The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-11-02
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

PRAIRIE fires caused great dcstruc-
tion in Finncy, Greeley and Wichita
counties, Kan.
THE State bank mt Duluth, Mimi,
made an assignment because of the
fight OF the cashier with Sl5, 900 of the
banks money.
A SUCCESSFUL test OF towing canal
boats by electricity was made at BUFF,
falo, n. Y.
Gov. THORNTON, OF New Mexico, in
his annual report says that the popula.
ton during the year has not materially
increased. The total bonded indebted.
ness of the territory up to July %, 1895,
was 1907, 500.
TIE business portion of Fairchild,
Wis, was wiped out by what was be.
lieved to have been an incendiary fire.
The loss was S20O.O 900.
JOHN $. JOHNSON lowered the bicycle
record for mile with flying start al
Louisville, KY, to IA 10.
PISTOLS were used to settle quarre l
ut Uniontown, Fla, between City Mar.
shall Robert Britton and V. s. Metz,
ger, u merchant and both were fatally
wounded
FRANCIS MARION, for twenty-nine
years editor of the Kentucky Register,
dropped dead at his home in Richmond,
Ky.
CLoUGH BRos., lumber firm, and
David NJ. Clough, governor of Mime
sofa, failed at Minneapolis for sl75,0O0
TIE old Seven Stars tavern in East
Vincent township, Pa, was burned. 1t
was built long before the revolution
and was Gen. Westinghouse hcadquar-
tiers.
THE Swinney bank at Ash Grove,
Mo-, closed its doors because of poor
business.
THE First National bank of Yelling
ton, Kan, closed its doors, with liabili-
ties of $4,000.
THE Crescent Linsecd Oil company's
works in Chicago were burned, the loss
being 100000.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and his party
of cabinet officials arrived at Atlanta,
Ga, and were warmly greeted.
KERR CRAIG, third assistantpostmastc
general, in his annual report for the
past fiscal year shows that postal rev.
enucS from all sources were SIC, 0S3, 1913,
the expenditures being $50, 7o0,172, an
excess over receipts of S0,S07 ,044.
The children of William Burmeister
consisting of Lena, aged 10 years, Will
liam, Otto and Gustav, were killed by
an unknown man at their home near
their parents
THE second annual convention of the
National Association OF Agricultural
Implement and Vehicle Manufacturers
began in Chicago.
Ar the national meeting in Baltimore
Miss Frances Willard was elected pres
idcnt of the w. c. Il. U. for the fifteenth
time
REV. A. j. POTTER, known through
out Texas as the Fighting preacher"
on account of the fearlessness of his
life on the frontier, dropped dead in his
pulpit at Lockhart
FOURTEEN business blocks were de-
stroyed by fire at Alta, H., causing a
loss of 100000.
FouH business buildings were burned
at Madison, Mimi, the loss being $780,
900.
NEAR Mount Gilead, o., Christopher
Miller shot his wife fatally and then
committed suicide by hanging. He
ha been adjudged insane, but relatives
kept him from going To an ASYLUM.
THE gelding Frank Agan defeated
Robert j., John X. Gentry and Joe
Patchen in pacing race at Louisville,
KY, his best time being 2:059i
THE twenty-ninth annual meeting of
the American Missionary association,
which is devoted primarily to mission
work among the negroes, Indians and
Chinese in America, commenced in De-
troit, Mich.
BOSTON has been made the headquar-
tiers Of the National Advisory Council of
the A. L. A.
AT Phillipsburg, Pa, 10000 men were
involved in the miners strike.
At the closing session in Baltimore
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
union resolutions were adopted admit
ting Catholic and Hebrew women MS
delegates. Banners were presented to
several state unions which showed
large gains in membership and there
was n feast of music.
The Arkansas supreme court sus-
tanned the prize fight law and Corbett
was remanded back to the custody of
the sheriff of Garland county.
The official count of the population of
Minnesota by counties shows 1,574,o10,
an increase of 213,0S4 over the count of
1890.
The total collections of internal rev.
enue during the first three months of
the present fiscal year were $37, IA AIS,
against $5s,045, Jos for the same period
last year.
Near Cairo, H., Mrs. Rousch hanged
her 4-ycar-old daughter and herself be-
cause of poverty.
Rev. William Gordon, 81 years old, of
Michigan City, Ind, who was visiting
his daughter Mt Worcester, Mass,
dropped dead while attending a prayer
meeting.
Engineer George O'Ncill, Fireman C.
=. Luidamood and Brakeman Frank
Houston were killed in freight wreck
near Max Meadows, Va.
Jack Henderson, u farm laborer who
attempted to assault the wife of his en-
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