The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-06-20

MITE exploded about mile below Lilly,
Pa. and one man was killed and six IA
tally injured.
John Wolter shot and fatally wounii-
ed his two young stepdaughters In
Chicago because they refused to. buy
beer for him.
A cyclone nearly destroyed the vii
lage Of Topaz, Mexico, and IL persons
were killed and many others were In
jurcd.
Seventy-three young men graduated
from the military academy at West
Point, N, Y.
The nth annual national convention
of state boards Of health met in Chicago.
Sylvester Ryan, 2s years of age, his
brother Albert, aged "a, and Patrick
Schigh, aged 40 years, were drowned at
Logan's Ferry, Pa
Thomas White fatally shot his sweet
hsart, Bertha McKelvey, at Chillicothe,
O., and then killed himself. Jealousy
was the cause.
Being charged with forgery c. M.
Benson, Judge Of probate of Polk coun-
ty, committed suicide at Grand Forks,
n. d.
On the race track. in st. Louis Free
Advice clipped half a second of the
worlds record for seven and one-haif
furlopgs, making the distance in 1881.
The r. Douglas Crockery company ut
st. Joseph, Mo-, failed for 100000.
Frank Jahrenski, aged nine years;
Reuben S. Woodwork, aged four, and
Max Zerag, aged IL, were drowned Iii
Milwaukee while boating.
Fire destroyed the building of the
American horse exchange In New York
and over 1875 horses were burned to
death, the loss being 100000.
John A. Thompson's bank, one OF the
oldest banking institutions In johnson
county, closed it's doors at Edinburc,
Ind. the liabilities being $4,000.
On July all the whisky distilleries in
Kentucky will close until January l.,
1903.
George Edmunds and Gus Verdery.
two prominent citizens of Ellis Post
Office, Ca, were murdered by burglars
The First national bank of Larned,
Kan, closed its doors.
The total appropriations of the Fifty
fourth congress, including permanent
aanual appropriations, were $515,759,-
s2O.49, against $3.50. $50 POS made by the
Fifty-third congress.
The woman city government NJ
Ellis, Kan, was at war with illegal
liquor vendors, and all but two vio-
lators had been sent to Jail.
The Austrian representative in Wash
ington will henceforth be an ambassa
dor instead of minister.
The boiler of the Michigan salt works
near Marine City, Mich, exploded, kill
ing William Mowbray, foreman, and
John F. Haley.
The special senate committee, of
which Mr.. Harris, of Tennessee, is chair
man, appointed to investigate the re-
cent sales of government bonds, began
it's inquiry in Washington.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated
$037, ss6.5o3, against $957,21S,07s the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
was 6.5.
There were 234 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 24o the week
previous and 252 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
George belong, berry picker at Ben
tor harbor, Mich, has fallen heir to
fortune of S150,oo0 by the death 81 az
uncle In the st. Louis tornado.
Fifty houses were damaged by fire at
Newport, Ky, and the tobacco ware
house of j. NJ. Armstrong, with its con-
tents, was totally destroyed.
The bank of Palmer, Kan, was broken
into, the safe blown open and entirely
destroyed and the cash-boN robbed of
100.
A fire In a tenement-house in Pitts
burgh, Pa. caused the death of Mrs. Il.
Garbies and her fve-year-old son, and
her daughter, aged IL years, was fatally
burned.
The steamship Bermuda left Pbiladel-
phia with another cargo of arms and
ammunition for the Cuban insurgents.
The Taylorville Only coal mining
works were destroyed by fire and three
men and 20 mules perished in the flames.
The property loss was $4,000.
John johnson (colored), who on the
night of March 81 murdered In cold
blood Charles Carter, well-known and
prominent young man, was hanged at
Lancaster Courthouse, Va.
Leading commercial agencies In New
York reported trade as being very dull
throughout the country.
Egbert c. Smith has resigned as pres
ident of Andover (Mass.) theological
seminary, after period of IS years
in that position. Prof. George Harris
Abbott, professor of theology, will sue
coed him.
Orders were tclegraphed by the Sec
rotary of the navy TO commandments Of
all navy yards to resume work at once.
In all parts of southwestern Michi-
gan grasshoppers were doing great in
jury to the peppermint crop.
The total number of silver dollars
coined from bullion purchased under
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