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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Given Fourteen Years.

At Lapeer William III. Johnson, of Co
lumbiavile, was sentenced by Judge
Smith to fourteen years at hard labor in
States prison for robbing and chloroform-
ing Mrs. Define. widow, aged about rs
years. Ms. Define was bound, gagged
and chloroformed, and the house then
ransacked, and she was left in this condi-
ton during the cold night and part of the
next day. Her sufferings were terrible
until found by the neighbors. Isaac
Snow, pal of Johnson's, who is now
serving time in prison. confessed TO hav-
ing committed the crime and implicated
Johnson, who also confessed upon arrest.
Judge Smith also sentenced Walter Lam
pherc to one year at Jackson for burglary.
William +. Baker, who confessed hav-
ing broken into Vincent & Sons store,
was given one year at the same place,
and Harry Powell, aged Ii, was sent to
the industrial school until he is II.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Kind mother Michigan.

Land Commissioner French reports that
on June 80, 1895, the State owned 423,-
$3.50. 80 acres of land. There were for
feited to the State during the year S36.Ol
acres of part paid land; 5,016.2S swamp
homestead land; decided to the State
under Sec 127, Act 206 laws of 1893,
211 ,S23. 10 acres and 1,213.37 decided in
settlement of the Bots Blanc State road
matter, making 642. 1850 in all. The
total number of acres sold during the year
was IA, 9SS. 1G; number of acres OF swamp
land licensed, 0,20T.1 10; entered as home
stead land. 40,125.49; total number OF
acres held for sale and homestead June
80, 1896, 5S1, 457.75 acres. The number
of acres disposed of during the year is as
follows: Primary school, 1.S77.O7 acres,
$25 ,96S.47 paid, $5,039.S1 due; agricul-
tural college, 1,93S.21 acres, So, ZIG
paid, S3,509.4S due; swamp, 4,29o.43
acres, IS, 1854 paid, $799.0S due; salt
spring, 40 acres, $50 paid, $50 due; uni
versity, 40 acres. $40 paid. $40 due;
patented to homesteaders, 797. 40 acres;
totals, 14,9SS.16 acres, $40, 540.O7 paid,
50 66S 80 due. The receipts of the State
land office for principal, interest and pen
atty received on sales made in former
years amounted to $SS, 247.03. Seventy
seven townships in 30 counties of the
State have taken advantage of the 1893
statute in accordance with which lands
delinquent for taxes are bid OFT to the
State for consecutive period of more
than three years, have been examined,
upon request of the township boards, and
the expenses of such examinations have
been paid by the State. A complete list
of the lands has been prepared ami print
ed from time TO time to send out on appli-
cation, in order that those seeking homes
need be to the expense only Of selecting
the lands they wanted and the payment
of the required 10 cents per acre down.
No real estate tax is required to he paid
during the five years the land In held
under homestead certificate, and the small
payment of 10 cents per acre for each
year of the homestead term gives the set
tier farm and a home with little ex-
penditure of time and effort.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
LADY TENNYSON.

She Loved Her Husband and Home
and Was an Ideal Poets Wife.
Emily Selwood Tennyson, widow Of
the late poet laureate of England,
died recently at the beautiful residence
Of the Tennyson family on the Isle
Of Wight. She had lived a secluded
life, and, like her husband, was un-
known in English society. She might
have been distinguished and even
brilliant in the best of English draw
Ing rooms, as in her own, had she so
desired. Her opportunities, not only
by reason Of the laureate's fame as
the greatest Of living poets, but through
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Conditions Favor I'm provcment.

II. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review of
trade says: "There is still no distinct
improvement in business, although condi-
tions favor it. Confidence slowly rises,
speculative buying of materials for future
use continues, imports of gold do not
cease and the Bank of England has not
tried to check them by further advance
in rates, as the weight of the demand
now falls upon France. But an enormous
business Is held back until the future is
more clear"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24

RAINY LAKE PROSECUTORS
STRIKE IT RICH.
Swedish Teamster Sold the Claim for
n Bcggariy Figure-Fifteenth Rcgi-
ment u. 8. A. Changes Places with
the Fighting Fourth.
New Gold Fields.

u. M. Thomas, of st. Paul. with other
parties, recently purchased gold property
In the Little Manitou gold regions near
Rainy Lake for $4,000. The discovery
was made by Swedish teamster, who
was glad to sell out at that figure. The
new owners Immediately started a pit,
and it is believed from the results already
obtained that they have bonanza. The
vein Of gold is twenty-six feet wide, in
rotten brown quartz, and the gold is al
most as plentiful as the quartz. The spec
linens shown are nearly so per cent. pure
metal The owners of this bonanza have
called their mine the .Manitou," and
there is not fragment of it for sale, ex-
cept to purchasers of gold bullion. They
estimate their property is worth several
million dollars.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
She Was Locked Out.

The parents of Miss Jennie Fitzgerald,
of Lansing. were rendered half wild Mon
day night by the disappearance of their
daughter, and one of their messages about
the State located her at Muskegon. She
was found by Chief of Police Stirling.
She had been staying with some friends,
and states she left home because her
mother locked her out. She says she has
girl friend whom her mother warned
her against, and because she went to a
political meeting Monday night and re-
manned out after 10 o'clock she was lock-
ed out. The young woman and her moth
er did lot of long distance telephoning,
and reconciliation was effected by wire.
She went home in the morning.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Race Train Wrecked.

A Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
special race track passenger train dashed
into detached portion of freight going
in the same direction directly under a
Chicago viaduct Thursday night. The
result was wreck, in which Engineer
James Moran was dangerously injured
and Fireman Nat Moulton and five pas
sengers were seriously hurt. Five loaded
freight cars, baggage car, a passenger
coach and engine 740 were demolished.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Indictments Likely to Drop.

Michigan has in all probability seen the
last of the cases instituted against the
eleven persons. including State officials
and clerks, who were indicted by the
Grand Jury for the alleged salaries
amendment frauds of 1891 and 1893,
when the returns of the vote cast on the
proposition to amend the Constitution so
as to increase the salaries of State Off
GERS were said to have been falsified so
as to show Il favorable majority. The
only persons ever tried were ex-Secretary
of State Joachim and eX-Attorney Gen
eral Ellis. The jury in each case dis
agreed, politics forming an important fea-
ture of the trials, the defense claiming
persecution on the part of political enc
mics. Prosecutor Gardner did not give
notice of the cases for trial at the present
term of court, and as he will retire from
office Jan. this neglect is taken to fore
shadow his purpose to discontinue all the
cases.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
DougoIa Is Fallen.

Dongola has fallen. and the nominal OBJ
jective point of the British Egyptian ex-
petition has been reached. The river
forces of the British Egyptian expedition,
pushing MP the Nile from El Hafr, landed
a force at Dongola and occupied that
place before the dervish forces, retreating
from I'll Hair, reached that point. El
Hafir and Dongola are both in the hands
of the expedition, while the dervish forces
are somewhere between seeking a refuge
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
The Crook.

In some parts Of Scotland, 1t was Gus.
tomary to carry a newly born child
three times round the iron crook
which hangs in the middle OF an old
fashioned chimney, and serves to sup.
port cooking-pots, the ceremony being
supposed to insure the infants future
prosperity. To double up the chain of
the "crook" Mt night prevents witches
coming down the chimney.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Ratt,eshin on the Bench.

The big battleship Texas, of the United
States navy, went hard aground Wednes-
day off Goat Island, near Newport, II. /.
The lcviathan was absolutely helpless
and at the mercy of the wind. If storm
had arisen before she was released the
chances are she would have been beaten
to pieces, This magnificent bit of naval
architecture, which cost the people of the
United States something like $3,000,000,
was subject to the caprice of the weather
until the tide came in Thursday, when
tugs hauled her back into deep water.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Ria smeIter Proposcd.

Provided satisfactory arrangements can
be made with the Canadian Pacific Rail
road. large ore smelter and refinery
will be established at Vancouver, b. c.,
with capital Of at least 81 100000. w.
r. Rust, of the Tacoma smelter, Is the
organizer of the project, which will have
behind it American and British capital.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
sewage in Drinking Water.

Public schools of Chicago may be closed
Mt any moment on the order of Com
missioner Of Health Kerr because the wa
ter supply afforded them by the Board of
Education, without filters, Is impure.
Mondays rain of two and one-quarter
tnches carried out to the intake pipes of
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Rebeoded bv an Elevator.

Frederick Hoffman, workman in the
employ of Samuel Bauman q Brother,
New York, was caught by an electric ele-
yator in such n manner that he was car
ried to the ceiling. between which and the
elevator he was forced. His head was
severed from his body in as clean a man
ner as a guillotine could have done it.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
seeks Texas Fever Remetly.

DIR. ]. Sidney Hunt, an eminent physi-
clan of Queensland, has been sent to this
country by the Queensland Government
to investigate and find the remedy for
Texas fever, as 1t is known in the south
ern part of the United States, which has
broken out among the cattle on the big
ranches in Northern Queensland.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Alleged Forrer i'm Custody,

Detroit detectives were in Toledo Ohio.
endeavoring to secure X. II. Bailey, alias
G. X. Taylor, alias II. II. Taylor, but they
were required to return empty-handed.
Toledo has the man. and as he is believed
to be one of the most talented check work
ers in the country, an effort will be made
to put him away for term of years.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Riot Mt Lcadyi1le.

A perfect fusillade of musketry began,
apparently in the locality of the Coronado
mine, Leadville, Col. at 1 o'clock a. IN.
Monday within dozen blocks of the
court house. Several hundred shots were
fred. The strike has been in progress for
three months and trouble has been looked
for for the last two weeks. The State
troops have been held in readiness for a
call to arms ever since the strike began.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
The New Watch.

The new watch Is to have a phono-
graph cylinder hidden away, and at the
hour and at each quarter Of an hour n
tiny voice will be heard giving you the
exact time. You Will simply touch a
spring, hold the watch to your ear, and
the little fairy on the inside will whis.
per the hour.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24

over a few times the child takes the
shooting as matter Of course and pays
little attention to 1t. So expert are
many Of the hunters that they do not
shoot the alligator until 1t has ap-
preached to within a few feet Of the
baby. Then, with but few inches Of
and the eye Of the alligator, the fatal
shot Is fred.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
italy and Abvssiuia Settle.

Peace has been concluded by Italy with
Abyssinia. Menclik demanded $500, 900,
not as ransom, but as compensation for
maintaining prisoners. In exchange for
the opening up Of commercial relations,
Russia supported these conditions.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24

William Myers, n Lima, Ohio, horse
man. was attacked by vicious stallion,
when two pet bulldogs came to his rescue,
attacked the stallion, and compelled II to
release its hold. The dogs drove tho
horse into a stall. The horse killed two
men ut Bellcfontaine, Ohio.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24

At Mansfield, Mo-, the government has
made two more arrests in connection with
the wholesale stealing of valuable cedar
timber. "Doc" White and William Mar
lock were placed under bond. This makes
five arrests and Special Agent Turley cx-
poets to capture the whole party.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Minister willis Makes Denial

A Honolulu dispatch says: Minister
Willis denies that President Cleveland
empowered him to negotiate with the Dole
Government for either annexation or re-
turn to a monarchical form Of govern
ment. He said the matter had never even
been referred to at Washington.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Pa..enuer Trains in a Crash.

Two Union Pacific passenger trains col
lided at Silver Bow, seven miles west of
Butte, Mont, Sunday, but by what seems
almost miracle no one was killed,
though a dozen were seriously injured.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Rich Men Executed.

Among the leaders in the Philippine
Islands conspiracy who were shot Mon
day at Cavite, in the Island of Luzon,
were two merchants worth million pc
setas (about S2OO,000), the governor of
the prison and several doctors and chem
lists
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24

much of her time in arranging or COM
posing pretty bits OF melody, some
times setting the line Of her husbands
sentimental sonnets to the airs she
wove out Of her thought.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24

her own fine mind and innare gentil-
ity, had been ample. She preferred.
however, the quiet Of the delightful
place In the pretty island of Ports
mouth, the care OF her roses, the pleas
ure she extracted from her plano, and
the affairs of her household, to the
.gayety of city life or even the less
severe burden OF country society.
The poet and his wife were lovers
even In their own old age. Lord Ten.
uyson was Al when they were mar
ried, and he had known her when she
kvas a mere child. The marriage took
place on June 10, 1850. Lady Tenny-
son was q npe musician and spent
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Smolees WI, Re Hiyh.

Havana advices say that Ell Tabaco's
report about the coming tobacco crop is
incorrect. Not more than $4,000 bales
will be gathered, against 49,, 600 bales in
JSNz
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24

IL have a poem on the sea-" said
the lover. 81 think I'll take John" re-
piled the maiden. "He has a ship
there."-Atlsnta Constitution.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
$4,000, 900 Paid by Englishmeu.

The negotiations for the sale of the
Erie Canal electric franchise to an En-
glish syndicate will result in the installa-
ton of complete system of electric trac-
ton within a short time. What has in
terested English capital in this enterprise
is the possibility of shipping grain from
the Northwest direct to Liverpool by an
all-water route and effecting great saw
ing in time and freight charges. Only one
transfer will be required, and that will be
in New York harbor, without the neces-
sity of elevator storage. The saving will
be not only in high railroad freight charg-
es, il the grain is brought to New York
by rail, but on the old water route of
elevator charges at Buffalo and slow
haulage by mules through the canal with
more elevator charges at New York. The
| use of electricity to run canalboats is but
q part of the extensive plan to cheaper
rates from the West to the East and then
TO Europe. 1t contemplates n direct SER
vice from Chicago and Duluth by the use
of steel canalboats after the type Of the
six that were built last year in Cleveland
and made one trip to New York. With
the aid of floating elevators the canalboats
can be unloaded into ocean steamers in
the harbor without the necessity of stor-
| age. This was the plan that New York
capitalists had in mind when they secured
as gift the franchise that Englishmen
are to pay 100000 for. They did not
get very far along before they met the all
powerful opposition of the New York Cen
| trail Railroad Company and the allied
| trunk lines that monoplize the traffic into
New York and have been steadily running
the canal. A few figures tell the story.
| In 1885 the canal carried 60,000,O00 BUSH
els of wheat from Buffalo to New York;
| last year it carried only 14,0OO,OO0.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
MICHIGAN MATTERS.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CoNCisELy
CONDENSED.

State Has Given Homes to Many Bona
Eide Settlers = Why a Lansing Girl
Ran Away to Observation-Disclosures or
Lapeer, Sentenced TO Fourteen years
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
SPAIN GIVES IN.
American FiIibusters Will Be Given
a Enir Trinl.


a Fair Trial.
The Spanish Government has yielded to
the demands of the United States for
trial h a civil court of the Competitor
prisoners. Authentic information to this
effect has reached the State Department
unofiicially, and the formal announce
ment is expected in the next mail from
Minister Taylor, in Madrid. The Span
ish Government reached this conclusion
some time ago, but has delayed the formal
announcement of its decision until after
the Cortes adjourned. in order TO escape
criticism from that body for making con-
cessions to the United States. While ex-
pecting this decision, the authorities have
become very impatient Of late over the
long delay on the part of the Spanish
Ministry in complying with the demands
for fair trial of the Competitor prison
ers who have been in prison under death
sentence imposed by drum-head court
martial for nearly five months. Petitions
have been pouring in on the State Depart
ment from all quarters, urging prompt
action in behalf of these men. Despair
ing of favorable action on the request for
a civil trial, some of these petitioners
urged that an appeal be made to the Span
ish Ministry for the pardon of the men.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Standing of National League.

Following is the standing of the clubs
of the National Baseball League:
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-24
Western League Standing.


Following is the standing of the clubs
l.. .bo NNyagtarn on emo.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22
THE EAGLE AS QUOTED.

The fact that one of the Eagles late
editorials on money should have APP
peared in current number of the Lon
don Financial News. and another last
week in one of New York City's big
gest dailies might be easily accounted
for in the plausible explanation that
any new idea, or new expression, touch
ing an issue if such absorbing and uni
yersal interest could hardly fail of at
tracing attention somewhere. But the
Eagle is modest and unpretentious, If
not indeed bashful when it comes TO
any possible consideration at the
hands OF the literary dudes of any sec
ton. much more with that of New Eng
lands dilettanteism. But such seems
our requited luck The Eagle roundly
roasted the students of Yale college for
their coarse manners during Mr.. Bry-
ans visit to Bluebellydom. The New
Haven Daily Leader condescens to
stigmatiZe our classical effort as "vul-
gar and indescent." Then, quoting
our diatribe in full, concludes with the
observation that such ''rot constitutes
a good assortment OF gutter slop, ut
terly disgraceful, worthy only the pre-
JUDGED and ignorant advocate of re-
ppdiation and the protector OF rioters
The editor of the Leader is evidently
graduate of Yale. But to make
everything square the Yale Alumni
Weekly" publishes the Eagles round
up at the head of whole page of COM
ments on the episode. pro and con, to.
gether with the following comment:
1--WE are very, very sorry, as we said
before, that any trouble occurred at
the Bryan meeting, but no one can
deny the friends of Yale such comfort
as that which comes from reading
about themselves. We give them some
solace Of this kind today, and shall be
able TO offer more of a like kind in
another issue. Much of it adds ma
terially TO the gaity of nations"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22
ONLY "CUrE CUSS. !"

Every day strengthens the position
of Chester |. Long. Even were be not
Jerry Simpsons equal in legal learn
ing and legislative experience he
would be. fer the interests of the peo-
pie Of the Seventh district. far more
preferable than a man who stands for
free trade, as Jerry Simpson stands
than h man who holds for the single
land tax theory, as Jerry Simpson
holds. 1t is astonishing that any level
headed business man or any reflective
farmer in Kansas should DE found sup
porting the theories and policies be
lieved in and advocated by Jerry Simp-
son. If Jerry were an angel. moral
ly and socially, he is certainly dan
gerous man politically. His former
course and votes in congress proves
him such. He Is a cute cuss." but
statesmen not clowns IS the need Of the
hour As our New York correspond
ent said the other day. Longs speech
marks him thinker OF no ordinary
stamp, and with him in congress our
congressional district VIII be in accord
with the national administration. Simp
son means TWO years more OF humilia-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22
REMEMBER FOUR YEARS AGO.

Whatever you do in week from
next Tuesday you should understand
fully and completely, you must abide
by for the next four years. You will
cast your ballot one way or the other
and that ballot may mean that you
have put upon yourself and your fell
low men certain policy. The fact
that within four months it turns out
ii be a grievous mistake will not help
you remedy the matter. You will simp-
ly have to grin and bear IL.
The same men who are begging you
to vote for Bryan today We're four
years ago begging you TO vote for Mr..
Cleveland. 1t was not four months
after Cleveland'S Inauguration that
the entire country. outside of the Demo
cratic machinery. did not wish Cleve-
land out of office. But Cleveland had
beer elected. The country had to sub
init TO his ruinous policy. -Four years
is big slice out of a young mans life:
in an old mans life it may be all he
has left. 1t is a hard thing 10 wait
four years to correct q mistake. And
if Bryan should be elected, you will be
asked. if you live. TO try another Demo
crat 1t the end of another four years.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-22
KANSAS IS SAFE.

The latest polls and estimates re-
ceived by the Republican state central
committee at it's headquarters at To-
peka shows the state of Kansas to he
safe for Mckinley and the entire Re-
publican ticket. The rumor or claim
that the western counties were all OF
and would send Pop representatives to
the legislature proves to be all bosh.
The fuson fixers cannot name west
ern county that vii send a Pop repre-
sentative to Topeka next winter. The
county that elects a Pop senator or a
Pop representative will be left in a MI
lfority hole All of the big eastern
counties of the state will go there with
old-time Republican majorities, with
but one single exception. There is a
close fight in but three big southern
counties. The indications are that
these counties will be in line with the
state two weeks hence.