The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-02-01

On. Missouri; river at Sioux City, Ia,
| one of the largest structures OF the
Kind in the country, was opened. IL
cost over 100000.
The reports made to the comptroiier
of the currency by the 3,7oo national
banks in the United States of their con
dition December Is, 1895. shows loans
and discounts amounting to 5000. 96l,-
7op, against s2.o5s, 4os, +o2 September
2s, 1898, the date of the previous report.
Ambrose West and wife both over 10
wears of age, were found dead " bed In
their home in Germantown, Pa. having
been asphyxiated by coal gas.
AS the result of quarrel over fence
boundary Daniel S. Core shot John
| Dillon dead in the courtroom in Wau-
began, Ill.
BENJAMIN Wells, retired business
,nan, ~ years old, of Fostoria, o., was
mourning the loss of $4,000, as result
of the work of two bunko workers.
A locomotive boiler exploded at South
| Charleston, o., killing Engineer Trim
BILE and Fireman Waters and injuring
| IL other persons.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
American Red Cross society, and five
companions sailed from New York on
| the American line steamship New York
| for Constantinople, where she will seek
permission to enter Armenia to ad-
minister assistance to the needy and
afflicted of that country.
An advance of six cents per 100
pounds on al grades OF refined sugars
was oroered by the American sugar
Refining company. The war in Cuba
and the advance in German raw sugars
| was given as the cause.
The mayors of Peru and La Sale
and the presidents Of the villages OF
Utica and Kanglesy, in Illinois. and all
| the saloonkeepers in the four places
| were indicted for allowing saloons to
remain open on Sunday.
Rev. Augusta Chaplin, ID. d., pastor
of the First Universalist church II
Omaha, and the only woman doctor OF
divinity in the world, resigned her pas
torate.
In a fire ut the Hers Island stock
yards ncaT Pittsburgh, Ia, many cattle
were crcInatcd.
jams +. Gray, tobacconist ct Rich
mond, Va. failed for 100000.
| The 2sth annual convention OF the
| National American Woman Suffrage
associa: ion began in Washington, and
Miss Susan Il. Anthony delivered the
| address
The National Centennial Phrenolo-
cists' association will hold it's annual
convention in Chicago next May to
celebrate the Tooth anniversary of the
birth of phrenology.
The ,eceipts from internal revenue
for the six months Of the current fiscal
year aggregate 76,so7,5 22, decrease.
as com pared with the corresponding
period of 1s94-95, of s5,o+0,19s
The Saratoga (N. " Racing asso-
citation decided to abandon the idea OF
holding a meeting this season.
| President and Mrs. Cleveland gave
their annual reception to congress and
the Judiciary.
| At the convention in Chicago of the
National Association of Manufacturers
Theodore c. Search, of Philadelphia,
was elected president.
| Harvey Davidson, of ST. Paul, skated
two miles in 1854, lowering the worlds
championship time held by Joe Dom
oghue. of Newburg, y. Y, 0 Us seconds.
In mutiny off the Andrew islands
On board the American trading schoon-
| or Maria, Capt. Brown. Mate Herman
Ilohlmann and passenger were MUIR
| dered by the crew.
In the lower Mississippi valley farms
and plantations were inundated by
heavy rains, fences destroyed, bridges
swept away, and the damage to proper
| ~ was heavy.
| William Foster, Jr., engaged in New
York in the business of mining and
manufacturing. made an assignment
with liabilities of $lOO,U0O.
There were 373 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 24th, against 4l2 the week
previous and 1863 in the corresponding
period of 1875.
| Henry {. Foster, negro. % years
old. was hanged in Chicago for the
murder of George w. Wells on October
4, 1895.
The National Editorial association
in session at St. Augustine. Fla, elected
Il. II. Thomas, of Mechanicsburg, Pa,
as president.
John X. Cowen, of Baltimore, repre-
sentative in congress from the Fourth
Maryland district, was elected presi-
dent of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
In the circuit court in Chicago Her
bert b. Gehr was awarded $4,000 dam
ages against the Mexican Central Rail
road company for false imprisonment
W. a. Bullock lost 81 900 in bills out IF
his vest pocket in Milwaukee. lie had
taken the money out of savings bank
in 1893 so that he would be sure OF hav-
ing it.
The 18th annual meeting of the Amer
lean FORESTRY association opened in
Washington. The object is to secure
protection for the 1861, 500 acres OF
forests on public lands.
The National Centennial Phrenolo.
gists' association will hold its annual
convention in Chicago next May to celc-
brate the Tooth anniversary OF the birth