The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-06-13
DOMESTIC.

The coinage executed at the United
States minis during May aggregated
S4,6s3,6 900, as follows: Gold, So, s57 200;
silver, Sl,s26, 400, of which S1,500, oeO
was in standard silver dollars.
A treasury statement shows govern
ment receipts for the IL months Of the
fiscal year were 5000, sO4 SOC; expendi-
lures. 1926, 7s6. $50; deficit, S2G,9Sl, s7l.
Floods throughout southeast Kansas
destroyed thousands of acres of crops.
Tennessee, the third state added 70
the original 10, celebrated her 100 years
of statehood on the exposition grounds
at Nashville.
The public debt statement issued on
the LIST showed that the debt increased
S5,1ss,73O during the mouth of May.
The cash balance in the treasury was
Ss65,o02 JOG. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to S1,220. 6G0. 610.
The people of Johnstown, Pa, OBJ
served the seventh anniversary of the
great food in that city in which $500
persons persisted. 49,
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the LIST was: Wheat
50,3iO,000 bushels; corn, $3.50, 900 bush
els; oats, s,3O3,ooo bushels; rye, 1885,
600 bushels; barley, s57, 200 bushels.
The wholesale dry goods house of
Wolff & Sharp at Macon, Ga. failed for
S250,o0O.
Five miners were fatally roasted by
an explosion of gas at the Buck Ridge
collierv near Shamokin. Pa.
In the recent cyclone 16 persons lost
their lives in Missouri towns adjoining
st. Louis and 46 in Illinois towns, o
total of 62, and property valued at So
900, 900 was destroyed.
At Columbus, Ga, Jesse Slayton and
William Miles. both colored were hanged
by mob for ssaulting white women.
Thomas Allen. n wealthy stock dealer,
and Wallace Riley, prominent citizen,
engaged in q duel in front of the post Of
flee at Lebanon, Ind, and Riley was in
stantly killed. The runaway marriage
of Aliens son and Riley's daughter was
the cause.
Henry Mitchell Smith (colored) was
hanged at Lexington, KY, for assault
ing a white woman. .
The national commercial tariff con-
vention convened in Detroit.
Moser G. Friedman, dry goods MGR
chants, assigned ut Maroa, ILL.,, and the
failure involved the bank of MaroO,
which closed its doors.
The School Field-Hanauer Crockery
company failed at Memphis, Tenn, foe
100000.
Tho First national bank at Ell Reno,
o. T., which suspended payment May
ID, 1896, has resumed business.
The treasury statement shows q do
crease of oil kinds of money in circuls
ton during May of SIS, 422, 100, and since
June /, 1895, of $4,000, 900. The per
capita circulation was stated at $21.3S.
Andrew M. Henderson, one of the old
est and best-known members of the
Chicago board of trade, committed SUI
eide by shooting because of business
rcverses.
At Mohonk Lake, N. Y, the inferno
tional arbitration conference opened o
three days session with ex-senator Ed.
munds, Of Vermont, presiding.
The Rock Island road sent a special
train from Chicago to Rock Island, q
distance of 1s1 miles, in hours and 80
minutes. lowering the best record %
far minutes.
The Farmers deposit bank at Creigh-
ton, NO., closed its doors.
On the exposition grounds at Nash
vile, Tennessee, the third state added
to the original 10, celebrated her 100
years of statehood.
Democrats of the Sixth district OF
Georgia renominated Charles L. Bart
lett for congress.
Ohio socialists in convention at Mas
sillon nominated state ticket headed
by Daniel Wallace, Of Hollister. for Sec
rotary OF state.
Jesse Slnytop and William Miles, both
colored. were hanged by mob at Co
1umbus, Ca, for assauiting white
women. :.