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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08
News of the Railways.

London capitalists intend to build a rail-
road line in Alaska from Norton sound to
the Yukon river.
Word from the coast says the Wander
bilts are about to complete a line from
Salt Lake to Los Angeles.
Oficial notice has been given of the pur-
chase of the st. Louis and Northern Short
Line by the Chicago and Alton.
1t is believed by officials that no change
will be made in the present arrangements
for transporting United States mail from
Chicago west.
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois road
is laying eighty-pound steel rails on its
north-bound track between Chicago and
Danville, Ill.
Intervening petitions fled in the suit to
foreclose the Wisconsin Central Company
mortgage were withdrawn in the Milwau-
kee courts, and the way is cleared for re-
organization.
Extensive Improvements are to be made
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad be-
tween Chicago and Pittsburg. Over fifty
bridges will be rebuilt, heavier rails laid
and the track doubled In a number Of
places.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08
WEST HAS SIX ToRNADoEs.
iowa, Nebraska aud South Dakota
Are Great sufferers.

Sioux City was in the center of six tor
nadoes Tuesday night which did much
damage in Iowa, South Dakota and Ne
braska. One storm struck near Kings
ley, Iowa, second near Jefferson, s. d.,
and three across the Missouri river in
northeastern Nebraska. One life is re-
ported lost and several were injured.
A tornado swept over the northwest
part of Mills County, Iowa, doing copsid-
cradle damage to farm property and ruin
ing crops. The house and barn and out
buildings of John Rohrburg, a prominent
farmer living two miles north Of Mineola,
were totally destroyed his little girl, aged
ii years, was killed, one OF his boys had
a leg broken and the balance of the fam
lily were more or less seriously injured.
Barns and corn cribs were destroyed and
farm implements scattered. A cyclone
formed about three miles southwest Of
Kingsley, Iowa, and moved north about
one mile, where it struck and demolished
the large barn and outbuildings on the
William Adams farm west of town. From
this place il moved north to the farm own
ed by w. A. Stevens, where it demolished
every building on the place. A family by
the name of johnson, who lived at this
was SdNtu ny folnS ihlo SaNV'
In South Dakota the damage was all
confined to the farms. No loss of life is
believed to have occurred. The tornado,
which swept through thickly settled
country, did not hit many farm houses,
although it passed very close to many OF
them, their escape from destruction seem
ing almost miraculous.
There were three twisters in northeast
ern Nebraska. The storm that passed be-
tween Ponca and Newcastle followed
along the ground for several miles before
it broke up. John Wilber lost everything
but his house. Charles Murfn's house
| and barn We're wrecked Samuel Green's
barn was destroyed and Jacob Dennis lost
both his house and barn. James Cones
house was totally destroyed. George Wal
beck's barn was blown away. A sec
| ond storm destroyed great deal of prop
| erty near Martinsburg and killed consid
cradle live stock. A third wrecked q
school house at Plainview and did other
| damage. North of Dixon. Neb., the tor
nado completely leveled all the buildings
on several farms and badly injured others
Considerable live stock was killed and
crops destroyed. The funnel-shapeC
| clouds were seen by many persons, whe
hastily betook themselves to cellars.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08
NATIVES SEEK VENGEANCE.
Massacre and Pillage Follow Retire
ment of Otis Army.


ment of Otis Army.
Massacre and pillage have followed the
retirement of the United States army
from villages captured during the present
Philippine campaign. 1t was found inn
possible to leave garrisons at all the towns
and withdrawal from many was neces-
sary. In each case armed Filipinos have
reoccupied the cities, their first acts being
to punish all suspected of approving of
American sovereignty. Friendly natives
arriving in Manila from the country
around San Isidro and San Miguel report
that reign of terror has prevailed since
the American troops were withdrawn
from those parts of the islands. The in
surgents who are returning there deal ven
geance upon those Of their countrymen
who showed any friendship toward the
Americans during the latter's occupation
of the territory.
The friendlies declare that unoffendng
people are being murdered daily, their
houses burned and their property confis-
Gated. Plenty Of sympathizers with the
insurrection remained during the Ameri-
cans stay and they have been reporting
these instances of friendliness toward the
United States troops. The refugees add
that the inhabitants were badly oppress-
ed by the native soldiers before the Amer
ican occupation, but that their condition is
worse now. Doubtless there is much truth
in the reports, though such stories from
Filipino sources are always magnified.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08
SILVER TO BE THE ISSUE.
Louisvi1le Speakers Declare 10 to 1
Ii the 1900 Battle Cry.

That free silver at 16 to / will be the
foremost issue in the Democratic national
platform next year was declared positively
by every speaker ut the opening sessions
of the Ohio Valley League OF Bimetalic
Clubs in Louisville. John p. Altgeld OF
Illinois. Congressman J. NJ. Robinson Of
Indiana, Flavius j. Van Vorhis of Indian
apolis and James p. Tarvin of Kentucky,
president of the league, addressed the del
egates Each insisted that silver must be
kept to the front until victory crowns the
efforts of the bimetallists. Bryan senti-
ment was evident. many declaring him
the only man to lead the silver forces to
success.
Two meetings of the convention were
held-one in the afternoon and the other
in the evening. James =. Tarvin was the
orator in the afternoon and John P.eAlt-
geld in the evening. Both were plain in
their speech. They were for the III to i
plank without change as the great issue
for the Democratic party in 1900, and Tor
Bryan as the candidate.
The convention developed a movement
to capture for Louisville the national
Democratic convention next year. The
prominent silver men Of the vicinity in or
der 10 further the project asked the lead
ers of the party present to support the
Kentucky city and use their influence with
the national committee in the choice of the
meeting place.
A banquet TO Judge Tarvin by the
Young Mems Democratic Club was given
at night, at which Mr.. Bryan, John T.
Altgeld and other distinguished men were
present, and at which 300 plates were laid
Mr.. Bryan responded to the toast, "The
Democratic Party" Following Mr.. Bry
an Charles X. Wheeler of Kentucky re
sponded TO ''The American Army and
Navy" David II. Murray of Kentucky
responded to the toast, 'Shall we retair
the Philippines as part of our permanent
possessionsw Ex-Gov. John Z. Atgeld
of Illinois responded to the toast, "Gov'
ernment and Municipal Ownership OF
Public Franchises Following Mr.. Alt
geld, George Fred Williams of Massachu
setts responded to The Money of the
Constitution"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08

Lieut.. Col. PicQuarts salary is $500 a
day.
Carl Browne is preaching from Kansas
pulpits.
Gov. Stanley of Kansas smokes cubeb
cigarettes.
George Gould's chief delight is polo. He
rides horseback every day.
Amateur photography is the chief diver
sion of the Princess of Wales.
Neosho, Mo-, has named its new public
school in honor of Eugene Field.
Joseph Hatton, the author and journal
list, takes ten-mile walk every day.
King Charles of Roumania has publish
ed his "reminiscences in three volumes.
In her youth Virginia Fair Vanderbilt
was passionately fond of playing marbles.
Earl Rosslyn has followed the Earl of
Warwick's example and incorporated him.
self
Rudyard Kipling is said to be the first
poet who could afford to travel in q private
car.
Czarina Alix has become a golfer, and
will introduce the game at the Russian
court.
The Duchess of Sutherland is writing
novel. Size will give the proceeds TO
charity.
Admiral Sampson weighs thirty pounds
less than he did at the opening of the war
with Spain.
Coils p. Huntington says that the best
way to become rich Is not to talk during
business hours.
Nj. Delcasse, French minister of foreign
affairs, can speak all of the modern Euro
pean languages.
Slams crown prince is a student at Har-
row, England. He is popular with his
school fellows.
Henri Becque, the French playwright,
who died the other day, smoked on an
average 200 cigarets a day.
Baroness Burdett-C -Coutts, who has Just
celebrated her eighty-fourth birthday, has
q fortune Of $10,000,000.
For a while President Mckinley smok-
ed briar pipe, but found 1t as injurious
In its effects as cigars were.
Ian Maclaren has Travelled IL 900 miles
In America, visited twenty-six States and
lectured in fifty-eight cities.
Franz Ebert, the Liliputian, was nat
uralixed In New York last week, when be
foreswore allegiance to the Kaiser.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08
MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES.
Comptroller Reports Decrease in Cir
cu1ation Volume.

The monthly statement of the Comp
troller of the Currency shows that the
total circulation of national bank notes
on May 81 TO have been S242, ,Ot4, bod, a
decrease for the month of S649,719 and an
increase for the year of S14,451, 100. The
circulation based on United States bonds
amounted TO S20G,305,05 decrease for
the month of S1,660,333 and an increase
for the year of SO, 150,019. The circu-
lation secured by lawful money amounted
to $50, 75S,000, an increase for the month
of S1,010,553, and an increase for the
year of S4.301 600. The amount Of Unit
ed States registered bonds on deposit to
secure circulating notes was S230,G00, ,310
and to secure public deposits S71,172,940.
The monthly report of the director of the
mint shows the total coinage at the Unit
ed States mints during May, 1899, was
$7.S04,5GG, as follows: Gold, $4.S03. 400;
silver, S2.7S9.41G; minor coins, S121 $50
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08
Their Preference.

Certain politicians Of the nobler class
there are many of them-have the
soul of an honorable but shrewd mer-
chant, who sells in the dearest and
buys In the cheapest market. He wish
es to get his moneys worth for his
money, but be always gives full and
just measure.
There are also politicians, and they
are not few, either, who may say with
the Scotch trader on his death-bed:
''Oor family were aye middlin' hon.
est; we neither liked to chate nor to be
chated, but o. the twa, reyther to
chate."
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08
IOWA REGIMENT ATTACKED.
Two Men Wounded Near Sam Fernan
do -Macabebes Enlisted.

The Filipino insurgents reoccupied the
lines around San Fernando, attacked the
Iowa regiments outposts and wounded
two men. Captain French took the re-
mainder of the Twenty-second infantry
to Canadaba, the insurgents having ap-
peared in considerable force thereabouts.
Capt. Wren of the Seventeenth infantry
has completed the enlistment Of 100 ma
tive Macabebes as scouts. The Macabebe
city of Pampanga, which was always
loyal to Spain, is now loyal to the Ameri-
cans. They are always fighting Tagals,
and now offer regiment. BY the reor-
ganization of troops, Gen. I.awton, with
the First division, now commands the Ma
Mia defenses from Caloocan to Pasay,
while Macarthur commands all north Of
the headquarters to San Fernando.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08
The sirnificance of PETER.

Among the various recent signs Of
the breakup of the Populist party the
return of ex-senator PETER to the Re-
publican party is significant In its evil
dence that the original sincere Farm
ers' Alliance element is recognizing
that the cause Of the troubles from
which 1t sought relief in political action
was not in politics at all. This, as
proof of conviction of error among mis-
guided Populists, is more important
than the defeat of misguiding Populists
like w. v. Allen, Jerry Simpson and
]. Hamilton Lewis, or even the admis-
sion of that defeat by practical profes-
sional Populists like Senator Harris,
Peffer's successor.
The man whose "whiskers" were for
six years as much the sign and symbol
of a militant party as were the horse
tails of the Janissaffes, represented
Populism both at Its worst, or at least
widest, and best. In his day, the day
Of the defeat Of ingalls,, the day Of the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08
SIX PEOPLE DROWN AT TOLEDO
Three Men and Three Women Perish
Before Aid Reaches Them,


Late Wednesday night six persons were
drowned in the Maumee river abreast Of
the most frequented dock in Toledo, while
hundreds of people listened to their cries
for help. Shortly after the pleasure steam
er Pastime passed down the sailors on
board the State of New York heard cries
for help coming from the river. The
steamers searchlight was brought into
play, and it showed six persons-three
men and three women-struggling in the
water, but there was no trace of boat.
In few minutes one of the steamers
lifeboats started to the rescue, but when
it had covered half the distance the
searchlght showed that all the struggling
people had disappeared.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08
In Colonel Bryan,s State.

The report of the Labor Bureau of
Nebraska, which has recently been is
sued by an official Of Colonel Bryan's
faith, will not become part of the 16-
to-1 literature of 1900. 1t deals with
that mortgage question which Mr..
Bryan never failed to turn to his ad-
vantage in his speeches in 1896, by tell
ing farmers that they We're being
ground to death by the .'money power"
of Wall street, and by warSng them
that unless the country should get rid
of the gold standard and adopt Az
cent dollar, they would fall into hope
less bondage. The farmers OF Ne
braska believed Mr.. Bryan, at least, a
majority Of them did, and gave him the
electoral vote of that State, and the
farmers of Kansas did likewise. With
the rest Of the country, the farmers Of
Nebraska now know that the ruin and
perpetual bondage never came. In
stead, Nebraska is one of the States
which, TO the amaZement of the Popu-
lists, has been having a season of un-
usual prosperity. That such is the
case the following table, giving the
aggregate amounts of the mortgages
filed and released each year in Ne
braska from 1892 to 1898, both includ-
ed, shows:
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08
REPORT ON PORTO RICO.
mission Says the People Are All
Ready to BE Americauized.

NOHHEHfBsIUI Nuyb tfft tOpIC NTt MI
Ready to BE Americanized.
The insular commission appointed by
the War Department to investigate the
affairs of Porto Rico and to report upon
all matters relating to currency, laws, tax
alton, judiciary, public improvements, ed
ucation and civil affairs generally has
made a unanimous report to the Secretary
of War.
The commissioners say that all classes
and conditions of the Porto Rican popula-
tion are ready and willing to accept Amer
lean institutions and to be content with
them, and in general they recommend the
establishment of such laws as will give
the people substantially the same protec-
ton now enjoyed by the people of the
United States
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08
Alaska.


Some of the Alaska Indians eat mos
quitoes.
Wood is $15 cord. Last year it was
$50.
Consul McCook says winter at Dawson
is preferable to summer.
The coolest weather of the winter at
Dawson was so degrees below zero.
Among the Indians the woman who out
lives her husband and doesn't marry be-
comes slave.
Lieut.. Castner reports that the number
of Indians has been greatly reduced by
civilization.
McClarty's body was carried for burial
by his four partners over the frozen trail
to Dawson, twenty-five miles away.
There are no dentists in the Alaskan
capital, no jewellers, except the crudest
artisans among the Indians, no photog-
raphers, dressmakers, nor milliners, not
even an undertaken, and only a semi-occa-
sional shoemaker.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08

OcaIa platform and the pumpkin sub.
treasuries-the day, too, of the remark
able strength displayed In the election
Of 1892, even under the lead of such
man as Weaver-the party was most
revolutionary, but also most sincere, in
its aims. 1t really thought that some
legislation could be found which would
make crops permanently dear and
money normally cheap, and it set out
honestly TO fnd IL. Meantime, those
of its members who practiced frugality
and cultivated patience have found,
not the millennial heights which they
sought-though they have been nearer
to them than any other farmers on
earth-but the steady level OF welfare
which must attend every land, such as
our agricultural West, where the soil
Is rich and cheap and the people hard
working, intelligent and free. This
sort of Populist came out of the Re-
publican party, and thousands Of him
have been returning, as the elections
to Congress OF last year showed.-New
York Press.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08
MANILA RECEIPTS INCREASE.
Statement of the Revenues for Three
Months of 800.

Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn
has made public the detailed receipts from
customs at Manila for the months Of Jan
uary, February and March, 1890, and
comparisons Herewith for the years 1893
to 1897, both inclusive. A comparison of
receipts with 1898 shows as follows:
Year. January. February. March.
1893. .$217, ,07419 $14s.309.51 S13O,241.7g
1S90... 3s5, ,3s996 267,214.21 292 161. .o4
These receipts embrace import and ex-
port duties, tonnage dues, fines. etc.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08

Receive no satisfaction for premedi-
tated impertinence; forget II, and for
give It; but keep inexorably at a dis
tancs from him who offered it.-Lavs,
ter.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08

The foregoing ngureS embrace 1afm
mortgages only. The annual amount
of farm mortgages filed exceeded the
amount released by more than S23, ,000,-
900 during the years 1892, 1893, 1894
and 1895. During 1896 the tide turned
so that during the three years ending
with 1898, S14,000,000 more of mort
cages were paid off than We're filed.
The same report shows that there is
much more money in the banks now
than ever before, and that those bor-
rowing money on farm mortgages get
il at n much lower rate of interest.
OF all the men in the country who
have been benefited by the defeat of
Mr.. Bryan in 1896, the farmers as a
whole have had the largest share. The
voters in the newer West, and, indeed,
in the West generally, gave Mr. Bryan
and 16-to-1 the most cordial support,
because many of them were deceived
by his fallacics. The elections of 1895
showed reaction in the agricultural
portions Of the country against the sill
verism of Bryan. Suppose Mr.. Bryan
does not take note of the improved con-
dition Of the farmers of Nebraska and
other States and comes to them with
his argument of 1S96-what will they
say?-Indianapolis Journal.
American Trade Expansion.
Everywhere American mechanical
genius and American workmen COM
pete and win.-New York Evening
Journal.
American genius, in the form of agri-
cultural implements, finds favor even
on the estates of Englishmen.-Balti-
more American.
american locomotive-get off the
tracllv' is the warning that resounds
through the manufacturing centers Of
Englaud.-Detroit Free Press.
Our present trade expansion is but a
prelude to the vast proportions which
the American export trade will assume
a few years hence.-Philadelphi Rec
ord.
Now that London has taken to order
ing its locomotives here, il appears to
be time for chappies to stop ordering
their trousers in London.-Baltimor
Herald.
Every European market has been in
vaded by the United States and Great
Britain's trade has suffered in conse-
quence. 1t is not difficult TO supply an
explanation. A better article at lower
figure has been furnished to consum-
ers by American manufacturers. The
IT, t.l. Iya pffo ~,
which we make by machinery. They
have thus fallen behind American man.
ufacturers in trade competition be-
cause of inferior skill and higher cost
of production.-St. Louis Republic.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08
Guam.

Daily concerts are to be given by the
Governors band.
American immigration has been infni-
tesimal since the island was captured.
Regular steamship communication with
the United States has not yet been estab.
lished.
Nine-tenths Of the islanders can read
and write, and 1t is reported that they are
rapidly learning English.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08
Hawaii.

Nearly one-tenth of the population are
Mormons.
Eighty-four per .cent of the native Ha-
waiians are able to read and write.
There has been a decrease in the immi-
grafton OF Americans. Scores of those
who came Immediately after annexation
are In poverty and unable to return to
the mainland.
The postal savings banks have nearly
1000 depositors, with nearly 81 200, 900
to their credit. There 10 some demand for
the continuance Of the system under
American rule.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08

Rainy seasons begun At Manila.
Louisville, Ky. gets six new letter car
riers.
Lord Mayor Talton, Dublin, Ireland
will visit St. Louis.
Epidemic of typhoid fever reported IN
Dawson, Alaska.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08

MARVIN POST, No. 24o, g. A. R.. meets tbs
second and fourth Saturdays in each month
A. l.. POND. Post Com
j. c. HANSON, Adjutant.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08

WOMEN's RELIEF CORPS. No. 1872. meets ON
the I'd and 4th Saturdays at o'clock in the al
ternoon. MRS. ]. Nj. JONES, President
REBEccA WIGHT, Sec. -
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08

G!AYLING LODGE. No. sts. r. d A IL.
meets in regular communication on Thursday
evening on or before the full OF the moon
j. X. MERz. w. N
j. Y. HURN, Secretary
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-06-08

ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH.-Father
II. Webeler. Regular services the end Sunday
in each month.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-01-05
SEABOARD LEASES A RAILROAD
Will Operte the Richmond and Ridge
way Shortcut When Completed.

As had been supposed all along
tn. Seaboard Air Line will operate
the Richmond. Petersburg Il Caro-
lima railroad. the shortcut between
Richmond, Va. and Ridgeway, y.
G.. now in course of construction.
The Raleigh Post of the Bird says:
Mr.. W. G. Stronach and Maj. J. b.
BetchclOr returned from Baltimore
Yesterday where they attended a
meeting of the directors of the
Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad.
At this meeting the lease of the
Richmond. Petersburg and Carolina
was consummatcd by the tSeaboard
for a term of twenty years. The
figures at which the lease was Sc
cured were not made public.
The understanding was that the
lease is to 90 into effect as soon as
the road is completed and equipped,
which will require eight months
time.
The new property acquired by the
Scaboard will extend from Richmond
to Ridgeway, n. G., where it will tar
the Seaboard. \ part of the road is
already complete South OF Peters
burg and its construction is being
| rapidly pushed to Ridgeway.
This new property will give the
Scaboard an independent all raj
| Northern outlet and enable it to run
| trains from New York South.