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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14

At Cadillac fire broke out in the rear
of the store occupied by Geo. Poets as
a grocery and bakery. Before they could
be checked the flames had almost de-
stroyed the rear and upper part of the
building, but were prevented from dam
aging adjacent buildings to any extent.
The building was owned by Morris Black
and fully insured. The stock of George
Poets was entirely ruined by fire and
water, but fully insured, as was the dry
goods stock of Harry Drebin in the next
building, which was badly damaged by
water. 1t is rumored that the fire was of
incendiary origin.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
Shipped to Russia.

Four large cranes made by Muskegon
company are now on the way to their des-
tination at Maripol. Russia, six big fiat
cars being required to carry the material.
The cranes were made for the Maripol-
Nicopol Mining and Metallurgical Com
pany, and are a part of the equipment
being supplied from this country for the
big manufacturing plant being built by
European and American capitalists near
the city named, the plant to include open
hearth steel furnaces. rolling mills, loco
motive works and general machine shops.
The cranes will be shipped from Brooklyn
on II vessel which sails direct to Maripol.
via the Bosphorus and the Black Sea.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
sOLONS IN SESSION.
LEGISLATURE rs FORMALLY Or
CANNED AT LANSING.
Speaker Gordon Reelected by Unani.
mous Vote Other Officers Of the
House-RigId ECONOMY Urged-Op-
pose legislative Junket.
Lnwmakcrs at Work.

The Thirty-ninth Legislature of Mlchi-
gan was organized Wednesday, but there
was several days work ahead for the
presiding officers to make up their stand
ing committees. Each body convened ar
noon and proceeded to elect the officers
nominated at Tuesday nights caucuses
as follows: Senate nominations: Pres.-
dent pro TEN, John l.. Preston, of Lapeer;
Secretary, Charles o. Pierce, of Oscoda:
Sergeant-at-arms, A. n. Armstrong, OF
Cass; Assistants, Moses Parshelsky, OF
Wayne and q. G. Miller, of Livingston;
Enrolling Clerk, Mrs. G. w. Bertch, OF
Mackinac: Assistant. Frank NJ. Howe.
of Eaton. House: Speaker, William ID.
Gordon, of Midland: Speaker, pro TEN.
Orville b. Fuller. of Ford River; Chief
Clerk, L. NJ. Miller, of Lansing; Sergeant
alarms, Il. III. Gibson, of Greenville;
Enrolling Clerk, f. w. Redfern, of Maple
River.
Speaker Gordon was honored by being
reelected by unanimous vote, the nine
teen silver members joining the eighty
one Republicans in casting their votes
for him. The silverites first cast their
ballots for John Donovan, of Bay, who
became famous by being the only Demo-
crat elected to the Legislature. of 1899.
They changed to Gordon before the result
was announced.
Both Lieut.. Gov. Dunstan and Speaker
Gordon. on taking the chairs, emphasized
the necessity for the practice of rigid
economy in every direction. The latter
advised that the legislative junket to the
various State institutions be abandoned
and that instead of the entire Legislature.
making his trip the standing committee
of each institution make the inspection,
and to so arrange their time of going that
not enough would be absent Mt any one
time as to retard the work of the House
He advised that the House be in session
at least five days each week and that
every effort be made to shorten the ses-
sion. He also recommended that stand.
ing committee be appointed to prepare
bills designed to weed out all the obsolete
laws on the statute books, and so arrange
others which have become involved by
frequent amending that they will be
the more readily understood.
Gov. Pingree came out from Detroit
and was promptly pitched upon by the
horde of offce-seekers who had been.
waiting for his coming. They occupied
his entire time and will do so for several
days. No nominations were sent to the
Senate for confirmation.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14

Tied Her Own Hymcnial Knot.
The parson has always been promi-
nent and essential feature of a conven-
tional wedding and has been given dis
tinct place in romance as the formal knot
tier and the possessor of the privilege OF
kissing the bride. In recent years the
function has lost some of its glamour
owing to the admission of women into the
pulpit, and now in ceremony mt Kala-
mazoo, the function disappeared entirely
owing to versatile bride, who attended
to all the details herself. Miss Caroline
]. Bartlett was married to DIR. A. w.
Crane, and as Miss Bartlett is the pastor
of church she was qualified to appear
In the dual capacity Of pastor and bride.
She exercised all her privileges, and it Is
presumed was careful to omit "obey"
when she Intercepted herself as to her
future intentions. t
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14

Almost directly after the body of Will
lam Sidney Pearson had been laid in the
grave at Muskegon, his brother, Robert
III. Pearson, of Holland, went before
Justice Peter w. Losby and swore to a
complaint charging Policeman Patrick
Fitzsimmons with wilful murder. The
funeral, which was held from st. Mary's
Church, was largely attended. Father
Whalen took the opportunity to preach an
impressive temperance sermon, adding
that that which brought young Pearson
to his death was not William Sidney
Pearson with the intelligence which God
gave him, but human nature degraded by
drink. He warned the people that his
case as far as crime went was no guiltier
than that of the men with him that fatal
Sunday morning. With reference to the
public taunts he reminded the gray-haired
parents that Christ had told those without
sin to cast the first stone.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
Fouud a watery Grave.

News has been received of the drown
ing of five children as a result of the
floods in Texas County, Missouri. Thos.
Wilson. accompanied by his daughter,
Mrs. Kinney, and her five children, at
tempted to ford Prairie Greek, which was
very high as result Of recent rains. The
horses became unmanageable and soon
lost their foothold. The wagon, weighted
with its human freight, sank, and the
sideboards foated away, throwing the
entire party into the water.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
ST. PAUL BANKS GO DOWN.
Three institutions Close Their Doors
Monday.


The Germania Bank of st. Paul, a
State institution, capital 100000, did
not open for business Monday, but an
nounced its assignment to Peter M. Kerst,
who for the last year or two has been the
cashier of the bank. The Allemania
Bank, capital 100000. having client
age similar to that of the Germania. clos
ed its doors also soon after the other bank
had announced its assignment. A few
minutes later the'West Side Bank, organ
lied in 1886, with capital of 100000,
closed its doors. During the day numer-
Gus reports of trouble among the other
banks were current, and few banks
suffered runs of greater or less intensity,
but the savings banks were protected by
the law that allows them to require sixty
days notice before paying out deposits,
and the national banks are in strong con-
dition and have no fear.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
ARBUcKLEs ARE FOXY.
Effectually Checkmate the Plans of
the Sugar Trust.

Efectually Checkmate the Plans of
the Sugar Trust.
The reported sale at Toledo of the
Spence-Acklin shares of the Woolson
Spice Company stock to the sugar trust
last Saturday brought forth an emphatic
denial from New York that the Have
meyers had bought the shares, and it is
now said that the deal was made by j. NJ.
Turner, the confidential financial man of
the Arbuckles. 1t would seem that the
Arbuckles have made clever deal, which
may throw the Woolson Spice Company
into the hands of n receiver, should the
sugar trust try to run the concern at
loss to break down the firm of Arbuckle
Bros, who have recently entered the
sugar trade.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
Three SENATOR. Nnmod.

The contest at Harrisburg. Pa. for the
succession to the seat in the United States
Senate occupied by ]. Donald Cameron,
was finally settled in the joiat party eau
Gus of the Republican members of the
Legislature, who chose State Senator
Bots Penrose. of Philadelphia. At Sac
ramento, Cal, George G. Perkins was
declared the nominee by the joint Rtpub-
lcan caucus. 1t is settled that Charles
w. Fairbanks will be the next United
States Senator from Indiana.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
BREAD STANDARD NEEDED.
Report Shows the Necessity for Regu-
Iating the Size of the Loaf.

1ating the size of the Loaf.
An Agricultural Department report on
the composition and cost of bakers bread
In New Jersey cities, based on recent in
vestigations, indicates the necessity of
the adoption of a bread standard less va
riable than the foaf, so that definite
number of ounces may be found in each
loaf. The increased cost of nutriment due
to the transformations taking place be-
tween the producer and consumer Is
chargeable to the baker rather than to
the miller, for the cost of bread made
from barrel of -four costing "a. to which
was added SO cents of other ingredients,
was $10.74, or a profit of 116 per cent
for the bakers labor and the cost Of dis
tribution
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
Minister Taylor Warns Spain.

A dispatch to the New York Journal
from Madrid says that bold and extraor-
binary letter has been addressed to the
Spanish Government by Minister Taylor,
which said 20 the Spanish Minister of
Foreign Affairs that unless Spain offers
clear and reasonable terms as basis
of peace in Cuba before President Cleve-
land goes out of Office, the question re-
naming to be settled by the United States
would be the immediate and uncondi-
tional recognition of the Cuban republic.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14

Mr.. Goodmnn-My little man, when
was your age didn't smoke in the way
You do. ~
STUN Chi'd-I should think so! why.
there amt a kid in the alley that kin
inhale like me.-Pearson's Weekly.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
Immiurauts for 1906.

The number Of steeragc passengers
landed at Ellis Island during the year
1896 was 252,350. There were 99, 223
cabin passengers landed ut the port Of
New York during the same period.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
Girl Burned 20 Death.

Lulu Jones' aged "a, servant employ
ter General Rathbone In Hamilton, o.,
was burned to death, and Mrs. Rathbone,
In attempting to save the girls life, was
painfully burned about the arms and face.
The girls dress caught fire from range.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
Cut I'm Ohio Niipcs.

Notices have been posted Mt all the
mines in the Massillon. o.. district of
reduction In the price of pick mining from
III cents to 81 cents per ton. The notice
says rate of GO cents has been agreed
upon in Pennsylvania.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
CAPERS OF A CYCLONE.

Blew Down Grlst Mills and Injured
Many People.
The cyclone Saturday night did great
damage along the Cotton Belt Road, full
reports of which have just been received.
At Motz., Ark, the gin house and grist
mill of George Mills were completely de-
stroyed and Mr.. Mills was fatally in
jured. Many others were more or less
injured. A tremendous rise is reported
in the Red River. threatening the bridge
of the Kansas City. Pittsburg and Gulf
Road
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
Powers Warned by the Pope.

The London Standards Rome CORE
spondent asserts that the Pope has decid-
ed to notify Austria, France. Spain and
Portugal that the powers will not be al
lowed to exercise veto at the next Papal
alaotion
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
Hanged by n Mob.

Simon Cooper, n negro outlaw who MUIR
dered three members of the Wilson fam
lily and colored servant, was lynched
near Sumter, s. c., Friday. Cooper was
captured by the sheriff's posse and was
being taken to Sumter Nsien mob inter-
fered
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
Whole Town Under Water.

The entire town of Linn Greek, No.,
is under water. the Usage River having
risen seventeen inches higher than ever
before known. The water is five feet
deep in the court house and the ferryboat
from the river, which is mile from the
city, is making regular trips through the
main streets, carrying merchandise, pro-
visions, household goods, ETC., from the
inundated buildings.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14

At Emporia, Kan, Colonel l.. Severy
fell on the ice in his yard Wednesday
and broke his hip. He Is so badly in
jured that his recovery Is doubtful. He
is one of the most prominent. citizens of
Kansas. For years he was director Of
the Santa Fe Railroad.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
Town Near Havana CAPTURED.

Havana dispatch: The sensation of the
hour is that the town of Arroyo Naranjo,
which is only seven miles from Havana,
has been taken by the insurgents. The
garrison and the authorities made no re-
sistance.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
Ear Northern RniIroads Ask charters

The Winnipeg, Duluth and Hudson Bay
Railway is applying for a charter for
railway from point south Of Lake of
the Woods to Winnipeg City and thence
to deep water in Hudson Bay. The'Man-
itoba and Pacific Railway is also max
ing application for power to build road
through Crows Nest Pass to the Pacific
coast in British territory.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14

A Bombay dispatch reports that all the
lending journals there describe the famine
as the most widespread of the present
century. IL Is the general opinion that
the viceroy errs In refusing English aid.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14

The first gold landed from a foreign
port in several weeks was received
Wednesday at New York from Port-au-
Prince, Hayti-$100000 in American
coin
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
"v;cv Ni.x Abs,c,t..

The Westminster Gazette gives promi-
hence to report that Queen Victoria has
decided to commemorate the fact that
she has enjoyed the longest reign in Eng
lish history by abdicating in favor of the
Prince of Wajes
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
Has Not Put Down the Revolt.

News has been received by the Cuban
junta to the effect that the Spanish Gov
eminent has positively determined to re-
call Capt.-Gen. Weyler. Gen. Primo de
Rivera. 1t is said. will succeed Gen. Wey-
Ter in Cuba. He is a captain-general in
the Spanish army, and in favor with the
Canovas government. Minister Taylor.
it is said. informed Secretary Olney sey-
eral days ago that the authorities at Mad
rid were on the point of relieving. Gen.
Weyler of his command in Cuba, and of
Rivera. Reasons were given in brief why
change was deemed advisable, and a
statement was made as TO the probable
time when the orders would be promul-
gated. 1t is learned that the Madrid gov.
eminent Is displeased at the fact that
Gen. Weylcr. with about 100000 troops,
has not put down the Cuban revolt. He
has expended large sums of money, but so
far has made no decided Roadway in ac-
compishing his main object. that of
quelling the instruction and restoring
peace and good order in Cuba. His troops
have been victorious on occasions, but
they have also met defent and the total
result, considering SPANS outlay in life
and treasure, Is far from satisfactory.
Too much may have been expected of Wey-
Ter: just rs the exaction was too great
in the case of Campos. Still, the one
great rement-success-has not been
fulfilled. and Weyier has consequently
fallen in official esteem in Madrid.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
Rich Vein off Silver i. struck.

On the Silver Mountain Lode, near
Hell City, s. d., ore was struck Wednes-
day that assayed ninety-nine ounces of
silver Der ton.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
Church War at bay city.

Another bloody riot took place ut st.
Stanislaus' Polish Church in Bay City,
Mich, Tuesday, in which the parsonage
was looted by an Infatuated mob and the
render. Over 100 shots were exchanged
and score or more injured. The police
were poweress to cope with the mob and
the rioting continued for almost two
hours. The riot resulted from the dis
sension which has divided the church for
the past nine months. One side wants
to see the books and the priest, by the
bishops orders, refuses to allow them. A
similar riot took place few Sundays ago.
and the matter was then submitted to
Martinelli. 1t broke out again through
Father Bogacki's refusal to bury one of
the warning faction from the church.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14

The Loud bill to amend the law. relat-
sns to second-cIass mail matter was
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
TRAIN RoBBER coNFEssEs.

Young Farmer Imp Gated in the
Blue Cut Hoid-Up.
Officers came in TO Independence. Mo-,
from Cracker Neck district with another
culprit who is charged with completely in
the Alton hold-up. The prisoner is
young farmer named George Dowlin. He
is reported to have made a confession in
which he corroborates the confession of
Flynn, duplicating John II. Kennedy as
the leader Of the band, and several others
still at large.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
Nodded I'm Secret.

The secret marriage Of Miss Emma
Spreckels, only daughter of Claus Spreck-
els, the millionaire. to Thomas Watson,
caused n sensation In San Francisco. Mr..
Watson Is an Englishman and widower
about % years old. His wife Is about 2S.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14
NEWS OF OUR STATE.
ITEMS or INTEREST TO MICH.
oANDERS

Marriage Of n Famous Woman
Preacher Muskegon Poiiceman
Must Answer for Pearson's Death
Cadillac Has blaze.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-14

-
out of about two inches of concretng the
whole length Of the job The paving in
question was laid in October and Novem-
Der last and extended from Crane avenue
to the city limits. 1t cost in the neighbor-
hood of S1j. 900 and the Board of Public
Works passed upon the paving, pro-
nounced il good, except in a few places,
for which sufficient excuse was found, re-
quired certified check for $500 to cover
"the few defects" and then paid out the
$4,000 for job of paving that seems to
be very poor
Rev. r., o. Brown, late of San Fran
cisco, was accorded n very warm well
come at Kalamazoo. his old home. Tho
First Congregational Church, where he
preached, was crowded. and the greeting
he received at the close of the service was
something like an ovation.
Three thirty day prisoners escaped from
the new keepers of the Kalamazoo stone
yard and were captured five miles south
of the city by Sheriff Snow, where they
had secreted themselves in a haystack.
A saw was also found in the Jail, where
q. bar had been neatly sawed off by Zeb
Sleigh. $3.50
The State Pardon Board has recon-
mended the pardon of Grossman, Jacobs,
vogeler and Thurman, the four men serv-
ing life sentences for the murder of AL
bert Molitor. Gov. Rich did not issue
the pardons. but left the matter to his
successor, without prejudice.
Mayor Monroe, Of Kalamazoo, refused
to sign the orders to pay the city supervis-
ers their claims. aggregating 400,
(which the City Council had voted to pay.
He left for Lansing with Aid. p. III.
Burke and left instructions for the Clerk
to Withhold the checks until he returned.
President Adams, Of the Council, acting
Mayor during the Mayors absence, sign
ed the orders.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-10

The coal strike is fast opening the
eyes of the miners as well as other
workers to the fact that the wealth
producers of this country are the
veriest slaves, and are suffering wrongs
and injustices which the black slave
never knew, says the Appeal to Reason.
In common with the black Slave the
white one of today is prohibited from
leaving the plantation of his wage
master; he cannot go to another with
out the permission Of his coal lord to
speak to another slave from other
plantations is met with the severest
punishment-loss of employment, evic-
ton and starvation. Upon the public
roads of this country they are not al
lowed to travel or to enter a village
unless by the august consent of the
wage masters roundabout. The law
Of the land has been violated to hold
them in poverty and subsection, and
having been forced into hunger and
want by the greed of their masters
they are sent, thousands of them. to
Jail for being in that condition. When
this strike is over grand amount Of
education shall have been accom-
plished.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-10
We Gould Do without Them.

After a long list of good things, in
the way of machinery locomotion, etc.,
that we didn't have eighty years ago,
The Rajah, in the Cincinnati Chronicle,
specifies quite number of bad things
we didn't have, as follows:
No trusts.
No laws against trusts to make law
ridiculous because of reinforcement.
No mills and factories standing idle
that trusts might fatten.
No laws against tramps and ne
tramps.
No Pullman employees starving while
the stock paid IL per cent dividends,
and no Pullman's daughter to get $780,
900 year for putting names on cars
that no one can pronounce.
No thirty-story buildings, and no
asylums for the insane that it would
tire you to walk around.
No man worth $2OO,0OO,O0O, and no
newspapers recording suicides under
one-line headings.
No paresis and no appendicitis, and
no gold standard.
But there were men who had the
backbone to declare and reiterate their
independence of any other nation on
earth.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-10

year, and her people are starving.
Eight millions have already died Of
starvation. Twenty millions are the
sad estimate that must die during the
present famine, by reason of the fact
that the seventeen hundred millions or
treasure which they had in the form
Of silver has been repudiated, and can
not be coined into rupees with which
y buy bread.
"The paltry contributions OF Eng
land to the vast millions of India Is
mockery The Indians could take care
Of themselves IL Great Britain would
not rob them; and the director of the
United States mint, paid official of
this government, proposes that Mexico
shall share the same fate of India.
The starving millions of India do not
deter him, because he is well fed ana
in a good place. Why he and others
who are paid by the government
should be preaching such heresy as 10
contained in his interview is hard tc
imagine.
"If he would proclaim the truth; II
he had reason on his side; If he was
not co-worker with an English syn
dictate which has impoverished ana
enslaved India; which is whipping
Egyptians on the bare back to extort
from them enough labor to pay the
gold interest to the English syndicate;
If he was not in their employ while
paid by the United States, some atten-
ton might be paid to his interview.
81 pronounce any man In the employ
of the United States who will proclaim
that silver is to be entirely destroyed,
Notwithstanding the platform OF the
Republican party that it should be re-
stored by international bimetallism,
notwithstanding the fact that this
country depends upon it, recreant to
his duty and an enemy of his country.
What reliance can be placed ON the
statistics of a man who can talk as Mr..
Preston does in his interview? man
who will talk such heresy as he does
against the professions of all parties IN
this country cannot be relied upon to
state facts with regard to the produc-
ton Of either metal, and fear that he
is as ignorant of this as he is of prin-
ciple, of honesty, Of decency and
propriety in a public officer"