The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-10

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] 81 the National Prison congress Roelifl
Brinkerhoff. OF Mansfield, o., was elect
ed president.
Fire destroyed &c business houses and
the City hotel at Ladonia, Tex. and Mrs
Jane Knapp, John Mcfarland and Miss
| Carrie Mcfarland were burned TO death
in the hotel.
BY a collision of two freights at Phil
son, Pa, on the baltimore & Ohio, Sis
men were killed outright and as many
more badly injured.
While drunk Nathan f. Spellman IA
tally wounded Anna Kicker, aged II
years, near Holgate, o., and then killed
| himself.
A. i. Brousseau. one of the largest
carpet dealers in New Orleans, failed for
$2S6,O00.
George b. Anderson attempted to
make parachute drop from balloon
at Paola, Kan, but the parachute did
not open and he fell 5000 feet and was
killed.
The public debt statement shows n
net increase in the public debt, less cash
in the treasury, during September of
Sl.s0G.O34. Total cash in the treasury,
$s49.Gi2.7T3.
Mrs. Frazer, bride of four days, shot
herself through the heart at Cairo, ILL.,,
dying instantly. No reason can be given.
Thomas Newliirk and Henry Ash
craft fought duel over n girl near Mid
dlesboro. Ky. and both men were killed
The National Association Of 1--we
Stock Exhibitors in session at Sprirg-
field, H.. elected II. y. Gentry, Of Sc
Gala, Mo-. president.
Ar the opening in burlington of TIE
scmi-centcnnial celebration o. lowl's
statehood the reviewing stand col
lapsed and II persons were injured.
among them being GOV. Drake and Vice
President Stevenson.
a cloudburst washed away part OF the
village of Benson, a. T., and Wilnqm
Seek, barber, his wife and two chill
dren, and Oscar Ashburn, cattler.an,
;Yere drowned.
The match scGlling race at Worcester.
Mass. between Whitehead and Ten
EycR for the amateur championship of
the United States was won by Ten Eycii
ny one ana Il lall lengths.
Fire in the Paschen block in Milwau-
kce caused loss of 100000.
The receipts and expenditures of the
government 70. the month of September
shows the total receipts To have been
&@i,5Sl,@li and the expenditures S25.-
80. $50, leaving a deficit for the month
Of Sl,095.2si. The deficit for the three
months Of the present fiscal yearis $25,
l94 ,l21, against deficit OF $9,SS4, Cos for
the cores spending months last year.
The monthly statement OF the comp
tro,er OF The currency shows the
amount of national bank notes in cir
culation September 80 was $233,5j2 ,030,
an increase fer the month OF $i.02j,5S1,
and for the IL months of 500 S0, 1913.
Mrs. Mary Funk was killed and her
daughter, Mrs. o. Metz, and an adopted
child four years of age were fntally in
iurcd by runaway team near Atlantic,
Ia,
Lesser Brothers. wholesale dealers in
clothing in New York. failed for $780,
600.
The recent storm did great damage at
the national cemeteries in the vicinity
of Washington. hundreds of trees being
uprooted and some graves destroyed.
William A. Little. of Georgia. assist
ant attorney general for the interior de-
partment. has sent his resignation to
President Cleveland.
The silk factory owned by Alfred
Streuli at Sterling, Mass, was destroyed
by fire, the loss being 100000.
The monthly statement OF the director
of the mint shows the total coinage at
the United States minis during the
month of September. 1896, 10 have been
S5,015. 313. 80. divided as follows: Gold,
81, 14O.922.5O silver, S2,754,165; minor
coins, S20,226.
Further adviccs say that in the recent
hurricane in Florida 67 persons were
killed and G2 injured. Hundreds of per-
sons are homeless and must suffer from
hunger unless relief is quickly fur
nished.
Over 1000 men and women employed
in the manufacture of clothing II, Bos-
ton went on a strike in an eudeavor to
better their condition.
The boiler Of the Mills sawmill at No
vesta. Mich, exploded. killing Nelson
Mills and Jerry Lewis and fatally in
juring Ezra Scribner and Ezra Dael.
The exchanges ut the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the I'd aggregated
$s04,271,410, against $sO7,l03 264 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1898
is Ella.
The First national bank at joseph,
Ore. was robbed of So 900 by three men,
one of whom was shot dead. another
badly wounded and the third escaped
with the money.
The total number of business failures
throughout the United States from Jan
nary to September 80. 1896, is 1880,
the largest aggregate reported for IKE
period since records of this character
have been compiled.
The Minnesota Methodist conference
voted against the admission o. women
TO the general assembly.