The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-17

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The building at Peoria. H., occupied
by the Parsons Theological institute
and the lde Manufacturing company
J was nearly destroyed by fire. the los,
being 100000.
! In Nebraska the bank Mt Shelby wa,
robbed by burglars of $500 and tn.
bank at Platonia of $1,000.
The First national bank of Ithaca
Mich. closed its doors.
Over 100000 persons in ST. Louis wit
messed the eighteenth annual parade
Of the Yelled Prophets.
A cyclone did great damage TO prop
erty at Edmond, o. T., and several per
sons were injured.
A locomotive and 12 freight cars were
wrecked near Huntington. w. Va. ano
Engineer S. P. Brown and Fireman w
j. Gordon were fatally injured.
James Magee and William Lamont,
employees at the Carrie furnace near
Rankin, Pa. were burned to death by a
gas explosion.
A large tar still at the Standard oil
refinery in Lima. o., exploded. fatally
ricks and A, j. McElroy.
John S. johnson broke the worlds
two-mile bicycle record, riding the dis
lance in 1888 3-5 on the Garfield park
track in Chicago.
George j. Marsh, treasurer of the
Cape Ann savings bank at Gloucester,
Mass. committed suicide, and il is said
Iot he Il aFo - ~
S150.00O.
In the fourth and final game al Cleve-
land of the Temple cup National league
baseball series of 1896 between the Bal
timorcs and CleyeIands the former club
won, the score Seing to- o.
Two gamblers. Jones and Evans,
buncoed a gang of Usage Indians at
Perry, o. L., and the Indians ran the
gamblers out of town and beat them
10 death.
All the bridges over Union river and
the Iron river bridge and nearly all of
the 20 bridges between Camp Union and
Ontonagon, Mich, have been burned by
forest fires, and much farm property
has also been destroyed
The morocco factories of Garrett &
Barr, Charles Baird & Co. and Washing
ton, Jones & Co., in Wilmington, Del,
were damaged TO the extent of 100000
by fire and William McNeal, fireman,
was killed by falling walls.
Two inches of snow fell at Blue Noun
tain lake and other points in the Adj
irondacks in New York.
The National Wholesale Druggists
association in session in Philadelphia
elected as president John B. Purcell, of
Richmond.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
weed ended OH the 9th aggregated
S1,05S, l72, +53, against Ss94,271, 419 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
Is so.
Burglars entered the bank at Brainard,
Mimi. and demolished the vault with
dynamite, but failed to secure any
money.
There were 296 business failures In
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9th, against 315 the week
previous and 26s in the corresponding
period of 1895.
The National Association of Life
Underwriters in session in Washington
elected as president f. w. Christie, OF
Cleveland, o.
In celebration of the twenty-fifth an
niversary of the great Chicago fire near
ly 100000 citizens marched on the 9th
in the business mems sound money"
parade in that city. In the evening the
advocates of free silver to the number
of about 10000 paraded the streets.
John Lunn. wholesale grain dealer in
Philadelphia, failed for 100000.
All kite-hying records were broken
at the Blue Hill observatory near Bos-
ton, where nine kites went to the height
of 9,3SS feet above the sea level.
The Minnesota conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church in session
at Austin voted in favor of admitting
women as delegates to the general con-
ference.
Burglars robbed every store and shop
at Atwater, o.
Albert Bray, aged 80, farmer living
near Noblesville, Ind, cut the threats of
his wife, his 0-year-old son, Carl, his g
year-old daughter, Edna, and then killed
himself. No cause is known for the
deed.
Mrs. Henry Grundy, rich widow aged
So, died at Youngstown, o., as the re-
suit of starvation. Her husband re-
Gently died and she afterward refused
all food.
A man entered the bank ut Hardie,
Ia, covered the cashier with revolver
and escaped with S700.
The Jasper county Jail at Paulding,
Miss, was burned and two prisoners,
Z. a. Strickland and Mollie Daniels, a
negro woman, were cremated.
George Sanders fatally assaulted
with club piano tuner named Fisher
Mt La Grange, Ind, and then hanged
himself to rafter in deserted house.
Corning, Ia, was visited by a fire
which destroyed one-third of the bust
ness houses, the loss being 100000.
DR.. Andrew j. Purdy. aged so. pas
tor Of the Asbury Methodist church in
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