The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-04-11

| horses, were drowned by freshet IN
Powell's river IN Lee county, Va.
From smelter returns for the first
quarter II was predicted that the gold
production of Colorado for 1896 would
reach $30,0oO,000.
The two boilers of the Planters oil
mill at Greenville, Miss, exploded,
wrecking the mill property and killing
| five men.
Reports from every county In Ohio
indicate the smallest wheat crop ever
produced in the state.
The president has signed the act re-
pealing the statute prohibiting the APP
pointment to the army and navy OF per-
sons who held confederate commissions.
During February 11,s22 immigrants
arrived in New York, an increase OF
about 65 per cent. over the arrivals dur
ing February, 1895.
The west-bound express train on the
baltimore & Ohio railroad fell into the
hands of gang of train robbers just
east of Garrett, Ind, but they were
driven away without securing much
booty.
troller of the currency shows the total
circulation of national bank notes to be
S221 ,227,sO5, an increase for the year OF
Sl3,777,6 61.
Ten persons persisted by suffocation
in Brooklyn IN. W tenement house
fire.
Reports from northern Wisconsin
told of a complete snow blockade on
many railroads. The drifts were from
ten to twenty feet deep.
Thomas Brannigan, n well-known
business man at Corning, o., shot his
wife fatally and then killed himself.
Jealousy was the cause.
An express on the West Pennsylvania
railway was wrecked near Freeport,
Pa, and five persons were seriously in
jured.
Nine men were injured, three Of them
fatally, by the falling of lift at mine
near Pottsville, Pa.
Jose Ramon Del Vale, prominent
Spaniard who resided in Matanzas,
Cuba, arrived with his family in Key
West, Fla, and said it was impossible
TO longer endure the outrages commit
ted by the Spanish troops. He told of
many brutal deeds, and declared that
peaceful, unarmed people were ruth
were called victories.
A fire in Brunswick, Ca. destroyed
wharves. warehouses and business
blocks valued at 100000.
President Cleveland has approved
the joint resolution authorizing Benja-
IL in Harrison to accept medals from
Spain and Brazil.
April "a has been fixed rs the date
for Arbor day in Ohio.
Rudolph Spreckles, president of the
Commercial and Sugar com
pany, in his annual report states that |
the worlds product of sugar this year |
will probably be 100000 tons short Of |
he supply of several years past.
The Iowa legislature defeated a bill |
to legalize the manufacture of liquor In |
the state.
Maxey Cobb, treasurer of Lancaster
county, Neb., charged with embezzling |
SAC, 900, committed suicide at Lincoln.
Continued restriction of distribution |
of staple merchandise, and unsatisfac-
tory mercantile collections continued
to be the leading characteristics of gen
eral trade in the United States.
Thomas Wharton, Sunday editor of
the Philadelphia Times, fell from a
window of the house in
which he lived and was instantly
killed.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
louses in the United States during the
week ended on the Sd aggregated
1851, 07G,7sS, against SSoG,s50,15s the
previous week. The decrease, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1895, was 60.
Edward Pollen, an Illinois Central
at Clinton. H., shot and in
stantly killed his wife, Myrtle Pollen,
and his wife's mother, Mrs. William
and then jumped in front of
4 moving train but was not fatally in
jured. Family troubles were the cause.
The quarterly statement of business
failures in the United States shows
1901, with liabilities of $57,425,135,
against $500 last year, with liabilities
Of s4Is13,6s3.
No. mill of the Lawrence Manufac-
turing company at Lowell, Mass, shut
lown, throwing over 1000 operatives
out of work.
The statement that President Cleve-
land had written letter declining to
he again candidate for the presidency
vas said to be false.
A young negro about IS years old
was taken from Jail at Tupelo, Miss,
by mob and lynched for attempting
10 assault prominent white woman.
Richard Ringer, n merchant at
Friend, Neb., committed suicide when
by doctors that he was af-
iicted with hydrophobia.
Wade, Davis e. Co., of Plainville.
Mass, manufacturing jewelers., failed
for 100000.
The cloudburst on Little Sexton and
Buffalo creeks in Kentucky did more
damage than at first reported. Instead
Of four there were Is persons who lost
their lives.
In Montcalm COUNTY Mich nm on