Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-22
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

"A 0J. CLOUD MIMI dlSpatch says
Fifty-four people injured in the cyclone have
be?n at the hospital Thirty are there at pres
emit and five at the convent Every house in
the vicinity has one or more wounded and
there are close on one hundred injured in the
two towns. Those in the hospital are under
charge of five doctors and fifteen Sisters of st.
Benedict Two out of ten on whom amputating
operations were performed will die. The
doctors are very busy, and had few hours for
sleep Ten doctors have been in attendance,
aud large number of nurses from st Paul
and Minneapolis are looking after the wounded
Nothing has been done to remove the wreck IN
either St Cloud or Sank Rapids. The loss or
property in St Cloud is estimated at S7O,OOo,
and in Sank Rapids at $780, OO The wreckage
on railroads is estimated at $4,000
A hurricane in Northwest Dakota
killed a number of cattle, and leveled large
trees along the river bank
The farmers throughout Clinton
County, Indiana, have discovered millions of
grasshoppers in chrysalis state
Indictments were returned at st.
Louis against Martin Irons, Chairman, and A.
Coughin, a member of the Joint Executive
Board of the Knights of Labor; Geo. M jack
son, leading member of the order, and IL
M Nichols, telegraph operator, on charge
of tampering with the telegraph wires.
A large delegation of Mormon wo-
men is at tn, Capitol trying to influence Con-
gressional legislation in behalf of the women
of Utah.
The House Educational Committee
agreed by vote of to 3 on the Senate bill
providing for the study of the nature of alco-
holic drinks and narcotics and of their effects
upon the human system in the public schools
of the Territories and the District of Column
bia and in the Government military naval and
Indian schools
A colored man named Charles Robin
son was hanged at New Castle, Del, for
criminal assault ON white woman.
There were 159 failures in the United
States reported to BradStreers during the week,
against 141 in the preceding week, and 196, 155,
100, and Ill in the corresponding weeks of
1885, 1881, 1885, and 1881, respectively. About
73 per cent We're those of small traders whose
capital was less than 5000
The latest spectacle of the Kiralfy
Brothers, The Rat Catcher" is going through
a successful two weeks engagement at Nc
Vicker's Theater, Chicago The story of the
piece is an altered version of tho "Pied Piper
of Hamelin," and, with its elaborate ballets,
gorgeous stage effects, and other interesting
features, afforls brilliant stage entertain
ment
SENATOR DoLPH (Oregon) made a speech In
the Senate on the 16ta inst. on his Indian depre-
datons bill and bill appropriating S5,OO0,0O0
to compensate citizens for losses suffered by
them through such depredations. Senator Will
son reported from the Judiciary COMMITTEES the
House bill closing up the business and paying
the expenses Of the Alabama Claims Court,
with an amendment providing for incre using
the principal sum of the Geneva award by the
amount of all the interest received thereon by
the United States, although that interest was
received ON bonds OF tho United States. SEN
providing for the restoration TO the
roll of Senate employees of X. A Finelle, DEM
ocrat, removed by the Sergeant alarms tomake
a place FOE Il Republican; and also providing
that the Democratic minority be allowed the
same number Of employees, with the same pro-
portion OF salaries as were allowed by the DEM
ocratic majority to the Republican minority in
1879. Senator Voorhees, (Ind.) made speech in
opposition to the Weil-Labra treaty in the execu-
tive session of the Senate. Senator George
(Miss.) was appointed q member of the Judiciary
Committee to succeed Senator jackson CTenn.l,
resigned President Cleveland nominated John
Q. Kelley for Postmaster at Cincinnati, and Mrs.
Virginia G. Thompson for similar position at
Louisville. Ho also named as Government direct
ors OF the Union Pacific Road Franklin Mac
Voagh, OF Chicago and James w. Savage, OF
Omaha. The House of Representatives passed
the Senate bill empowering the Secretary OF the
Treasury to sell the Chicago Bridewell property
after its appraisal by three commissioners to
the Great Western. Railway Company, aud with
the proceeds purchase a site and erect build
ing for the Appraiser of Customs. The House
adopted the Dingley resolution calling ON the
President for information concerning tho al
legged exclusion of American ships from Cana
dian ports.