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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14
CROP STATISTICS.
Quantity and Value of the Wheat and
Corn Crops Last Year.

Quantity and value OF the Wheat and
Corn Crops Last Year.
The corn crop in the United States last
year was worth 1854, ,119, 1852, which is
the smallest valuation since 1885. The
average for the ten years from 1870 to
1879, inclusive, was $504, ,O4S, for the
tea years from 1880 to 1889 it was $GlS.-
042, 800, and for the FIVE years from 1890
to 1894 1t was $675,S72, $50. The wheat
crop last year was worth only S225, ,9O2. :
OBS, which, with the exception of 1893.
when IL was still lower, was less than
that of any year since 1870. The average
value Of the wheat crop from 1870 to
1870 was 1927, ,401 ,25S, more than $780,
0OO,0 more than the total for last year.
The average from 1880 TO 1850 was $371,-
S09,5 ,504, more than $150,000,00O above
the total Of Last year, while for the last
FIVE years the average was 1921, $780, 1896.
These figures will surprise people.
That the low price of wheat was not
due to overproduction in this country IL
shown by the fact that the entire crop
in the United States in 1894 was only
AGO, ,26T ,416 bushels. while the average
for the previous five years was 47G,GIS,-
O2S bushels. The tof.ll for 1902 was
515, $4,000 bushels, and for 1891 IL was
Gil, 10000 bushels. The average value
Of wheat bushel last year was 40.1
cents, while the average for the previous
FIVE years was 67.5 cents: for the ten
years from 1880 to 1880 il was s2.T cents
and for the ten years from 1870 10 1879 1t
was $1.O40.
The statistics of the crop by States,
which have just been compiled by the
Agricultural Department, furnish o ysry
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'TeIeUraphic Brevities.

Ralph o. Ruby, American vice and dep
uty consul at Belfast ireland, Is dead
The tin-plate plant of the Oliver Iron
and Steel Company at Pittsburg, Pa,
started up.
George Chaplin, of the Chicago liquor
firm of Chaplin & Gore, died at Santa
Barbara, Cal.
Gov. Mckinley announces he is not a
candidate for Senator Brice's seat leav-
ing a clear field to Foraker.
J. L. Holman, of Kokomo, Ind. has
mysteriously disappeared in indianapolis
and his relatives fear foul play.
The residence of b. r.. Davis ut FL
wood, Ind, was destroyed by fire. The
family barely escaped with their lives.
Kaffirs attacked the Portuguese camp
at Maraqueen, killing seven or more
whites. hut losing 200 men themselves.
Jack Smith, alias Gen. Johnson, alias
Mason, leader of the Bull Hill miners
during the Cripple Greek war, is in Jail
at Gunnison Colo.
Henry Carpenter, supposed to have
been drowned in Lake Stewart near
Rolla, N. D.. last November, is reported
to be still alive. His wife is in Chicago.
The injunction to restrain Col Boone
and associates from fighting the lion Par
nell and the grizzly bear Siskiyou was
heard at Fort Worth, Tex, and made per-
petual.
Otto Thiele, aged 10 years. a pressman.
has been arrested in St Louis as the fifth
member of the Davis gang of counterfeit
ers recently broken up by United States
officers.
Archbishop Kain of st. Louis has au-
thorized the Catholic Society Of Queens
Daughters to cooperate with the Young
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
in temperance work.
Frank T.. Montrose, an ex-convict and
expert diamond thief, was arrested Mt st.
Louis as he stepped from a Louisville
and Nashville train at the union station.
He is wanted at Terre Haute.
All the cases against ex-State Boiler
Inspector r. III. Hegwer of Colorado,
against whom were charges of certifi-
Gates for boilers which he had not exam
ined, have been nolled by the district at
torney.
The Hershey Lumber Company, Still.
water, Mimi, has begun suit against
Charles Il. Goodrich, lumber tallyman,
and others for fraudulently obtaining
over 100000 feet of logs in the sum-
mers of 1892 and 1893.
Oscar A. Edgerly, spiritualist lec-
turer of note from Newbury, Mass, mar
ried Miss Lillian Hayes, a ST. Paul
Minn.) society woman, in Anderson,
Ind, the matter being kept secret, 1t is
said, from the brides friends.
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burned fence rails. old ties, etc, to keep

burned fence rails, old ties, etc., 10 keep
warm.
Patrick Mclaughlin laid down in an ice
wagon at Rockford, ILL.,, to sleep, and was
Sso badly frozen that he will die.
At Ottawa, Kan, the schools were dis
missed and two children had their feet
frozen. All trains were delayed.
The wind blew forty seven miles an
hour at San Antonio, Tex, with the
thermometer ut II degrees above zero.
Reports reached Hastings, Neb., that
whole family in the southeastern part
of the county had perished from cold.
The mercury dropped 40 degrees at
Jacksonville, Fla. Icicles a foot long
formed at Tallahassee. Vegetables will
be damaged.
A blizzard ragged in upper South Caro-
lima. Piedmont Belt is covered with
snow and at many points the thermome-
ter is down to zero.
The wind blew forty miles an hour at
Benton Harbor, Mich, and railway traf-
Gc was impeded. Fears are entertained
for the peach buds.
Porter Oden, farmer living ten miles
wese of Hennessey, o. T., was found
frozen to death on n load of wood that
he was hauling to town.
G.. w. Johnson, an old citizen of Par
kersburg, w. Va, became paralyzed with
the cold OH his way home, fell and froZe
to death in sight of his house.
The severe cold at Mobile, Ala, will
cause a loss to the vegetable gardeners
of hundreds of thousands of dollars. They
Of
In New England the cold is intense.
Franconia, n. H., reports 30 below zero.
At sea the storm was terrific, and the
binding snow and high wind made the
position of vessels very bad.
Two Santa Fe freight engines were
ditched in snowdrift near Red Rock,
q. Il. Both engines were wrecked in an
attempt to pass through. Engineer Re
gin and fireman were badly hurt
At Fort Worth, Tex, the weather is
the coolest known for years, the ther-
mometer registering 3 degrees below zero.
Trains from the north were delayed sew
eral hours. Range cattle are suffering.
Hundreds of cases and barrels of beer,
aggregating in value thousands of dol
lars, have been destroyed by the cold at
Milwaukee within the last few days.
Since the cold snap made it's appearance
shipments of beer have almost ceased.
Indianapolis and other natural gas
towns in Indiana are in a bad way. In
indianapolis the natural gas supply is
weaker than il has been since the fuel
was piped to the city, and there is a great
deal of severe suffering. There are but
few homes in which the temperature can
be raised above 30.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14
FARMERS ALLIANCE IN SESSION
Resolutions Passed Denouncing the
Issue of Bonds.

Issue of Bonds.
The Supreme Council of the National
Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union
met in annual convention at Raleigh, y.
c., Tuesday. The hall in which the meet
ings are held showed. among other fea'
lures Of interest, q large picture of l.. j..
Polk, the first president of the organiZa-
ton, and under whose leadership it made
its greatest progress and exertcd its great
est influence.
Butler, president of the National Ali.
ance, called the council to order and pre-
sented Mayor Badger, who delivered the
address of welcome. The Mayor, in his
remarks, referred to efforts of malig-
nant character to create prejudice be-
tween the laborers of the city and the la
borers of the country, and hoped that the
influence of the alliance might be direct
ed toward cessation of all such schemes
President Mowborne. of the North Caro-
lima State Alliance, welcomed the council
on behalf of the State. Responses were
made by III. L. Loucks, of South Dakota,
ex-president of the organization, and l..
Z. Dean, of New York.
At the evening meeting of the council
the following resolutions on the currency
question were adopted:
Whereas, 1t is currently reported that
another bond issue has been determined
upon by the President; and
Whereas. In our opinion existing stat
ute laws do not authorize such issue,
neither do present emergencies require
it; and
Whereas, The power is now reposed
in the general government to meet such
pressing contingencies by the plain terms
of existing laws; therefore,
Resolved, That this national council
of the Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union, in regular annual session assem-
bled, enter our solemn and most earnest
protest against such issue.
Resolved, That instead, the admins
tration be urged to employ the option al
lowed by law and pay out silver as well
rs gold when coin is demanded for the
treasury notes
Resolved, That il this does not end
the present emergency, the government
be requested TO issue non-interest bearing
full legal tender treasury notes."
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against jumping suddenly into promi-
nence. It's no good" he said to New
York reporter the other day. 'tJust take.
for example, the Coolers case. He used
TO be a modest, well-behaved fellow. Gra-
cious alive, look at him now!" and Butler,
holding his hands in the air, shook his
head several times. Its sight to see
him. You couldn't hand him ripe peach
on gold plate now unless you had six
pairs of gloves on"
Craig is % years of age and nearly six
feet tall. He is n well-built young ne
gro, and when he first took to boxing
about five years ago 50 bill for a vic
tory suited him down to the ground. AS
many hundreds would now be sneered at
by the rising, or risen, young Harlem
star
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14

league, Murphy, who has made vast
fortune from brewing.
The nearest calculation that can be
made of these mems financial affairs
gives a total of just twelve men Of mil
lions in the Senate to-day. These are
Aldrich, Cameron, Jones, Mcmillan, Per-
kins, Proctor and Sherman among the
Republicans, and Brice, Camden, Muir
ply, Smith and German among the Dem
ocrats. There are now eighty-six SEN
ators sitting in the chamber, so that these
millionaires form but a little over IA per
cent. of the total membership.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14


nominee in the last election and Evans
was the Republican candidate. The re-
turns sent i'm from the sheriffs of the
various counties showed Evans election
by about 700 votes, bus the Democrats
claimed that the law requiring n poll-tax
receipt as a condition precedent to vot-
ing had been disregarded in East Ten
nessee. and that Turney wae elected by
a plurality of the legal votes. The con-
stitntion provides that the speaker of
the Senate shall publish the returns In
the presence of the joint assembly of the
Legislature, and that the candidate re-
ceiving the highest number Of votes cast
''shall be governor" The Legislature Is
empowered by the constitution to enact
law for gubernatorial contests, but
that was never done until the present
emergency arose. and the law enacted
provides that the incumbent governor
shall hold over until the contest Is deter
mined.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14
CRAWLING, MICHIGAN THURSDAY

sense. The money that he made in his
earlier career has been shrewdly invested
In coal and iron lands and in railroad
stocks, and he Is now well established
as man Of large means.
Mr.: Perkins, of California, is one of the
wealthiest men in the West. He made
his money in the beginning by fortunate
ventures in whaling vessels, having been
at one time sailor before the mast.
Few Southern men have fortunes. Al
most without exception the Senators
from south of the Mason and Dixon's
line are DOOR in COMPARISON with their
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14

try during the past week. From the
eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains
even unto the big Allegheny chain on the
east storm of snow and wind, accom-
panied by the celebrated Dakotan icy tenn
perature, ragged with ferocity that
struck terror into the hearts of all whose
misfortune brought them into contact
with il. 1t was, in fact, regular French
revolution of weather, and the sans
culottes of the wild Northwest howled
in the habitudes of the staid and respect
abies of the South and East. 1T was
really reign of terror that affrighted
all honest people and paralyzed the mo-
tives of the commonplace. Railroads
abandoned freight trains and passenger
trains were tied up in huge and impregna-
BILE drifts many feet high. One startling
feature of the blizzard was the impair
tiality with which it swept over the coun-
try. 1t measured out a minus 40 dose
for the Dakotas and nearly killed the
Louisianans by breaking the record at an
even zero. Old Point Comfort, the fam
Gus resort, had the novelty of nara
snowstorm and the pan handle of Texas
shivered with the mercury at degrees
below. Omaha was frozen at Is below
and Memphis had an even zero. There
was enough snow on the sugar planta-
tions for sleighing. Water was frozen IN
the orange belt, and the scarcity of it in
the Chicago mains suggested theory
that Lake Michigan was solid to the bot
tom. Peach men in Michigan have aban-
doned hopes for their trees.
The storm was general. blizzard
ragged everywhere. 1t roared like an
Asiatic lion and drove all human beings
indoors. where bread and butter did not
demand that they labor in the very teeth
of the monster Not for many year
agone has the country suffered so gen
orally what it suffered last week from
wind. cold and snow. In the cities street
cars were stalled and walking was like
taking ones ears, nose and lips in ones
hand. while in the country the wind and
snow swept the earth with such unbroken
velocity that in places life was endan-
gered to face the blast.
As recorded by the Weather Bureau at
Chicago Friday, the average snowfall
was eight inches, with the following
table of temperature:
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14
Sparks from the Wires.

The Iron Mountain mine of Shasta
County, CAL, was sold for 100000 cash
to an English syndicate.
Valentine ii. Ketcham assigned at To-
ledo, o. The liabilities are not known,
but will exceed 100000.
The assets of the wrecked bank at
North Branch, Minn., are found to be
$1,000 and the liabilities $4,000.
Col. Nathaniel o. III. X. Dawson, Unit
ed States Commissioner of Education for
many years, is dead. in Selma, Ala.
Announcement that bonds will be is
sued has caused the New York bankers
to return great amount of gold to the
treasury.
Two hundred mechanics have formed a
cooperative company to resume opera
tions In the Wythe collar and harness fac
tory recentlv burned at st. Joseph. Mo.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14

entered the University of Virginia and
completed the course there. He studied
law and was duly admitted to the bar.
first practicing in jackson. Then, in
1853. he removed to Memphis. He was
appointed receiver Of West Tennessee
under the Confederate Sequestration act
at the beginning of hostilities in 81. Af-
ter the war he returned to Memphis and
to the study of his profession. In the
70's he returned TO his oGd home an Jack
son. In 1880 he was elected to the Legis-
lature and in 1881 became United States
Senator. In 1886 he was appointed cir
cult judge of the United States from the
sixth judicial district. He became sasso-
ciate justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States in 1893, filling the vacancy
caused by the death of Judge l.. @. G..
Lamar
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14

during the past year or two, reached the
million mark.
Senator Washburn, of Minnesota, Is
eiassed as one of the richest men on the
Republican side. He has made great
sums in the manufacture of -four. A
neighbor of Mr.. Washburn, geographical
ly, In Senator Mitchell, of Wisconsin. He
has, up to a recent time, been classed as
a man of millions, but the panic of 1893
has, II Is understood, reduced his in
vestmenfs.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14

has two Senatorial representatives who
have great wealth, Quay and Cameron.
Mr. Quay has acquired his money
through shrewd speculations, and is rank
ed quite high among the men of afflu-
ence in the Senate, though he may not
have n million at present His col
league, Don Cameron, is probably the
only man in the Senate who inherited his
wealth. The bulk of his wealth came
from his father, the late Senator Cam
eron. This singular exception to the rule
points the fact that the American Senate
is far different from the English House
of Lords, which is filed with hereditary
millionaires.
the Senators in very easy circumstances.
He Is one of the richest men in the New
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14

that of his colleague,
Senator Calvin S.
Brice, who lives in
n e w York and
Washington. Mr..
Brice is most liberal
with his means and
probably spe n d 8
more money than
any other man now
in the Senate. He
dresses in the latest
fashions and de-
votes considerable
attention to his gar
ments.
pennsvlvonia also
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14

son in the arena.
Craig whipped Ted
Pritchard, the Eng
lish champion, with
surprising ease and
is now matched to
battle with FRANK
T. Slavin. Accord
ing to his late man.
ager. Prof. Butler.
Craig is the greatest
swell in London. He
hobnobs with the
mobiles and cuts n
great dash on Fleet
street every after
noon. When he
speaks of Craig,
Butler wakes elo-
quent. What l
want to do is to
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14

all over the country by Offering steady
work and big wages, but the new men
are inexperienced and incompetent, and
hundreds of cars have been damaged and
people killed and injured through their
carelessness and ignorance. Monday a
crowd of $4,000, composed of strikers and
their friends, assembled at the City Hall.
They were kept moving by the police, but
the best of order was maintained. The
strikers accomplished their object-to
show the Common Council, then in ses-
sion, and the city officials their strength.
In the evening another great meeting
was held, which was addressed by promi-
nent men.
The Brooklyn Board Of Aldermen pass
ed resolution revoking the permission
granted to the Brooklyn City and Attain
tic Avenue Railroad Companies to op-
crate surface cars. This resolution
charges the companies named with nom
performance, of contract since the strike
was begun, and with endangering the
lives of citizens by the employment Of in
experienced motormen and conductors
The action of the Council caused great
rejoicing among the strikers. A hearing
was had in Albany, on the application
to the attorney general asking him to au-
thorize the bringing of an action to an
nul the charter of the Brooklyn Heights
Railroad Company. Several afidavits
and arguments were presented for both
sides
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14

C n test between
himself and Mr.. Ev-
ans under a law re-
Gently enacted by
the Legislature, and
the Hon. III. Clay
Evans has takentthe
oath of Office and is
demanding posses
sion Of the execn-
tive quarters at the
capitol. Tprnex,
who has been gov
ernor for one term,
,,,ao tbn namaepof fie
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14

Northern colleagues.
Mr.. McCaffrey, of
Louisiana, probably
ranks as the wealth
lest. He has large
sugar interests in
his native State.
New York has a
well averaged pair
of Senators. Hill is
quite poor in COM
porison with his col
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14

England delegation
In Congress. Sena-
tor Hale has wealth,
though most of his
financial fame is re-
fected from the for
tune of his wife, the
daughter of the late
Zach Chandler. of
Michigan. The lat
est New England
man to join the
ranks of the men of
o Guence is Senator
Aldrich, of Rhode
Island. who hos
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14

] e a s t ostentatious
men in the Senate.
Senator Camden, of
West Virginia, is al
so a very wealthy
man.
Senator Mcmillan
is one of the wealth
lest on the Republi-
can side of the
chamber. No one
knows just how
pluch he is worth.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14

his money in meats,
having been extern
sively engaged in
business as a butch
er in former years.
Mr.. Smith, the ju-
nior Senator from
the sandy State, is
one of the million
aires now in the SER
vice. He is a manu-
facturer of patent
and enameled leath-
er in Newark. Mr..
Smiths wealth has
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14

Stewart, also had
frequent revcrses.
At present both arc
wealthy. Senator
Wolcott, of Colora-
do, is reported to be
wealthy, and Is
known to be owner
of considerable min
ing land in the
West. He !s prob
ably the best dress
ed man in the Sen
ate.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14

fuence in the Senate to-day, and not
more than dozen millionares. Accord
ing to a Washington writer, the great
majority are dependent almost, If not
wholly, upon their compensations receiv-
ed from Uncle Sam. A glance at the
wealth of some of the members will not
make uninteresting reading.
Senator McPherson, of New Jersey,
whose term is about to expire, is one of
the wealthy men of the Senate. He made
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14

Notes of The Storm.
AT Bastrop, La, the mercury fell to
zero.
Oklahoma City, o. T.. reports a severe
blizzard.
Business was practically suspended at
Iowa Falls, In.
At Cedar Rapids, Ia, all freight traffic
was abandoned.
A gorge formed in the Ohio river at
Evansville, Ind.
Eastern trains due at Dubuque, Ia,
were all snow bound.
The Northwestern Railroad is blockad-
ed mt several points.
Charles Dewester was frozen to death
In the blizzard at Peoria.
1t showed continuously for thirty,six
hours at Knoxville, Tenn.
Zero was marked at Memphis. Tenn,
the coldeSt weather in thirty years.
William Douglass, a farmer. was frog
en- to death ia his barn near Camden, O.
Mexico. Mo-. reports the worst biiz-
zard in its history. Stock is suffering
badly.
The Frisco passenger train stuck in n
snowbank twenty miles east OF Winfield,
Kan.
Thirteen trains were buried in snow
banks within a radius of fifteen miles Of
Citation, Ia.
st. Joseph, Mo-, reports all trains on
the st. Joseph and Grand Island road
abandoned.
Reports from Ashland and other cities
Il. Al. Ia
untion il serious.
The whole of the southern section of
Virginia is covered with snow TO depth
of eight inches.
At Roanoke, W., the wind blew hurri-
cane. Street cars were tied up and the
streets abandoned.
A Burlington passenger train stuck be-
low Carthage, Mo-, all day. But for the
food furnished by farmers the passen-
gers would have suffered ssyarsly. They
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14

The Manufacturers Club of Philadel-
phia has approved the plan for the forma-
ton of a national association of manu-
facturers, decided upon at the convention
recently held in Cincinnati, and agreed to
mcguire membership In the new league.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14
JUDGE HOWELL E. JACKSON,
Who Will Soon Retire from the Su
preme Bench.

A bill has been introduced into the
United States Senate looking to the re-
'tirement of Howell e. Jackson as asso-
'ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, on the ground of illness,
and Judge Jackson will probably soon
sever his connection with that bench.
Howell e. Jackson was born at Paris,
Henry County, Tenn. April s, 1882. Hav-
ing received an academic education, he
entered the West Tennessee College at
jackson, from which institution he a-ad-
yuted in 1S49. In the following year he
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senator's. Jones and

German Fi~e Times n Millionaire.
Senator German Is not generally
known to be q millionaire. yet the fact
Is now well established that he has pass
cd the five million mark. This IL due
TO his wonderfully sagacious business
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-02-14
IN COUNCIL AND COURT.
The Brooklyn Trolley Magnates Are
Still Hampered on All Sides.

YER four weeks
have passed since
the Inauguration of
the Brooklyn trolley
strike, and the 5000
men who went out
for something better
( b a n starvation
wages are still out
and are as determin-
ed as ever. To be
sure, the companies
have succeeded in
securing help from