Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-04-26

out on the premises and Holman and three
OF his children were burned up. eix other
children made their escape Several months
ago Mira Hoffman died aud since then he has
been acting In an insane manner From the
stories of the children the people believe that
HOFFMAN set the house on FIRE with the inten-
ton of destroying himself and his whole
family
A SAN Francisco telegram says that fire at
Palo Alto, Cal, burned portion Of the stables
OF Senator Leland Stanford The stable con-
tanned some Of the most rapid trotters on the
turf, and there are not many sportsmen in
the country who will not feel pang OF re-
greet at the death Of the animals and q shock
at the manner in which II was encompassed.
The following horses were burned TO death:
Clifton Belle, years old dam Ciaribel, by
Abdallah Star (2-2l. Rexford, years old !;
dam Rebecca, by General Benton q 20.
Maiden years oia Ssm N MAY queen 1y Aea
dam Norma, by Alexanders Norman u ;Slh).
Also the colts Emma Robertson, Troubadour.
alive Hws but "a" are badly burned. They are Psio
Alto dam Dame Winnie, by Planet q s20Al:
Manzanits, dam Mayhower. by st. Clair fast
est TO date, 2 :l6).
ST. LOUIS jury has granted David S.
Fotheringham $4,000 damages against the
Adams Express Company. Fotheringham,
express messenger at the time, had been ar
rested for completely in the slim Cummins"
robbery on the San Francisco Road, in which
the desperadoes secured SIS, 600. Fothering
ham convinced the jury that he was inno-
cent, and that his incarceration and deten-
ton damaged him heavily
FIRE destroyed the Findlay, Ohio, window
glass factory Loss sS5, COO; fully insured
The gates of the Columbus Ohio Peni-
tertiary have at last closed upon Benjamin E.
Hopkins, Harper's accomplice in the wreck of
the Fidelity Bank. Hopkins goes down for
term Of seven years and eight months He
processes to be very i'll, and to expect to leave
the prison corpse
FIVE railroad laborers were fatally injured
by the premature explosion OF q blast at
LAbadie, Mo.
A NEENAH, Wia, special says that on the
upper Wolf river, near Embarrass, an entire
family named LAthrop, comprising father,
mother and three children, we're drowned in
the food They lived in a small shanty near
the bank Of the stream, and though they had
been warned to leave their dangerous abode,
they neglected to do 30, and the floods swept
the building ana occupants down the stream.
The Standard Oil Company's plant at Fort
Wayne, Ind, has been destroyed by fire. Loss
about s12, 00l
AT Cincinnati, Ohio, the Belts Street Furni-
ture Company's factory was burned, causing
a loss of s6o, 900; fully insured
The stave works of ]. T. Jackson, at Men
tor, Ind, were destroyed by fire, with loss
of from s15, 900 to go, 900. and no insurance.
The Consolidated Tank Line Company's
building, near Cincinnati. Ohio. has been de-
stroyed by fire. The loss of $50, 600 is par
TALLY insured
THREE bodies have been taken from the
ruins OF the Bethel Home at st Louis, which
was destroyed by fire. Four other persons
were badly hurt The loss is $4,000
EIGHT horse thieves were caught by an
armed posse thirty miles from Purcell, L T.,
after running fight and strung up without
confession or prayers. Some of the posse
mara killad