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

George Herpo aud Frank SamuelsoI
will row across the atlantic from New
York to Havre In a boat IS feet = inches
long.
Ire national commercial tariff con
vention in Detroit adopted resolutions
declaring in favor Of taking the tariff
question out of partisan politics, the
placing of the consular service In the
hands of men having knowledge OF bust
ness and international law, and the es
Establishment Of a department Of com
merce by the government
Clarence Craig, 15-year-old lad al
Shelbyville, Ind, was handling his fa'
TIERS shotgun when Il was accidentally
discharged and his mother was instant
" killed
The Boylston brewery, owned by Hat
fenrefer & Co., ut Jamaica Plains, Mass
was totally destroyed by fire, the Loss
being $500, 900.
A hurricane near Pendoe, Neb.,
wrecked many farmhouses and barns
and greatly damaged crops.
Austin Corbin, aged SO years, the mil
lionaire banker and financier OF New
York, and his coachman, John Stokes,
were killed as the result of q runaway
accident at Newport, n. II.
Jacob Rich, rs an individual, and the
First street railroad at San Jose, CAL.
failed for 100000.
The 23d annual session of the national
conference of corrections and charities
- lie
Affection, Wis, the town without a
woman, lost it's distinction by the mar
rage of F. II. Metcalf, the postmaster,
to Miss Laura Matthews, of Farming
ton.
The Nebraska supreme court declared
that employers were not liable for in
juries sustained by, employees through
accident where ordinary care has been
exercised.
The American Bar association will
meet in Saratoga, n. Y, August 10.
At the national convention of brewers
in Philadelphia c. NJ. Bergner, of that
city, was elected president for the en-
suing year.
Edward Perry, who murdered the
Sawyer family in Ava, Mo-, has been
sentenced to hang July 81. The discov-
cry of the crime, arrest and conviction
occupied but ten days.
The equestrian statues erected by the
state of Pennsylvania in honor of the
memory of Gems. George G. Meade and
Scott Hancock were unveiled
on the battle field at Gettysburg.
At the 9th anniversary of the Brook
lyn On. " Sunday School union s0,-
900 children took part in the parade.
The exchanges Mt the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 9Th aggregated
against S9l1.269,35S the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1898
was AS.
There were 240 business failures in
the United States in the seven da.;.s
ended on the 5th, against 239 the week
previous and 1913 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
Joseph Windrath, one of the slayers
of Carey B. Birch, receiver of money
from conductors of the West Chicago
Street Railway company, was hanged
in Chicago.
The international arbitration confer
ence closed it's session at Mohonk Lake,
\. Y, with q declaration to President
Cleveland that civilization has substi-
tuted law for force in personal matters
and nations should do likewise.
The wholesale clothing firm of /. W.
Klaw G. Co. failed in ST. Louis for $112,-
600.
The American liner st. Paul made the
trip from Southampton to New York
In days hours and IA minutes, break
ng all previous records.
Three hundred families converted to
in the mountains of Vir-
yinia will emigrate to Mexico and form
/ colony on the Pacific coast and will
practice poligamy.
At the national convention in Terre
Haute, Ind, of the Travellers Protective
John 4. Lee, of ST. Louis,
was reelected president.
The Henry Bill Publishing company
At Norwich. Conn.,, which published
James G.. Blaine's Twenty Years in
Congress-" failed for $4,000.