The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-11-28

home in Fort Smith. He had sentenced
200 criminals to the gallows during hi
long term of Office.
The records of the treasury depart
ment show that from February /, 1906
to November 1, there were coined at the
minis of the United States 1929, %:
standard silver dollars. The seignior'
age upon this amount was $5.051. 430.
Miss Frances Z. willard was reelected
president of the National Woman's
Christian Temperance union at the an.
nual meeting In st. Louis.
Star Pointer, the Tennessee pacing
wonder, 2:02K. won new laurels in Phil
adelphia by defeating Joe Patchen, an
other king of the turf, in three straight
heats in a match race for $1,000 side.
The best time was 2:04H.
August Pohl and three other men
who were wanted as witnesses in a
murder case at How, Wis, committed
suicide.
The S. b. Richards Lumber company
at Duluth. Mimi. failed for 100000.
Thomas A. Edison, the wizard Of cleo
tricity, makes the startling announce
nent as the result of some experiments
made in his West Orange IN. J.) labora-
tory that within three years the blind
shall sce-that the only prerequisite is
that the optic nerve shall be intact.
The one hundred and twenty-eighth
annual banquet of the chamber OF COM
Inerce of New York was held at Del
monico's and a letter was read from
President Cleveland which congratu-
lates the country over the result of the
recent election.
The town of Mercer, Pa. county seat
OF the county of the same name, was
nearly destroyed by fire.
A young negro named Collier who at
tempted an assault on Miss lilly
Vaughan. white woman living near
Columbus. Miss. was hanged by mob.
John Lawson, the "Terrible Swede,"
rode so miles unpaced on a bicycle at
Memphis in 2:16:03.
Edward w. Curry, aged 4s. chairman
of the Iowa democratic state central
committee, died in Des Moines from in
juries received during his initiation into
the United Brotherhood of Elks lodge.
The twenty-eighth annual reunion of
the Society of the Army of the Tennes-
see convened in the parlors of the South
ern hotel in st. Louis.
Mrs. Foley, widow 65 years old, and
her daughter Fannie, aged 40, were MUIR
dered in their home near Liberty, Mo-,
by burglars, who secured $50.
President and Mrs. Cleveland enter
tanned at lunch DR.. John Watson, of
Scotland, known in the literary world
az Ian Maclaren. and Mrs. Watson.
The Lucas county children's home
at Toledo, o., where 200 children are
cared for, was partially destroyed by
fire!
The national fraternal congress IN
session at Louisville. KY, elected j. G.
J Johnson, of Kansas, president.
The twenty-third annual convention
of the W. C. T. U. came to an end in St.
Louis with appropriate exercises.
The Norwegian Plow company. James
Beach. president, made n general as
signment at Dubuque. Ia, with liabili-
ties of $4,000.
Boards of trade in western cities will
hold n conference in indianapolis on De-
cember to consider the currency ques-
ton. ...
Five hundred feet of a platform fell
at Macon, Ga, and 30 people and 1000
bales Of cotton went down in crash.
some of the persons being fatally in
jured.
All the tollgates in Woodford county,
Ky, were cut down and destroyed by
mob. Similar depredations have been
in Franklin, Owen, Ander-
son and Washington counties.
John r. Gentry, 2:00h. the king of
harness race stations, was sold in New
York for $40 800 to Lewis j. Tewksbury,
owner of Robert j., 2:01h.
The business portion of Centre Point,
Ind, was destroyed by fire.
Frank Waller lowered the American
1o0-nile bicycle record at Memphis. |
Tenn. his time being 3 52:14.
At Sioux City. Ia. the First national |
bank closed its doors with liabilities of |
S537,90s and the Sioux City hank fol-
lowed suit with liabilities of 100000.
Frank L. Arbuckle, n wealthy resi- |
dent Of Denver, Col. and chairman of |
the democratic state central committee, |
lied suddenly in New York.
While Warden McCrae, of Erie. Pa,
vas en- route to Riverside penitentiary
with 23(prisoners one of them jumped |
from the train and the warden jumped |
after him and broke his neck.
Seldom Bloomquist. farmer living |
rear Dawson. MINI. shot his sister-in-
aw, Mrs. John Bloomquist. and then
shot himself. No cause is known for |
The crime.
1ncendiaries burned portion of the
business section of Danville, Ky.
At the twenty-eighth annual meet
ng in st. Louis of the Army of the Ten
,essee Granville NJ. Dodge, of Iowa, was
reelected.
Rev. James c. Hull. Methodist min
ster in st. Paul, Mimi, charged with
attempting to poison his wife, plead
yuilty and was sentenced to six years
in the penitentiary.
The annual report of Commodore
Melville. chief engineer OF the navy,
II. l.