Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-11-18
WESTERN.

The new packing-houses of Fowler
Bros and Thomas Upton at Omaha are in
operation, the aggregate capacity being about
1000 hogs per day.
A st. Louis dispatch says the testi-
mony on which Messenger Fotheringham was
indicted for participation in the Frisco robbery
was given by James Hefferman, Wabash en-
gineer, and Thomas Dwyer, Fotheringhams
helper. Hefferman testified that just as
Fotheringham's train was leaving the
depot on the night of the robbery
a man answering Fotheringham's descrip-
ton OF the robber came along with q valise in
his hand and asked him which was the Frisco
train The engineer pointed it out and the
man ran to the moving express car and
threw his valise in the door being open,
an unusual circumstance. He then reached
mp bis hand and was pulled into the car by
some one within. Dwyer corroborated this
testimony.
The European diffusion process of
making sugar, which has been tested at
Ottawa, Kan, by employees of the National
Department of Agriculture, under the guild
ance of Professor Wiley, has proved successful
in the highest degree
The Governor of Ohio has appointed
Judge Francis J. Dickman, of Cleveland, to
the Supreme bench.
Alaxan1a- GaldaraA-,--s.>- s>.t -ats,da,,t
in San Francisco, killed Mamie Kelly on the
street with a revolver. She was in love with
him, and his excuse is that he had grown tired
of her.
The Coroner's jury at Rio, Wis, re-
turned verdict to the effect that the negli-
gence of c. ii. Wells, the brakeman, caused
the recent disaster on the Chicago, Milwaukee
and ST. Paul Road Wells was arrested and
bound over to appear before the Circuit
Court
Evangelist Moody's church, on the
corner Of LaSale and Chicago avenues, Chi
cago, has been partially destroyed by fire. The
damage is estimated at $4,000 The fire is
believed to have been Of incendary origin.
Colonel r. G.. Ipgersoll has agreed
to argue the case of the onv.cted anarchists
of Chicago before the Illinois Supreme Court
Leonard SWEET has also been retained
The evidence in the great express
robbery case, as made public, goes to prove
that the messenger, David S. Fotheringham,
was an accessory, or at least willing victim
in the affair, says st Louis special Dis
crepancies in his statements to the detectives
indicate that he knows more of tho
manner in which the robbery was planned
and executed than he would like to have then
know, and an expert penman, who was before
tho grand jury, states that the three letters
signed slim Cummings" were written by one
and the same man, and expresses his belief
that the man was Fotheringham, and that III
wrote them before the commission of the rob
berry. 1t now transpires that the messenger
trunk was searched soon after the robbery
and number of sheets Of paper were founc
covered with copies of the signature of W. j
Barrett, manager of the express company.
The First National Bank of Indian
apolis has voted to go into liquidation.
The Knights of Labor propose Il
publish a daily paper at Milwaukee in the in
terest of the order.
Natural gas was struck at Muncie
Ind, last week, and the people are greatly OK
cited over the discovery.
Simeon Gerard, who for fifteen year
had been desperate in Warren County, Ind.
was shot dead by four vigilantes on the blui
north Of Attica last week
A verdict for $26l was rendered O
Detroit in the suit of the Indianapolis Base
Ball Association against tho Detroit Assoca
ton TO recover $4,000 alleged to be due on
contract under which all but two Of the In
dianapolis players werc sold to the Detroits |
1885,
In the United States Court at Gin
cinnati Judge Sage rendered decision on til
suit of the Government against the America
Bell Telephone Company, finding for the lai
ter and Diminishing the bill for want OF juri'
diction, but without prejudice to the Govern
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