Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-11-25
WESTERN.

At Muncie, Ind, Mrs. Lizzie Barts-
ford playfully dared George Kennedy, aged
IL, who was sfoolng" with q revolver, to
shoot her. The youth aimed and fred at the
woman, the bullet entering her temple, killing
her instantly.
The Minnesota and Northwestern
Road will open its new line between Chicago
and st Paul next week. 1t will have a linn
tied train, making the run in thirteen hours.
The firm of Cohen, Samplin g. Co.,
of Cleveland, manufacturers of gents furnish
Ing goods for the past quarter century, has
failed, with liabilities of $2oO,OOo
Near Cardonia, Ind, James Black
wood, his wife, and two grown sons, got drunk
together. The following morning Blackwood
was found near his home, and his blood-stained
garments exciting suspicion search was made
for his wife. Her remains we're found on the
road, half mile away, and the indications
were that she had been kicked 10 death. The
sons are missing, but Blackwood is in the
Brazil Jail E-
A furious snow-storm, accompanied
by high wind, swept over the Northwest and
the HARVEST plains on the 18th, 18th and 18th
of November, seriously interfering with rail-
way traffic. The storm seems to have been
severest in Southern Dakota where more than
o foot of snow fell In Iowa and Minnesota
all trains were from three to ten hours behind
time, and some were even abandoned alto
gether The blizzard extended southwark into
Texas, where the coolest November weather
for twenty-five years was reported
hxyk ha 6ars-
ing of the barges Dixon and Emerald IN Lake
Michigan, off Kewaunee, Wis. Green Bay
dispatch furnishes the following particulars of
the disaster "The steam barge Justice Field,
with four sail-barges, the Dixon and Emerald,
coal laden, for Manitowoc, and Bessie and
Lille May, coal laden, for Milwaukee, we're
driven into Kewaunee, where the Dixon
struck about three o'clock and found
cred five hours later. Three Of the
seven men in her crew went down with
her. Shortly afterward the next barge, the
Emerald, was in the breakers and went on the
beach about noon Her crew of five men tool
to the yawl-boat, but only the mate reached
shore alive, and it is thought he can not re-
cover from his injuries. The life-saving crew
1.-TWO Rivers were sent for, but had all they
could attend to at home or the eight mer
lost three are said to hail from Green Bay
among them being Capt Gorham Of the Emer
aid Capt Robinson. of the Dixon, got ashor
alive"
A Chicago telegram says the Pinker
ton police agency in that city is investigating
statement that a lad was employed by two me-
on street corner to deliver at the residenc
of p. ID. Armour, the millionaire meat packer
a ten-pound package of wheat -four contain
ing liberal mixture of strychnine and ba
frytes.
At the meeting Of the CONSOLIDATED
Cattle Growers Association in Chicago, reso
lutions were adopted urging that the Genera
Government take the most vigorous steps I
stamp out pleuro- pneumonia.
The Union Pacific has leased tn
lines of tho o eson Railway and Navigatio
Company
Joseph Hoffman, tailor in st. Louis
in initiating sword-swallower, let case
knife slip down his throat His stomach wa
opened and the knife removed
A number of business buildings o
Joliet, Ill, we're destroyed by fire. The loss
es aggregate $4,000. with insurance {
$4,000
John Arensdorf, Albert Bismarl
Henry sherman, Paul Leader, f. Munchratl
Jr., Sylvester Granda, George Treiber, Hem
Peters, and l. Plath have been indicted Z,
conspiracy IN the Haddock murder case
Sioux City, Iowa
sa- The dwelling of James. johnson,
farmer living near LAndsvllle, Ind, VI
burned, Johnson's two daughters, ag
eighteen and twenty, perishing in the flame
A hired man was fatally burned, but the re
OF the family escaped in their night-clothes.