The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-02-23
DOMESTIC.

MRS. WILLIAM SIEFERT, while tenn
porarily insane, drowned her two chill
dren and herself in the Ohio river a,
Coraopolis, Pa.
Four MILLION acres of Sioux Indian
reservation land in South Dakota were
thrown open for settlement by pur-
chase at fifty cents an acre.
BUILDINGS occupied by the Campbell
Paint company, the Creamery Supply
company and Reeves & Co., at Kansas
City, were burned, causing loss OF
S150,0O0
THE Bank Of Leesburg, Fla, assigned
for the benefit of creditors.
THE French line steamer La Gas
cogne, from lIavre, nine days overdue,
arrived in New York. Accidents to the
machinery caused the delay.
A PETITION containing 6,OOO 00C
names, and which had taken twelve
years to complete, in opposition to the
liquor and opium habit, left Chicago
for Washington in care of Mrs. Carse,
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
union. 1t is the largest petition in
history and will be presented to the
court of every ruler in the world.
THIRTY inches of snow fell at Rifle,
Col.
SINCE the Fifty-third congress was
elected there has been total of TWEEN
ty-nine changes in the membership of
the house, eleven of them caused by
death, three by removal as the result
of election contests and sixteen by
designations.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat,
30, 322 900 bushels; corn, L., $50, 900 BUSH
els; oats, 7,i63,0oo bushels; rye, 364, 900
bushels; barley, ira, 600 bushels.
A SECRET society, whose object is the
mating and marrying of young people,
\ has been formed at Lexington. Ky.
) A LARGE section of the business por-
ton of McComb, o., was swept away
by fire.
THE supreme court Mt jefferson City,
Mo-, sentenced five murderers to be
hanged March 81.
j. l.. DICKSON. bank cashier at
Fayetteville, Ark, discovered to be
gel 900 short, committed suicide by
taking strychnine.
In an address at the Auditorium in
Chicago Henry Watterson reiterated
his belief that Lincoln was inspired by
God.
LINcoLN's birthday was generally
celebrated throughout the country.
FRANK STORY and wife were fatally
injured by the collision of an electric
car with their wagon at Louisville, Ky.
The summer hotel at Browns Mills,
N. j., was totally destroyed by fire,
the loss being s15o,000. The building
was vacant.
A FREE silver resolution presented in
the Michigan senate was laid on the
table by n vote of l2 to 10.
A Few hours before her death from
consumption Jennie Brown, of Van
dalia, ILL.,, was united in marriage to
L. A. Jones, of Centralia.
THE trolley strike in Brooklyn, NY,
was declared off, the companies hav-
ing agreed to gradually take back the
men.
BoNDsMEN of the late State Treas
urer Ramsey, of Illinois, filed claim
against his estate for $500, 500, the
amount of shortage which they made
good.
JUDGE GRosscUP discharged the Jury
and continued the Debs case in Chicago
to the first Monday In May. The sick
ness of juror was the cause.
THE Lincoln avenue barns of the
North Chicago Railway company, con-
tanning ITO cars, were burned, the loss
being 100000.
ROWLAND AFTER, a wealthy farmer Of
Woodlyn, o.. was found frozen to
death on the road near his home.
A COMPANY was organized ito build
and operate line of canal boats be-
tween Cleveland and New York.