Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-29
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AT Woods gambling house in San An
tonic, Tex, three employees were bound and
gagged early the other morning by six
masked men, who then broke open the safe
aud carried of $4,000 in greenbacxs and
gold coin.
AT Evansville, Ind, in a struggle with
officers on the Goth, two chicken thieves
named Sanders and Nally were shot, the
former being killed and the latter MORALLY
wounded. The officers were arrested.
THE doors of the Bank OF Wadena,
owned by +. S. Case, at Wadena, Mimi,
were closed ON the 2lst. 1t was thought
that not more than twenty per cent. on the
dollar would be paid.
IN tenement house at Baltimore fire the
\ jnmped from wffidow ana was fataIry
hurt, and two children would die of ex-
posture. The remaining occupants had
narrow escapes.
THE Missouri Legislature ON the 21st re-
elected George G.. Vest United States Sem
ator.
On the 21st the Illinois House of Repre-
sentatives held continuous session of
twelve hours. On an appeal to the Speaker
to permit vote on permanent organiza-
that he was not deemed competent to act
as Speaker, and would, therefore, resign.
Mr.. Cronkrite was made temporary Speak
er, and the House adjourned to the 22d.
|. SCHUYLER CoLFAX's will was adj
mitted to probate on the 21st at South
Bend, Ind. The estate, valued at $550,000,
is left to Mrs. Colfax and her son.
THE Ohio Legislature has resolved to
place in the old capitol at Washington a
statue of Ex-Governor William Allen.
"A EEw-days- aso-Ieu- pvTsulIs sss.s a..
jured by railway accident near Sedalia,
on the Missouri Pacific Road. The west
bound passenger train struck broken rail
and chair-car was precipitated down a
high embankment.
AN appeal by Director General Burke
caused members of the New Orleans Cot
ton Exchange on the 2lst to subscribe &c.,
600 to meet current expenses of the Worlds
Exhibition.
In the Colorado Legislature on the DIST
Secretary Henry NJ. Teller was elected
United States Senator.
WITHIN a short time hog cholera has
swept off one thousand head in q town.
slip near Lincoln, Neb.
GREAT excitement prevailed in ST. Louis
ON the 2lst concerning the outbreak of al
legged Asiatic cholera. Two men-a Rus
sian-Jew peddler and a negro-had died in
that city of the disease within a few DAYS. |
DURING an ARRAY with knives the other |
day in Louisville coal office white man |
was fatally stabbed, and two negroes were
seriously wouuuvu.
GOVERNOR SCALES, of North Carolina,
and Governor Ireland, of Texas, were in
augurated on the 2lst
THIRTEEN thieves who recently stole S18.- |
600 worth of goods from the Chicago 81 |
Alton freight yards at Lexington, Mo-,
and had committed numerous other rob- |
berries, were arrested on the DIST at Lex |
fhgton.
THE other day troop of the Fourth
United States Cavalry had a fight with |
Mexican bandits and four of the latter
were killed and twelve were taken to Fort
Yuma.
Iowa Prohibitionists met in State Con-
vention at Des Moines on the 22d, State
Senator Clark being chosen President.
Resolutions were adopted demanding a
better enforcement of the Prohibitory law;
declaring that the manufacture and sale of
liquor is crime aud should be suppressed;
that the verdict of the people of Iowa has
been given four times for protection; that
the temperance people of Iowa will stand
by the present Prohibition law of the
State, and will claim at the hands of the
next Legislature such an amendment as
will cure any inefficiency and make il more
easily enforced.
The troops under General Hatch had on
The 22d surrounded COUGHS Oklahoma
boomers at saltwater, and intended to
starve them out. Those willing to leave
Couch's camp were permitted to go, and
numbers were taking advantage of the
order.
JACOB w. GRUBBE was elected Mayor of
wheeling, w. Va, on the 22d by 700 ma
lority. He will be the first Republican
Mayor of that city in twenty five years.
AT Wheeling, w. Va, manufacturers on
The 22d advanced the price Of nails twenty
:ents per keg.
MISS MATILDA CHASE, lineal de-
cendent of a signer of the Declaration of
was burned TO death on the
"a at her home In Annapolis, Nd. She
vas sixty three years old.
On the 22d tie special Grand Jury en-
ragged in Investigating election frauds at
Jhicago have found true bills against 2b5
Judges OF Election and the late Canvassing
3oard for negligence in making returns.
he recount Of the ballots showed that the
'olice appropriation, instead of having
majority OF $1,000, was defeated by a ma
GRITTY of 1880 votes.
The Piute Indians were on the 22d said ]
o be starving on their reservation i'm Ne
ada, having failed TO receive the Congress
ional appropriation Of $1,000 obtained for
hem by Senator Dawes. {
A DAYTON CO., washerwoman who was
ecently given some clothing belonging to {
dead woman Of her acquaintance, found Z
900 In CURRENCY sewed in an underear- Q
rent, and promptly returned the money to 7
be heirs.
Mas. M. J. PoTrINoER, Of Louisville, was '
ppointed Notary Public on the 23d By c