The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-08
DOMESTIC.

"Tillie" Anderson, the Chicago racer,
broke the half-mile woman's bicycle
record at Youngstown. o., her time be-
ing 80 3-5 seconds.
The Forward Movement, n bcnefcent
organization in Chicago, is arranging
10 take 1000 boys and girls To the coun-
try this summer for q two weeks vaca-
ton. Any person who will receive one
or more of these children may address
Mrs. ". VI. Green, secretary, 1913 Forest
avenue
The Superior Consolidated Land COM
panv of Superior, Wis, with n capital
stock OF s3.60O,O0O, went into the hands
of q receiver.
The private banking firm of Schaar,
Koch & Co. which has been in business
for nine years in Chicago. failed for
$4,000.
\ distinct earthquake shock was fe!;
at Vandalia. Ill. The vibration was
from west to east and lasted Ten sec
onds.
The Des Moines river was higher than
ever known before. All the small
streams in southern Iowa were also out
OF their banks and bridges were gone.
communication by highway cut of and
railroad traffic almost at standstill.
Isidore Weber shot and killed his
four-year-old daughter Josie in New
York ana then killed himself. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
\ Mrs. Bugg and her two children
crd Minnie Fraser were drowned while
crossing swollen creek In wagon
near Jackson, No.
Judge y. c. Mcfarland. who was
United States land commissioner under
Presidents Garfield and Arthur, died in
Topeka, Kan.
Judge Dibell, in lengthy opinion
At Joliet. Ill. held the indeterminate
sentence law valid and constitutional.
Isaac Y. House, prominent merchant
of Trenton, y. j.. was found dead on
his knees by the side of his sons grave.
He had apparently died while praying.
At least 10000 men marched in the
Grant monument inaugural parade in
New York and at least 2,O0c, 900 persons
witnessed the display. The naval pa
rade on the Hudson river was composed
of battle ships of many nations. At tie
tomb President Mckinley, Gen. Porter
and Mayor Strong spoke of the coun'
try's hero. Never before in the history
Oof the United States has such tribut,
= been paid to the noble dead.
An electric car plunged through {
bridge and fell 25 feet at Portland, Ore.
and W. W. blanchard, Newton II. Masor
and n young woman were killed.
Fire at the Chesapeake &c Ohio Rail
road company's pier in Newport News
Va, did 81, 900, COO damage.
A train collided with a street car n
Tampa, Fla, and John Forepaw. Arsen
Garcia and Joaquin Sierra were killed
All the Missouri bottoms betweei
Ecokuk, Ia, and Quincy, Ill, were over
flowed about four feet, and all railwa
communication west and south wa
cut off. Alexandria, Sprawls and GREG
DRY, Mo, were inundated.
While boxing at Lima, o., DAME
Thomas received blow over the hear
by Frank Shoemaker and died in fe'
moments.
Forest fires were doing great damae
in the vicinity of Grantsburg, Wis.
= The disappearance and supposed su
eide in Chicago Of John S. Sheldo
banker and capitalist, brought disast'
and financial ruin to Loda. H., near
one-half OF the business men beir
compelled to assign.
Henry V. Duffy, head OF the large
mercantile establishment in Wauko
H., was murdered in his store by bu
glars
John Allen, a young carpenter Mt Bi
mingham. Ala, killed his wife becau
she was late in getting his. dinner.
N. Burruss, Son & Co., one of the mo
prominent and widely known bankir
firms in the south, failed at Norfol
Va, for s350,o00.
Confederate. Memorial day was ge
orally observed in Mississippi and AL
bama.
Miss Louise Weiser, ~ years old, W
killed in Dubuque, Ia, while attemptiI
TO stop runaway team.