The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-10


DEAD fish by the million were float
ing down tho Missouri river, some
weighing as much as four pounds.
THOUSANDS Of bushels of peaches and
apples win be lost In the vicinity Of
West Plains. Mo-, for the want Of
means TO take care of them.
A CLoUDBURsr ut Adelaide, Col, de-
stroyed property and killed three per-
sons.
CHARLES E. Cole set 1900 ems in
seven hours and fifty-four minutes on
q Mergenthaler nonpareil machine ut
Cincinnati, beating the worlds record
OF 90, 400 ems, set by Denver printer
named Taylor.
HAYWOOD. pleasure resort in Michi-
gan, was destroyed by forest fire.
| FARMHoUsEs and crops were entirely
| swept away near Socorro, N. NJ, by q
cloudburst and seven persons were
killed. The property Toss was over
81. 200. 900.
The public debt statement issued on
the LIST showed that the debt increased
S3s, 435, 1888 during the month of July.
The cash balance In the treasury was
1857, 149,530. The total debt, less the
cash balance In the treasury, amounts
to 81. 1877. 1885, 35.
THE Colorado City State bank at Col
orado Springs, Col, closed It's doors
The Standard Wagon company In
Cincinnati assigned with assets Of
$500, 900 and liabilities Of 100000. The
Davis Carriage company was carried
down by the failure with assets Of
$50, 200, and liabilities Of $500, 900.
Four business blocks were destroyed
by fire at Lima, o., the loss being
500, 200.
The monthly statement prepared by
the director of the mint shows that
during July the total coinage of the
United States mints amounted to
SO, e35, 800, as follows: Gold, 81, 1910, 900;
silver, $277, 900; minor coins, S4s,s
WILLIAM HosAN's residence at
Marion, O., was destroyed by fire and
Mrs. Hogan and her son Frank were
fatally burned.
A STATEMENT prepared by the comp
troller Of the currency shows the
amount of national bank notes OUT
standing July 81 TO have been S211,-
2s1, 1908, an increase for the year of
81, s38,4io. The amount of circulation
based on United States bonds was
$3.50, ST., 4a3, an increase for the year of
IS, So, 400.
GEORGE PERKINS aged As, who until
q year ago had been the leading edi-
torial writer on the Cincinnati En-
quirer, was found dead in his room in
that city.
A wATERsPoUT and hailstorm visited
Hardscrabble. Col, and completely de-
stroyed farms and orchards.
FIRE among shipping in New York
caused loss of S15O,OO0.
ROBERT j., the king OF the light har-
ness PAGERS. was defeated ut Cleveland,
o., by Joe Patchin, the average time
for the four heats being 2:041f, the
fastest race ever paced.
Bishop PHELAN, of the Roman Cath
Ollie diocese of Pittsburgh, Pa, issued
peremptory orders to the clergy to pro-
hibit round dances by Catholics in that
diocese.
TIE receipts of the government dur
ing the month of July were $50, O6o, 697,
against S24, s00,330 for July, 1894, dis
bursements, S3s, 54s, O63, against $780,
648, $50 for July, 1894.
BY the breaking of cable at the
"chutes" in Chicago twenty persons
plunged with terrific velocity in rum
away chr down 25O-foot incline and
thirteen were injured. one fatally.
MAYOR STARKwEATHER, of West
Superior, Wis, was impeached by the
common council on q charge of extort-
ing money from policemen and fire.
men.
REAME's tobacco warehouse and opera
house, A Max. and Ellis & Stones dry
goods stores and several other business
houses Mt Durham, N. c., were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
DURING July the total ore shipments
from Duluth, Mimi, were $40, las tons,
the largest on record.
Thirty life-saving stations on Long
Island were opened a month earlier
than usual.
THE exchanges ut the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the I'd aggregated
S9l5,s47,6s0, against S726, 1855, 76O the
previous week. The increase. COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 1876.
PAPERS were signed at Pittsburgh
which increase the wages of 100, 900
miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and illinois and put q stop to the con-
templated strike.
TIE Indian scare in Wyoming was
said to be at an end.
THERE were 26l business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the I'd, against 202 the week
previous and $50 in the corresponding
time in 1904
1T was feared that 100 residents of
Beaver island, located in Green bay, at
the entrance of the straits of Mack
inaw, had been burned to death in the
forest fires which had desolated the
entire island during the last few days.
LEE THOMAS was hanged at Corsi-
cana, Tex, for the murder of j. Nj.
Farley. The murder was the result of
game of cards.
The Coulterville stage was held up 6
miles from Mercer, Col, by masked
robber. who secured the Wells-Fargo
express box, with its valuable contents.
The first round in the fight between