The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-04
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

that many cotton mills which have beer
idle have resumed operations.
John C. Bills, one of the most prom
inent citizens in Davenport. H., for A
years, committed suicide by shooting
himself. Failing health was the cause
Three men were instantly killed and
eight injured by the explosion Of q
boiler at brick yard in Cairo, Ill.
Peter Grocer, secretary and treasurer
of the Merchants Building and Loan
association in Trenton, N. j., was said
to be short s0s,74O in his accounts.
George II. Steel ,ex-sheriff, and Sam
Young, deputy sheriff, of Leslie county,
were both killed in n quarrel at Hyden,
Ky.
President Mckinley left Plattsburg,
N. Y, for Buffalo, to attend the grand
army encampment.
The business portion of Catawba, O.,
was destroyed by fire.
The 5000 employees Of the National
Rolling Mill company at McKeesport,
Pa, received notice Of a ten per cent.
advance in their wages.
Outlaws raided picnic at Glenwood,
o., and in the fight that ensued Lew Hol-
ley was killed and William Porter and
Van Linkfield were fatally stabbed.
Nebraska reports n yield of 45,000,000
bushels of wheat and 350,000,000 of
corn and South Dakota 10000, 900 bush
els of wheat and 100000, 900 of corn.
The trial of Adolf L. Luetgert, who is
charged with numbering his wife and
then dissolving her body in vat of acid,
began in Chicago.
A celebration in commemoration OF
the centennial of the establishment of
Jefferson county, o., was held at Steu-
benville.
Hundreds of coal miners in Grundy
county, Ill.,, were said to be on the verge
of starvation.
1t is said that the coming season in
the lumber camps in Michigan will be a
record breaker in activity.
The miners officials and operators
held a conference in Pittsburgh, Pa,
but nothing was accomplished.
The national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic began at
Buffalo, n. Y, with reception to
Commander-in-Chief GARRISON and
parade of civic societies.
A statement from the treasury de-
partment shows that individual depos-
its in national banks throughout the
country are S1o2,0o0,00o greater than
one year ago.
Jerry Brown was hanged at Fayette-
vile, W. Va, for an assault on Mrs. Rad
ford last February.
The uniform law commission of the
American Bar association has prepared
bill providing for divorce law which
will be uniform throughout the various
states.
Wiley Douglas (colored) was lynched
by mob at Kendall, Ark, for killing
7. T. Johnson, white man.
White caps went to the house Of
Frank Smith (colored) at Abbeyville,
Ala, and shot him to death for threat
ening to divulge the names of white
cappers to the grand jury.
The twenty-frst annual session of the
national council of the Daughters OF
Liberty began in Pittsburgh, Pa.
The final effort at Pittsburgh, Pa, to
arrange a plan for ending the big coal
strike proved failure and the strike
goes on.
Over $4,000 veterans were in attend
ance at the national encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic in
Buffalo, n. Y, on the cath, and Presi-
dent William Mckinley was the central
figure in the proceedings of the day.
Gov. Tanner has designated Septem-
Der 6 as Labor day in Illinois.
The business portion of the town of
Ina, ILL.,, was wholly destroyed by fire.
A terrihc cloudburst over the central
and northern parts Of New Jersey rem
dered hundreds of people homeless and
destroyed thousands of dollars worth
of property.
The reports as to the condition Of
the crops throughout the country show
the need of warmer weather and more
rain.
Window glass manufacturers met in
Chicago and organized trust.
New discoveries Of valuable deposits
of pearls in lakes and rivers N Arkan-
sas have been made.
The law enacted by the last Wiscon-
sin legislature requiring the labelling
Of convict-made goods brought into
Wisconsin from other states has been
declared unconstitutional.
The National Association of Ex-Pris-
oners of War met in national conven-
tion in Buffalo, n. Y.
Early next spring party will be
sent out from the geological survey at
Washington to make investigation Of
gold resources in Alaska.
Over 10000 veterans. with the presi-
dent Of the United States at their head,
made the triumphal march of the Grand
Army of the Republic at the encamp-
ment in Buffalo, N. Y.
The president has appointed William
r. Holloway. Of indianapolis. to be con-
sui general at st. Petersburg, Russia.
The twentieth annual convention OF
the American Bar association began in
Cleveland.
In fire that destroyed A. II. Holmes
livery stable at Ann Arbor, Mich, Fl
horses persisted.
The German pencil firm of A. w.