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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-05-03
POWERFUL COAL Trust.
Three Men Now Control the Entir'
Trade of the United States.

Three Men Now Control the Entire
Trade of the United States.
A trust was formed by the recent ALI
ance of the Vanderbilt-Morgan-Ca ssatt
railroads, and henceforth the absolute
control of the American coal trade, both
anthracite and bituminous, will rest in
the hands of this powerful combine.
While the coal trust has practically
existed for two years and more, it has
never had control of the bituminous stu
alton, although j. Pierpont Morgan, its
ruling spirit, has been an important fac
tor in soft coal affairs. But now, by the
alliance between the railroad interests Of
w. X. Vanderbilt, ]. p. Morgan and A.
j. Cassatt the entire coal situation is so
bottled up that it can be controlled by
the three men named, and the final set
Element of details is now being made
Mr.. Morgan having gone to London to
see Mr.. Vanderbilt for that purpose.
In the hands of the Vanderbilt-Cas-
satt interests is lodged practical control
of the New York Central, Delaware and
Hudson, Pennsylvania, Norfolk and
Western, Baltimore and Ohio, Chesa-
peake and Ohio and Big Four. Mr..
Morgan has the Reading, Lehigh Valley,
Erie, Ontario and Western and enough
Of an interest in the small soft coal roads
to make competition practically impossi-
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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-05-03
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The News -

The chain trust should advertise for
missing links.
The Duke of Marlborough has pene-
trated to Bloemfontein. Still the war
goes on.
Polecat skins are barred from the
mails. This is certainly the decision of
common scents.
This is the time of year when some men
talk through the hats they expect to
cast away after election.
Electing United States Senators by d.
rect vote OF the people might make 1t still
more expensive in Montana.
A Chicago vag was arrested for trying
to buck down a fence. This shows the
Ill fortune of being headstrong.
A Milwaukee girl who was married for
fun two years ago now wants a divorce.
1t would be funny il she shouldn't
1t would have been cheaper as well as
safer IL Senator Clark bad gone to Italy
and purchased a dukedom, for instance.
Two Iowa girls were sent to reform
school for going TO the theater, but the
actors were allowed to go unpublished.
France Is to do away with public execu-
tons. 1t will certainly do no harm to
give some evidence of relinquishing bar
barism.
A New York man has been arrested
because he objected to paying $3.50 for a
dish Of mushrooms. Case Of too much
mushrooms.
The last seasons seal catch is reported
the best for twenty years. But this Is ne
consolation to the man who has three
daughters who each want one.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-05-03

The Senate on Tuesday by q vote of 80
to 80, refused Matthew s. Quay q seat
In that body on the appointment Of the
Governor OF Pennsylvania.
The entire time Of the Senate was de-
voted to debate upon the question, many
o. the greatest lawyers and orators In
the body delivering speeches. Az the
days session wore on and the hour for
the final vote approached the galleries
gradually filed until they were thronged
with multitudes, while other multitudes
were unable to gain admission. The great
throng listened with deep attention to the
brilliant argument Of Mr.. Spooner In
favor Of the seating Of the former Penn
sylvania Senator and to the dramatic and
fiery eloquence OF Mr.. Daniel.
As the big clock opposite the President
pro tempore indicated o'clock there was
a hush in the chamber. Mr.. Frye, in the
chair, announced that the hour for the
final vote had arrived and that the ques-
ton was the pending motion Of Mr..
Chandler to strike out of the resolution
declaring Mr.. Quay not to be entitled to
a seat the word mot" Senators through
out the chamber eagerly followed the roll
call, for all knew the vote would be close.
The first sensation was caused by the
failure of Mr.. Pettigrew of South Da-
kota to answer to his name, although he
was in his seat. When Mr.. Vests name
was called he voted mo" in a clear, dis
tinct voice, thus dashing the last hope of
the friends of Mr.. Quay, who had ex-
pected confidently that the distinguished
Missourian would vote for his longtime
personal friend. In perfect silence it was
announced that the Senate had denied
Mr.. Quay the seat which he has sought
for some months past.
The following Republican Senators vot-
cd against the resolution: Bard, Burrows,
Hale. Hawley, Mcbride, McCumber, Nc
MILAN, Plat Comm, Proctor, Quarles,
Ross, Simon, Teller and Wellington.
Pairs were announced as follows, the
first named in each instance being favor
able to Mr.. Quay and the second opposed
to him. Pritchard with Gallinger, Depew
with Hanna, Foster with Kean, Lodge
with Thurston, Kenney with Caffery, FL
kins with Chiffon, Fairbanks with Nal
DRY. Hoar with Pettus, Kyle with Raw
Inns.
The following Senator's were impaired:
Aldrich, Beverage, Clark (Mont) and
Pettigrew.
The vote was then taken on the resolu-
ton declaring Quay was not entitled to
a seat. The resolution declaring Quay
not entitled to a seat was carried, 33 to
30, the roll call being the same as in the
previous call.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-05-03
MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to 5000; hogs, shipping grades,
So. 90 to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, So. 90
to $5.75; wheat, No. red, 65c to &c;
corn, No. 2, 39c to Ale; oats, No. 2, 23c
to 24c; rye, No. 2, 53c to soc; butter,
choice creamery, tic to 1Sc; eggs, fresh,
lie to 12c; potatoes, choice, 25c to 4Oc
per bushel.
Indianapolis--CattIe, shipping. $500 to
5000; hogs. choice light. $500 to 1918;
sheep. common to prime, $500 to 1915;
wheat. No. 2, Toe to re; corn, No. 2
white, soc to Ale; oats. No. 2 white,
27c to 29c.
st. Louis-C Cattle. 1925 to 5000; hogs,
$500 to 1918; sheep. $500 to $3.50:
wheat, No. 2, Tic to 73c; corn. No. 2
yellow, 800 to 41c; oats. No. 2. 24c to
26c; rye, No. 2, 55c to 56c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $2.5 to 5000; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep. $3.50 to 1918:
wheaf, No. 2, 73c to 74c; corn, No.
mixed. Ale to 43c; oats, No. 2 mixed. 25c
to &c; rye, No. 2. &c to &c.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to 5000: hogs,
$500 to 1915; sheep. $500 to $6.25:
wheat, No. 2. zoe to re; corn. No.
yellow, 40c to Ale; oats. No. 2 white. 2Sc
to 30c; rye. Coo to &c.
Toledo-Whear. No. 2 mixed, re to
T3c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 40c to Ale; oats,
No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2. SIC
to 5Sc; clover seed. old, $4.65 to $4.75.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. . northern.
66c to &c; corn. No. 3, Csc to 40c; oats,
No. 2 white, &c to 2Sc; rye, No. 2. SIC
to Doc; barley, No. 2, 42c TO 43c; pork,
mess. $3.50 to $500.
Buffalo-Cattle. choice shipping steers,
$500 TO 5000; hogs, common to choice,
$3.25 to 5000: sheep. fair to choice. $500
to 1915; lambs. common TO extra. $3.50
to $7.75.
New York.-Cattle. 1926 to $500; hogs.
$500 to 5000; sheep. $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, red, Toe to Soc; corn. No. 2,
48c to 40c; OATS, No. 2 white. 29c to 31c;
butter. creamery. 15c to 19c; eggA west
ern. 12c to lac.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-05-03

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ola, at 81, often went hungry.

LOla, at Il, oIten went hungry.
Attorney General Griggs is a crack
shot.
Ex-United States Senator Sawyer is
SO years Of age.
George Gould has purchased one of the
finest packs of fox hounds in England.
President McKinley's favorite game is
chess. He is quite an expert player.
In the paper mill owned by Gov. Crane
at Dalton, Mass, workmen who become
too old to labor are retired on their regu-
lar salary as long as they live.
The King of Sweden never touches a
gun. The King of Belgium has shot only
once in his life, and the Sultan Of Tur-
key cannot bear to see a gun.
The late William Dickey, who was a
member of the Maine Legislature for
fifty-nine years, made the longest record
for service Of that kind in the State.
Joseph l.. Mayors, State Senator Of
Ohio from Coshocton, walked to the cap
ital from his home, distance of 100
miles, to show his independence of rail-
roads.
Representative Littlefeld Of Maine,
who favors the prohibition laws of the
State, was embarrassed at a euchre par
ty in Washington by winning as prize
handsome beer stein.
United States Senator Nelson was born
In Norway.
Names Legislature ordered a bust Of
ex-Speaker Reed.
Miss Floretta vining of Hull, Mass,
owns nine newspapers.
Former Senator ingalls, mother Is still
living an active life in Boston at the adj
vanccd age of 30 years.
President Eliot of Harvard is some
thing of q pedestrian. He frequently
walks from Cambridge into Boston.
or the twenty-five men who have filled
the Governors chair in Indiana Gov.
Mount Is the only one living.
Congressman Clark of Missouri states
that he is writing a novel in which there
will be no women.
The late Prof. Hughes, Il. II. s., inven-
tor Of the Hughes printing telegraph, be-
queathed $4,000 to the Royal Society
for the furtherance of physical science.
Secretary Long has an interesting col
lection Of naval flags and signals Of all
nations, many OF which are gifts from
famous sailors in this and other coun-
tries.
The tradition that there is always Q
Wolcott at Harvard Is ut present wen
maintained, one son Of the Governor OF
Massachusetts, being in the law school
and two others in the freshman class
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-05-03
MACHINE GUNS USEDo REBELS
Eighty Fi1ipinos Moved Down, While
Americans Are Not Harmed.

Eighty Filipinos Moved Down, While
Americans Are Not Harmed.
Officers who have arrived in Manila
from Neuva Caceras, province Of South
Camarines, bring details of a fight in
which eighty Filipinos were killed. The
American outposts reported 300 natives
assembled three miles from the town AMI
Gen. Bell sent three detachments of the
Forty-6fth regiment, with two Maxims,
who nearly surrounded the Fi!ipinos, the
majority Of whom were armed with bolos
and wore carabao hide helmets, coats and
shields. The Filipinos were quickly put
to flight, leaving the field strewn with
armor. Their rifemen were unable to
shoot straight and the bolomen never
got near enough to the Americans to do
any execution. Therefore none Of the
Americans was wounded. Lieut.. Balch,
with twenty cavalrymen from the Thirty
seventh regiment, cornered fifty bolomen
in a river and shot every one, the bodies
floating away. One soldier had his head
struck off with a bolo.
Gen. Bells two regiments are hard
worked in clearing the country. They
meet with many small squads of bolomen
and last week killed total of 125. Gen.
Bell has issued proclamation declaring
that he will retaiate relentlessly unless
this guerrilla warfare ceases and that
he will burn all the towns which harbor
guerrillas.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-05-03
ENTHUSIASTICALLY
Trek fer the North After Freeing weD-
snsr-British Net to Entrap Entire
Array Useless Disaster in Pretoria
Arsenal-Ten workmcn Killed.

South Africa advices say that after
heavy fighting, Wepener has been re-
lieved and the all-day artillery battle at
Dewetsdorp Wednesday resulted In the
occupation Of that point by the British
troops. Between Dewetsdorp and Tina
banchu Gems. Pole Carew and French
have been driving the Beers before them.
Gen. Roberts army Is now depioyed
along an extended line, with Gen. French
apparently repeating the tactics which re-
suited so successfully at Paardeberg.
There Is nothing in the dispatches that
indicates the Beers are thinking of re-
treating northward, even though the held
were open. Instead they are fighting
along the entire line.
The British hope of conclusive results
seems slim at present, the Beers escap-
ing unbeaten and having accomplished
an immense amount of damage. They
chung to their positions as long as it was
safe to do so, and then slipped off to hold
the next commanding ridge through q
broken country admirably suited for q
rear guard defense.
Dispatches from Aliwal North, under
date of Wednesday, say the Beers left
Wepener so hurriedly that many Of the
dead were left in the trenches unburied.
Commandant s. Cronje is reported to
have been killed.
According to advices from Bloemfon-
tein, the attempt of the Beers at Brand
fort to get in touch with the command
at Thaba Nchu was frustrated by force
dispatched by Gen. Tucked from Glen.
Apparently, however, the tide, after a
momentary delay, is again setting toward
the British side, though so far as re-
ported the engagements, beyond the relief
Of Wepener, are scarcely of sufficient inn
portance to warrant so sweeping a gen.
eralization. In one respect only can the
movement against Wepener be regarded
as a Boer success. BY making this d.
version and by the renewed activity in
Natal, where the Beers are massing at
Tintwa pass. thus menacing Buffers ar
my, the invasion OF the Transvaal has
again been indefinitely delayed.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Lourenco Marques, dated Wednes-
day, says that a daring attempt was
made Sunday night to destroy the bridge
at Komatipoort, the terminus of the
Delagoa Bay Railway in the eastern par.
of Portuguese, East Africa The attempt
failed by the merest accident, kaffirs Civ
ing the alarm. The Beers have conse-
quently increased their force on the from
tier and the hills are lined with riflemen,
the burghers suspecting that the British
are advancing upon the Transvaal by
some mysterious route. Every approach
to the bridge is guarded by barbed wire.
The correspondent does not indicate who
1t was who attempted to destroy the
bridge
Part Of the Begbe shell factory at Pre-
toria blew UP the other night. Ten men
were killed and thirty-two wounded. They
were mostly French and Italians. No
cause Of the explosion is assigned, but
it Is not believed to be due to treachery.
The factory has been working double
time for weeks. Most of the important
machinery was saved.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-05-03

Past Week Of yiIip'ne War Nest Dead
IL of Its x1story.
Last week was de Of the bloodiest Of
the Filipino war since the first days light
Ing around Manila. Authentic reports.
mostly Official. show total Of 37B t'ili-
pinos killed. twelve officers and pa men
captured and many more wounded. The
number wounded is hardly guessable.
Considering that the Filipinos entirely
lack hospital facilities q great majority
weeks work finished 1000 insurgents.
The American loss was nine killed and
sixteen wounded. Two sergeants and one
private were killed In ambushes while
escortipg provision trains.
The insurgents have been aggressive in
almost every province of Luzon. Gen.
Pho Del Pillars band, numbering 3OO,
which was out Of sight for three months,
the leader being reported killed, has re-
appeared In its old field about San Mi
guel. Pillar IL supposed to be in COM
mand again. He gave the American gar
rison at San Miguel, consisting of three
companies Of the Thirty-ffth infantry,
with Calling, a three hours fight dur
ing night attack. The loss of the in
surgents in this engagement is not in
cluded in the foregoing total. as they re-
moved their dead and wounded. but pre-
sumably 1t was considerable.
Twenty Filipinos in the province Of Ba-
tangas attacked Lieut. Wonde. who. with
eight men, was scoting near San Jose.
The lieutenant ind five men were wound
ed and one private was killed. Sergeant
Ledoius of the Thirty fifth infantry was
badly wounded in an ambush near Bali
nag. Lieut.. Balch of the Thirty
infantry, with seventy men. had FIVE
hours fight with 400 insurgents in the
Nueva Caceras district. Twenty Of the
insurgents were killed.
Col. Smith of the Seventeenth infantry,
who captured Gen. Montenegro and
brought him to Manila, is in the isola-
ton hospital suffering from smallpox, pre-
sumably caught from the Filipinos. Col.
Smiths command captured $50 officers
and men with Montenegro.
One hundred escaped Spanish prisoners
from the province of Tayabas, south Luz
zon, have arrived at Manila. The insur-
gents have 400 more Spaniards in that
district. Recently the Filipinos destroy
ed several rods Of the railroad line near
Paniquo in an unsuccessful attempt to
wreck a train.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-05-03
This and That.


Dewey viii visit Columbus, Ohio, early
in June.
Bethesda hospital association, Cincin-
natl, has decided that deaconesses shall
not ride bicycles.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland Is much
grieved over the war in South Africa.
Both she and her mother are constantly
contributing funds in aid of the Beers.
She is fully persuaded that the English
people are in the wrong.
On train running between Client and
Brussels a fierce discussion about the
South African war arose among the pas
sengers. An alarm was given, the train
stopped and the disputants were forced
to finish the dispute on the ground.
Allen Fuller, colorcd, when hanged at
Macon. Ca, for the murder of Mrs. Il. III.
Pottle. declared two white men had Of
fered him $3.50 to commit the crime.
Cat fanciers in Lincoln County. Ore.
have obtained the consent of the POST
Office Department to the christening OF
their postoilice by the name of Angora.
The first postmaster of Angora bears the
surname OF Tom.
An important experiment and stafisti-
cal study has recently been published
dealing with the influence of cold upou
the bacillus OF typhoid fever and its dis
tribution. The conclusion is reached that
there Is small danger OF infection from
typhoid bacilli remaining in ice.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-05-03
TWO REPORTS TO BE MADE.
There Is an UnfavorabIe Side to the
Trade Situation.

Bradstreet's has this to say of the con-
dition of business: Evidence Of the fact
that there are now two sides to the gen
eral trade situation, where for year
past there was but one, come, to sight
each week. Different sections of the
country and lines of business return diff
fering reports, but that the situation as
a whole is a favorable one and suffers
merely by comparison with the enormous
and almost feverish activity of some time
ago is also evident. Crop prospects, ex-
cept in the wheat area of the central
west and in some flooded sections of the
South, remain all that might be wished
for. Retail demand is improving, and
nothing of a definitely depressing charac-
ter has yet developed. One of the most
favorably situated industries is that Of
shoes. Paints, oils and drugs are also
in good distribution. In agricultural
products the situation is generally one
of sustained strength. Wheat Gncuding
four shipments for the week aggregate
3,6S3,963 bushels, against $3.50, 451
bushels last week Corn exports for the
week aggregate 3,620,664 bushels,
against 1874 bushels last week"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-05-03
BATTERIES OF NEW wARsHiPs.

System Embracing Twelve Guns in
Six Turrets Likely to Prevail.
The question Of the character and ar
rangement of the main batteries of the
projected battleships Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Georgia came up at meet
ing of the board on construction in Wash
ington, this time on a suggestion of Rear
Admiral O'Neil, chief of the bureau of
ordnance and chairman Of the board, that
the battery arrangement similar to that
of the Iowa in turret guns be agreed to.
At this meeting the proposition to adhere
to the battery embracing twelve guns in
six turrets, four twelves and eight Fights,
was submitted. While no vote was taken
it was evident that three Of the four
members Of the board present were better
satisfied with this arrangement than that
embracing the superimposed arrange
ment
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-05-03
FiANCeE HIS CHILD.
Photograph Leads to Discovery and
Ends an Engagement.

Photograph Leads to Discovery and
Ends an Engagement.
But for an accidental discovery Of his
dead wife's picture in his affianced wife's
photograph album, Adam Cordiff, a mid
dle-aged Ohioan, living near Hopedale.
would have been married to his own
daughter. He had arrived in Charleston.
w. Va, to be married to the young WON
an, Miss Lucy Cole, and on the evening
before the ceremony was sitting with her
looking at the portraits in an album. He
was surprised into sharp exclamation by
seeing the picture Of his wife, dead fol
more than eighteen years. Miss Cole,
noticing the exclamation, said: That lie
my mother: she has been dead many
years"
In answer to Cordiff's excited ques
tioning the whole story came out. Miss
Cole is not the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Cole, with whom she is living. They
adopted her when she was little child
and she therefore took their name. She
said she never knew who her father wal
and could not remember her mother. Hei
adopted parents were able TO explain
something of the story.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-05-03
Side Lights on.
the BOer War.

Mrs. Joubert, the widow of the late
Boer general, has from the days Of her
earliest childhood been used to wars
alarms. She can load and fire off gun,
and ON many occasions has shown the
greatest courage. She has an extensive
knowledge of Kafiir warfare and her ad
vice has often been acted upon by her
husband, plans of campaign being freely
discussed over her dinner table. During
the Magatoand campaign she, notwith-
standing the heat-over lou degrees In
the shade-and the fever, joined the gen.
eral week or two after his arrival, ac-
companied by only two or three little
Kaffir maids. Finding Gen. Joubert in
anything but comfortable tent, she rout
ed him out, erected tent OF her own
and installed him amid all the comforts
of home. What was more, she recon
structed the generals mess arrangements
and cooked his meals with her own hands.
-
II the printed pictures of British off,
GERS in South Africa are true to life they
reveal the secret of the great mortality
among them. The large per cent Of killed
and wounded officers has been attributed
generally 10 the supcriot MAJ nSmohshiP
of the Beers. The latter undoubtedly
shoot well, but it does not require high
order of craftsmanship to top over men
clad in knickers with bosoms built on the
balloon order. The central feature Of
the uniforms look as though the bishop
sleeves" worn by women a few years ago
had been converted into abbreviated
trousers for the warriors at the front, and
the underpinning is so long drawn out
as to present the appearance OF golf sticks
in boots. The veriest amateur could
scarcely miss such irresistible targets.
They would provoke an unloaded gun to
action.
Gen. Lord Kitchener's reputation has
been seriously compromised not only by
his strategic bunder at Paardeburg.
which cost 1900 men in single days
fighting, but also by the complete failure
OF Lord Roberts transport service. which
zen. Kitchener organized. Kitchener's
expedition through northern Cape Colony
to quell the rebellion also proved an utter
fiasco, and his officers among whom his
stern. overbearing methods make him
highly unpopular, write most disparaging-
ly concerning him.
There are just now three living Brit
ish peers who have won their peerages
on the attle6eld--Vlscount Wolseley,
Lord Roberts of Kandahar. and Lord
Kitchener Of Khartoum.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-05-03
SAVES AN INNOCENT MAN.
Former Convict Tcstifies Against Him
.isA self Before a Coroner's Jury.

Former Convict Tcstifies Against Him
d.sI self Before a Coroner's Jury.
John McGann, a former convict, went
before a coroner's jury at ST. Louis and,
to save an innocent man from suffering
for the accidental shooting of man, gave
sufficient evidence against himself to re-
turn him to the pcnitentiary had the
testimony been given in criminal court.
The inquest was on the body of Joseph
Opperman, shot by John Marienthal in
the latter's saloon. Mccain testified
that he was engaged in picking the peck
cts of Alexander Stanton when Marien-
thai and Opperman came forward and
caught hold of him to protect Stanton;
that Marienthal hit him (McGann) over
the head with the butt of his revolver
when the weapon was discharged, the
bullet lodging in Opperman's stomach.
causing death a few moments later. Up
on this testimony Marienthal was exon
Grated. Mccain was arrested on charge
of robbery