Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-03-04
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Line average prices OI Vh6 ieuuinB
cereals in the English markets for the last
year are footed up as 32s Tod per quarter For
wheat sos Id for barley and 2Cs "a for oats.
All these are for the quarter of eight measured
bushels, which for English wheat averages
about eight times sxty-two pounds. 1t is
understood that the wheat figures apply only
to the grain grown at home, the product OF
Indian soil having averaged even less. The
lowest price was Dos I'd, touched the last Sat
urday in the year, but even that minimum OF
less than SO cents per sixty pounds has been
surpassed since then. The average had not
been so low in any former year since l16i, and
only four times in the whole of the eighteenth
century.
Four glandsred horses on farms near
Rochester, Ill, were killed by the Assistant
State Veterinarian and thirteen others were
ordered quarantined.
Two employees of the n. X. Fair
bank Company OF Chicago, are missing, and
are accused of having robbed the firm of about
$1,000
For the recent assault on Mr.. Dick
son, United States Attorney at Salt Lake, An
d.
81, 900 each
Edison, the electric an, in an inter-
view regarding the telephone decision by the
Indiana Supreme Court expressed the belief
that the law would be pronounced unconstitu-
tional, and declared the decision fatal to
patents and progress
At q Lutheran church in Detroit the
! twelfth male child of a German family named
| Detloff was named after President Cleveland,
who was represented by Congressman May
bury The infant was presented with $40
gold piece.
A schedule of the liabilities and as
sets of the defunct Ritzinger Bank of Indian
apolis shows assets, s267, s97; liabilities, $455,
s6S. The bank had 1,400 depositors. 1t is
claimed that As cents on the dollar can be paid
them.
A skating rink and three other struc-
lures at Troy, N. Y, were burned, falling
walls injuring several persons, the skull OF
one man being crushed The financial loss is
$4,000 business block at Baltimore, occu-
pied by clothing firms, was partially Quilted,
thaW lGisaB6fT sER6a0RHars9&naao,@ VINO murdered
John Dreger on the bank of the Kankakee
River, was executed at Rensselaer,, Ind Nearly
one thousand persons were allowed to witness
the hanging
The Houston (Tex.) Savings Bank
has failed, with liabilities approximating $500, :
J 000 The suspension caused great excitement
in the city, and was wholly unexpected in bust
ness circles As the news spread through the
town several hundred anxious depositors
gathered about the bank, exctedly discussing
the causes leading to the suspension. re-
ceiver has been appointed.
SENATOR MITCHELL, of Oregon, spoke in the
Senate, ON the 26th inst, in support OF his anti
| Chinese bill. The Blair educational bill was
debated after W hich the Senate adjourned. The
| House had lively session. Mr.. Morrison from
the Committee on Rules, report ID n resolution
that select committee of nine members be ap-
| pointed to inquire into the Pnn-Electrc tele-
| phone matter and report whether any Ole 9r OF
the Government has been improperly influenced:
Mr.. Gibson, of West Virginia, bitterly criticised
Mr.. Pulitzer whom he accused OF shrinking be-
hind the columns of his newspaper to attack
men instead of attacking them ON the floor oil
the House. Mr.. Morrison said: AS a
friend of the officer supposed to BIZ
most affected Gf anybody is TO bt
affected by this investigation, having unlimited
confidence in his honor ana IN MS pOfSOnel unu
official integrity, want this resolution to pass
and / want this investigation to go on" Mr.
Rogers, of Arkansas, welcomed the resolution
and hoped the investigation would be made
thorough and searching. Mr.. Breckenridge, o.
Arkansas, said he proud to call TIN
Attorney General his personal friend ny
defended his course, declaring that hi
skirts were perfectly clear OF any wrong-doing
| and hoped the whole case would be investigat
ed The resolution was adopted without divis
ion. Mr.. Burnes OF Missouri, from the Commit
tee on Appropriations, reported the immediat
deficiency BILL and it was referred to the com
mittee of the whole. The House, at its evenin
session, passed twenty-eight pension bills