The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-12-16

/ John Burns. the well xnown social
list member of the house of commons
who was taken sick Wednesday night
is be tier, but cannot leave his room
for several days.
| Secretary Herbert yesterday awarded
the contract for two of the three gun
boats for the construction of which
bids were recently opened to the New
port News Ship & rrydock company
at its bid of $3.50, 900 for each vessel.
Commodore O. +. Stanton, detached
from command of the United State:
naval forces in Rio harbor for salutinp
Admiral Mello, has arrived in Wash
ington and reported at the navy de-
partment, Commodore Stanton would
not talk for publication.
The Steele. commenting upon the
position of the French in Algeria, says
that IL is necessary to wait before an
attempt is made to dispatch a military
expedition to South Algeria. The pa
per maintains that it would be ad-
vantageous to extend the Ain-Sefra
railway and also to send commercial
missions that would enable the French
posts to advance slowly under cover of
commerce. France, it says, would
then gain influence in Touat, Gourara
and 1idikett without striking blow,
The grip continues to spread around
Holland. Mich. and appears TO be at
lacking chiefly old people.
Hiram Miller died of apoplexy while
driving in a cutter at Kalamazoo,
Mich, He was 70 years old and
wealthy
Levi Goshen was arrested at Farm
ington, H., charged with perjury in
swearing to the assessors returns last
spring.
Work in the Chicago & Alton ma
chine shops at Bloomington, ILL.,, will
be resumed with full force. Two
thousand men will be employed.
The annual meeting of the Mutual
Protective Board of Telegraphers of
the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain
systems is being held at the Laciede
hotel to elect officers.
Ellsworth ingalls, of Atchison has
been appointed receiver of the Norton
State bank of Norton, Kan. which
closed it's doors last Friday. The liza
bilities aggregate $4,000. The bank
claims that the assets will aggregate
$751; 600.
The puddlers have notified Manager
c. !. O'Connor of the rolling mill de-
partment of the National Tube works,
McKeesport Pa, that they will not
accept anything less than S4.15 per
ton. A portion of the pudding de-
partment has been closed down.
Z. Stevens Henry for mayor and the
entire republican city ticket were
elected at Rockville, Conn.
William Kairer, baker. was shot
and killed at his place of business in
Camden, \. j., by burglars.
+. c. Williamson, mayor of Hazel
hurst, Miss, was beaten to death with
a baseball bat by Kirby Miller at Ha-
zelhurst. Miss.
The Chinese and opium smuggling
cases at Portland, Ore, have been in
definitely postponed
Three hundred men will resume work
in the Pullman repair shops at Will
mington, Del, this week at reduc-
tion of 20 per cent in wages.
Thomas Thompson, Creek Indian
was convicted at Fort Smith. Ark. of
the murder of Charles llermes in the
Indian Territory.
The schooner Avon. Capt. Grouse.
from Nuremberg, went ashore at Lis
comb, y. :. The crew was saved but
the schooner is badly damaged.
Denver capitalists have projected
canal TO irrigatc 200, 900 acres of land
in the Salton desert. drawing the water
from the Colorado river. The length
Of the canal is to be 400 miles and TO
cost $1,000, 900.
Curtis Davidson. who killed Birdie
Baugh at Alliance. Ohio, two weeks
ago. died in the county Jail at Canton.
His death was caused by blood poison
ng from self-intiicted wound in his
neck
A. $. Tanner and Ralph Grant quar-
'eled about escorting Miss Virginia
gleason from church at Selma. Ala.
irant was killed and Tanner is ir
Jail. The girl was crazed by fright
md has not recovered her mind.
Michael McGill an employee of the
@leveland Stone company at North
Amherst, Ohio, while suffering an at
ack of delerium, took off part of his
and crept around town on
lis hands and knees in the snow in |
search OF place to go to bed. He |
vas found in the road under a railroad |
bridge frozen to death.
John Alternately, IA years old, was
'un over and killed by a Baltimore &
ohio train at Carlyle, Ill.
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