Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-12-09
LATER NEWS ITEMS.
The President bias made the fol

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ing appointments:
Charles II. Morton, Of Maine, to be Commits
fioner " Navigation j. Il Caldwell OF Indiana,
70 be Deputy second Auditor OF the Treasury;
A. T.. evils, of Pennsylvania, to be Deputy fifth
Auditor Of the Treasury; Hugh A. Haralson, OF
tho Postofiice Department; John McCaferty, to
be Collector OF Customs for the District ofAlaska
chm Cousins, to be Colectorof Customs for the
ntret 2s KsgsRSSapp %siqTse fss 81 Al
MCneys nj Taylor's Falls, MINI James McNa-
mara, OF ii inois, to DO Indian Agent at Colo
radJ River Arizona Postmastes-A. Gaut, at
Irwin Pa. Lillian Il. Reyes, at Yonkors, N. Y. |:
J. II Lohmen, at Hamilton Ohio; Henry PEN
niman, a. Winthrop. Mo, vice Elliott Wood,
suspended; kckford Moore, at Trenton, n. j.,
vice G. IL. Skrm, suspended; Frank +, Cole, at
AL in. Mich. vice Mar in Haven, suspended
Edward NTH. at Carrolltop, ILL.,, vice james
Lynn. suspended.
A remarkable exploit in the swim
ding line is reported by telegraph from the
City of Mexico:
For the last two days there has been great
excitement over the sale OF tickets a. the Ma
'Onal Theater for the Patti season Of five nights
January. The crowd around the National
rloa or has fairly blocked the streets. Police
were required to preserve order. and IL seemed
as If th9 city had gone mad over the expected
advent of the songstress. The prices of boxes
wtro 20 a night and seats So These were
three times the ordinary prices. The ostensi-
bio agent who was conducting the sale Of
tickets was a man giving his name rs Mayer, and
claimed to be brother Of M. II. Mayer, Mr.. Abb
beys business associate. The sale of tick cts
began Thursday morning. people waiting at the
theater door from an early hour to get first
choice. Seats were bought in whole blocks,
some persons paying S1,OO for boxes. In the
course of the day the box-ofnce had taken in
Sls6JJ, and on the previous day the private
sales amounted to Sc, 200, making the total cash
sales s2i,9J0. Thursday night Mayer disappear
"a, carrying with him ovor $4,000. Some 81 200
IN silver was left in the hotel safe. The affair
caused the widest excitement.
John 9. Mann, of Minneapolis, has
commenced, in Chicago restaurant, the task
of eating thirty quail in thirty consecutive
days, the wager being $1,000. Only three
successes in this line adorn the records.
Fire at Detroit swept away the Pipe
Foundry Company's works. The loss is
sl0),O0) with insurance of $4,000
In the Federal Court at indianapolis
Judge Woods rebuked the Grand Jury for
failing to indict parties charged with mutt
Iating and forg ng returns at the recent cleo
ton.
The plan of consolidating oil the
mills at Minneapolis is being seriously con-
Adhered by the various owners, in order to
.Ontrol the price of wheat and the production
Of flour.
nrnoId's nour-miII aJ 81. CLOUD,
Minn, was wrecked by an explosion, fire CON-
plotting the disaster. Gus Krause, the night
miller, was fatally burned Twenty thousand
bushels of wheat were destroyed
"Jim Cummings" writes to st.
Louis paper that he is getting tired of being
chased about the country by detectives, and
offers to return the express company $4,000
of the amount stolen if they will let him live
n peace
John d. Miles has bought for o syn
licate, for $500, 600, a tract of land in Mexico
go miles long and six miles wide, extending
from Paso del Norte down the Rio Grande.
monster cattle-ranch will be established OF
tlle tract
a jury at Boston gave the Manager
% tho National Soldiers Home verdict for
~l6,57 80 against General b. f. Butler.
Jennie Smith, residing at Noun.
Vernon, N. j., who for five years has suffered
from spinal disease, reports that she has been
miraculously cured by faith and prayer.
Herman Falkenberg, charged with
trying to six" the jury in the trial of the
doodle Alderman, McQuade, in New York City,
has been held in 81, 900 for trial
Mrs. Lyman Porter, aged GO, mother
VI "Doc" Wilson, says that she is Wilson's
mother, that Jonas Wilson was his father, and
that she never saw or heard of Philip l. Moen
until recently.
Contracts have been made in London
for the construction of an iron tower, 440 feet
high, at the head OF Oxford street, to COM
memorate the Queens jubilee.