The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-01-04
DOM ESTIC.

The American national and UnioT
national banks at Omaha were consoii
dated, the business of the formed be-
ing merged into the latter.
Willie and Eddie, sons of Mrs. l.
Lauerman, ind Jimmie, son of Law
renee Kinney, aged 10, 10 and ~, were
drowned at Morris, ILL.,, while skating
William Helm, alleged to have been
the leader of gang of cattle thieves,
was assassinated by vigilantes at Chap
pelle, Neb.
Mrs. Tennie Whitard, of Bismarck,
Mo-, her infant, and her sister, Adj,
Hardage, while attempting to ford
Forchee creek were drowned.
The president will issue proclama.
ton January 4 next. declaring Utah Il
state of the union.
Seven brick buildings. with stocks ot
II firms, were burned ut Kossea, Tex.
the loss being 100000.
The president signed the Venezuelan
commission resolution and it Is now n
law.
Charley Jones, aged eight. his brother
Robert and sister Maggie, aged 81 and
20 respectively. and Ida Ball, aged l6,
were drowned while skating near DEN
yer, Col.
Joel Davis and his wife, of Coggor,
Ia, died of poison due to canned to-
matoes and other members of the fam
lily were very i'll.
Andrew johnson and his three chill.
dren were burned to death in their home
in Philadelphia.
At n cabinet meeting in Washington
1t was decided to make arrangements
for another sale of bonds for gold at the
earliest practicable moment.
Barney Brown (colored) wns lynched
by q crowd of negroes ut Wrightsvills
Ark, for assaulting negro woman.
One of the three buildings of Spaul-
ding, Jennings g. Co.'S steel works at
West Bergen, N. j., was burned, the loss
being 100000.
State Mine Inspector Sampson in bis
annual report to the governor places
the output of gold for South Dakota at
$3,500,000 for 1894; $4,000, 900 for 1895
and gives an estimate of $1,000, 900 for
1896.
The agreement by which the trolley
strike was declared Off in philadelphia
fell through and the strike was re-
sumed. ~
~ Dispatches from st. Louis say that
the Mississippi river rose 90 feet IN two
days, and the flood in consequence Gov
cred the Mississippi valley from the
Iowa line to Cairo. Ill.
-,
dered by Gen. Miles to pursue the Il.
dams off their reservations, and If they
would not return to kill them.
"Owney." the postal clerks dog, ar
rived in New York from China, having
completed the circuit of the globe since
August IL last.
The Bank of Pennington, located at
Pennington, ILL.,, failed for $4,000.
a break in the La Marsh dixie near
Pekin, ILL.,, flooded thousands of acres
and thousands of dollars worth of dam
age was done.
In the District of Columbia supreme
court Il decision was rendered holding
that 406,44G acres of land valued n,
100000 and claimed by the United
States belongs to the city of Las Vegas,
n. NJ.
The supreme court of the United
States adjourned until January6.
In railway collision at Cardiff.
Tenn, j. S. Brewer, brakeman. and
three unknown tramps were killed.
Perley Ellison and his family were
murdered by Apaches in lower Pleasant
Valley in the mountains near Payson.
A. T.
The indianapolis directory for 1896
places the population of the city at
$4,000. gain of 10000 since 1890.
Whittle. Hanrahan e. Co., Overs and
bleachers at Providence, X. l., failed for
$315,O00.
The Merchants and Manufacturers
national bank of Columbus, o., was
authorized to begin business with n |
capital of $3s0,00o.
John Mcknight and Daniel Meal |
lister were killed and seven other men |
were severely injured by n dynamite ex- |
plosion on the drainage canal near
Ill.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 23d was: Wheat.
GO, 3os, 900 bushels; corn, s, 1850 900 bnsh-
ELS; oats, O,40s,ooo bushels; rye, 1.1Ss-
200 bushels; barley, i,2o4.ooo bushels. !