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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28

were in danger at one time of being cut off
by the flames, but they were saved by
the presence of mind of policeman.
The firemcn were threatened by the fire.
quent falling of the tall walls and by
explosions of oil. They had several runs
for their lives, with narrow escapes, but
they luckily came through unscathad.
The Springer buildings were occupied
by manufacturing concerns, and the
flames spread SO rapidly that the occu-
pants had barely time to seize their books
and few personal belongings and es-
cape with their lives. The buildings were
equipped with automatic sprinklers, but
these were as helpless as garden sprink-
ling pots to stay the fire. There were also
two fire walls, but the flames passed these
barriers as easily as though they were hut
lath. Feathers and oils and inks carried
the fire from floor to floor and from end
to end of the big blocks with lightning
speed, and in half an hour the whole
Canal street front was ablaze. This front
presented a surface 1S4 feet long by sew
en- and eight stories in height. A half
hour later the Jackson street side, 164
feet deep and seven stories high, was
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28

that door with fame. The blaze spread
rapidly and caught the woodwork that sur.
rounded an air shaft in the corner of the
floor, and which ran from the basement
clear to the roof. 1t served as chimney
for the flames to leap to the floors above.
The burning wood fell to the floors below
and started the blaze among the material
stored on them. In. fifteen minutes after
the first spark of IRE was seen, the seven
stories of the Excelsior Block were blaz-
ing like furnace.
Breaking out in the afternoon of n raw,
snowy November day, just as the first
travel from the Union station to suburban
points was about to begin, the fire created
tremendous sensation among the dirty
ways of Canal street, in the dark depths
of the station, and in the Springer build
ings themselves, where hundreds of men,
women, girls and boys fed down the mar
row starways for their lives, and. find
ing themselves safely in the streets,
laughed and clapped their hands for the
joy of safety. Then they watched the
shell pass more quickly than any building
of it's size in Chicago has ever burned
before since 1871. The character Of the
interior construction of the Springer
buildings has always been condemned by
the wage earners of the West Side and
feared by the firemen of the city depart
ment fsa.e
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28
M;cbiyop,s HOLY Deer Killed.

buck deer with white halo around his
head. A hunter from Clyde, Ohio. was
near enough to see Il white ball on the
bucks head between the antlcrs, but he
had heard the story about the divinely
protected deer and did not shoot him.
Many refused to believe the story, think
ing it bit of superstition, until last
week. when hunter Oh his way from Me-
Kinley to Atlanta, brought in a pair of
monster antlers. Impaled between them
by several prongs was the skull OF full
grown human being. The CHASTITY empty
sockets were fastened so tightly as TO re-
sist all efforts to remove them. The
skull was nearly white from exposure.
1t looks as if it had been ten years eX-
posed To the weather.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28
Short State Items.

The Clerk of Gratiot County has issued
1GO hunters licenses so far this season.
Port Austin is hustling for Touring
mill The last one they had pulled up
stakes four years ago, for want of sup
port.
Kalamazoo's Council has voted to Issue
$40. 900 bonds. bearing 4 per cent. inter-
est. to cover the cost of the electric light
ing plant.
The first deer shot in Gcnesee County
for number of years was killed in Argen-
tine Township few days ago. 1t was
q buck and weighed 141 pounds.
The Worthwhile Bell Foundry are put
ting in a 44-inch steel alarm bell for
Northville's fire department. 1t is ex-
pected the alarm can be heard for five
miles.
Gov. Rich paroled nine convicts, eight
of the men being inmates of the State
prison.
At Adrian Fred Andrews, aged abont
10 years. was accidentally shot i'm the eye
with an airgun i'm the hands of playmate
named Leland Bean. 1t is uncertain
whether the sight Of the eye is gone or
not.
The total expense to Port Huron of the
recent registration and election I'm that
city was $1,202.35, nearly S13O for each
election district. AS less than 5000 votes
were polled the cost is over 40 cents for
each vote cast.
Last summer Charles Avery. a mem
Der of the Kalamazoo police force. mis-
took J. ID. Cook for a burglar and shot
at him. inflicting a wound in Cooks arm.
Now Cook will bring suit against him for
$4,000 damages.
The corner stone Of the new NJ. Il.
Church at Alma was laid on Saturday
On account of a heavy snow storm pre-
vailing at the time, the exercises took
place in the opera house. Gov. Rich was
one of the speakers.
A tramp giving his name as John Nc
Cormick, of Alexandria, Ont, died in the
lookup at Fenton from starvation. He
was found In barn outside the city. hav-
ing subsisted for four days on the meal
fed to the horses. and taken to Fenton.
where he had medical treatment and plcn-
ty of food. but died in a short time.
There are quite number of cases of
scarlet fever at Nashville. but i'm every
case the disease is in a mild form.
John Linbcrg. st. Ignace Swede. 30
years old. was found dead hanging to a
fence at the rear of the Fountain house
His daughter lives in Chicago.
Dollie Crowley, Manistee young wom-
an, has her fashionable balloon sleeves to
thank for bad injury to her right arm.
She was standing near steam printing
press when the sleeves caught i'm n cog
and her arm was drawn between two roll
crs, crushing the flesh in terrible man
nor.
John Torrent. the Muskcgon million
sire lumbcrman. charges W. II. Mime
man. who mysteriously disappeared re-
Gently, with embczzling $1,000 10 $1,000
when he was his bookkecper. zimmerman
was to have made settlement. his father
being a wealthy brewer, but used the
grace given him to escape.
At Detroit the Grand Jury returned an
Indictment against Thomas NJ. Thomp-
son. engineer of the wrecked Journal
building. The charge is manslaughter.
Representatives of the Newberry estate
obtained temporary injunction restrain
ing Mayor Pingrce 1T vi. from removing
portions Of the wrecked boilers from the
scene of ruin.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28
WOULD RETIRE eREENBAcks.
cretary of che Treasury Declares

Secretary of the Treasury Declares
His Policy in n New York Speech.
The address by Mr.. Carlisle, Secretary
of the Treasury, at the annual dinner Of
the New York Chamber of Commerce was
plea for the retirement of the
legal tenders. He took the ground that
no change made in our currency system
will afford relief unless it provides for this
retirement, as the circulation of the legal
tenders has tendency to drive out Of
use and out of the country the very gold
in which the Government is compelled to
redeem them. His exact language was
this:
mo change that can be made in our
currency system will afford the relief to
which the Government and the people are
entitled unless it provides for the retire
ment and cancellation of the legal tender
United States notes. Anything less than
this will be simply palliative and not q
cure for the financial ills to which the
country is now subject" He added that
mo other Government in the world is re-
quired to supply gold from its treasury to
discharge the private obligations of its
citizans"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28
End of Michigan Character.

The death of Con Dwyer, of Sears, re-
moves one of the most eccentric charac-
tiers of the State. His dwelling presented
a strange appearance. Predicting war,
he had stored away for the future thirty
nine barrels of -four, which, when piled
up, could be measured almost by the
cord; boxes of yeast and other groceries.
worth many dollars. When he found he
could not live he revealed the hiding
places of his wealth. Two hundred dol
lars in gold was found beneath the cellar,
paper money was sewed in an old vest and
in bed quilt, the money in all amounting
to over $500. Dangerous weapons were
found in all parts of the house, daggers
and firearms, showing he was afraid Of
being robbed. Expensive and elegant
clothing was found, which had been stored
away for years.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28

splitting fire from every window. So
much valuable property adjoining was
threatened that the fire department turn
ed out with thirty-ive engines, the largest
number called into use at q single fire in
FIVE years. The fire broke out about 3
o'clock. Three hours later there was lit
tie left Of the two Springer buildings but
parts of their walls, and their contents
were all burned or lay in hot heaps of
debris in the easements. Less than $500
worth of property was saved by the occu-
pants.
When it became known that hundreds
of women were in danger in one of the
tall buildings the crowd wanted to make
a rush for it, but was kept back by a
detail of police from the Desplanes street
station. Officer Thomas Brennan had
gone into the building and had prevented
fatal panic by barring the stairway with
,ss stalwart figure until he could reassure
he frightened women and send them
down the stairs in platoons. Even then
some of them fell and bruised themselves
in their hurry to escape, but as they pour
ed out of the doomed building the crowd
sent up shout for the women and the
gallant officer who had saved them.
Oil Explosions.
1t was reported that the basement I'M
der the rooms occupied by the Shober &
Carqueville Lithograph Company was
filed with oils, and the firemen worked in
constant fear of an explosion. Fortu-
nately when the explosions came their
force spent itself upward. The loud re-
ports were followed by a cloud of tim
bers and debris flying toward the upper
floors, which fell back into the seething
pit without injury to 6remen or specta-
tors. Many of the floors were filled with
printing presses and other heavy machin-
cry. As the supports were weakened by
the flames the machines broke through
the floor and went down to the bottom
with crash after crash as they struck
each succeeding floor and landed IN the
basement in tangled masses of rods and
swheels.
AS the flames spread from one section
Of the buildings to another, and floor after
floor gave way, the noise resembled a bat
terry of artillery in action. Then falling
walls added their thunders to the occa-
sion. The first section to tumble was the
sixth and seventh stories of the Excelsior
Block on Canal street. A warming crack
and shout from the crowd sent the fire.
men flying for their lives. The wall fell
half way across the street and sent bricks
with sufficient force to have killed the
firemen, who escaped the danger by bare
ly second. The next section to fall was
on the north, but it struck the Wilson
building and went through the roof with
out rebound. A little later three upper
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28
Notes of Current Events.

A Sister of Charity i'm ST. Vincent's
Asylum, st. Louis, has been appointed q
notary public.
The Choctaw Legislature has rejected
the Dawes commission proposition to ac-
cept lands in severalty.
Joseph Kilgore and John Jones were
killed, and John Handley fatally wound
ed in a street duel in Birmingham, Ala.
Two pretty New York women are going
to Atlanta in a twenty-foot rowboat.
They are making the voyage to win bet.
Five theaters on the Midway at the
Atlanta fair have been closed on account
Of immortality. The proprietors were fined
500 each.
A Salvation Army invaded Muncie,
Ind, theater and changed the variety pro-
gram to a religious service. -Four con-
verts were made.
Details of the loss of the Italian bark
Brom Carlo off Cape Horn by collision
with the British ship Condor, show that
only four of her nineteen men were
saved.
The trials of the notorious Scatterfield
whitecaps have begun at Anderson, Ind.
Another attempt to kidnap Miss Hudson,
the States principal witness, has been
frustrated.
Retail druggists of Kansas City will
manufacture all the patent medicines con-
sumed by the local trade in order to fight
those manufacturers who supply patent
medicines to department stores.
Assistant Secretary Reynolds, of the
Interior Department, has decided that
where pension has been obtained fraud
ulently the attorney procuring the pension
is not entitled to the fee and must re-
fund II.
Citizens of Thompson Township, Ohio,
are being terrorized by lioness aud two
leopards. which escaped from circus
some time ago and travelled from Marion
County. Many sheep and calves have
been killed. Farmers go to their field
work heavily armed. Travel after night
has been entirely stopped. A hunting party
will be organized.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28
EIGHT HUNDRED ON STRIKE.

Board of Arbitration Considering the
Building Trouble in New York.
Fight hundred members of the House
smith and Bridgemen's Union were called
out on strike on buildings where the work
is being done by ]. B. & J. NJ. Cornell and
Milliken Bros, two of the most promin-
ent members Of the iron league. The
demands of the strikers include wage
scale running from $3.50 day for fore
man finishers to $3.50 a day for black
smith finishers. The strikers also want
a recognition of their union, the employ
ment of only union men and new regula-
tions about Sunday work and overtime.
Should nopunjon men be substituted for
strikers, then a sympathetic strike will
be ordered, and from five to ten thousand
men are likely to be called out, including
plumbers and gasftters, plasterers. car
penters, hosting engineers, steamftters,
derrickmen, laborers, cement workers,
stair builders, elevator constructors, paint
ers, varnishers, trainers, mosaic workers,
tin and sheet iron workers and granite
GUITARS
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28
4. MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago-Cattle, cornmon to prime,
S3.75 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades,
$500 to $500; sheep. fair to choice, $3.50
to $3.75; wheat, No. = red, 56c to SIC;
corn, No. 2, &c to Csc; oats, No. 2, 11c
to 1Sc; rye, No. ., 37c to 39c; butter,
choice creamery, DC to BE; eggs, fresh,
zoe to 21c; potatoes, per bushel, Zoe 10
30c; broom corn, commoI growth to
choice green hurl. 21ac to 4c per pound.
Indianapolis-Catt shipping, $500 TO
$500; hogs, choice light, $500 TO $500;
sheep, common to prime, 500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, &c to Gle; corn, No. 1
white, 2Ic to 2Se; oats, No. white, 21c
to 22c.
st. Louis Cattle, $500 TO $500; hogs,
$3.50 10 $500; wheat, No. 2 red, Csc to
64c; corn, No. yellow, Doc to 21c; oats,
No. white, lie to 19c;-rye, No. 2, 33c
to Doc.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $3.50 to $500; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2. &c to Use; corn, No.
mixed, &c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c
to 23c; rye, No. 2, 39c TO Ale.
Detroit--Cattle, $3.50 to $5.20; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $500 to 1915;
wheat, No. 2 red, 64c to GJc; corn, No. =
yellow, Doc to 3Oc; oats, No. 2 white, 21c
to 23c; rye, 30c to 4Oc.
Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 64c TO 6Jc,
corn, No. 2 yellow, 2Sc to Doc; oats, No,
2 white, Zoe to 21c; rye, No. 2, 30c to Ale
clover seed, $4.35 to $40.
Buffalo-Cattle, $3.50 TO $500; hogs,
$3.O0fto $500; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2 red, Csc TO zoe; corn, No
yellow, 35c 10 SIC; oats, No. 2 white,
23c to 24c.
Niilwaukee-Whent. No. 2 spring. 56c
to &c; corn, No. 3. 2Sc to Doc; oats. No
white, 10c to 20c; barley, No. ?. Doc ia
$7.15 to 1925.
New York--Cattle, $500 to 1926; hogs
$500 70 $3.50; sheep, 500 to $3.50
wheat, No. 2 red, &C to Csc; corn, No. 2
36c to BIC; oats, No. 2 white, pc to 24c
butter. creamery, 16c to 2Ac; eggs, West
ern- PIC to 24c.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28
NEWS OF OUR STATE.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO MIcHI-
0ANDERS
Romantic Episode in the Life Of Ami
McLeod-Brutal Murder of Detroit
Man at Lapeer-Ecccntric Character
Gone-Fatal Detroit Fire.


Ami Mcleod, of Grand Rapids, enlisted
In an Illinois regiment early In the war
and left at home young wife whom he
had married only few weeks before AT
Mission Ridge he was wounded and left
on the field as dead. and was so reported.
hut his wound did not result fatally, al
though il left his mind blank through
injury TO his brain. Recently his skull
was trepanned and the brain, relieved of
the pressure, resumed it's functions and
his memory of the past returned. He
sought his family ut his old home and
found that his wife was dead and that q
daughter born to him had married and
moved to Michigan. Saturday the old
man found the daughter whom he had
never seen, in the person of Mrs. George
r. Weller, Georgetown, the wife of a
prosperous farmer.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28

japanese Naval Expert conalders Her
the Beat Cruiser of Her Class.
Commander Miyaoka, naval attache Of
the Japanese legation In Washington, has
made strong report to the naval depart
ment Of Japan on the merits Of the United
States battle-ship Indiana. This report,
coming Mt time when japan is looking
abroad for new battle-ships and cruisers,
will, 1t Is believed, be favorable to secur-
ing some of the contracts for American
shipbuilders. Commander Miyaoka spent
an entire week on the Indiana while she
was at sea and in dock, and sums up his
conclusions In the statement that the In
diana Is a splendid ship, equal, IL not SUI
perior, to any battle-ship of her class
afloat There is keen competition among
the ship-builders Of the world for securing
the contracts for the construction of the
new ships which japan is about to build.
George Williams, of Washington, repre-
senting Eastern shipyards, visited Japan
recently and found that the cabinet fav-
ored the American builders, but that they
were opposed by the naval experts who
had received their training in England
and believed the English were the best
shipbuilders Mr.. Williams left for Eng
land some days ago, and his visit may lead
to some understanding between the Eng
lish and American builders.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28
Young Beecber Murdered.

Another has been added to The long list
of murder mysteries by the shocking
death near Lapeer of Luther III. Beecher.
of Detroit The crimes of those who are
tramping for the purpose of better carry
ing out the purpose of robbery are in
creasing all over the county, and Il closer
supervision of these wandering law
breakers is demanded. There are honest
men out Of employment who walk in
search of work but there are hundreds of
professional tramps who would run from
work and who are abroad for such plum
der as they can secure. No effort To cap
ture those who murdered young Beechcr
should be spared.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28

imperiled above. Catching it's breath, the
spellbound crowd gazed upward as one Of
the girls, driven to frenzy by the choking,
binding smoke, leaped in midair to what
appeared certain death. A freman's
strong arm extended from the fire escape
was almost wrenched from its socket as
he caught the flying human figure. A
second later another girl threw herself
headlong. But no protecting arm saved
her, and, turning over and over, she fell
to the sidewalk below, mangled, bleed
Ing mass of humanity.
After the fire was entirely under con-
troll and while the firemen were on the
first floor of the structure, throwing
water on some still smoldering flames,
the second and third floors suddenly gave
way and crashed on the first, covering the
fremen. Captain Louis Feline, of fire
company 2, and the lieutenant and four
pipemen of the same company were buried
beneath falling floors of the building.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28
STICKS TO HIS CHIEF,
MORTON COMES OUT FLAT FoF
GROVER.
The Trade Review-Fun ON the STOCK
Exchange-NIr. Otey Would Pension
< Ex-Rebeis = Weary Walkers and


j. Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agri.
culture, in an interview at st. Louis,
comes out fat-footed in favor of third
term for Cleveland. Mr.. Morton dis
claims authority to speak for the Presi-
dent. In the course of the interview Sec
Rotary Morton said: II am not In posi-
ton to state whether Mr.. Cleveland will
be a candidate or not. There is one thing
can say, however, the management of
the government is 4 business, as is the
management of a bank. If bank presi-
dent has proved himself competent and
faithful he is reelected, not only once or
twice, but a dozen of times. The bust
ness of government is that of managing
and preserving the interests of the peo-
pie of a nation and maintaining life, lib
erty, and property, and If bank presi-
dent is elected many times why should it
not be so with the President Of the Unit
ed States?"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28

stories of the Jackson street wall toppled
outward and across the street, but II had
been expected, and the firemen were out
of the line of danger.
Edward b. Gallup, manager for Mr.
Springer, put the loss on the seven-story
Excelsior Block, 175 to 1873 Canal street,
mt $225, 900 to $250O0O; that on the eight
story block at III TO 173 Canal street ut
$4,000, and that on the No. 10 building
on Clinton street ut $4,000. He init
mated the insurance would come near the
value of the buildings. The property of
the tenants in the buildings was all heav-
lily insured.
The origin of the fire is n mystery, al
though the superstition of employees about
tho Emmerich feather renovating institu-
ton wes that gas jet by accident COM
municated its fame to some of the chem
icals used in the cleaning of feathers end
that IN explosion followed which filed
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28
LOSS WILL EXCEED $3.50, 900.

Parker Block, at Lowell, Mnss., Almost
Completely Destroyed.
The large five-story building On Middle
street, Lowell. Mass, known as the Par
ker Block, was almost destroyed by fire.
The fire started in the liquor store of j,
N. Beavy, on the first floor. 1t spread
rapidly and was aided by repeated explo-
sions of whisky in barrels, which blew
out the windows and created havoc with
the windows in adjoining buildings. All
the engines In the city were put at work, and
il looked as if the fire was under control,
but suddenly it blazed up furiously and
threatened to eat its way up through
Merrimac street. BY hard work the
flames were confined to the buildings
and nearby property was only slightly
damaged. The loss will exceed $3.50, 900.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28
TRAIN ROBBERS FOOLED.

Held UP a Great Northern Express
and Sent Express Car Away.
Masked robbers held up the Great
Northern express train near st. Cloud,
MINI. The train was stopped by danger
signal and almost Immediately the en-
gineer and fireman were confronted by
two men with revolvers. The robbers,
evidently looking for the express-car, and
supposing it to be the second from the
engine, cut it off from connection with
the mailcar. This is where they made n
grand mistake, for the express car was
next TO the engine. The engineer was or
dered to pull out" which he did, and took
the express car with the money safely to
st. Cloud. AS soon as the robbers dis
covered their mistake they plunged into
the woods and escaped.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-11-28
SIX FIREMEN DEAD.
Horrible Results of Another Fire In
a Seyen-Story Building.

Ncsutt8 III AuOtuCI Ire
a Seyen-Story Building.
At 0:3O Friday morning fire which was
the cause of death and the loss of prop
erty worth $500.000 broke out in the
fourth story of Kuh. Nathan & Fischer's
new building, the Dry Goods and Wooden
Exchange, at 215 and PIT Van Buren,
street and 276 and 27S Franklin street,
Chicago. The flames burst through the
windows all along the front of the build
ing, and in an instant the whole structure
was mass of curling fire. Jumping
from the upper windows, a number of
people were dashed upon the pavement
and sustained fatal injuries.
Hanging between life and death, a score
or more of shrieking, screaming girls
chung to the window easements of the
building. With lightning-like rapidity
engines and hose carts surrounded tho
blazing structure. In a twinkling every
fire escape in the building was alive with
helmeted firemen bent on saving the lives