Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-12-02
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Three incendiaries were lynched in
Franklin County, Mississippi, for burning
Harrison Colcate's cotton gin house. There
was lot of cotton stored in the gin-housC,
and the negroes had stolen several bales Of it
and fired the building to conceal the theft
They were arrested, and while being taken to
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1t is stated that an entire family of
seven, named Poe, thought to have been burn
cd to death ut their home in Knox County,
Kentucky, month ago, were in reality muir
dered by neighbor who is now in jail
An attempt was made near San An
tonic, Texas, to rob the express car Of Miss
souri, Pacific train, but tho two men who at
tempted the job were arrested by the mes
senger and conductor
Official proclamation has been made
in the City of Mexico of the abrogation of
transit. duties on national or foreign mer-
chandise by States and forbidding the placing
of import duties by States on the products Of
the States, or on the expectation of manu-
featured articles or produces of the soil
ates are also forbidden to assign special
routes for the conveyance OF goods of native
origin 1; is said to be the most important
economic reform ever put in operation in
Mexico.
Hon. Jehu Baker, who is to succeed
Hol. William K Morrison in Congress, Gre
ated a sensation in the Belleville Qll) Post
Office by making an assault upon ]. M Beach,
local newspaper correspondent The Con-
gressman-elect aimed powerful bow at him
with his clne. Beach caught the blow on his
left wrist Mr.. Baker followed up the attack,
and succeeded in getting in several blows.
The attack was instigated by newspaper ar
ticles upon the recent campaign, prepared by
Beach.
In an address at Montreal Michael
Davltt highly complimented Mr.. Powderly,
saying that while he was at the head of the
Knights Of Labor he would keep that organ
ization @cear from doctrines antagonistic to
just government or the rights of the people.
The total number of failures in the
United States reported to Bradstreers last
week was ga, against 227 the previous week,
225 last year, 237 in 1884, and 232 in 1888. The
total failures in the country this year to date
are 9,162, against 10, COG last year, decline Of
SI4 against q 76:i 1874. s.So6 in 1881 and
| 6, 437 in 1882.
A fine body of nearly pure mineral
paint has been discovered near Denver, Miami
| County Ind, where valuable iron-ore deposits
were recently found
E. II. Kortkamp's jewelry store at
| St Louis, Mo-, was robbed of $1,000 worth of
diamonds, watches, and jewelry.
The Brotherhood of Railway Section
| Foremen of North America was organized at
Council Bluffs, Iowa, by delegates from all
sections of the country M. McInteer, of
Mount Auburn, Iowa, was elected Grand Chief
| Foreman
The Republican members of the
Pennsylvania Legislature from eight counties
have passed resolutions indorsing Matthew s.
| QUAY for the United States Senate to succeed
| Mitchell.
The Lehigh Valley Railway Company
has awarded a contract for a monster trestle
at South Chicago, covering 100x0O0 feet OF
ground, to cost 100000, and be finished in
seventy days
Work is about to commence on O
railway from New York to Boston, contracts
having been awarded for the track from the
former city to Danbury A syndicate ha;
subscribed for 100000 in frst-mortgagc
bonds.
About one-half the claims for dam
ages arising out of the Rio disaster have been
settled by the Chicago, Milwaukee, and st
Paul Road New York drummer" has pu
in claim for the loss of new trunk and foui
quarts of whisky.
Russia has O debt of three billion
three hundred and sixty million dollars.