The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-12
DOMESTIC.

Memorial day was generally observed
throughout the country.
Bud" Franks, u horse trader of SaI
Antonio, Tex, wound up drunken
spree by numbering his wife and then
blowing out his brains.
Mrs. Mamie l.. Barr, her four-year'
old babe and her sister, Miss Matte L.
Alexander, aged IA, were all drowned
in tank near the house in Abbot, Tex.
a train struck u wagon full of chill
drcn near Denver, Col, and four of the
little oucs were killed and two others
were fatally injured.
The Cheyenne Indians went on the
war path in Montana and killed dozen
men, including five United States SOL
diers.
The month of May just passed was
the coolest on record.
George Repshire and his son Herbert,
aged 43 and Is respectively, were
drowned at Shady Bend, Kan, in the
Saline river.
A distinct earthquake was ex-
pclienccd throughout the south At
lantic and middle southern states.
While driving from Primghar, Ia, to
his farm between Sibley and Ocheydan
+. ID. Frey, an aged man, was frozen to
death. g..
Constatinc Kerr and Corporal Hockin,
of the mounted police, and Ernest Grun-
dy, postmaster of Duck Lake, Man,
were shot dead near that place by IA
dians.
a tally-ho, with party of 81 persons
from the Greene Avenue Baptist church,
Brooklyn, n. Y, was struck by q train
at Valley Stream and five of the young
people were killed.
The Hubbard Milling company at
Mankato, Mimi, failed for 100000.
Maria and Frances Butler, unmarried
sisters about 80 years Of age, committed
suicide at their home in Lowell, Mass,
because of financial losses.
Miss Mildred Brewster, IS years old,
shot Miss Annie Wheeler, also IS years
of age, at Montpelier, VT, and then sent
a bullet into her own brain. jealousy
was the cause.
Snow fell at Oshkosh and other por-
tions Of Wisconsin and in some places
in Minnesota.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 31st nit. were: Baltimore,
.742; Cincinnati, .G7G; Pittsburgh, .672;
Boston, GOO; Cleveland, .5G7; New York,
$40; Louisville, 800; Philadelphia, .4S5;
Brooklyn, ASA; Chicago, 1873; Wash
iDgton, 800; ST. Louis, 1888.
Tho Iigihla cnpnI,, of ,.,o.,
United States on the 1st was: Wheat,
2o,sS9,000 bushels; corn, 49, 900 bush
els; oats, 8, 100000 bushels; rye, 2,G21,-
600 bushels; barley, 1,4l4,OOO bushels.
The government receipts during May
were $20,707,3 800 and the disbursements
were 20,109,25o, leaving the surplus
for the month $GSS, 131. The deficit for
the II months of the present fiscal year
amounts to $32,273,121.
The public debt statement issued on
the list shows that the debt decreased
81 ,5G0,0S0 during the month of Nav.
The cash balance i'm the treasury was
$SG7, 406,S26. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
TO $ooG, Gs4,052.
IL
years old, stabbed to death Mrs. Bertha
johnson, aged 30 years, at New Orleans,
and then killed himself. jealousy was
the GAUGE.
James Roberts and his wife and three
children were killed by an engine at
railway crossing near Alma, III. ~,
The Merchants bank Mt Lincoln, Neb..
closed its doors with liabilities of $780,
600.
Griswold & Gillct, bankers and brok-
ers in New York, have made an assign
ment with liabilities of 100000
Five children were burned to death In
the residence of j. ii. White. two miles
from keystone, w. Va, during the abb
sence Of their parents.
A railway engine blew up near Chris
tianshurg, w. Va, killing Joe WaslSie.
engineer, Jim Gillespie, fireman, and
Flagmnn William Byrne.
The reports as to the condition of the
crops throughout the country show
that cold weather has caused slow
growth.
At Louisville, KY, Frank Sem low
cred the worlds bowling record, MAX
ing 20 successive strikes" before lcav-
ing the alley.
At a banquet of the commercial
clubs in Cincinnati Secretary Gage In
a speech predicted a speedy settlement
Of the tariff question by congress and
IN early Industrial revival