The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-05-16

were brought under the protection o
| the civil service by the issuance OF nj
order of the president making genera
revision of civil service rules.
Three men were killed und five wound
ed in n ght between whites and negroes
near McAlpin. Fla.
DIR. Alberto Diaz. the Baptist mis-
sionary who was recently released from
Havana prison, said in Atlanta, Ga.
that the patriots would never give al
until they had secured the islands In
dependence.
All the stores and several residences
in the village of Modesto. ILL.,, were
burned.
- Many well-known political reformer'
engaged In an effort to improve the pres
cnt method of governing municipalities
met in Baltimore and opened the an
nual conference of the National Mu'
nicipal league.
BY vote of 425 to os the Methodist
general conference at Cleveland de-
cided that the four women delegates
might retain their seats.
Herman w. Mudgett, alias II. II.
Holmes, was hanged in Philadelphia
for the murder of Benjamin +. Pitzcl
on September 2, 1894.
The derailment of smoking car on
train near Boston killed w. j. Down
and j. f. Long, business men, and in
jured several other persons.
Charles Homes, n Choctow Indian.
was executed under the Indian law at
Antlers, /. T. He was blindfolded and
shot by the sheriff.
The roundhouses and IL locomotives
belonging to the Queen and Crescent
Hallway company were destroyed by
fire at Somerset, KY, the loss being
$500, 900.
L. Il. Brainerd, cut stone contractor
in Chicago, failed for 100000, pulling
down with him the firm of Sherman,
Flavin g. Co., marble cutters, whose lia-
bilities were over 100000.
The Citizens bank of Union City,
Ind, one of the oldest banking insti-
tutions in the country, closed its doors
with liabilities of $4,000.
A special train on the Michigan Cen
trail road went from Windsor, Ont, to
the international bridge, Buffalo, dis
lance of 220 miles, in 220 minutes and 10
Judge Maynard, of Boston, in six
hours disposed of so divorce cases, an
average of one every seven minutes.
Charles Harrison, young farmer liv-
ng near Williamsport, Ind, shot Ida
WEIGH and Harry Smith and then killed
iimself. Jealousy was the cause.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the sth aggregated ST.
.35, 0s3, 412, against S0S2,sS5,511 the pre-
ious week. The decrease, compared
With the corresponding week in 1895,
vas 2.S.
The business portion of Sebree, KY,
vas wiped out by fire.
There were 23S business failures in
he United States in the seven days
ndcd on the Sth, against 23S the week
revious and 227 in the corresponding
,eriod of 1895.
John Waldrip, who four months ago,
While serving term in the Coalburgh
Ala.) penitentiary for larceny, Drained
! fellow convict, Jasper Thornton, with
coal pick, was hanged in the jail yard.
Michael Farmer, aged 90 years, and
Angeline Hipshaw, aged 81 years, were
married at Thornhill, Tenn.
Samuel II. Dawson, of Des Moines, Ia, |
Who Christmas eve shot and killed Wal |
err Scott, his son-in-law of an hour, was
ound guilty of murder in the second de-
rec.
Six houses, 90 horses and other valu-
BILE property were consumed by fire at |
Tenn.
j. Watson Hildreth, the boy train
'recker of Rome, n. y, received q life |
entence. His companions, Plato and |
pleaded guilty to manslaugh-
er and were sentenced to 40 years inn
each.
At the Methodist general conference
n Cleveland 1t was recommended that |
he American flag fly from the steeple
t every Methodist church in the coun-
ry.
A car of oil caught fire and exploded
t Bellmore, o., causing the death Of
William Cummins, aged "a, and Will
am Longnecker, aged 80.
The Southern Baptist convention met
t Chattanooga, Tenn, with 1000 dele
ates present.
The president issued an order extend
lg the civil service rules to the inter
tate commerce commission, making
total of about $4,000 government posi-
ions now included in the civil service.
ID. c. Collins, one Of the largest to-
acco dealers in Ohio, failed at Cincin.
att for 100000.
A cyclone wrecked houses and barns
Clark, S. D., and the wife of C. II. Lind
Ind was killed.
Mrs. Fritz Henisint, who lives near
owler, Ind, gave birth to six infants,
our boys and two girls. Two years ago
lrs. Henisint gave birth to triplets.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Republicans Of the Thirteenth dis