The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-17

| Rome, la, which suspended payment
April ~. 1895. was authorized to re-
sumo business.
HELIoGRAPH communications were
exchanged between the summit OF
Pixies Peak and army headquarters in
Denver, distance of 90 miles.
REV. Il. c. WHEELER, Baptist evan
gelist, who had been in California with
his car Emanuel, was killed In a rail
way wreck near Denver Col. Several
| other persons were hurt.
THE United Typothete in session at
Minneapolis elected T.. II. Andrews, OF
Rochester, N. Y, president and de-
cided to meet in Rochester in August,
| 1896.
HEARST, DUNN & Co., large agri-
cultural implement firm at Peoria, Ill.
failed for 1923, 435; assets, Sl15,64
REPORTS to the post Office depart
ment for the three months ended Au-
gust show that the total receipts at
the twenty largest post offices in the
country were So, 79i, 900, an increase OF
S490, 600 over the corresponding quar-
ter in 1894.
The G. L. Guyon company, commits
sion dealers in hardware and bicycles
in New York, failed for $150,O0O
The Bank of Buckner, at Buclkner,
Mo-, went into the hands of a receiver.
Mrs. HENRY JOHNSON and her three
children were struck by an engine at a
railway crossing in Decatur, Ind, and
one child was instantly killed and the
others were fatally injured.
In u head-on collision at Plymouth,
N. H., between the cannon ball ex-
press and freight train, Engineer
Frank Stevens and Firemen George $.
Merrill and w. ii. Glines were instant
ly killed.
TIE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 9th aggregated
So7G, o32,2l5 against S0l5, s47,6s9 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was $50
TIE total equalized assessed valua-
ton of the state of Iowa is S55s, 9s5, 292.
TIE foundry and pattern house of
the Knowles steam pump works at
Warren, Mass, were burned, the loss
being $4,000.
THERE were 225 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9th, against POI the week
previous and 264 in the corresponding
time in 1894
MATTsoN & MAGEE, wholesale grocers
in Philadelphia, failed for 100000
BUSINESS continued unusually active
throughout the country for midsum-
mer and, though there was perceptible
relaxation, there were no signs of re-
action.
A HORSE became frightened and
plunged off of 30-foot embankment
near Decatur, Ind, and three prom
inent society women, Mrs. Mangold,
Mrs. j. G. Paterson and her mother,
Mrs. Erwin, were fatally injured.
FREMONT SMITH was hanged in San
Quentin prison, California, for the
murder of two fishing companions.
c. C. CLARK was appointed receiver
of the Lockwood Manufacturing COM
pany at South Norwalk, Conn. The
liabilities were $2S0,00o.
A BIG Newfoundland dog capsized
boat on the lake at Highland Park, ILL.,,
and NJ. T. Green, president of the Chi
cage Lumber company. and Sorn Sor-
enson were drowned.
TIE Bank of Palouse, at Palouse
City, Wash, closed it's doors with liza
bilities of 900.
Mrs. HELEN c. STEWART, of Spring
field, Mo-, was appointed sheriff of
Green county, to succeed her deceased
husband. Mrs. Stewart, as far as is
known, is the first woman sheriff in
the United States.
SEVEN persons were killed in New
York city by the collapse of a new
building on Broadway.
ARTHUR and G. j. johnson (brothers)
and A. Z. Anderson were killed by
lightning near Odebolt, Ia, They
had taken refuge under tree during
u storm.
WILLIAM HAssoN, Martin Erwin and
William Stanley were killed in troll
ley car and railroad accident in Phila-
delphia.
Pittsburgh Pa, killed himself after
fatally injuring his mother. His wife
was missing and it was thought he had
killed her,
FIRE in the lumber piles of the Skill
ings, Whitney & Barnes Co. at Ogdens-
burg n Y, destroyed property valued
at $4,000.
by her will Mrs. T. Dewitt Talmage
leaves 100000. Her husband Is the
sole legatee.
THIEVES entered the Connecticut
state prison at Wethersfeld and got
away with articles valued at $1,000
DIR. LAWRENCE ANDERSON, aged 81
years, one of the best-known veterin-
airy surgeons in the west, committed
suicide at Cincinnati because of failing
eyesight
AT the national bicycle meet In Chi
cago Eddie Bold, of Buffalo, n. Y,
made a mile in 1854, new worlds
record.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
In state convention at Marshalltown
l. 4 A. a r.