Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-05-03
THE WESTERN STATES.

RECENTLY at Jacksonville, Ohio, Edward H.
Davis, Assistant Marshal, arrested samuel
Dow, a young married man, for fast driving.
Dow afterward met Davis and shot him dead
The murderer then walked block, and put
ing the revolver to his own head, fired and
fell corpse.
TERRIBLE cyclone, following closely on q
thunderstorm, brought ruin to Pratt Kan
Lightning struck p. E. Degops blacksmith
shop and tore the roof of. The cyclone came
from the south The people cav it coming
and were terrorized Women ran wildly
through the streets with their children in their
arms seeking a place Of safety. The whirling
storm struck the east edge Of town, which is
thinly populated. Several houses were demol-
ished. William Fishers residence was torn
to splinters and scattered for half-mile. His
wife was picked up out Of the ruins fatally
injured Many other people were bruised and
injured by the flying timbers. This is the
second cyclone that town has had this spring
A FREIGHT train on the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore and Western Road collided with work
train near Brnam Wood, Wis, and fifteen
persons were injured The names Of those
whose injuries are considered serious are: A.
Rock, H. Erdman, F. Ehlert W. Struck, W.
Belew, O. Parsons, and A. Kushel The work
train was going on side-track when it was
struck by the freight Both trains were bad
ly wrecked
The business portion of Central City, Da-
kota, three miles above Deadwood, has been
destroyed by fire. Not a store or shop is
left standing One hundred and thirty build
ings were burned Fifty families were left
homeless. The loss is $3.50 900; insurance,
$4,000
M E. IILLNGs, of Waverly, Iowa, has
been sentenced to the penitentiary for life,
the extreme penalty of the law The court
reviewed the evidence in the case, and con-
Guided by denying the motion for new trial,
also the motion for arrest OF judgment.
During the reading of the sentence Billings
was unmoved, but his wife burst out crying,
and her husband held her closer TO him and
whispered words Of comfort and consola-
ton in her ear. After sentence had been
passed the counsel for defense filed notice
of appeal Judge Ruddick fixed the bail
bond at $4,000, and ordered that in case bail
was not secured, tho defendant should re-
ma II III Jat-
THE town of Rushsylvania, near Bellefon-
tame, Ohio, was on Friday the scene OF ter
rible accident While a school exhibition was
in progress in a public hall the floor gave
way with frightrul crash. 1t appeared Ia
sink in the csnter, funnel-shaped, and the en-
tire audience went down in a surging mass
to the ground, a distance of twenty feet
Many women and children were killed and
wounded The walls did not fall in, or the
calamity would have been much worse. A
number of ladies and children were taken out
some of them unhurt with their clothing torn
completely off of them.
BRIDGE on the Burlington and Missouri
River Road near Alma, Neb., gave way, hav
ing boon weakened by rains, as through
passenger train was passing, and the mai
and express cars went down with it, and al
passenger coaches except one left the track
l. A. Townr, of Grand Rapids, Mich, was
killed and several others were seriously in
iured