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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01
CORN FOR THE WORLD
GREATEST CROP IN THE COUN.
TRY'S HISTORY.
Estimates of Conservative Statistici-
ans Place the Yield at 2,375,OOO, 900
BusheIs-RaiIway Managers Put the
Figures $4,000, 900 Higher.
Prospect Is Good.

Confronted with a corn crop which
promises to be hundreds of thousands of
bushels larger than the largest ever re-
corded in the history of the country, the
question arises. What is to be done with
IL? Railway managers estimate the crop
at about 400, 600, 900 bushels, and even
allowing that the interests of railway
properties may have caused such mana
gers to let their imaginations color the
facts, the estimates of conservative stat
isticians based on the latest Govern
ment crop report make the crop over
2,375, 100000 bushels.
Shortly after the war there was time
when corn had to be sacrificed in various
ways to get rid of it, but only twice since
1874 has the yield reached 1000, 900
bushels. In 1889 the yield was 2,112,-
S92, 600 bushels, and il was thought to
be record breaker for all time. The
crops of 1891 aggregated 2,060, 154 900
bushels, and the surplus was SO great
| that in Kansas the corn was burned for
fuel, it not being worth shipment out Of
the State. However, some of the best
posted men in the grain trade are of the
| opinion that none of the crop of 1895 will
need to be burned, even though ii exceeds
any previous crop by 300, 900, 900 bushels
On the contrary, the statistical position
| of supply and demand would seem to JUS
! tify the opinion that this enormous corn
crop will be a great boon to the country
and prove the financial salvation of many
farmer whose wheat crop has been
nearly ruined
1t takes a long stretch of the ina gina
ton to grasp the fact that S2,0O0,0OO
| acres of corn, one of the largest acre
| ages known, are now fiOurishing under
the most perfect weather conditions ever
seen. Railway managers have already
begun to arrange proper transportation
facilities for the corn, and the chances
are that every bushel of it will be used
up or sent out of the country at fairly
good prices.
In view of this prospect it will be of
| interest to note certain facts in connec-
| ton with our corn crops. In the first
place, it is fact that as rule the larger
| the total yield the greater has been the
export. and generally speaking, the great
er the yield the larger has been the per-
| centage of the whole exported. The
| three largest and two smallest yields for
the last thirteen years will pretty fairly
| illustrate the general fact The figures
| are as follows
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01

svely. The police found in a stove in a
three-story brick building at 701 63d
street, which was built by Holmes and
in which both he and the Williams girls
lived, quantity of charrcd bones, but
tons known to have been on dress owned
by Minnie Williams, and the partly melt
ed portion of a watch chain which was
positively identified as having been the
property of the girl. The contents of the
stove were quickly dumped, and portions
of bones too badly burned to admit of
positive Identification as belonging to any
particular portion of the body were found.
All of the ashes and debris removed
from the stove was carefully preserved.
The police are now of the opinion that
not only Minnie Williams but her young
er sister, Anna, and the boy Howard Pit
zel met death in this house. Anna Will
Jams has not been seen or heard of since
Holmes left the G3d street building. If
she has fallen victim to Holmes murder
Gus instincts she will be the sixth he has
killed-Pitezel, his three children and the
two Williams girls.
Holmes pleaded guilty to conspiracy in
defrauding the insurance companies out
of about $3.50, 900, and was awaiting SEN
tence therefor when the bodies of the
children were found and the suspicion
that he murdered Pitezel was aroused.
OF course he disclaims all knowledge of
the manner Of their death.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01
pvIsfSa aSlftss
IPREss
The Dead stambuIoF.


A generation hence Bulgaria will honos
Btambulof as national martyr.-Buf-
falo Press.
He was a strong man and used strong
measures, which gave his enemies their
opportunity.-New York Herald.
A thousand Stambuloffs should take the
place Of the one foully murdered by Rus
sian Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
The assassination of the exponent Of a
suppress the aspirations of a nation
Philadelphia Record.
There is little reason to hope that the
murder of Stambuloff Will heal the feud
and reconcile the courts of st. Peters
burg and Sofa.-New York Tribune.
We presume that if he had not inter
fered with Russian plans in regard to
Macedonia he might be alive to-day
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
He (Stambulof) seemed the one strong
man in a nation Of weaklings, and he
commanded not only obedience at home,
but respect abroad.-New York Sun.
The assassination of Stambuloff, the
Bulgarian Minister, was clearly the re-
suit or as wicked conspiracy as the
political history Of Europe has KNOWN
Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Whether by connivance of the Prince or
by friends of Panitza, or by one of half
dozen other possible causes, Stambuloff
is dead, and with his death, it is hardly
to be doubted, dies the hope of Bulgarian
independence for many years to come
Syracuse Post.
Modern life has had no more striking ex.
ample of the essential vulgarity and
brutality of undemocratic power and
usurpation than this startling tragedy of
Southwestern Europe. Stambuloff was
slain without doubt, if not by the direct
orders of the Russian Gear, certainly then
In pursuance of n policy which was
Matched in the brains that serve him.
New York Journal.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01
EXPRESS is HELD UP.
Chicago Limited ON the Lake Shore
Boarded by Robbers.

Chicago Limited ON the Lake Shore
Boarded by Robbers.
Masked men boarded west bound
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern ex-
press train at Reece Siding, Ind, at 1875
Wednesday morning. forced open an ex-
press car and mt the point of revolvers
compelled the messenger to unlock the
safe. 1t is known that at least So, 900 was
taken. The train is a heavy one, made up
of several express cars, baggage and mail
cars, two coaches and three Pullmans.
Reece Siding is a lonely spot in the
woods, between Archbold and Stryker,
about ten miles west of Wauseon. A
blind sliding is used by this train nightly
to allow the western express to pass. This
usual stop is well known to those familiar
with the locality. For mile In each di-
rection the woods are dense close to the
railroad right of way.
The noise of the coming western ex-
press was ringing louder and louder when
Conductor Darling, who stood by a coach,
saw three masked men ride out of a road
from the woods which led directly to an
express car which crossed it. He was or
dered inside the coach and at the same
time three men, approaching the other
side, joined their companions in demand
ing admission to the express car. This
was gained at revolvers' points, and the
express messenger, under threats of in
stant death, was compelled to open the
safe. The entrance to the express car
was made quickly and no commotion was
created in the other cars. The robbers
seemed to know just how to handle the
railroad men and TO board the cars. Their
evident familiarity with cars and the time
the trains met give rise to suspicious that
they are railroad men.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01
Fiend In Human Form.


There is incarcerated in Moyamensing
Prison, In Philadelphia, man who, ac-
cording to his own admission, has de-
served hanging a dozen times, and, If
guilty of half of the crimes laid ut his
door, Is, without doubt, the arch-criminal
of America. The name he Is known by
many aliases as chameleon has colors,
and, when at liberty, he could change
them as quickly.
Holmes real name is Herbert, or Her.
man, Mudgett, and he was born in Gil
manton, N. H., about thirty-four years
ago. His father was Levi III. Mudgett,
and he was postmaster of Gilmanton
Corners. He gave his son good educa-
ton, the hoy graduating from the village
academy with honor.
When but IS young Mudgett married
Clara Lowering, the pretty daughter of
a well-to-do citizen of Louden, n. H.
Mudgett supported his wife for awhile,
first by teaching school and after by
clerking in a store. Then he took no.
tion to study medicine, and partly through
his parents and his wife's parents as
sistance he become a student in the Uni
versity of Vermont. at Burlington. His
wife in the meantime supported herself
as dressmaker. BY and by Mudgett
went to the medical college at Ann Arbor,
Mich. Here he run out of funds. He
and chum went to work during the sum-
mer vacation on farm. One day it oc-
Cured to Mudgett that /. was possible to
obtain quantity of money by swinding a
life insurance company. 1t is said that he
told his plan TO his chum, who at once fell
in with it, The chum had his life insured
under fictitious name, and shortly after
they procured body from the picking
vat of medical college. boxed it up and
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01
PLOT TO OVERTHROW HAWAII
United States Authorities Receiv,
Startling Information.

United States Authorities Receive
Startling Information.
The customs authorities of the Puget
Sound district have been instructed by
the government to keep a sharp lookout
for filibustering parties fitting out for the
Hawaiian Islands. A few days ago it
was reported vessels were openly loading
and freighting TO the islands munitions Of
war. Orders have now been issued to
closely watch and search all vessels
bound to the South Sea for arms. 1t is
believed large quantity of arms and
ammunition have been smuggled into
Hawaii from Puget Sound. 1t is posi-
lively known that secret agents of the
royalists dispatched one small consign-
ment to the islands last October. One
source of information says an uprising is
planned to commence Sept. 1, and that
1920 men will be in readiness to bear
arms against the government. The in
surgents, after being repeatedly drilled in
Southern California, expect to get their
stores and assistance from Puget Sound.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01
TeIerranhic Brexities.

Beltram Matthew. a deputy, has form
ed new ministry for Chill.
Duluth will hold another election over
the city purchase of waterworks. The
first was declared illegal.
Frederick Hollowell was fatally shot
by David Huston near Cincinnati. Both
are well-known farmers.
John w. Barry, the actor, sues his wife,
Sadie Farley, for divorce at Terre Ekute,
on ground of desertion.
Ida Gebhardt, aged 3, was kidnapped
while playing in the street at West In
dianapolis. No motive Is known.
Richard Murphy, prominent farmer
living near Lebanon, Ind, cut and fatally
stabbed Barney Blackburn. Blackburn
was the aggressor.
The Gould coupler works in Buffalo
were destroyed by fire. Loss about $780,
600. Thousands of dollars worth of valu-
able patterns are lost.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01


Death came swiftly Sunday morning to
14S passengers and crew of the steamer
Maria p, from Naples to La Plata, and
about to touch at Genoa. The Maria p.
was sunk by collision with the steamer
Ortigia, outbound. The scene Of this,
the most terrible disaster known to the
waters of the Gulf of Genoa, was just of
the lighthouse Of the Molo Nuovo, at the
entrance to the harbor of Genoa. A dense
fog had prevailed over the harbor all
night. Both vessels were running at full
speed, and the sinking of the Maria p.
was but the incident of a moment. Boats
from the Ortigia were Immediately put
ont, but only succeeded in rescuing forty
two of the people of the unfortunate boat.
When there was no longer use for search
the Ortigia steamed slowly back to the
city for repairs and to deliver the survi-
yors to the authorities. 1t was full noon
when Genoa learned of the catastrophe,
which crowded the quays with people and
filed the churches with kneeling people
offering prayers for the dead. The list
of the drowned has not been secured.
The Maria =. was a coasting vessel
used in the South American trade. La
Plata, on the Magdalena River in the
United States of Colombia, was the Gus
tomary end of her journey. She was
owned in Naples and her captains name
was Ferrara. The steamer always
touched at Genoa, for that port is the
chief outlet via the Mediterranean for the
manufacturers of Northern Italy and
Switzerland. The harbor of Genoa is
considered one of the finest OH the con-
tinent and is under full government su-
pervision.
1t was 1 80 when the Molo Nuovo was
rounded under high speed. The pilot,
straining his eyes to pierce the darkness
ahead, caught faint glimpse of dim
lights. This was the first warning of the
proximity of the Ortigia to the Maria =.
There was a wild scream from the pilot,
which those passengers awake and the
lookout heard. The engineers were sig
nailed to reverse, but it was too late. The
bow of the Ortigia crashed into the star
board side of the Maria p, penetrating
for nearly forty feet and tearing up the
decks as if they were paper. Almost in
stantly after the collision the Ortigia
withdrew, and the water rushed in, sink
ing the Maria 2. in three minutes.
No one can tell, not even the survivors,
what happened on the decks and in the
cabins of the Maria L. after the frightful
shock. She sank so quickly that those
asleep never knew how death came to
them, while those awake, crew and pas
sengers, found themselves struggling for
life in the waters of the gulf.
Although the bow of the Ortigia was
smashed for a distance of twelve feet
along the water line, her officers held her
at the scene of the disaster for six hours,
while her boats searched the waters, res
cuing fourteen of the crew and twenty
eight of the passengers.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01

tracked with Holmes to Detroit. Then
one of them seems to have disappeared.
The other two were traced to Toronto.
1t was discovered that Holmes rented a
certain house in that city and that he had
two children with him. A search was
made. The earth forming the floor of the
cellar had been disturbed. The detectives
began to dig and soon they uncovered the
nude bodies of the two children. Where
the other one is, whether dead or alive,
whether or not their father is living, and
whether or not Minnie and Annie Will
Jams were murdered are matters the police
and detectives are trying to solve. That
the Williams girls met death at the hands
of Holmes, there is scarcely a doubt.
That they died in Chicago in violent
manner has been proved almost conclu-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01

shipped it to Connecticut. Then it was
given out that the chum had died, the
body was palmed off as his, and Mudgett
got the insurance money, some $12 800.
After securing his degree Mudgett be-
gan the practice of his profession at
Moore's Fork, in his State. His wife was
with him for awhile. She bore him a
child, and then went back to her parents
on a prolonged visit.
Commits Bigamy.
The young doctor built up fairly good
practice, but did not ask his wife to re-
turn to him, as he thought his field Of ac-
ton too circumscribed and he talked of
going to Chicago to establish himself
there. His was a ffirtatious nature, and
meeting an adventures in Boston, he
married her. She soon found that his
means were poor and left him. Then he
paid his real wife visit and told her he
was going west. That was the last she
had heard of him for several years. Be
lieving that she was deserted she went to
hard work as dressmaker to support
herself and her child.
Holmes, by which name he is afterward
known, then entered into various schemes
in Chicago. He employed typewriter
named Minnie Williams. He learned that
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01
Growers Girls.

Grover always was partial to girls
Pittsburg Press.
Baby Mckee has one more chance of
becoming Growers son-in-law.-Hoxawo
tamie Herald.
Presidents have to meet with disap-
pointments just like the common run of
mortals.-Jackson Wing.
That sign of boy Wanted" which was
hung out at Gray Gables is still out
Grand Rapids Herald.
In course of time Uncle Sam may look
for a President among the Presidents
daughters.-Boston Herald.
President Cleveland sings it this way:
''There's just one more girl in this world
for me. New York World.
Although a son failed to arrive, Mr..
Cleveland has the satisfaction of greet
ing another new woman.-Indianapol
Journal.
There is another dimpled darling in the
Presidential houshold. Ruth becomes a
sister every two years now.-Augusta
Chronicle.
If this thing of girl babies being born
to President and Mrs. Cleveland keeps up,
the ratio will soon be more than 16 to l.
Ohio State Journal.
We feel it duty to caution Mr.. Cleve-
land against the free coinage of girls as a
thing likely to destroy the parity of the
sexes.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Girls are much more valuable than
boys, especially at this time, when the
new woman is taking possession of the
earth.-Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
AS there is no politics in this the entire
country, without regard to sex, age, or
condition, sends its most hearty congratu-
lations and good wishes. The White
House has a trio of charming children
Elgin News.
While ex-Prcsident Harrison is dis
couraging matrimony by declaring that
women on the bicycle repel the admira-
ton of the male sex, President Cleveland
Is promoting matrimony by proving that
marriage is not a failure.-Bloomingto
Bulletin.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01
Bush,
INDIAN WAR ON.
Wyoming Settlers Arm Themselves
and Prepare to Fight

SctticTS AT" themselves
and Prepare to Fight.
The Indian war has broken out in earn
est. The vague rumor that white man
and his wife and child had been killed in
the Wyoming Salt River Valley, and that
settlers in retaliation had killed six of the
redskins is confirmed. The excitement
among the settlers in Northwestern wy
oming over the threatened uprising of the
Bannock and Shoshone Indians is growing
more intense every day. They are leav.
ing their ranches in large numbers and
gathering at favored points for mutual
protection in case the irate Indians return
to seek vengeance for the death Of their
brother braves.
The story of the killing of the thres
whites and six Indians is spreading alarm
at rapid rate. The settlers are becoming
thoroughly aroused, and if they are not
soon protected by government troops they
will take the field in protection of their
own homes and lives, and they are well
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01
FOUR KILLED AT A CROSSING
Struck by a Fitchburg Express Near
WiI1iamstown,M Mass.

Struck by Fitchburg Express Near
Wi11iamstown,M Mass.
Four men were instantly killed while
crossing the Fitchburg Railroad track
about two miles from Willamstown
Mass. A party of six men were riding in
a two-seated covered carriage. They
were returning to North Adams from Ben
nington and were struck by west-bound
express. Two of the men, Clorence Prin-
die and Edward White, both of Williams.
town, escaped by jumping. As the men
approached the crossing a freight train
was passing eastward. They waited un-
til the caboose of the freight train had
gone by and then started to proceed, ap-
parently not seeing the west-bound train,
which was advancing across the tracks
when the engine struck it.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01
The Endeavor Convention.


Only fourteen years of history and
100000 members! That is marvellous
record and marvellous promise for the
| future.--Courier-Jou
The success of the great convention Is
fine commentary on the safety, speed
and comfort of the American railway
Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
The record of this organization is most
gratifying. 1t stand as a refutation Of
the ideas advanced by cynics and others
that the world is growing worse.-Kan-
sas City Times.
The Christian Endeavor meetings fur
| nish conclusive evidence that the institu-
| tions of Christianity are maintained with
their old fervor and that mems lives are
vitalized by living faith.-Chicago Trib-
une.
These earnest, self-denying young men
and women gathered together to advance
the spiritual kingdom of righteousness
preach to the world a sermon far more
effective than the most polished effort Of
the mere pulpit orator.-New York Trib-
une.
In the face of three great armies like
the Sunday school children, the Society
of Christian Endeavor and the Young
Mems Christian Association, the spectator
may well ask himself what there is TO the
talk of decay of the religious spirit
Buffalo Express.
The churches are rapidly finding out
that IL they want to retain their hold on
the young people of the land they must
put forward something more than the
ethical and moral attractions of religion.
They must appeal to the social side Of
human nature. 1t is the development of
this sentiment which accounts in n large
measure for the growth of the Christian
Endcavor enthusiastically Eagle.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01
TO BETTER THE MAIL SERVICE
Directory of All the United States
Schools Being Com piled.

Schools Being Compiled.
In the foreign mail division Of the dead
letter Office there is now being compiled
a directory of all the schools, big and lit
tie. in the United States. The prepara-
ton of this directory is not as remarka-
BILE as the need for 1t. Nearly every day
from 10000 to $1,000 foreign letters reach
this division addressed simply to schools
or colleges in America with no town,
county or State named in the address.
The high state of perfection to which
"blind reading" has attained in the dead
letter Office is evident when it is known
that 20 per cent. Of these letters are
speedily dispatched to their destination.
The others go back unopened to the gen.
eral postoffices of the country whose
stamp they bear.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01

In some way the insurance company be-
came suspicious. When Mrs. Pitezel was
pressed she admitted that the whole
thing was conspiracy and that Pitezel,
she believed, was alive. She was arrested,
as was Howe. Then the detectives chased
Holmes from city to city until they ar
rested him in Boston. Pitezel has never
been found and the belief is strong that
he was murdered by Holmes. When the
children could not be located detectives
began to hunt for them. They were
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01
Expulsion of Modjeska.

Nine. Modjeska, in view of her ex-
pulsion, will add to the list of her Ameri-
can admirers by her vigorous deDuncia-
ton of the government which has so long
dominated Poland.-Chicago Tribune.
So Nine. Modjeckn has been expelled
from Russia on account of a speech In
favor of the Poles, which she made q
long time ago in Chicago. II seems that
Russia not only intends to punish free
speech in Russia, but whenever there is a
possible opportunity she proposes to pun
ish free speech In America.
Globe.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-08-01

she and her sister were worth 500, 600 and
determined to have the money. He per-
suaded Minnie to live with him. Then
they sent for her sister Annie. The lat
ter soon disappeared and no clue has ever
been found of her whereabouts. 1t was
not long after this that Minnie also dis
appeared.
Then Holmes met Benjamin Il. Pitezel
They laid a plan to defraud the Fidelity
Mutual Life Insurance Company of Phila-
delphia. Pitezel took out a policy for
$4,000. In September last the body of
n man was found i'm certain house in
Philadelphia. BY his side was a broken
bottle of carbolic acid. He was identified
at the time as the man who, under the
name of b. Il. Perry, had rented the
house some time before The doctors
said he had died in a natural manner.
The body was buried in the Potter's field.
Then Holmes came forward with man
named Howe to represent Mrs. Pitezel,