosion startled the guests in the
Blake Hotel here. Almost Immediately
the cry of fire was heard. There were
about sixty guests in the hotel, among
them being the members Of the Thomp-
son 'Beggar Student Opera Company,
which had been appearing in the Blake
opera-IIouse, adjoining the hotel. When
the cry of fire was raised the guests, most
of whom were asleep, hurried out of the
burning building, amid great confusion and
excitement. Nearly all were In their night
clothes. by the time the fire department
arrived the beautiful hotel and Opcra-house
were burning fiercely, and the firemen, Civ
ing up the attempt to save them, confined
themselves TO an endeayor to save the adj
joining property
IL was at first thought that all the inmates
OF the hotel had escaped, but investigation
disclosed the fact that Mr.. and Mrs. Russell
Glover, of the opera company, and Mrs.
Patrick, chambermaid, were missing.
AhOl n0NC hOb oihtS DCCl otCii3 anu dAOiO
is no doubt they persisted in the flames.
Mr. and Mrs. Glover belonged to New
York City. The members of the opera
company lost their personal effects, in
Guiding nearly all their clothes, OF
the total value Of nbout $4,000 Mrs.
X. II. Doud, wife of ex-llayor Doud,
who occupied apartments in the hotel,
lost IS, 0O0 worth OF jewels, pictures, books,
etc, among the latter being a magnificent
collection Of Dantes works, Mrs. Doud es-
capped in her night-clothes. Among the
other losers by the fire are Villas, druggist.
Wood Bros, hardware; Lena Johnson,
cafe; Montgomery 81 Long, barbersi
Rausch, variety stola, and Duffy, saloon.
The total loss is about $l50,000; insurance
about $50, 600.
The Opera House, which was an exceed
ingly handsome structure six stories high
and measuring ninety by one hundred feet,
was built in 1881 by a stock company at a
cost of 100000. 1t was fitted throughout
in fine style, and was said to be one of the
handsomest places of amusement in the
West
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-01
A Horrible ate.

PLYMOUTH, Wis, Dec. 29.-Jacob Avery,
owner of small Touring mill near the vii
lage of Greenbush, eight miles west of here,
while olling the machinery of his
mill Saturday had his clothing caught
on fastrevolving horizontal shaft. lie
was rapidly whirled round and pounded
against the floor with such violence that
the body, when found, for he was alone at
the time, was a shapeless mass. The limbs
were broken and spIintered, bones in many
instances protuding from the mutilated
body. The head was pounded into pulp.
All his clothing except one boot was torn
from his body The deceased was fifty
years of age and quite wealthy.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-01
THE EAST.

A RECENT fire swept away a wooden mill
at Clayville, N. Y, causing loss of $780,
900.
A LAD aged seven years was recently
thrown down stairs at Nanticoke, Pa, by
an angry school-teacher, and so badly hurt
that he died soon after.
THE other day Mrs. Emma Britton, of
New York, the wealthy widow of the late
Abram Britton, a daughter of IN aristo-
cratic family, and a relative by marriage
of the Vanderbilts, was married to Thomas
Mclaughlin, her twenty -one-year- old
coachman. Mrs. Britton is worth $1,OOO,-
600 and is forty years old.
AT Brooklyn, N. Y, a canal boat moored
to a dock sprung leak the other day, and
sunk so quickly that boy and girl who
were on board were drowned.
A CONFEDERATION was raging In the
Pn1sersown Ps oS coal %1s on the nd
be several weeks before work could be re-
sumed.
7 BERNARD, the son of Lord Coleridge,
Chief Justice of England, arrived in New
York by the steamship City of Chicago on
the 23d. He had come to travel and see the
country.
THE other day Mrs. Mary McGowan,
aged ninety six, was locked up in her sis
ter's cottage in Little Falls, N. Y, during
the latter's absence. The house burned and
she persisted.
WHILE driving recently In a sleigh at
Mount Carmel, Pa, Henry Strong and
William Ervine, were hurled over an en-
bankment and killed.
3 AT Cambridge, N. Y, four large bust
4 Al l..
about $4,000, were swept away by flames
few days ago.
In Klein's stone quarry at Catawissa,
Pa, premature explosion occurred on the
23d, killing William Heckler, Michael Null
roy and Harry Heinz.
RECENTLY the steamship Oregon crossed
the Atlantic in six days six hours and fifty
two minutes, the quickest passage ON rec
ord.
A scHooL-HoUsE at Beverly, Mass, was
destroyed by fire recently. The four hun
dred children who were i'm the building got
out safely.
OPERATIONS were suspended by the Ma
tional Tube Works Company at McKees-
port, Pa, on the 23d, rendering more than
1900 men idle.
FROM the port of New York the exports
for the seven days ended on the 23d, ex.
elusive of specie, were $6,429,000, against
$7,S45, 600 the previous seven days.
On the 23d DIR. John A. Swope Demo
craft was elected TO Congress from the
Nineteenth Pennsylvania District.
A FIRE swept away Harrigan & Harris
theater in New York on the 23d. The loss
was $780, 900; uninsured.
OWING to the cut of the Bennett Mackey
cable the other cable companies have re-
duced their rates to forty cents a word for
business messages.
In a museum at New Haven, Conn.,, q
false alarm of fire was given the other
evening, and. In the panic which ensued
many persons had their clothing nearly
torn of.
BY gas explosion John Goetz, Jr., and
his sister were burned the other morning
at Butler, Pa. Goetz died soon after, and
his sisters suffering and anguish at his de-
mise had rendered her insane.
FIRE recently destroyed the engine.
house, boiler and machinery of the Min
eral Spring Colliery, near Wilkesbarre,
Pa, throwing three hundred men and
boys out Of employment.
AT Allegheny City, Pa, the other morn.
ing Mrs. Barth was beaten by her insane
SON, her face being reduced 10 pulp and
her skull broken. The madman was i'm.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-01

the Scottish Rite fraternity being de-
stroyed. The total loss was placed at
$4,000
The contest has been abandoned by Mr..
Mc0regor, Of West Virginia, the Probe
bitionist who laid claim to the Governor
ship of the State ON technicality.
THE other day Judge ]. III. Brown, for
merly of the Supreme Court of West Vir-
ginia, received fatal injuries by fall in a
store at Charleston.
NEAR Delaware, o., John Swim, miser,
was found recently half frozen, with more
than s., 900 ON his person. He owns land
In Franklin and adjoining counties in Ohio
valued at $4,000, but has always existed
by begging, his uiothing being of the shah
best and fiithiest description.
In Ohio mines sixty -seven accidents oc-
Cured during the past year, of which
twenty six were fatal.
On the 18th James Collins, ticket agent
of the Panhandle Railroad at Cadiz
Junction, o., fed with 1000 belonging to
his friends and the company.
RECENTLY two of the train-robbers in
volved in the job a month ago near Little
Rock, Ark, were sentenced to six and
seven years in the penitentiary respective
ly.
THE elevator of Rainwater e. Stems, at
Dallas, Tex, was burned a few days ago
with 60,000 bushels of grain. Three per-
sons persisted in the flames. The loss was
$4,000. A fire destroyed fifteen business
buildings at GAINESVILLE, Tex.
THE residence of James Evans, very
! old man, at Roncevert, VIVA, was entered
by masked men few nights ago, who stole
$500 in money. Mrs. Evans was so shocked
that she died before morning.
AT Atlanta, Ca, a well-digger recently
/ found, at depth of sixty-fiv feet, oyster
shells and varieties of sea shells never
seen In the region. Biologists were inves-
tigating.
CHARLES SMITH and Henry Davis (col-
ored) were taken from jail at Clayton, N.
c., by masked men a few days ago and
thrown from bridge forty feet high into
the Neuse River, both being drowned.
Their crime was burglary, and Davis was
thought TO have been innocent.
THE death of Cornelius Aultman, or Cam
ton, o., well known throughout the country
ments, occurred ON Christmas evening,
after entertaining large party of friends.
DAVE MCGINNIs, n sixteen-y old boy,
shot and instantly killed Jerome Gay at
Burgin, KY, recently. Gay and his broth
er forced the fight on McGinnis. McGinpis
was not arrested.
MUCH excitement prevailed on the 26th
in the Fort Mountain (Ga.) region over the
discovery of rich silver mine, the ore as
saving $40 TO 81 900 r1er ton. ---..----.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-01
An internal Machine.

EAsroN, Pa, Dec. 29.--An Internal ma
chine was found on the Jersey Central
Railroad track Friday, near Westield.
1t consisted of a square package bound by a
shawl strap, and was placed near the rail
so as 10 appear to hay, been accidentally
dropped. The track-w;lker found II. The
package Is so CONSTRUCTED as 10 explode IL
struck a heavy blow. II contained fifty
eight cartridges Of dynamite and lot Of
No. / giant powder. Ind the package not
been discovered, 1t void have been struck
by the next train anc terrible disaster
must have been the reSlt
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-01

The change in these three States has
been gradual. 1t has been accomplished
without much noise or desperate effort.
1t has been wholly due to the influx of
Northern men with Northern ideas and
Northern habits of industry and enter
prise. A new conquest of the South has
begun, and in another four years we
expect to see the three border States
that have made so much progress in
the past eight years toward progress
and Republicanism, giving strong Re-
publican maiorities. &c Cleveland Herald.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-01
EPITOME OF THE WEEK
Interesting News Compilation.
xLvIlIth CONGRESS.


TUESDAY, Dec. 23.-The Senate passed
the Naval bill as reported by the
Committee on Appropriations. The House
resolution for holiday recess was amended
BY fixing December "a as the date for its
commencement. Mr.. Jonas presented
protests from the commercial associations
of New Orleans against the ratification of
the treaty with Spain. The House was not
in session.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2i.-Both Houses,
without transacting any other business,
adjourned to January 8, 1885.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-01

A canary recently died in Connecti-
cut aged twenty-five years-an unusual
length Of time. just few days before
its death It sang sweetly. Hartford
Hnss
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
THE NEW POsToFFICE REGIME.
Mr.. Jones and Family Will Take Charge To-
Night-The Changes that Will Be Made.

Aquilla Jones, the new postmaster, has at last
received his commission, and will formally take
charge of the Indianapolis postofice at IL o'clock
tonight, at which time the currency having
been counted, and the stamps, with the other
stock, having been invoiced, everything will be
in readiness for the new administration. Two
men will step in to assume the duties heretofore
performed By Assistant Postmaster Thompson
One of these will be John W. Dodd, who will
bear the title of assistant postmaster, and re-
ceive salary of $4,000 a year. The other is
Benjamin F. JONES' SON of the postmaster, who
will be- called cashier, and receive salary Of
$1,000 year. The combined salaries amount
to So, 500, being $500 more than the salary
drawn by Mr.. Thompson for doing this double
duty Fred Jones, another son of the postmaster
will go into the money-order department.
relieving Preston c. Trusler. G. P. Wilder will
also hold a position in the same de-
partment. Oliver Hazard Perry Abbott
will be retail stamp clerk, succeeding Mr.
yelling. Mr. Abbott was formerly a
for his prayer at the Democratic State con-
vention last year, in which he so fervently
prayed for Democratic success. Richard Nor
gan, a nephew of Vicepresident Hendricks, will
be chief of the registry department., succeeding
Sam v Morris. Gen. George F. McGinnis as
superintendent of the mailbag repair shop, steps
out for Joseph Sheppard, and Jacob Fox, a
shoemaker by trade, is made foreman of the
mailbag repair shop. James Deery, the paper
hanger, will be superintendent of carriers, sue
ceeding r. P. Craft. These are all the imme
date changes, hut others will probably follow in
short order, except where civilservice rules
furnish absolute protection.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
PETTIS. BASSE7T { co.
SCHOOL BOARD MEETING.
Several Changes Of Teachers in the Public
Scholastic Business Transacted.

The School Board met last night in regular
session, with all the members present. The
committee on finance and auditing reported the
payment of bills amounting to $l.161.S0 The
committee on appointment OF teachers and sala-
ries reported the resignation of Mrs. M. II.
Shurnan, 5 ALB grade school No. %, and recon-
mended the appointment of Mrs J. E. Beaumont
to the vacancy. The committee also recon-
mended that Mrs. M. v. Marshall, principal of
school No. q, be granted leave of absence for
the remainder of the year, on account of i'll
health, aud that Miss Ruama, assistant princi-
pal of school No. 10, be made acting principal
in Mrs Marshalls place during the latter's alb
sence Miss Agnes Sells of school No. 10, was
promoted to assistant principal. Mrs. Mary
Knowlton was assigned to A grade in school No.
TO- to fill the position made vacant by the pro-
motion of Miss Wales. The committee recon-
nended, further, that Mrs. Lizzie J. Furnss be
appointed TO A 2 and 3 B in school No. 10, in
place of Mr. Harvey Young transferred to new
school ut No24.
The following named ianitors were appointed
Val Hauk, school No. o; o. Corg. school No 3;
j. Tolliyer. school No IL. and E. Jay to school
No. IL The board then adjourned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
A TECHNICAL QUESTION.
The Constitutionality of the Bill Prohibit
ing Sunday Base Ball Will BE Tested.

The managers of the indianapolis Base Ball
atty of the law prohibiting base ball playing on
Sunday. The question upon which the test will
be made is a hair-spltting technicality, but
whatever the final result of the issue may be-
the course pursued and the time con-
sumed in carrying the case through
the courts will prolong ''the laws delay"
and the case is one in which time is money to
the base ball club. When the bill was pending
in the Senate it was amended, as it was then
supposed, SO as to make it more effective, the
object OF the amendment being to prevent an
evasion Of the law by charging an admission fee
upon some pretension, when base ball would be
the real attraction. This amendment, which
was adopted as part of the law, reads as fol-
lows: 1T shall be unlawful for any person or
persons to engage in playing any game or base
ball where any fee is charged, or where any re-
ward, prize, or profit, or article of value is de-
pendent upon the result of such game, upon the
first day of the week. commonly called Sunday,
and penalty of fine not to exceed $25 is pro-
vided for any violation of this act" The
question upon which the test of constitutionality
will be made IS that any violation of law must
be an offense within itself, without depending
on any contingency. Under the provisions of
tiie Section quoteu the persons VINO play paSo
ball on Sunday become guilty of violation of
law only through the act of some other person
who charges an admission to the grounds where
the game is played Where the game is played
simply for amusement, there is no punishment,
and it only besomes an offense when there is
money consideration involved. Two spectators
of game between boys might make bet on
the result and this alone, it is stated as illus
tration would make the boys subject to punish
ment It is claimed that a law having this effect
will be decided unconstitutional.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
ma,clnr Il Unpleasant for Them.

The mayor shows disposition to do what he
can to make it unpleasant for the violators of
the liquor laws. When James Connair, bar
tender for Sam Moran was arraigned yesterday
morning, he was fined $25 to which was added
sentence of ten days imprisonment The
severity Of the sentence was wholly unexpected,
and there was Immediately an appeal, Peter
Lieber becoming surety for Connair. 1t is
hardly likely that the sentence viii be reversed
but the appeal will delay the execution of it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
An Overburdened Court.

There are $50 cases on the Supreme Court
docket, and it is thought that the number will
more than double within the next two years.
If there should be no more appeals, the Supreme
Judges could not entirely dispose of these cases
within the next three years. The term for
which the Supreme Court Commission was ap-
pointed expires on April a. and all the work
will then devolve upon the Supreme bench
alone, the Legislature having failed to make any
provision whatever for expediting the court
business
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18

DR.. Jeffery of the First Baptist Church, is the
instructor for this month of the Union Sunday
school Teachers Institute, which meets Satur-
day afternoon, at o'clock, in Y. M. c. A. paror.
To-nights social meeting for young men will
be led by Glen PEBBLE Only young men are in
vited.
To morrow is railroad Sunday at the rooms,
and G. W. Cobb has charge of the 4 o'clock Cos
pei meeting. This means profitable meeting
and good attendance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
Sent to the Poor-House to Die.

A damage suit is on trial in the Superior
Court, in which the complainant is John Kidd,
administrator of Lille Clayton, deceased, and
the defendant Daniel Burton. It is alleged that
Burton removed the Clayton woman from the
house of which she was tenant, to the poor
farm, while she was Sick and that the removal
caused her death
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
AG. A. r. Posts New Name.

At it's last regular meeting, Buell. Post, G.. A.
r., decided to change its name to John F.
Ruckle Post" in honor of John F. Ruckle, a
soldier in Company 81, Eleventh Regiment In
diana Volunteers, who was killed in the battle
of Shiloh, on April 7, 1862. Hewas a brother of
Col. Nick Ruckle Many of the members of
the post which has been given his name were
his comrades
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18

1t has been discovered, from an examination of
the rules regulating the metropolitan police,
that charges against any patrolman shall have
no force unless signed by majority of the COM
missioners. The patrolmen, therefore, cannot
in the future be hampered in any endeavor to
enforce the law by Mr.. Cottrell alone as in the
Farrell case. Complaints against them by citi-
zens must also be sworn to. The Police Com
mssioners will hereafter strictly adhere to these
rules.