Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-03-01
Odds and Ends

1t is believed that the plague in Hon
olulu has now run its course.
Prince Henry of Prussia was held up
and robbed by Siamese bandits.
The survey of the route for a Pacific
cable has been finished by the steamer
Nero.
The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
has announced general advance of 3
per cent.
Gen. Braves of Mexico has defeated
the Maya Indians in the southern part of
that country.
Advices from Dawson state that gen.
eral exodus to Cape Nome was expected
in May and June.
The Milar-Osborne spice works and
the Moline Plow Company's warehouse,
Denver, Colo, were burned. Loss $780,
600.
| Ed Berlin was found dead on top of q
| Pullman car at Louisville. Death was
caused by his head striking a bridge or
| tunnel.
Young Hollanders are said to be arriv-
ing in America, intending to earn enough
money to carry them TO South Africa to
help fight the British.
cyrus, Ohio TO purchase great steel wag-
ons and traction engines for use in the
desert of northern China in place Of cam
els.
A jury at Dallas. Texas, has declared
the will of the late Gen.. Il. A. Mexia Of
Mexico invalid because of undue influ-
ence. Property worth over S1,000,000 is
affected.
A troop of Boer horsenen who perform
nightly in a German circus have been
forbidden that part of their program
which represents victory over British
redcoats.
The Abbott Downing Company of Con-
cord, n. H., manufacturer of carriages
and wagons. has failed with 100000 la
bilities and 100000 assets. 1t was es-
tablished in 1926.
The Glasgow (Scotland) Tramway and
Street Railway Company has order cd
from the Ritter-Conley Company Of
Pittsburg, Pa, structural iron and steel
plates worth 100000.
The Chicago postoffice shows great
decrease in the sale of postage Cue
stamps since the rules prohibiting the
forwarding of underpaid second and third
class matter went into effect
A Kcnosha (Wis.) minister sued a cou-
pie of wcll-known young men of the town
for 81 each, the fees due him for, per-
forming the double ceremony of marriage
when the two young men welded sisters.
Italian agents who have been in New
York for a couple of weeks past have con-
Guided arrangements for the equipment OF
several trolley roads in the leading cities
of northern Italy.
What is said To be the first instance of
a mother performing the marriage cere-
mony for her daughter occurred recently
in San Francisco, when Mrs Kate
Heussman united Miss Mary Violet
Herssman to Felix Drapinski. Mrs.
Henssman is an ordained minister under
q State charter issued to the independent
Bible Society, Of which she is a mission
airy.
Rear Admiral w. T. Sampson has pos
itively declined the presidency of the
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology.
Claim bills now before Congress. exclu-
sive of pensions. provide for the expendi-
ture Of about 200,000,O00 of the Gov
erEment's money.
The lowest point Of land between tho
two oceans on the American continent Is
the grand divide in Nicaragua. where the
elevation is only 1iG feet. The lowest
point OF land o. the Is,hmus OF Panama.
according to the report OF the canal com
mission. Is Culebra. which Is 33 feet
above tide water. and II now the scene Of
active work by the ransma Canal Com.
pany.