The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-10-12
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

IN the Rock River Methodist confer
ence at Elgin, ILL.,, IL was decided to
admit women rs delegates in the gen
eral conference by u vote of lac 70 a7.
AT Rockford, H., Leonard Preston,
bank clerk, and George Ashbrools, of
GAINESVILLE, Wis, were drowned 10y the
capsizing of their boat
AN immense mass meeting was held
in Chicago, presided over by Mayor
Swift, to protest against Spanish
tyranny in Cuba. Speeches were made
and resolutions were adopted asking
the United States government to recog-
nize the Cuban insurgents us bellig-
erents.
FRANK j. DAvEREAUX, aged 81, and
w. Porter Hunt, aged 90, two ncwspa-
per correspondents living ut Oneida,
n. Y, were drowned in Oneida lake by
the upsetting of boat.
B. ID. BLAKEsLEE and n. A.Winquest
left New York for San Francisco on
bicycles and will endeavor to break
the present record of as days and Is
hours.
THE schooner John Raber went ashore
IS miles east of Whiting, Ind, and
Capt. Johnson and an unknown sailor
We're drowned.
THE public debt statement issued on
the LIST showed that the debt increased
Sl,s3i,GS7 during the month of Sep
TENDER. The cash balance in the
treasury was $lS5, 405, 1868. The total
debt, less the cash balance in the
treasury, amounts to SOIL, 0S0,636
The Blaine (Wash.) state bank went
into the hands of receiver.
THE st. Louis Loan and Investment
company and the Aetna Loan and Saw
ings company consolidated at st. Louis
with n capital of 80, 900, 900.
FROST was general and very dcstruc-
tive in Virginia and North Carolina. a
fifth of the tobacco crop being ruined.
TIE famous still run by Tom Blair,
who was lynched New Years morning
at Mount Sterling, KY, was taken in
the mountains by revenue officers after
u search OF five years.
TIE monthly statement Of the di-
rector of the mint shows coinage dur
ing the month of September as fol-
lows: Gold, S7,543,572; silver, S473, SOC;
minor coins, SCI, 4l4; total coinage, So
O7s, G53.
SOUTH CAROLINA is the only state in
the union which has no divorce law,
and the constitutional convention at
Columbia added n section to the law
which prevents recognition of divorces
granted in other states.
SINCE June 30 1892, the net expendi-
lures of the government have exceeded
the receipts by sl2o, Isl, 467.
PETER CRAWFORD, 90 years DID, n mail
messenger, has been asleep in New
York for the last seven months, and
every device employed to awaken the
man had proven futile.
ALBERT WADE, assistant cashier of
the First national bank at Mount YER
non, Ind, was said TO be 5000 short
in his accounts. He had disappeared.
CHARLES f. KLINE, life prisoner in
the penitentiary at Columbus, o., was
paroled, being the first life man to be
so favored.
HENRY CARPENTER, an engineer, and
three negroes were killed near Du-
,pont, Ga, by sawmill boiler explo-
sion.
THE Texas legislature convened ut
Austin for the purpose of passing a
law that will effectually prohibit the
ett-Fitzsimmons prize fight at
Dallas announced for October 81
THE Valley Mutual Life Insurance
company of Richmond, Va, failed for
500. 000
JOHN LITTLEFIELD, of Ulviah, CAL. ac-
cused of shooting J. v. Vinton, was
hanged by mob of cattlemep.
BRICK yards, n row of houses and an
electric light factory were burned in
Philadelphia, the total loss being $780,
600
STULTz, LIsBERGER & Co., large to-
bacco manufacturers at Danville, Va,
failed for 100000.
The banks at Monet and Purdy in
Barry county, Mo-, were placed in the
hands of receivers.
AFTER two-year struggle to re-
trieve the loss caused by the financial
depression the produce cold storage
exchange in Chicago went into the
hands of n receiver with liabilities of
$780, 200.
REV. WILLIAM +. HINsHAw was con-
victed at Danville, Ind, of the murder
of his wife on January 10 last and
the jury fixed the punishment at life
imprisonment
THE Texas legislature, by vote of
81 to in the senate and ITO to 5 in the
house, passed a bill making it felony
to engage in prize fight in the state.
and attached TO 1t clause providing
for the law going into effect at once.
THE thirty-sixth national triennial
convention of the Protestant Episcopal
church Of the United States met at
Minneapolis.
JAMES p. TnLorsoN, a prominent
member of the Chicago board of trade.
drowned himself in the lake because of
heavy losses In speculation.
The president issued an order plac-
ing Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles at the
head Of the army of the United States