The L'Anse sentinel., 1895-01-05

wrecking, says he was promised i'm
nunity for aiding the authorities to
convict his associates.
OK the ground that the act Is illegal,
the income tax law will again be
fought In the United States senate.
WEARIED of waiting for lover who
had deserted her years ago on Christ
mas day, Miss Miller. OF Johnston wn,
Pa, ended her life.
JUDGE WALL, of Leadville, says that
there is no law In Colorado prohibit
ing man from burning his own honse.
WHILE eating Christmas dinner at
the homo of friend in Rockford, H.,
Henry Il. Evans was taken Ill and died
within few hours.
CHARLES EDWARD DUFFEE, the ball
player, better known as "Home Run
Duftce," died at Mobile, Ala, from con-
sumption.
NEARLY 1000. 900 feet of lumber and
twenty loaded railway cars were de-
stroyed by fire at Burlington, VT, the
loss being S150,000.
MANY farmers and merchants were
financially ruined by the failure of the
Citizens stock bank and Slater savings
bank at Slater, Mo.
The state normal college for girls at
Livingstone, one of the most prosper
Gus institutions in Alabama, was
burned
A HEAVY snowstorm ragged from Ne
braska to the Atlantic coast.
EDWARD r. CARTER, for twenty-nine
years a clerk in the National bank Of
commerce of New York, confessed to
embezzling $4,000
WILLIAM s. WHITMAN, of Winooski,
Vt, shot and killed his wife and two
boys and then committed suicide. Do
mestic trouble was the cause.
A. w. ALTON, of New Jerusalem,
Tex, when arrested in New Orleans
upon the charge of insanity said he
was on the way to Washington to kill
the president.
EIGHTEEN persons were seriously in
jured in a collision between passenger
trains at Waxahachie. Tex.
ALx failed in an effort to lower her
record at Los Angeles, trotting mile
in 2:05K. The 2-year-old Directly
paced n mile in 2:0s.
THE largest single mail ever brought
across the Atlantic arrived in New
York on the steamer Majestic. 1t was
in 1872 bags.
ANNIE FREEZE, 15-year-old girl. was
abducted from the home of her grand
father near Hicksville, O., by unknown
persons.
A MAIL pouch destined for Hartford
and containing 600 letters was stolen
from the depot platform at New Haven,
Conn.
DAN MCDONALD snd will Carter (col-
cred were lynched by mob near
Meridian, Miss, for killing Jacob
Copp, aged 75 years.
STATE teachers associations of llli-
nois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, In
diana, Nebraska, South Dakota and
Kansas held their annual meetings.
Ex-CAPT. STEPHENSON, of New York.
the first of the police officials convicted
as a result of the Lexow investigation,
was sentenced to three years and nine
months imprisonment and fined 81 ZOO.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
s9,07l, 900 bushels; corn, S,S3s, 900 BUSH
els; oats, 1900, 900 bushels; rye. 452, 900
bushels: barley. $500, 1000 bushels.
FIVE white boys were fatally burned
in suburb of Richmond, Va, by an
explosion of gunpowder.
WILLIAM BLAKEsLEY, of Sacramento,
Cal, supposed by his parents to be
dead for thirty years, gladdencd their
hearts at Trenton, N. j., by letting
them know he is alive.
MADELINE PoLLARD's attorneys pro-
pose to follow Breckenridge on his lee
ture tour and attach the receipts.
A PRAIRIE fire swept over large
area in the southern part of IN" coun-
ty, o. T., and number of farmers lost
everything they owned and barely es-
capped with their families.
THE old capitol building at Atlantal
Ga. {, was burned, the loss being $IO0, 900.
ALEX WILLIAMSON and Will Perry,
two young men living at Coalburg,
Ala, fought for the hand of Mamie
Bell and both were killed.
The worst blizzard in years swept
over the western and eastern states.
Along the Massachusetts coast many
ships were wrecked, causing great loss
Of life, and in the cities of Boston and
New York much damage was done by
the storm.
BURGLARS broke into the home of
Henry Fecker, at Piqua, o., and car
ried off his savings, amounting to s4,-
$50.
JOHN w. FOSTER, ex-secretary of
state, has consented to go to japan to
aid the Chinese representatives in |
bringing about peace.
FARMERS and robbers engaged in a
desperate fight near Salem, o., and
two of the former were shot and one |
of the latter.
The bank at Somonauk, ILL.,, was en- |
tered by burglars, who robbed the safe |
Of IS, 100 and large amount of valua-
Dles.
JOSEPH B1DwELL and William Find |
ey. farmers of Union county. were |
Silled near Columbus, o., by a Pan
train.
COLLEGE presidents of Indiana and |
Iowa decided to forbid intercollegiate
football games.
AUGUST PERMoNTIR shot and fatally |
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