The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-11-06
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

years swept the lower New Jersey coast
and up the Delaware bay and many YES
sells were lost and other property dam
aged.
Forest fires in the vicinity of LAUREL
vile, Pa, have done damage to the eN-
tent of $150,O00 and are still burning.
The Fort Randall reservation of l00,-
600 acres in South Dakota was thrown
open for settlement and hundreds of
homesteaders at once staked claims.
Later advices say that 10 persons were
killed in the wreck on the New York
Central railroad at Garrisons, n. Y.
The business portion of Baxter, Ia,
was destroyed by fire.
Andrew Johnson and Oscar Peterson
were drowned in the Missouri river near
Mandan, N. d. Their boat capsized.
Admiral Matthews, chief of the bu-
reau of yards and docks, in his annual
report to Sccretay Long recommends
the construction of four new dry docks
of the best type. ..a..
The estimates for the maintenance OF
the navy yards next year aggregate ST.
434,3O2.
Game Warden Wilcox and party in
trying to arrest Utes on Snake river,
Colorado killed seven Indians.
The state banks of Kansas in their re-
ports show deposits of over $7,000,000,
an increase over last year of As per cent.
Seven striking railroad laborers were
killed and number wounded in bat
tie with deputy sheriffs at Mammoth
Tank, A. Il.
Many new cases of yellow fever were
reported at New Orleans, Mobile and
Memphis, and one case at Cincinnati.
Chauncey NJ. Depew, president of the
New York Central railroad, says that
the wreck at Garrisons, in which 20
lives were lost, was caused by dyna-
mite explosion. IT,.
The post Office and general store at
Benton, Ia, was robbed by tramps.
The Delaware coast was swept by the
worst storm in 10 years, and property
valued at $1,000,000 was destroyed
BY the will of Caroline Tallnan, fl led
Mt New York, $780, is left to charity.
/ The immense pine tracts in the yicin-
ity of Blue Eye, Pa, were on fire.
Rev. p. NJ. Murphy, aged rs years,
a well-known Baptist minister, was
murdered near Cara, Mo-, by Hugh
Van IIosier, neighbor.
A severe snowstorm was raging in
Nebraska and South Dakota.
The noted stallion Glenelg died at
Castallin Springs, Tenn, aged 81 years.
1t is announced that the second trial
of Luetgert will commence in Chicago
November 8.
All the students in the Baptist uni
versity at Sioux Falls, S. H., left be-
cause they disliked the president.
1t is said that the plants of all the
wire, barbed wire and wire nail mills
in the United States will DE purchased
by a syndicate.
A safe containing 100000 that was
on the train wrecked near Garrisons,
n. Y, is missing. r
Stephen Scroggins and three other
young men were killed by boiler ex-
plosion near Wener, Ark.
Paul Dana has become editor of the
New York Sun, succeeding his father,
Charles A. Dana, deceased.
While crazed with drink Thomas
Monahan shot and killed William
Thoits, Joseph Gauthier and Wood
bury Gates at Gorham, n. II.
Andrew Haschc, 10 years old, was
killed in football game near Steinway,
L. I.
A blizzard swept over the eastern
half of Colorado and in Denver alone
100000 damage was done.
AT Oregon City, Ore, Jacob McComb
and George Stoirch were killed and five
others injured by falling tlmbers.
The twenty-ninth annual meeting OF
the Army of the Tennessee convened in
Milwaukee.
Trains collided on the Great Northern
road near Hinsdale, Mont, and En-
gineer Neale and Fireman Carton were
killed and three other men were badly
injured.
In fight between two Indians and
game warden at Leech Lake, Mimi, all
three were killed.
Dan Hart, the once famous minstrel,
now 81 years Of age, has been admitted
TO the city hospital in, st. Louis sick and
helpless.
The one hundred and fifty-frst birth
day Of Princeton university was cele-
brated at Princeton, N. j., and EXPIRES.
ident Cleveland read an address on the
"Self-Afade Man."
Fruit growers in California estimate
the damage to crops by recent storms ut
$1,000,O00.
AT the meeting in Chicago of the Dem
ocratic Editorial Association of Illinois
ex-Gov. Altgeld spoke in favor of free
silver.
TIE exchanges at the leading clear
ins houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 22d aggregated
81 ,306, o93,ss4, against $1,3o7 ,1so the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week Of 1896
was ESQ. ~