The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-01-11

Earthquake SHOCKS were Ieit at Me
tropolis. Ill, and Cape Girardeau, Mo.
The Atlanta exposition came to ar
end. The total attendance during the
"a days was 1,200, 600 and the receipts
amounted TO nearly 100000.
To prevent strike the Illinois Steel
company closed their shops near Chi
cago, throwing 1000 men out of work
The legislatures of New York. Massa.
Tchusetts and Maryland convened In
;heir respective capitals.
Gideon Hauser, tramp, shot four
men at Avilla, Ind. and then killed
himself.
Five men were burned, three of them
fatally, by an explosion Of gas In the
Girard mine at Shamokin, Pa.
Two baby boys of Thomas r. Bebb
were burned to death at Palmyra, o.,
and the mother lost her reason in con-
sequence.
Henry F. and David B. Quarrels,
cousins, and both aged about 10 years,
while crossing the railway tracks near
Ellyrons, Va, were struck by train
and killed.
While asleep in their house near
Frontenac, Kan, Robert, John, William
and Archibald McFadden (brothers)
were burned to death.
Five villages, with a population of
10000 were annexed to Cincinnati, Civ
ing that city a population of $4,000.
Tor the first time in the history of
Colorado the gold output for 1895 ex-
ceeded in value that OF silver. The fig
ures are: Gold, SIT $40, 495; silver, $14,-
$4,000.
Andrew Brown, negro cattle thief,
was hanged by mob near WestviDe,
Miss.
The Philadelphia bourse, the first
general exchange building erected in
this country, was formally dedicated
The public debt statement issued on
the I'd showed that the debt decreased
$1,179,349 during the month of Decem-
Der. The cash balance in the treasury
was $17S, 027, 200. The total debt, less
the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to 1926, 262.
Montana produced in metals about
S47,115,Ooo during the year 1895.
Mrs. John Brumer and her two girls
went down an embankment in wagon
near Akron. o., and were fatally in
jurcd.
The monthly statement of the di-
rector of the mint shows coinage exc
cuted at the minis of the United States
during December, 1895, to have been as
follows: Gold, $s,007,145; silver, $751;
500; minor coins, Sl07,s36; total, S.
aSO.573.
Anthony Huber, William Penn and
John Strong were fatally crushed while
working in box car near Cincinnati.
The -four output at Minneapolis for
1895 was 1851 900 barrels, the largest
ever made by 100000 barrels.
F. NJ. Vanden G. Co., wholesale dealers
in liquors and tobacco at jackson,
Tenn, failed for 100000.
Albert Woodley, who murdered his
intended wife, Jennie Buchanan, on
May 7, 1894, was hanged in the yard of
the county Jail at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Gov. Greenhalge, of Massachusetts,
was inaugurated at the capitol in Bos-
ton.
The president gave his first state din
ncr of the season, thus inaugurating |
the social gaieties of the winter in
In a fire that destroyed the residence |
Of John ii. Hibbard at Columbus, o., he
aid his wife and two children and Miss |
Fay IIibbard and Mrs. Grace Hubbard |
Lee, his two sisters, were burned to
leath.
Peter Schertz, in the banking and
lumber business at Metamora, ILL.,,
JAILED for 100000.
In anticipation of the expected bond
ssue there was considerable business
in gold in New York at ~ per cent.
premium.
Four persons were killed, one fatally
injured, four more were missing and 81 |
'eceived injuries more or less serious
IS the result of an explosion In build
ng in st. Louis. The money loss was
10000
Fire swept over ten square miles of
territory in Boulder county,
-ol., causing loss of over 100000.
/
The statement of the receipts and ex-
,enditures of the United States shows
hat during the month of December
he receipts aggregated $26,2ss, 937 and
Inc expenditures amounted to $25,S14,-
~, leaving a surplus for the month of
;i74,62O.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ng houses in the United States dur
ng the week ended on the Sd aggre-
'ated $1,020,042, 400, against s1,144,92s,-
02 the previous week The increase,
ompared with the corresponding week
n 1895, was IA.
The burning of the Thornton BNggy
house ut Des Moines, Ia,
aused loss of 100000.
There were 403 business failures in
he United States in the seven DAYS
nded on the Sd. against BIG the week
revious and 1913 in the corresponding
eriod of 1895.
At Millidgeville, KY, boy named
Walters, while playing, secured re-
Oliver and fatally shot his two little
ousirs, two girls, aged four and eight,
nd then sent ball through his own
ead. /,
The bodies of two more men were