Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-05-14
WESTERN HAPPENINGS.

sBLUE JEANS" is on the boards at Nc
Vicker's Theater, Chicago, for this and
the coming week. On the opening night
this production packed the great play
house to its fullest capacity. The Rising
Sun Roars Band was called out again
and again, and the sawmill scene was
realism itself.
WINoNA, Mimi. was visited by an
other disastrous fire, when the entire
plant Of the Schrothe Il Ahrens Mill.
Company was destroyed. The mill, wa:N-
house and three blocks of lumber were
burned. The fire started in the wheel
pit in the planning mill and spread rap
idly, being only stopped at the bounda-
ries Of the lumber Yards A large num-
Der of window sashes and doors were
stored in the warehouse. The loss will
approximate 500. 600; insurance between
$40. 900 and $4,000 AT Sidney, Ohio,
fire destroyed the shops OF the American
Wheel Company of Chicago, causing a
loss of 500, 900. on which there was less
than SEQ, 900 insurance. Two hundred
employees were thrown out OF work.
THE steamship Etata, which put into
San Diego, Cal, few days ago, 1t was
said, for the purpose of obtaining pro-
visions for the warShips now in posses
sion of the Congressional party of Chilli,
has been seized by the United States
Marshal. 1t was also intimated that the
vessels arrival here had some connec-
ton with the arrival of the schooners
Robert and Minnie off the Catalina
-Islands- loaded with arms and ammuni-
tion.
AT Atchison, Kan, Marshal Tafte, at
the request of Emerson Cornell, white
bartender and gambler of Monmouth,
Ill, arrested Alex Payne, a negro bar
Der, whom he charged with having run
away with his wife. Payne did not deny
the charge. The woman, who is good
looking and intelligent, was found in a
negro boarding-house, where she had
been stopping as Payne's wife.
AT Milwaukee, while Chester Wilcox,
a billiard table manufacturer, was speed
ing his horse he was thrown from his
buggy and instantly killed. His neck
was broken.
AT St Louis, during fight between
Adolph Ungi and Isidor Werkamp, the
former received stabs which may cause
death. An immense crowd was gath
cred, and about the time the officers ar
rived and arrested Werkamp and his
| friend, Joseph Burnstein, many shouts
| of "Lynch him." were heard, and only
| the absence of a rope restrained the
crowd.
AT the city election at Waynetown,
| Ind, William Simms and Frank Hollo-
well tied for the Office of Treasurer. To
decide the question foot race was ar
ranged between them. The race was a
2OO-yard dash, and several thousand peo-
| ple were on the ground. Simms seemed
q sure winner until he fell within three
| wards of the goal Hollowell fell over
| him, but crawling over the line won the
| race amid the bowls and cheers OF the
crowd. Hollowell was duly sworn in.
COMPLAINTS against the street-clean-
ing department of Cincinnati haye been
both numerous and loud. Affairs
reached crisis on Wade street. Mrs
| Taphorn appeared on the curb and
stepped into the street waving bsoom.
Instantly, for squares, women and chill
dren swarmed out with brooms, hoes,
rakes, and wheeibarrows In moment
the air was full of dust, and the work
was pushed vigorously. In thirty min
utes the paving of the street began TO
show beneath the accumulation OF
months In an hour all was ready for
the city cart. Not satisfied with clean
ing the street, the women took a hand
at the sewers. Later in the day the
Board of Aldermen appropriated $1,000
additional for special street cleaning
purposes.
JOHN FLANAGAN was getting old and
long had been lonesome. In his little
miners cabin in Strawberry Gulch, near
Clancy, Mont, his body was found, a
frightful hole torn through his breast.
This note was found near by: 81 don't
want to put anybody to any trouble
Bury me in the coffin have made and
the grave have dug" Seating himself
I'm chair. he put his rife to his breast
and touched the trigger with stove
poker. A brother lives somewhere II
Michigan.
FIRE from some unknown cause broke
out in the coal-mine of the Keith &
Perry company at Deep Water, Mo
Two hundred men were in the mine a
the time, but all escaped with one posi-
ole exception. The mine will have to b.
l. L.