The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-12-11
LAT En-.

The worst srowstorm in years ex-
tended over Nebraska. Kansas, Mis-.
souri, and Iowa.
Louis Kossuth Church, ex-governor
of North Dakota, died at Juneau, Alas.
ia, of pneumonia.
A new counterfeit five-dollar silver
certificate of the series OF 1891 with a
portrait of Grant is announced by the
treasury tsecret service.
The Tennessee medical college was
destroyed by fire at Knoxville.
The French bark Bonnie Josephine,
from Bordeaux to Granville, was sunk
in !, collision and nine of her crew were
lost.
Ii is said that the position of attor-
ney-general. to succeed Mr.. McKenna,
who will be nominated TO the United
States supreme bench 10 succeed JUS
,ice Field. has been offered to Gov.
Griggs. of New Jersey.
\ sharp earthquake shock occurred at
Galena. H.. and houses shook Violently.
There were 3O6 business failures in
tho United States in the seven days
ended on the Sd. against CSC the week
previous and go in the corresponding
period Of 1896.
The clerk OF the house of representa-
tives has received notices of 20 contests
TO be made in the next house.
Fire destroyed the old Prick" Pom
eroy block and the Mcmillan Opera
House block at La Crosse, Wis, the loss
being 100000.
In his annual report the commits
Sioner of internal revenue estimates
hat the receipts from all sources for
the current fiscal year will aggregate
sl55 100000. an increase oter 1897 of So
100000. During the year 2.2il Illicit
stills were destroyed and So persons
were arrested.
Martin Thorn. convicted in New
York of the murder Of William Gulden-
euppe. has been sentenced 10 be electro
ruted in the week beginning January
| 10 next.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
| houses in the United States during
| the week ended on the 3D. aggregated
& .323 sol .4G5. against Si.o5S.4 s2.29s the
previous week The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
vas 50.
President Mckinley left Canton, o.,
for Washington, TO be present at the
opening of congress. There was but
slight change in The condition of his
| mother. and she was said TO be slowly
| sleeping her life away.
ThirUsstx men started in six days
fbicycle race at Madison Square garden
in New York.
Cars on an electric railway in the
suburbs Of Detroit. Mich. collided and
J three men were killed and II other per-
sons were injured. some fatally.
Americans in Havana asked Gen, Lee
for warships to protect their families
The Italian cabinet resigned and Mar
| quis Iii Rudini. the present prime min
lister, will form new one, from which
he will exclude all conservatives.
| Mahaley Embry Anderson, los years
of age. died at the home of her daugh
| ter, Mary Berkeley, in Jeffersonville. Ind
1t was officially announced that Gov
Griggs. of New Jersey, had accepted thu
office Of encouragement of the Cnitet
States.
The definite treaty of peace between
Turkey and Greece has been signed.
Advices from the orient say that
tidal wave at Port Isabella destroyed
many houses and killed over 1000 per
sons.
Fire originating in the merchandis
store of Price q Gillette at Tulsa, Inc
T., deStroyedHover 100000 worth o
property
At an election in the Chickasaw ma
ton in Oklahoma the ratification of tn
Dawes-Choctaw treaty was overwhelm
ingly defeated.
The Montgomery county On. I.
board of supervisors discovered short
age of 100000 in the accounts of Wi
liam Clark, the county treasurer.
William Blake, the first white settle
in Pomona county, CAL. is dead.
Frank Novak was sentenced at Vii
ton, Ia, to life Imprisonment in til
penitentiary at Anamosa for the mui
der of Edward Murray.
In the six days billiard tournamer
in New York Slosson was the WINNIE
!. defeating Ives in the last game by onl
two points.
At Jarucco. Cuba, 10 houses wer
destroyed by fire and hundreds of fam
lies were homeless and destitute.
Enormous damage was done by
storm which swept over Italy. Sever
teen vessels were wrecked in the bay {
Naples and their crews were lost.
AT the session in Austin, Tex, of III
National Prison association the con
, mittee on criminal law reported thf
, the increase of crime throughout III
country was frightful.
The annual report Of james j
, Eckels, comptroller of. the currenc
favors amending the note-issuing Law
| says there are 3,617 national banks
operation with a capital of $500, 23O
? POS, and there was paid to creditors
insolvent banks during the year STA
169,7s1 in dividends.