The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-04-18

| Fire ut Savannah. Ca, destroyed tn
building occupied by the Savanna
Grocery company. the loss being
$4,000.
Maude and Mary Campbell wer'
turned to death in their home at New
Cumberland, w. Va, their clothes TAX
ing fire from CRATE.
The heaviest April snow within thu
memory of the earliest inhabitant fel
at bloomington and other Illinois
towns.
The cotton mills at Douglassville. Ga.
were burned. the loss being $125,0o
The British ship Blairmore. whil'
riding at anchor in the bay at San Fran
cisco, was struck by a violent squall ant
capsized and six seamen lost their lives
Fire destroyed the business center Of
Lyons, o.
At the depot in Millican, Tex, Johr
Brooks shot and killed his daughter
Mollie Brooks. and also shot her lover
A. c. Worrels, as they were about tc
elope, and then sat down on box oil
dynamite, which he exploded and blew
himself to atoms.
The new st. Louis directory gives that
city an estimated population of GIL PCS,
an increase of las, 050 since 1890.
The state of Ohio on and after July 1
next will inflict capital punishment by
electricity.
In central and southern Kansas there
is general movement of tramps toward
the mining districts of Colorado.
George Owens, an ex-soldier, cut the
throat of Cora Barton In Leavenworth,
Kan, because she refused to marry him,
and afterward committed suicide.
1t was reported that two whites and
rs blacks were killed in n riot at the
polls in Mallet, La.
Samuel T.. Langdon, who was held in
Philadelphia on suspicion of being inn
plicated in the death of Annie j. Nc
Grath, was discharged from custody.
Potatoes we're selling Mt two cents
bushel in western New York. and in
some places farmers were giving them
away to get rid of them.
Harrison, Townsend & Co., carpet
manufacturers at Norristown, Pa.
made an assignment in consequence of
the general trade depression.
1t was reported that President Cleve-
land had sent message to Madrid
urging Spain to submit the Cuban
question to mediation, and offering the
good offices of our government to aid
in restoring peace.
"A non-politicHl tariff convention will
be held in Detroit, Mich, May &c, to
tariff question out of partisan politics
and making it a business question.
Hall d. Garrison, manufacturers of
picture frames in Philadelphia, failed
for $25O.OO0.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 10th aggregated
$92G, s20,255, against $951, 976,7SS the
previous week. The decrease, com
pared with the corresponding week in
1895, was &C..
Capt James Watts, n prominent cit
iEen and veteran of the late war, was
organizing a company ut Lebanon, Ind,
TO go to Cuba to assist the insurgents.
There were 200 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 259 the week
previous and 207 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
Crazed by financial difficulties, S. II.
n prominent insurance man
ut Pentwuter, Mich, assassinated Will
liam b. O. Sands, wealthy lumber
dealer; then went to his home and
killed his wife and three children, and
lfter that blew out his own brains.
The volume of business has not in
'reased throughout the country nor
nave prices appreciably advanced since
April when the range for all commodi-
ties was the lowest ever known in this
Counterfeit quarters were in circula-
ton in Elwood, Ind. in large quantities.
Arthur Schneider, 90 years of age,
was hanged in New Orleans for the muir
der of Herman Schroeder, his rival in
ove.
Capt. John Faunce and his son, Percy,
Il Washington, were drowned with their
crew of seven colored men by the capsiz-
ing of a boat near Cape Henry, Va.
The schooner Otello, which sailed
from Boston February is for Savannah,
vas given up for lost with its crew of
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