The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-02-14

The storekeeper and agent OF the Farm
ers' Alliance Mt Spartansburg, y. g.. W.
McZimmeiman, Is accused OF having de-
frauded the alliance out OF $50 900. II IL
expected that the affair will develop into
a big sensation.
IL Ii now thought that two boys who
disappeared from Neenah, Wis, last De-
tober and who were supposed to have
been drowned in Lake Winnet ago, were
murdered by fishermen for meddling with
nets.
The Hecla iron-work at New York
were burned, causing less Of 100000.
: The Michigan Federation of Labor is
now in session at Grand Rapids and is
largely attended by delegates from all parts
OF the State.
The San Francisco police destroyed in a
Chinese joss house idols and furnishings
worth $4,000.
Six inches of snow fell at Pierre, s.
ID. The thermometer Is twenty degrees
below zero.
Miss Lent the young teacher near Win
nebago City, Mimi, who was assaulted
recently by the Kruger family because she
punished child, died of her injuries.
A dry goods firm at Louisville, KY,
will file petition for the return of Sl03-
600 dute, collected under the Mckinley
bill, on the ground that the bill is uncon-
stitutional.
An advance in wheat caused the failure
at st. LOUIS of John Tyson, a well-known
broker and member of the Art Club. He
was bear and carried large amount
OF short wheat.
In the Union club at Omaha Robert
Derr, the steward, was crushed to death
in the elevator.
Congress will investigate the statement
that transcontinental railway lines pay
$500, 900 year to the Canadian Pacific
road and 500, 900 to the Pacific Mail
Steamship line to prevent rate-cutting by
these companies.
A. b. Stickney, chairman Of the board
of directors OF the Chicago, st. Paul &
Kansas City railroad, has written a book
on railroads in which he is to make severe
criticism on managers and Legislators.
The swimming record for 100 feet has
been lowered by w. G. johnson, amateur
lC0-yard champion, in the Manhattan Ath-
letic Clubs swimming pool, at New York.
George $. Bryant, supposed to be from
Chicago, fell downstairs at st. Joseph,
Mich, receiving fatal injuries.
The Canadian government has prepared
n reciprocity proposition, which will be
submitted to the next United States Con-
gress.
A San Francisco Chinaman swindled the
United States ont Of $50, 900 by disappear
ing with large quantity of opium on
which the duty had not been raid.
Mayor j. j. Ward of Palestine, Texas,
assaulted the Rev. Sam Jones because the
latter criticised him, but the politician
was whipped by the evangelist.
Sir Gordon Cummings, an intimate
friend of the Prince of Wales, has been de-
tected cheating at cards, and he will be
sent to Coventry by the Princes set.
Twenty officers of the battalion at the
University of Illinois at Champaign are
being tried by the ia culty for unmilitary
conduct in refusing to take their COM
panies to chapel exercises. They demand
the reinstatement of Capt. Miller, who was
removed from Office recently because his
grade in study was not up to require
ments.
The Nebraska House has passed the
I'LL prohibiting the operation of bucket
shops in Nebraska.
Daniel Brew, of Danbury, Conn. was
beaten and robbed in New York city and
thrown into freight-car in which he was
carried to Houston, Texas, before securing
his release,
Representative Whitehead, of Cook
county, ILL.,, will introduce a bill to repeal
the drainage law, because the work now
proposed by the drainage trustees will cost
Chicago $50, 900. 900, or three times the
sum originally estimated.