The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-10-03
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMEST

The battle ship Indiana, through Gov
Matthews, of Indiana, was presented in
New York harbor with silver service
by the state. Ex-President Harrison
was among the guests and made II short
speech.
The seventy-second annual session OF
the sovereign grand lodge IT the indie
pendent Order of Odd Fellows convened
nj Dallas. Tex. D
Four dead bodies and half dozen
wounded, with damage to property to
the amount of $2j 900, are the visible
effects of lawlessness at the Coronado
mine in Leadville. Col, and the city is
under the protection OF the state mi
litia.
At Portland, Me-, Jupe lowered tho
worlds two-year-old racing record
from 2:15 to 2:14h.
The Hodgman Rubber company in
New York failed for 100000.
The worlds team record of 2:15H for
D mile was lowered to 2:12H at Cam
mack, l.. J.. by Marietta and Miss Ida,
owned by Henry c. Haveneyer, of New
York.
Commissioner of Pensions Murphy in
y
30, 1896, says that the whole number of
pensioners on the roll on that date was
970,G7S. The expense estimate for the
coming year is $l4O,Ooo,0Oo. During the
year there were 29,303 deaths of vet
Grams reported.
Antonio CauZc, n young Swiss living
near Aspen, Col, shot and killed his
wife and her mother, Mrs. Mary Quinn.
He says that the taunts of the women
made him mad.
Bob FitZsimmons was arrested in
New York for trying to arrange n fight
with Corhctt and held for trial in ST 900
bail.
The free turnpike mob destroyed eight
more tolI-gntes in Washington county,
Ky. making AZ thus far torn down.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 21st was: Wheat.
40,G56 900 bushels; corn, 1861 600 bush
els; oats, 8,46O,0O0 bushels; rye, 1.963,-
600 bushels; barley, l,33S,000 bushels.
The Lithicum Carriage company, of
Defiance, o., failed for 100000
A dangerous counterfeit made its APP
pearance at Toledo, o. 1t is So Win
dom silver certificate RAISED to $40.
Edison Keith, aged 63 years. the mil
1ionaire banker and merchant prince Of
Chicago and head of the firm of Edison
Keith & Co., committed suicide while
temporarily insane by drowning him
self in Lake Michigan.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers in annual session at Peoria, H..
reelected Frank p. Sargent, of that city,
grand master.
The twenty-second annual conven-
tion Of the American Bankers associa-
ton commenced at st. Louis.
The Pawnee bank at Pawnee, ILL.,.
closed it's doors with liabilities of S51,
900; assets. $4,000
Charles Pfeifer killed his wife and
child at Brightwood, Ind, while insane,
and then hanged himself.
The sovereign lodge, Indepeaden Or
her of Odd Fellows, in session at Dallas,
Tex, elected Fred Carlton, of Austin,
Tex, grand sire.
Delegates from IS states were in at
tendance when the twenty-seventh an
nual national convention of insurance
commissioners began in Philadelphia.
The Richards company, womens out
filters in New York, failed for Sic, 900.
Gen. Brooks, in command of the Col
orado national guard, declared martial
law in Leadvlle because of information
that ut an opportune moment the strik-
ing miners intended to wipe out the en-
tire national guard and burn the town.
Frank Ii. johnson, aged As, broker.
and one of the oldest and most popular
members Of the Chicago board of trade.
committed suicide by shooting himself.
J. E. & C. II. Brown, proprietors of
the Mapleton bank at Mapleton, Mirn.,
made an assignment with assets Of SILL
600 and liabilities of 100000.
James J. Corbett, the pugiiist, was ar
rested in Asbury Park, N. j., on the
charge Of agreeing to engage in p::ze
fight, and liberated on 81 900 bail.
The weat crop in three northwestern
states is estimated at 1O5,0OO.0O bush
els.
The assets Of the Philadelphia G.
Reading Railroad and Coal & Iron COM
panies were sold in Philadelphia to C.
II. Coster. OF New York, for $40. 500, 900.
Three members of the Cotton family,
living near Tiefaw, La, were murdered
by a negro and another member Of the
family was seriously wounded.
DIR. Lewis Swift, of the Mount Lowe
observatory at Pasadena, Cal, has dis
covered two new comets close together,
both being about one degree from the
sun.
The twenty-sixth reunion of the So.
ciety Of the Army of the Cumberland
was held at Rockford, Ill.
The Cascade Lumber company's mill,
Office and lumber yard at Burlington,
Ia, we're destroyed by fire, the loss being
3105,00O.
All the prisoners in the Jail at Belle
fontaine, o., were released for want of
money TO pay the sheriff for their keep
ing and the entire police force was dis.
charged for the same reason.
Elbridge &. Blunt, who was intimate.
ly associated with John Brown in con-
Quoting the underground railway in
Kansas, and who was also an active
scout in the civil war, died in Chicago,