The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-31
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.

THE Rank of Tacoma at Tacoma,
Wash, closed its doors with liabilities
of $780,
FIRES during the week ended on the
18th caused total loss of s2,870, 900
throughout the country, as compared
with 50, l02, 900 for the previous week.
FURTHER advices place the number
of dead and missing by the fire in the
Gumry hotel ut Denver at twenty-five.
ARTHUR BUTLER and his brother
Walter and Florence Willard and
Thomas Walsh were drowned in the
lake in Chicago while bathing.
EXPERTS reported that the accounts
of ex-County Treasurer NJ. w. Stewart,
of Wyandotte county, Kan, were
short s33,ss3.
HEAVY marsh fires were reported in
Palmyra, Hebron and Cold Spring
townships, Mich. Fires were running
under the sod, destroying thousands of
acres Of meadows.
The main part Of bingham, U. r.,
was burned, the loss being estimated
mt S2Oo,0 Thousands of people were
homeless.
Tie business district of Camden,
Mich, was almost wholly destroyed by
fire.
WILLIAM BLANCHARD, n prominent
farmer OF Prairie City, ILL.,, having sep
arated from his wife, went to where
she was living and shot her dead and
then killed himself
MRS. j. LONG, living near Madison,
Mo-, hanged her 4-year-old child and
herself Separation from her husband
was the cause.
Carnegie Steel company Mt Braddock,
Pa, killed six men. fatally injured five
more, seriously burned fifteen others
and destroyed $4,000 worth of prop
erty.
The twenty-eighth annual Peace
union opened at Mystic, Conn, and
would continue four days.
FIELD and forest fires were doing
great damage in many parts of south
eastern Michigan, and farmers were
engaged night and day in efforts to
save their buildings from destruction.
A STEAM yacht foundered in Lake
Erie at Buffalo and seven men were
drowned.
tinued the sale of wines and liquors in
its cars in Wyoming rather than take
out state license.
A RATE war prevailed among retail
druggists of Kansas City which was
demoralizing the trade.
JOHN WEsTER HARDEN, the terror of
the Mexican border. was Shot and
killed in saloon at Ell Paso, Tex, by
Constable Sellman.
A. j. LUsK, who while Gus hier of the
First national bank of Wichita, Kan.
two years ago was accused of stealing
0,000, was captured near Portland,
Ore.
Four men held up Chicago e West
Michigan express passenger train near
Fcnnville, Mich, but got only seven
dollars and two silver watches.
THE Buffalo IN. W driving park, the
mother track of the grand circuit,
which recently closed its thirtieth an
nual meeting, is to be closed up and
pass out of existence as race track.
Four carpenters endeavored to ex-
tinguish a fire on a burning bridge near
C9ur d'Alene, Wash, but the flames
cut off their retreat and all four had to
jump into chasm 1856 feet deep and
were dashed to pieces.
THE entire Salvation Army corps ut
Madison, Wis, were arrested for hold
ing meetings in the street.
DIRECTORS of the Atlanta exposition
have decided TO prevent the Mexican
village commissioners from holding
bull fight during the exposition.
THE wife Of Joseph Layden, of NAL
den, w. Va, presented him with her
twenty-eighth child. Mr.. Layden Is "A
years old and his wife IS years of age
AN earthquake shock was felt at
Maysville, KY, and vicinity which
scared people out of their houses.
Clocks were stopped, dishes were rat
tied and tableware toppled over.
THE Peoples Sayings and Loan asso-
citation of Minneapolis made an assign
mcnt with liabilities of $4,000.
JOHN DARLING, of Bound Brook, n.
j., murdered his friend, Henry Dun
ham, of IIornelIsville, N. Y, In New
market, N. j., and escaped on BIZ
cycle.
IT was said that Ainsworth b. Spot
ford, librarian of congress, was short
S35. 900 in his accounts.
L IT was stated at the treasury depart
ment in Washington that the long-de-
layed worlds fair medals would be
ready for delivery early in September.
THE Coliseum, the gigantic amuse-
ment building in Chicago, fell with
crash. 1t was within week of its
final completion. The loss was $685.
900.
JOSEPH KNEELAND, an inventor of
valuable paper machines, was run
over by train and killed at North
-ampton, Mass.
II. j. HIScHcLIFF, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
coughed up silver dime which had
been imbedded in his windpipe for two
years.
The New York produce exchange
estimated the corn crop this year at
2, 425, 900, 600 bushels.
THE sealing schooner Walter Earle |
was reported to have sunk off Kodak
island, WASH, and her crew of eighteen |
persons were drowned.
GEORGE 8. MONTGOMERY, of Oakland,
C.I a IL. L.. r. 81