The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-03-27
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC. .
Barney McKernan, the last survivor
in this country who took part in tho
famous charge OF the Light brigade at
Ealaklava. died at PhOen!Xy.llc, Pa.
The lives Of hundreds of families and
thousands OF live stock were in peri!
throughout the lower Mississippi val
lev on the Arkansas side from the dis
astrous food that was sweeping down
upon them.
Mount Baker, one OF the lotticst peaks
in the Cascade range, Is in state Of
eruption for the first time in 70 years.
Three negroes who murdered John
FAIRFIELD and John L. Turner at Juliette,
Fla, were lyached by mob.
The Visible supply Of grain in the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat,
4l,443,GO0 bushels; corn, 2G,79j,O00 bush
els; oats, 1925 600 bushels; rye. 3,GlG,-
600 bushels; barley, 3,l3j,Goo bushels.
President Mckinley in his first mes
sage to congress declares in favor Of
protective policy and says that prompt
revenue legislation is the first duty OF
the lawmakers.
The wholesale dry goods house of Ely,
Walker & Co., the largest In ST. Louis,
was destroyed By fire, the loss being
Sl,DOO.OOO. and George Gutewald, n fire
man, was killed and others were injured
by falling walls.
Seven tollpates were destroyed in
Mercer county, Ky, by regulators.
The Jail at Dover, Tenn, was de-
stroycd by fire and three colored prison
crs were crcmatcd.
Chairman Dinghy, Of the ways and
means committee, says the new tariff
bill is expected to increase the revenue
G!l2,oOO,CO0.
Secretary Sherman informed the
Spanish minister, Senior de LONE, that
this administration will insist upon
Americans in Cuba being amply pro-
tcctcd.
In South Dakota over COO miles Of road
have been practically abandoned for
fully two weeks because Of snow block
adc.
A train was wrecked at Wolf Creek
Kan, ard Engineer Nyc, Fireman Con-
nor and J. p. Meador, passenger, were
killed and six persons were injured.
John Cramer, aged 1G, son Of Jacob
Crancr, Of Duryca, Pa, died Of hydro
phobia ald his father while witnessing
his sons struggles dropped dead. ...
The llcadlcy Grocery company whole
sale at Springfield, Mo-, failed for $780,
OCO.
Postmastcr-Gcneral Gary says that
the administration has decided TO adj
here to the CONFERENCE.-The
policy for all postmastcrs.
John O'Rourkc, John Turns and An
tonic Molinaskj were fatally burned by
explosions of molten iron at the Emma
blast furnace in Cleveland, o.
For the eight months ended February
2S there has been n gain Of over S132,-
100000 in the amount Of merchandise
exported and decrease Of nearly $l10,-
100000 in the amount imported.
The First national bank of Sioux City,
Ia, which suspended payment Novem-
Der 10, 1896, has resumed business.
The five new state senator's, four re-
pHblicans and one democrat, were
sworn in by the Kentucky legislature,
and this will insure the election Of n re-
publican United States senator.
Charles Rodatinsky and his wife and
baby were burned to death near Omaha,
Neb., by the explosion of = gasoline
stove.
The piano and organ firm of Estey e.
Camp, which has been in business in
Chicago for 30 years, hos decided to re-
tire.
Gen. James NJ. Warner, aged CO, n
prominent resident Of Albany. y. Y,
and postmaster under Uarrison's adj
ministration, died while attending a
theater.
1,rodic Williams, the high diver,
jumped from n 75-foot tower into Lake
Worth at Palm Beach, Fla, struck the
bottom, broke his neck and died within
n few hours.
1t Is generally believed by cattlemen
that rs per cent. Of range animals In,
North Dakota and Montana have sue
cumbed to the winter. Pierre Wibaux,
big cattleman of Wibaux, Mont, puts
his loss ut 100000.
The steamer de st. Nazairc, which left
New York on March G, has gone down
somewhere of the Carolina coast, ano
as far as In known only four Of the so
people who took passage on her remain
sllYe.