The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

were fatally poisoned in Louisville, Ky.
by laudanum placed in their food. TIL,
crime is charged upon a neighbor.
The government receipts during July
were $50, o27,364 and the disbursements
S5o,1Oo,0Os. leaving the excess OF ex
penditures over receipts $l1,073,544.
Pedro, carrier pigeon owned by
Peter Tollons, of South Bend, Ind. flew
1000 miles in 3s hours, breaking al
flying records.
Reports from all sections of the
south show an increase in the volume
Of business, an upward tendency in
prices and better collections.
William Sadler and William Parks
Garland county (Ky) farmers, were
struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
The total circulation of national bank
notes on July 81 was S23o.75s,o36, an
increase us compared with July 81,
1896. of $4,s16,4s1.
During July the coinage executed at
the United States minis amounted to
$670,s50. as follows: Gold, $377,000;
silver. 100000; minor coins, $33,s5o.
At Webster City, Ia, lightning struck
In 20 places during a severe storm, and
two children of John Lupus were
killed.
Henry ALBERT, SO years old, and Nina,
his wife, Sc years old. committed sui
eide in Jersey City, N. j.. because OF
business reverses.
Fire destroyed the wooden mills at
jackson, Tenn, causing loss of $780,
900.
The public debt statement issued on
the I'd shows that the debt increased
s6,79o,56O during the month Of July.
The cash balance in the treasury was
$s67,961,932 The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $903. 446.046.
Mrs. William Hunt was killed by a
stray bullet from a target rifle near
Hindsboro, Ill. She leaves II children.
All departments of the Cleveland (O)
rolling mills resumed operations, Civ
ing 1000 men work.
Two new churches and many houses
were wrecked by tornado ut Leto-
hatchie. Ala.
William j. Mailman, a well-known
business man and chairman OF the re-
publican county committee, dropped
dead in the streets of Sheboygan, Wis.
Expert Samuel C. Durham. of the
federal bureau of labor ut Washington,
left for the gold belt of Alaska, where
he will make an investigation.
President Mckinley will attend the
reunion of the Society of the Army of
the Potomac at Troy. N. Y. August 20.
A sextuplex telegraph wire was sue
cessfully operated between Boston and
New Haven, 300 miles, three messages
being sent over the wire simultaneous
ly.
George B. Hamlet, of Ohio, has been
appointed chief post Office inspector, to
succeed Col. M. d. Wheeler, of New
York.
An attempt to blow up the house of
John O'Meara, superintendent Of the
Moonlight mine near Butte, Mont, re-
suited in the killing of his two little
girls and Mamie Benson.
Terence V. Powderly, of Pennsyl-
vania, took the prescribed oath and re-
ceived his commission as commissioner.
general of immigration. . ..
The fast flyer on the Kansas Pacific
was wrecked 40 miles east of Denver,
and two trainmen were killed and
number of passengers were injured.
The mammoth hardware establish
ment of c. c. Snyder was burned at Can
ton, o., the loss being 100000.
The army of the United States is now
filled to the enlisted strength allowed
by law.
John Flanagan, the champion ham
mer thrower, surpassed all records in
Albany. N. Y, by throwing the 16-pound
hammer 157 feet inches. -
Miss Clara Hall, aged 10, daughter OF
Sherwood Hall, carriage manufac-
turer of Grand Rapids, and Miss Ethel
Herrick, aged 10, daughter of George
G.. Herrick, were drowned at Ottawa
Beach, Mich, while bathing.
During a storm hailstones stopped
train on the Rock Island road near
Ottumwa, la. They banked on the track
like snow.
The reports as to the condition of the
crops throughout the country were IA
vorablc.
Louis Allemen, Willie Sellmen and
Eddie johnson, boys ranging in age
from 0 to IS years, were drowned in the
river at st. Louis while bathing.
The eight gas companies in Chicago
combined with capital stock of $685.
100000.
The imports of breadstuffs into the
United States during the last fiscal year
amounted in value to $2,774,763.
A statue Of the late Vice President
Schuyler Colfax Is to be erected in South
Bend, Ind.
Fire destroyed Stanton's hotel two
banks, two drug stores and ten other
buildings at Lewisburg, w. Va, the
total loss being 100000.
Nicola Tesla announced in New York
the completion of his latest discovery
the simultaneous transmission of
messages by means of the earth's cleo
trical currents to as many scattered
points on the surface of the globe as
may be desired.
Gov. Leedy, of Kansas, closed every
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