The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-07-04
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

-asurer were destroyed.
=. D ing hurricane ut Ridgeville,
Id. several buildings were struck by
lightning, houses unroofed, many chin
neys were blown down and nearly all
shade trees were destroyed.
In freight train wreck near Mont
pelier, VT, Edward Brown, Of James
Vile, WIS.,, and J. Leskind, of Chicago,
were killed.
Under orders issued by the postmas-
ter-general the free delivery service Is
to be abandoned at As village post Of
fees in various states on July /.
A fire broke out in the building of
the Jeffery Furniture company in Min
neapolis, causing a loss of 100000.
A tornado in Wisconsin destroyed
buildings ut Clayton, Clear Lake. Mesh
koro and La Crosse and killed four per-
sons.
The reports as to the condition Of the
crops throughout the country were IA
vorable.
The fifth triennial convention of the
National Association of the Deaf opened
Mt Philadelphia.
The Seashols dry goods company ut
Louisville. KY. failed for 100000.
Forest fires were raging on the north
fork Of the Frying Pan river in Colora-
do and thousands of acres of valuable
timber were doomed.
During a storm Mt Sioux City, Ia.
lightning struck and instantly killed
Mrs. Mary Paulsen. At Newell the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Richardson was
st.,of, onl tha,, mama 10Th GilIa1
As the result of an old feud George
Dean and David Eldridge were killed
near Harlan Courthouse. Ky.
At the eight international convention
in Boston of Sunday-school workers the
statistical report showed total of 49,
033, IT'S workers in the United States and
British provinces. Il. +. Jacobs. Of Chi
cngo, was reelected chairman of the In
ternational executive committee for
three years.
The private bank known rs the Bank
of Salt Lake, with James II. Bacon as
principal owner, failed in Salt Lake
City for S25O,oo0.
w. b. Hulett and Paul Hulett (broth-
ers) eloped from Rocheport. Mo-, the
former with Miss George Drake and
the latter with Miss Irene Mckinney. |
Both women were engaged to other
men.
The four-round glove contest in San |
Francisco between James J. Corbett |
and Tom Sharkcy ended in n draw.
At all the coliieries Of the Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre Coal company in the
vicinity of Wilkesbarre. Pa, work was
discontinued, rendering 5000 men and |
boys idle.
Sheriff Rogers. of Mcleod county.
Mimi, was killed by tramps near Glen
coo.
A cyclone in Texas swept across the
country from Wills Point to Wacco. n
distance of 200 miles, doing immense
damage.
Mrs. Adelaide c. Mitchell, wife of
Henry w. Mitchell, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
and a famous authoress, died at the age
of AZ years. She wrote under the nom
de plume of violet Etynge.'
Reports from 30 wheat counties in
Minnesota and the Dakotas show that
the crop will not exceed 10000, 900
bushels, or considerably less than the
estimate.
George Stutz, n marine engineer, shot
and killed Mrs. Cora Borden in San
Francisco and then killed himself. No
cause was known.
A waterspout at Sisterville, W. Va,
and vicinity caused n loss of 100000.
A cloudburst did great damage in
Marshal, Wetzel and Tyler counties in
West Virginia.
The Collins Manufacturing company,
makers Of all sorts of road vehicles at
Jackson, Mich, failed for $4,000.
Rebecca Sutton, housekeeper at HifY's
hotel at Hampton. N. j., after quarrel
shot and killed Martin Reed, her para
mour. and then shot herself.
In the four-oared freshman boat race
at Poughkeepsie, n. Y. Cornell won,
Harvard second, Pennsylvania third,
last. Time. 10:Os.
The Security savings bank at Win
chester, n. H., and the Hinsdale savings
bank at Hinsdale closed their doors.
Miss Anna Putnam, Miss Bessie New
hall and John U. Putnam, all of Mime
apolis, and young man named Shcr-
man, of st. Paul, were drowned at An
Mandate by the upsetting of a sailboat.
The Falls Rivet and Machine COM
pnny, the largest and one of the oldest
ut Cuyahoga Falls, o.,
failed for $4,000.
JamesJ. Corbett and Thomas Sharkey
have agreed to meet in a finish fight for
$4,000 a side within six months.
A windstorm at Atlantic. Ia, blew
down the amphitheater and floral hall
on the Cass county fair grounds and did
great damage to crops In the vicinity.
During n cloudburst near Marietta,
D., houses were swept away, stock of all
kinds drowned, and crops were ruined
On the Little Muskingum for 20 miles,
,uusing loss of hundreds of thousands
u dollars.
Mrs. Bierner, wife of farmer near
San Antonio, Tex, drowned herself
md her three children, aged two, four I
md six years. No cause for the sect
vas known.
During the first six months of this
rear 7ss miles of new railroad have been
,uilt in 20 states and territories on 81