Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-10-01
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A citizens meeting at Seattle, in
Washington Territory, adopted strong reso-
lutions in favor of the vigorous enforcement
of tho Chinese restriction act, deploring the
presence of the Mongolians, and urging tho
use OF all lawful means for their removal.
Prof Alex. Agassiz has been ten
dered the superintendency of the coast and
geodetic survey, vice Professor Hilgard, re-
signed by request. Daniel Finch of Des
Molnes, has been appointed United States
Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa.
The cotton crop of Arkansas has
been seriously damaged by unfavorable
weather. and will fall below that of 1884.
A vein of ore has been struck in
Davidson County, Tenn, which yields 80 per
cent. of silver. A company has been organ
lied 10 develop it.
Robert Pierce, Boston manufact-
urer of fe.t goods, failed. He had Endorsed
for the willowdale Company, which recently
suspended for 100000.
The Insurance Commissioner of Con-
necticut has made an application for re-
ceiver for the Charter Oak Life Insurance
Company.
A receiver was appointed for the
Howe Sewing Machine Company on the APP
pication of the principal stockholders. The
secured debts amount to 5000, 900 and the UNI
secured to $3.50, COO, OF which $4,000 is for
the pay of employees. The nominal assets
are Sl,110,000.
The United States Circuit Court OF
New York denied the application OF James
A. Hinckley for writ of quo warranto
against the National Civil Service Commits
sioners. The motion was an attempt to abol-
ish the commission on the ground that 1t
was unconstitutional.
James Z. Wilson's blind factory, in
Forty-second street. New York, was de-
stroyed by FIRE, involving loss of 100000,
with partial insurance. A fire broke out in
Schleipmann & Spetler's brewery at Fair
Haven, Connecticut, and tho building was
totally destroyed. The loss is $50, 900; partly
insured.
Near Xenia, Ohio, Mrs. Parsons
missed her four-year-old daughter, after
having seen her playing in the yard.
Making search, she found the child's dead
and was eating her flesh. The dog had to
be killed before the child's body could be
recovered. The brute belonged to neigh
Dor.
Eight thousand people attended the
Sam Jones camp-meeting at st. Joseph, Mo-,
Sunday.
James G. Pussy, the defaulting Chief
Clerk of the Kansas penitentiary, has been
sentenced TO eight years imprisonment
At Cottonwood Point, Mo-, two fdf-
mers quarreled. They clasped their left
hands and exchanged seven shots with revolt
vers held in their right. Both were killed.
The Milwaukee and st. Paul Rail-
road Company has declared quarterly divi-
dend of 80 per cent. on its preferred stock
and of 2R per cent. on its common stock.
Judge Powers, of Provo, Utah, in
structed the Grand Jury that a separate I'm
dictment could be found for each day during
which polygamist had lived with more than
one wife since the passage of the Edmunds
act.
A serious riot occurred between riot
ers and non-union hands employed in
Laughlin's mill, near Martins Ferry, Ohio.
A large party of men armed with shotguns
attacked the mill hands, and some hundreds
of shots were exchanged between the forces.
A number of the hands were wounded. The
rioters retired after the conflict, and their
losses IL any, are not reported.
A bill for the gradual abolition of
slavery has passed both houses of the Bra
lillian Parliament.
An estimate based upon abundant
data places the corn crop of the country at
1879, $50, 900 bushels, an increase of 1S4,84O
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