Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-02

marshals had their deadly fight with the
outlaw band two rustling gentlemen,
setting out from the ncighborhood Of
Hyattvillc with sixty head of stolen
horses, were overtaken by professional
thief hunters, I" who came upon them on
Big Horn river, ssshot them from behind,
and left their bodies for the coyotes"
How much of method there is in mad
ness sometimes was startlingly illustrated
by a lunatic from the Friends Asylum,
who the other day broke away from his
keeper while the two were walking in
Fmnkford, saysthe Philadelphia Record.
Wildly gesticulating and looking as de
! termined as II he were nboutto leap oyer
Niagara, the maniac ran like deer to a
point little way ahead Of the Reading
| Railroads Frankford branch ''dinkey"
locomotive, which hauls carloads of earth,
ETC., and which was going too fast TO be
stopped in less than square. The en-
CINE and eight cars passed over the in
sane man. The engineer and trainmcn,i
looking back with horror to the spot
where they expected to behold the
mangled body of suicide, saw instead
that self-same lunatic leap to his feet and
wave his hat in demoniacal glee. He
had carefully lain as quiet and as low
as possible midway between the rails, so
that even the engines low fire-box and
the brake apparatus on the cars cleared
him as nicely as il he had only been a
sheet of very thin American tin. The
keeper grasped the mailman and hustled
him back to the asylum before any names
could be learned
PEOPLE are amused over the revela-
tons caused by French will. A Paris
restaurant keeper died, leaving about
$50, 900 to a nephew, on condition that
new cooking recipe should be affixed
daily to his tombstone in lieu of any
other inscription or epitaph. He left
complete stock for the first year, namely,
365 recipes. These, he insisted, would
be avaible for all good citizens who sur
vived him. To secure them, people would
have to go to the cemetery, and, as he
put it, ''to remember me-" Paris au-
thorities declined to allow the recipes to
be pasted on the tomb. Priests COM
planned that it was more sacrilegious
than eccentric TO have people tramping
to a graveyard for a recipe for q new
soup or an omelette. The dutiful
nephew appealed to the law to have his
uncle's will conditions enforced, but he
was beaten. He appealed. Again he
lost. All his interest vanished with the
legal decision. Now the entire fortune
is to be devoted to purchasing Sunday
dinners for 2, 600 Parisians, the executors
to designate the diners and send each an
invitation.
A WEIRD and uncanny story comes
from Fort Reno, in the Comanche Coun-
try, but its truth is said to be we'll
vouched for. Some months ago the
Kiowas and Comanches made a treaty
with the Government through the me-
dunn of the Rev. Joshua Given, full
blooded Kiowa, but an educated and or
daincd Presbyterian minister. Lately
the Indians have become dissatisfied with
the treaty, and lay the blame of its de-
fects on Given. About three weeks ago
several of their medicine men held
meeting, and after performing several
mystic rites they produced a skin with
picture of Given drawn on it, and one
OF them shot an arrow through the breast
of the picture. They then went through
some more mysterious performances, and
afterwards sent word to Given that after
twelve days he would begin to bleed at
the lungs, and that the hemorrhage
would continue ut intervals until his
death followed. AS the appointed time
grew near Mr.. Given was very much de-
pressed, and when the time came was
taken suddenly i'll and had violent
hemorrhage Several others have fol
lowed.
AN Italian lnborer of Detroit, Mich,
was paid some money the other day, $23
in all, and took it home to his wife.
After counting the money over together
they laid it on the table for moment
while they adjourned to the corner gro
Gerry to celebrate their wealth. Return
ing in few minutes, they found the
money gone. There was nobody in the
house but a NANCY yellow cur, and after
looking high and low for the funds they
concluded that he must have stolen
them, especially as on examination they
found bit of green paper adhering to
his teeth. Accordingly the dog was
sacrificed and post norton held on his
remains, with the result that all the
money was found in his stomach. 1t
was torn into pieces, but these were care
fully fitted together and forwarded
through a bank to the Treasury for re-
demption.
THE young peasants of the govern
ment OF Kiev, Russia, have q way of
their own to avenge themselves for dis
appointed love. II one of them woos a
girl and she refuses to accept him as her
sutton, without explaining the reason
why she rejected him, the fellow assem-
bles all the young men of the village
around her house. They bar the door
and windows from without, so that no
one can leave the house or enter it, and
make a fendish noise the whole night
through. This is sometimes repeated
for whole week in succession, and the
girl and her folks are deprived of their
liberty and their nights rest.
OF. all the extraordinary scientific ex-
perimen.s, surely the most extraordinary
is that reported by the London Times
correspondent as having been made at
st. Petersburg. Some trials of armour
plates were going on, and ''this trial was
made use of to carry out a very curious
experiment TO decide the effects OF heavy
gun firing upon the nervous system of
animals. A number of rabbits were
siung up in bags Oh frames close to the
line OF fire, and dogs aud cats were also
tied up under cover beneath the muzzlc
of the gun" The result Is not given,
but it is easy to imagine that the ner-
vous system of the poor brutes suffered
rather severely.
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