The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-02-06


ing a loss Of 100000.
/ Three children died at the home OF
George Madison near JeffersonvIlle.
Ind. from the effects of eating apples
that were poisoned.
The national board of trade at its
annual meeting in Washington re-
elected as president Frederick Fraley,
of Philadelphia.
A sleighng party drove into quarry
at Pemberton. Pa, and 20 persons were
badly injured.
Several business blocks were de-
stroyed by fire in Philadelphia that
started in the big grocery store OF Hans
com Bros. the total ioss being over ST.
! 100000
/ The First national bank nj Olympia,
! Wash, closed its doors with liabiities
! OF 500. 900 and assets, OF $226.OOO.
The ID. q. iuengl}ng hrewing COM
pany in New York failed for $3oo.oo0.
Four children of John Webb were
burned TO death in their home at Cur
winsviile. Pa, during the absence OF
their parents.
An earthquake shock was felt at
Machias, Me.
Melville w. Fuller, chief justice of the
United States supreme court. and David
j. Brewer. associate justice, have been
nominated as commissioners to serve on
the arbitration tribunal to determine
the boundary line between Venezuela
and British Guiana.
w. j. Morrison and Edward Denni-
son were blown to atoms by dyna-
mite explosion at Cygnet, o.
Thousands of cattle persisted in the
Indian territory in the recent blizzard.
Gov. Bushnell has appointed COM
mission TO receive funds and build
monument to Gen. Phil II. Sheridan at
Somerset, y.
Joseph Boxell, IS years old. fatally !
shot Miss Ora Brotherton, l6 years old, !
at Dundee, Ind, and then killed him !
self. 1t was u case of unrequlted love.
The two infant children OF Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Wilkie were burned to
death in their home Mt Linton, Ind, /
during the absence of their parents.
For the last quarter of the year 1896 |
there was a net decrease of S33.379 in |
the postal receipts throughout the
country. The total receipts were S. |
G70.32O; the total for the correspond
ing quarter of 1895, $s,7l2.G9o
The National board of trade at its
annual meeting in Washington declared
in favor of the gold standard and for
the establishment OF consistent and !
DELIBERATELY planned financial system.
An explosion In the Srnock mines at t
Uniontown. Pa. killed Peter Houser
and Charles McQuister. and injured
eight other men.
The Teckensaw. n small packet ply
ing between Evansville. Ind, and Hart
ford, KY, was sunk by floating ice and
six lives were said 10 have been lost.
Goeppcrs malt house in Cincinnati
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
$3.50. 900.
The First national bank OF Holidays.
burg, Pa, which suspended payment
December II last. has resumed business.
Five men were killed by a freight
train near the East Norwalk Comm
railway station.
The NATIONAL Association Of Manu-.
lecturers at its annual meeting in Phil
adelphia adopted resolutions favoring
pr election and reciprocity.
In collision between steamers at
New Orleans ii. T.. Hester and L. Bios
SIM, newspaper reporters, were
drowned.
The National Association of Manufac-
turers at their annual meeting in Phila-
telphia reelected as president Theodore
Z. Search. Of PENNSYLVANIA.
The Van Emster block in Bay City,
Mich, was burned and MIR. Van Emster,
,ged So, and Theodore During, aged 6S,
Dershed in the flames.
More than 1000 head of horses and
'attle persisted in Lyman county. S. d.,
n the recent blizzard.
The four children of Mrs. Lee Wade
we're burned to death In their home Mt
Centerview. Mo-, during the absence of
their parents.
1t Is announced that the Corbett-
fight will take place in the
state Of Nevada on the 18th Of March
next.
c. X. Rash, n farmer near Wayne, Neb.,
n fit of insanity Drained his wife and
'hree children with an AK and then
hacked the bodies to pieces.
James r. Hawkins, proprietor of the
ron works at Springfield, Mass. failed
for 100000.
Lyman j. Gage, president of the First
national bank Of Chicago, was formally
rendered the treasury portfolio by
Mckinley and accepted
he same.
Morris jackson. of Little Falls, N. Y,
shot Fred Mcintosh and Miss Ella NJ.
Susman and then shot, himself Miss
Ausman's wounds were probably fatal.
Michael McDermott, an attendant,
md Joseph Hall, patient Mt the state
hospital for the insane in Morristown,
Pa, were killed by the cars.
A family named Norton, consisting of
father, mother and three children. were
frozen to death in their home near Mt.
Ida, Ark.
Eleven men were injured, one. Louis
Folger, fatally, by an explosion in coal
nine at Foster, la.
The recent cold snap will cost the
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