The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-10
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

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At the twenty-first session in Detroi
+ the Cigarmakcrs' international Unior
of America the report of the presiden
showed that during the year ended
June 80, 1896, the consumption of cigar,
in the United States was 4,237, 755, 0i3
The total amount of wages paid out pei
year is S41 ,7G7,0S0 and the value of the
product is l29,G93,27j.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Coomer and Miss
Cora Mount, of Windfall, Ind, were
probably fatally burned by natural
gas explosion.
The Union brotherhood of Carpen.
tiers and Joincrs in session IT. Cleveland
O., passed Il resolution in favor of re-
strictihg immigration to $4,000 n year
Henry Lloyd, of Boston, was elected
president for the ensuing year.
About half the business portion OF
Plato. Mimi. was burned.
a: Trenton, y. j., John s. Johnson
broke the enc mile bicycle record, going
the distance in 1:47. and James Michael
covered five miles in 0:51 -, the tastes
time ever made.
a. l.. White, chief of the United States
weather bureau in Phoenix. A. f., was
killed by an accident in "A mine.
The report that the miners strike at
LcadviIc, Col, had come to an end is
denied.
The National Association of nook.
sellers, Ncwslealcrs and Stationers will
hold their thirteenth annual convention
BOSTON on October and :.
al,
tisng agents in New York, failed for
100000.
Nearly the entire business portion of
Dushville, Mich, was wiped out by fire.
Seven lives lost and property
worth $l.OOO,O 900 destroycd>is the record
Of n cyclone which swept savannah, Ga.
The loss of life and damage TO property
outside of the city was also great.
Over one-third of the business por-
ton of Evansville, Wis, was swept
away by fire.
a tornado at Brunswick, Ga, wrecked
many buildings and killed four men.
The property damage is estimated at
S500,O02
Fire destroyed nine business houses
Mt Cadillac. Mich.
The prison reform congress IN session
in Milwaukee passed a resolution call
ing on all clergymen in the United
States and Canada to observe Prison
Sunday" October Is. by preaching SER
mons in the interest of prison reform
and the prevention of crime.
Peter Helm, day labo:er, instantly
killed Perry Ferguson. well-to-do
farmer at Plano, H., and mortally
wounded Mrs. Helm. Helm charged i'm
proper conduct between his wife and
Ferguson.
d. NJ. Browning. commissioner Of In
dian affairs. in his annual report says
the progress Of Indians generally in
education and civilization has been UNI
interrupted and substantial.
Vast tracts of timber lands in north
ern Wisconsin we're being destroyed by
forest fires.
Hulburt Brothers & Co., sporting
goods and bicycle dealers in New York,
failed for 5000. 900.
Rev. Elwood Siler. aged &C years, Of
the Friends church at Koltomo, Ind,
who was attacked with hiccoughing ten
dxys ego. died from the effects.
Edison Keith, the capitalist and Chi
cage business man who recently COM
mittcd suicide by drowning, left an es-
tate valued at $l,25O.000.
A West Indian hurricane which en-
tered Florida ut Cedar Keys and swept
through the southern part of the state
in northcasterly direction destroyed
MAN. towns, causing a loss of at least
so lives aud 100000 worth of prop
crty.
During storm DR.. II. c. Sherman.
cousin Of Senator John Sherman. OF
Ohio, died of fright at his country resi-.
dence at Olncy. Md.
All the inmates of the Hotel Norman
near Wilmerding, Pa. were chloro-
formed by robbers and $40, 900 in money
and jewelry were stolen.
A tornado on the sea islands in
Georgia caused the loss Of 100 lives and
the destruction of 100000 worth of
property.
The barge Sumatra foundered of the
government: pier in Milwaukee and four
sailors were drowned.
F. =. Whitney, the senior member 81
tbc " " ooii'
known as the Bank of Atlantic at At
1antic, Ia. made personal assignment
with assets of $500, 900; liabilities. $780,
600.
The severest gale ever known in
Syracuse, n. Y, did thousands of dol
lars worth Of damage to property.
A hurricane in Pennsylvania caused
the loss of six lives Mt Pottsyille two nj
Reading and two at Shamokin, and the
property loss is estimated ut over 81, :.
100000. .....
A storm at Alexandria, Va, killed
four persons, three churches were de.
stroyed and nearly every business blocl,
was more or less damaged and hun.
dreds of private houses lost their roofs
BY an explosion in Schmidt's brewery
nj indianapolis two men were fatally IN
jnred and ten others seriously hurt.
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