Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-01-02


Los, OF Life and Property by Casualties
of Various Kinds-LegaI Executions and
Victims of Mob Law During the Year.
CHRONOLOGICAL.
JANUARY
lone of the features Of New Years Day was
total eclipse OF the sun, the totality last
ing less than three minutes, and being
visible only in California; successful OBJ
servations were made by scientists...:
Governor Hill, of New York, inaugurated
for q third term. .Colored people OF At
lanta, Ga, celebrate the twenty sixth an
niversary OF the Emancipation Proclama-
tion.
Is-Biii giving women the right to vote at mu-
nicfpal elections killed in Ohio House Of
Representatives
executions shall be by electric shock in
stead of by the rope; similar bills intro
duced in the Missouri and Illinois Legis-
latures.
5-Massachusetts House Of Representatives
adopted proposed constitutional prohibit
u-W. H. Burg, believed to be the Whitechapel
hend -Jack the RJpoT," arrested at Dun
dee, Scotland, for another shocking muir
ls-James Robbins, of Franklin, Ind, sentenced
TO two years in the penitentiary for steal
ing two chickens, valued ut 30 cents.
21-The heaviest snowstorm on record in that
region prevailed at Columbia, s. @.
MARCH.
train robbing in the territory capital
crime
5-The announcement was made from Peru.
South America, that the juice or sap of
peuca or maguey leaves will cure hydro
12-Ex President Grover Cleveland elected an
active member OF the New York Bar Asso-
2s-The Northern Pacific Railway secured con-
troll Of the Wisconsin Central thus giving
IL access to Chicago, the greatest railway
center on earth, and adding 767 miles to its
length.
3-Discovery OF rich placer gold diggings re-
ported at Bear Paw Mountains, Montana.
4-The ocean steamer Danmark, of the Thing
yalla Line, from Copenhagen for New
York, with 710 persons on board, broke the
shaft OF her propeller when about 800
miles from Newfoundland but was taken
in tow by the steamship Missouri, Capt.
Hamilton Murrell, which took aboard all
of the Danmarks passengers and crew,
and proceeded safely to the Azores the
Danmark being found abandoned In the
meantime, caused profound grief and
mourning throughout Christendom for
fortnight.
ll-MereditR Stanley an athlets, jumped from
the high bridge on the Cincinnati Southern
Road into the Kentucky River, the distance
being 2S5 feet the bridge, with one excep-
tion, is the highest in the world.
24-The Minnesota Legislature passed a law
making IL a misdemeanor for any newspa-
per to print anything more about the hang
Ing Of criminals than the mere announce
3O-Steamship Gaelic arrives at San Francisco
from China and Japan, making the fastest
time recorded-from Hong Kong z1l2
days, and from Yokohama, Is days Is hours
25 minutes
3l-Appalling loss of life in the Conemaugh val
ley, Pennsylvania, caused by the breaking
ofthe dam on the South Fork Of the Cone
maugh River.
7-President Harrison issued an order to the
army to dispense with the Sunday drill
aud insr ection of arms.
9-Jacob Walker and Frank Davy, young men
residing at Niagara Falls, while boating
above the falls we're drawn into the rap
ids and swept over the Horseshoe fall /;
"Pi" Walker, uncle OF Jacob, committed
suicide two years before by lying down in
his boat and going over the American fall.
20-First new wheat OF the season arrived at
Baltimore from Virginia, and sold at Al so
a busheL. In latitude 43, longitude 1927,
the French steamship La Burgogne passed
the largest iceberg ever reported-esti-
mated to be l60 feet high by 975 feet long.
l2-Goyernor Lowry, of Mississippi, expressed
the opinion that the New Orleans and
Northwestern Railway laid itself liable to
forfeiture of its charter by its action in
conveying Sullivan and Kilrain, with
other participants, to Prize-hght
26-The ocean steamer Columbia made the run
from The Needles to Sandy Hook q, 100
nliles) ia days 21 hours 81 minutes, the
best time on record over that course.
27-Chicago experienced a remarkable rain
storm; in four hours more than four
inches OF rain fell.
AUGUST.
1-Grand national monument in honor of the
Pilgrims dedicated at Plymouth, Mass
sons and daughters of Plymouth and
visitors from far and near were present in
H-Ex-Judge David s. Terry. OF California,
killed by Deputy Marshal David Nagle at
Lathrop. Cal.-wbjle NRPiHUala Essiont' at
15-The high court of the Ancient Order OF
Foresters, in session az Minneapolis,
voted to sever all connection with the
high court OF England; the differences
arose over the admission of colored men
to the order, the English high court in
sisting upon it and the Americans OBJ
22-Mrs. Maybrick, an American woman who
was to have been hanged at Liverpool,
England, for the murder of her husband,
had her sentence cOmmuted to penal
servitude for life, the decision being in ac-
cord with public sentiment Mr.. lincoln,
the United States Minister, and many
members OF the American colony in Lon
Mrs. Maybrick.
vagrancy, were sold at public auction
two went to farmers at 20 a head and one
was bid in for IS cents; the three to serve
their purchasers for four months.
2s--Steamship City of Paris made the trip from
Queenstown to Sandy Hook lightship N
j., in days 10 hours 1s minutes.
bl-During the three months ending at date
there were exported to England $1,000
head of cattle, 10000, 900 pounds of fresh
Deefi ana Ji,OOO,OOO pounds OF canned beef
SEPTEMBER
3-Empress Augusta OF GERMANY reported To
have joined the Catholic Church.
4-The largest bar Of gold ever cast was turn cd
out at the Helena (Montana) assay office /;
It weighs 500 pounds and is worth over
$4,000
5-Slight damage to corn crop reported from
frost at various points in Kansas, Mis-
souri, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota
10-Another OF London's fallen women found
butchered by mysterious assas ssin, max
ing the twelfth tragedy OF this character
In the Whitechapel district.
2-First CONSIGNMENT OF Chicago cattle arrived
at Mainz, Germany.
l-During the year, up TO date, 3,111 miles of
new railroads were built in the United
States.
ga wife-beater was given thirteen Iashes mt
the NTH whipping since the passage Of the
law in 1882.
u-Axtell, a three year old horse, trotted mile
IN 2; ~ at Ierre Haute. and was thereupon
NOVEMBER.
2-Twin stars added to the national constella-
tion by the admission Of North and South
Dakota to the grand sisterhood OF States
On. 3. Oakes, Of Decatur. Ala, died of hydro
phobia from dog-bite received seventeen
years ago.
s-One more State --Montana-formalIy admit
ted to the Union by proclamation OF the
l1-washington, cthe fourth star Of Columbias
new constella ion, became State of the
15-Dom Pedro, Emperor OF Brazil, deposed, and
republican form Of government estab-
lished the old Emperor was ordered to
leave Brazil, and win be allowed certain
amount TO I've on I'm Europe; he sailed for
Lisbon.
2s-John Chama, Of Pottstown, Pa, cursed his
Creator, and fell paralyEed and stricken
s0-In the matter of Moore and other Mormon