Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-03-17
News of Minor Note.

According to the latest figures, China
owes her creditors $103, $4,000.
Gen. w. B. Talaferro, who was COM
mander Of the Virginia troops during John
Browns raid, is dead.
Four hundred patients have died Of
starvation in one Havana hospital dur
ing the past two months.
William Warren jumped into shallow
Turkish bath at New York and was killed
by striking upon his head.
Mayor Good of Springfield, O., has been
ousted by the Circuit Court for violations
of the Garfield corrupt practice law.
The fifteth anniversary of CALIFORNIA;
statehood will he celebrated in 1901 by
another midwipter fair at San Francisco.
The proceeds of the mining fair at San
Francisco will be devoted to the relief of
the families Of the victims of the Maine.
There will be no war between Chill and
Argentine Republic, as arbitration by the
British Government has been agreed upon.
The body of commissioner Leonard
r. Wells of Brooklyn has been found in
the woods near Plainfeld, n. j., with
horrible cash in his throat.
Miss Frances Z. Willard bequeathed
her estate to the Temple fund, after the
life interests Of her secretary and her sis
ter-in-law have expired.
Half the party organized by Miss Mary
Nj. Board at New Brunswick, N. j., to
found temperance colony in Alaska
started for their destination.
The report that Spanish naval officer
some time ago sold to the Washington
authorities map of Havana harbor,
showing submarine mines, is not credited.
A T-foot granite monument in the Up
per Hartz. Germany, has an iron tablet
inscribed: .'Here in the year 1S47 the first
trials were made with the cultivation of
the potato
Only little flag marks the grave of the
late Gov. John A. Martin, In Atchison.
Kan, and efforts are being made to se-
cure the erection of fitting monument to
his memory.
a cablcgram to London from Shanghai
China, says the United States Asiatic
squadron Is concentrated at Hong Kong.
with a view to active operations against
Manila, Philippine Islands, in the event
of war with Spain.
A Paris newspaper expresses n hone
that "a European statesman will be found
| to. intervene. with view OF the maiote-
nance Of peace between the United States
and SPAIN" ~
The nnvies of the world are now rated
! as follows: Great Britain. 1; France. 2:
Russia, 3: Italy, A; United States, 8: Der
many, @: Spain, q; japan, 8; Austria. y.
and Netherlands, 10.
The smokestnck Of the Government as-
say Office in Wall street, New York. has
lntcly been cleaned. and the swecpincs
| smeltcd and refined. yielding 80 standa I'd
ounces Of gold and SEQ ounces of silver.
A sale Of American prize horses took
!. place in London. Twenty-Five ma gni6-
cent animals. which took prizes Mt recent
(: horse shows In Chicago and New York.
were sold at auction at an average price
; Of about s204. striking Illustration Of
Z larggn prejudice against American pro-
I dScts.
Another phase OF the cigarette smoking
| evil is attracting the attention of Cincin-
natl physicians in the case of Joseph Saw
| age. 10 years old. In one OF the CITY hos
pitals, Through smoking forty cigarette&
day he contracted an ulcer which de,
| stroyed the membrane behind the palate
In his throat. and he now exhales smoke
from his ears as well ss from his nostrils.