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

Fire destroyed the Adirondack hotel,
Emerson bank, the music hall and sew
eral residences and stores at Warrens-
burg. N. Y. the total loss being 500, 900.
At Camden, n. J., Thomas j. Potter,
painter, and his wife were killed by
the cars. ..... .........
Thomas Brennan. engineer, and
Douglas Wilcox, conductor, were killed
in a freight train wreck near Liberty,
Neb. ......
The Investment Trust company Of
America, doing business in Topeka,
Kan, went into the hands of receivers
With Liabilities of 2.sOo.0O
Three women delegates to the Metho-
dist conference in Cleveland withdrew
their claims in order to avoid strife.
All the street car lines in Milwau-
kee were tied up by strike of employees
for All increase of wages.
A five-story building was blown up in
Cincinnati by an explosion and six per-
sons were killed and many others were
injured, some fatally.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 4th was: Wheat,
$3.50 900 bushels; corn, II, 3 o. 900 BUSH
els; oats, s,240,o00 bushels; rye, 4,414.-
900 bushels; barley, 10000 bushels.
The annual report of John S. Sey-
mour, commissioner of patents, says
that during the year 21,ooS patents and
designs were issued. The aggregate
receipts were s1,245,247; expenditures.
81 1854, 400.
The fire losses in the United States
and Canada during the month Of April
were 12,010,6 900, about s1,0o0,0Oo more
than the total for the month in 1895.
An investigation of the trust funds
collected by the state department. in
Washington shows a shortage of $780,
600.
The firm of Z. e. G. Friend & Co.,
wholesale dealers in leaf tobacco in New
York, failed for 100000.
The dwelling Of William Harris in
Albermarle county, Va, was burned,
and his four children were cremated.
Rev. Prof. William Henry Green, d.
D., celebrated the 50th anniversary Of
his appointment as instructor in the
Princeton IN. J.) theological semi
nary.
A broken rail on the Baltimore G.
Ohio road at New Haven, o.. caused a
freight wreck, fatally injuring two per-
sons and seriously injuring number
of others.
The German-American Title COM
pany Of Louisville, KY, failed for
$225.ooo. ..... .....
Mrs. II. Easily and her daughter
OF
to walk to New York. They live on a
farm and hope to make enough money
in the venture to lift mortgage.
"Cotton Head" Schmidt, the I7-year-
old German boy, and Sam Foster. a
negro, convicted of the murder OF
Bertram Atwater, the Chicago artist,
in st. Louis on January %, were SEN
fenced to be hanged June 10.
Az the result of an explosion Of q
gasoline stove in a Brooklyn IN. "
tenement house Mrs. Rebecca Cohen
and her two children and Mrs. Pastern
were killed.
An additional shortage Of about $780,
600 was said to have been found In the
accounts of ex-City Attorney William
C. Moreland, of Pittsburgh, Pa.
vast labor organization of house.
maids WINS formed in New York, nearly
every kitchen In the city being rep
resented on the rolls Of the union.
The American Medical association
met In 47th ANNUAL session at Atlanta,
Ga. t mi FL
Crop reports from Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa were
favorable. ~ Jti%
The American Trading society of
New York, with liabilities of $52e, 900,
went into receivers hands.
The women OF Liberty Center, o., sent
notice to the saloonkeepers to close their
doors in ten days or their places would
be blown up with dynamite.
AT Churchill Downs Ben Brush won
the twenty-second Kentucky derby,
completing the distance. ~ miles, in
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