The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-12-07
81. Clevering & Co., commission mer-
'hants in Philadelphia, failed for $780,

A man known as Indian Pete" and
his wife were burned to death In their
bed at their home near Peshtigo, Wis.
Thomas evils, aged 20, Of Bell coun.
ty, KY, committed suicide by hanging
because Nora Bellew, 14-year-old girl,
refused to marry him.
Worth.ngton c. Ford. chief of the
bureau of statistics, says that the inn
ports of articles free of duty were about
100000 less in 1895 than in 1S04-the
figures for 1895 being 1918, so0,1
Eight Berry detectives, implicated in
the shooting of innocent Frank White.
while seeking his criminal brother.
were indicted in Chicago by the grand
jury on counts charging murder.
The motorcycle contest in Chicago
over u 54-mile course for purses amount
ing to IS 900 was won by the Charles l..
Duryea gasoline motorcycle of Spring
field, Mass, which made the distance in
ten hours.
Levi Lane, aged 81, dropped dead Of
apoplexy Mt his home in Lebanon. Ind.
He had been deputy clerk for 81 years.
United States flags were raised over
the city hall and all public school build
ings in Birmingham, Ala, for the first
time in the history of the city.
The Cherokee Indian Legislature
passed a bill making it impossible here
after for any white man to obtain prop
erty rights by marrying Indian women.
The report that Harry Hayward had
confessed in Minneapolis to the murder
of Catherine Cling was said to be un-
true.
Peter McGeoch, the millionaire spec
ulator, whose deals and attempt to cor
ner the provision markets Mt various
times startled the world, committed
suicide in Milwaukee because of family
troubles. lie was 81 years old.
Gen. Flagler, chief of ordnance, in
his annual report calls attention to the
insuf,icicncy of the appropriations and
suggests that congress should permit
the ordnance bureau to replace old arms
now in use with weapons of servicea-
BILE type and uniform character.
Secretary IIoke Smith of the interior
department in his annual report calls
attention to the strict enforcement
which has been given to civil-service re-
form; estimates the amount of public
lands undisposed of to be 600,000,000
acres and says the total receipts during
the year for public lands amounted to
over $2,000,000; says an intelligent
treatment of the Indians will make
them sef-supporting; and upon the
subject of forests says that 100000
Ia I, e.
reserves, the object being to preserve
them for future use.
Football games in Chicago resulted
as follows: University of Michigan, 12;
University of Chicago, O; Boston and
Chicago Athletic associations, tie, a
to 1. At Kansas City-University of
Missouri, 10; University of Kansas 6.
Dispatches from all over the United
States note a general observance of
Thanksgiving day in the usual man
ncr.
Roman Bohrer and Sadie Henschen,
who were soon to be married, were both
killed by the cars at Arcola, Ind,
while going to dance.
At noon on Thanksgiving day in
tan Endeavor societies prayed for the
salvation of the soul of Col. Ingersoll.
Later advices say that the loss to the
oil interests in Ohio and Indiana by the
recent blizzard would amount to over
81 100000.
S. G. Martin, the ossified man, who has
lain on his back for seven years unable
TO move a joint, died near Bryan, Tex.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggregated
$50, 4s4,1s2, against $1,126,2 26,63s the
previous week The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was so.
Three men were fatally hurt and sew
cral seriously injured in a wreck on
the Norfolk q Western railroad at Can
terberg, w. Va.
There were 2SS business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the goth, against 800 the week
previous and 1923 in the corresponding
time OF 1894.
At Nashville, Tenn, John S. johnson
lowered the onc-mile flying start bicy-
Gle record from 2:16 to 2:10 Is. The
two-mile flying start record was low
cred by A. +. Sem, of lion, KY. from
4 40 2-5 to 4:4S 3-5.
The Chattahoochic national bank at
Ca, closed its doors.
Joseph Robinson and Ozias McGahey,
both negroes, were taken from the Jail
Mt Fayetteville, Tenn, and hanged by ii
mob. The colored men were charged
with an attempted assault upon white
girl.
A fall of earth and rock at mine
near Carmel, n. Y, killed IA men.
Reports reached FL Paso, Tex, of
Yaqui outbreak in northeastern Sonora
in which a number of citizens, includ
ing Americans, were killed.
Secretary of War Lamont in his an
nual report gives the expenditures for
the fiscal year ended June 30 last as
So, 2s7, 1904. The appropriations for
the same period were $40, 466,571.75. He
says the year has been undisturbed by
Indian outbreaks, domestic violence or
troubles on the border, and that the
army is better fed, housed and clothed
than ever before. The total force of the
army is 25,7O6. The total expenditures
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