Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-05-27
LATER NEWS IETMs.

Business failures in the United States
and Canada for the week numbered l67,
against l76 the previous week, and 192 the week
before that
The strike of the tailors at New York
has compelled the closing of 100 shops and en-
forced the idleness of 1900 men,
The $50 men employed in the shops
of the Edison Electric Company at New York
are on a strike The company conceded them
an advance in wages and reduction OF hours,
and now they demand that only union men be
employed.
New York telegram; @One week ago
Bradstreeps announced that the total number
of reported short-hour strikers at most OF the
more prominent industrial centers on strike
within two or three weeks was about 2O0,OOo
In addition to these there were within that
period at most about 80, 600 strikers whose
demands were not for shorter hours of labor
daily, indicating that the grand total OF
industrial strikers for all reasons between
April "A and May IA was about 100000. BY
reference to memoranda covering the labor
troubles specified, it is found that at mo- one
time were there more than 125, 600 employees
on strike, that number being in the field, as it
were, against employers during the week
ending May IL The decline from that date
to Monday last was marked, the aggregate
May IL not exceeding $1,000 strikers
for all causes. The reports of strikes from
cities and districts named May Fl
showed another heavy decline, owing, in part
to defeats of remaining agitators for eight
hours at Chicago, and to the practical failure
of the bituminous coal strikes The total of
employees ON strikes, wired up to May q, was
47,625 The loss of wages through strikes
since May has aggregated 100000; Of re-
ceipts by employers g., $780, 900, and of future
contracts due to probability of labor troubles
s24, so, 00O Of which $50, 400, 600 alone refers
to deferred or Cancelled building contracts"
Peter Louis Otto was executed at
| Buffalo, n, Y, for the murder OF his wife in
| November, 1884. Lee Barnes was hanged at
Dover, Ark, for the murder of gambler
named Charles Holman, in November, 1885. A
negronamed Louis Kilgrave was strung up at
Raleigh, n c., for the murder of negress
named Matte Henderson. James Reynolds
paid the extreme penalty of the law at Sidney,
Neb., for the murder of James Ralston and
son.
"A UoaJ containing Oam oVi..-~O--, L.
wife, daughter, w. Hall, and two negroes,
struck rock near Knoxville, Tenn, and sunk.
Johnson escaped, but the others were drowned
David Davis, the Illinois statesman,
has recovered his health suffi GENTLY to answer
vast number of kilograms and letters from
anxious friends
The President has approved the bill
providing for the study of the nature Of alco-
holic drinks and narcotics, and their effects, to
be pursued in the public schools of the District
of Columbia, the Territories, etc
THE House bill establishing life-saving sta
| tions at the following points was concurred in
| by the Senate ON the 21st OF May: Plum
| Island, Lake Michigan; South Mantou
| Island, Lake Michigan; Chicago, ILL.,; Bots
| Blanc Island, Straits OF Mackinaw; Duluth,
Lake Superior; Point Adams, Oregon between
Points Reyes and Diable, California; between
| fornia, and on Lake Ontario, New York,
at or near the mouth of the Niagara River.
| The Senate insisted upon its amendment to the
| the Pacific Mail Company, and appointed a
| committee Of conference The President sent
the following nominations to the Senate.
J Hughes East, Of Indiana, to be Register of the
| Land Office at Yankton, Dakota. First Lieut.. Dan
G. Kingman, to be Captain Corps Of Engineers.
| Second Lieut.. H. Il. Waterman, to be First Lieu
| tenant Tenth Corps of Engineers. Charles F.
| Maron, OF Virginia, to be Assistant Surgeon in
| the army with the rank of First Lieutenant
| The House passed the bill prohibiting the inn
| portation Of mackerel during the spawning sea-
| SON. Among number of private bills passed
| by the House was one removing the charge Of
| desertion from the record of Franklin Thomp-
son, alias s. u. f. Seelye. This is the case Of
| woman who for two years served i'm Michigan
regiment as soldier without disclosing her
| identity.