The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-03-06


A cyclone did great damage to prop
erty at Athens, Ca, but no lives wers
LOST.
Seventeen persons have lost their live.
by the floods in the Ohio valley.
The loss by foods in the Monongahelf
| pa.) valley are estimated at over ST.,
! 100000. The scene of the flooded dis
,ricts is one of DISSOLUTION and devasta
! ton.
The supreme court handed down an
| opinion that the female suffragists oil
! Indiana are not entitled to vote, the
state constitution expressly limiting
the ballot TO every male citizen OF
the age Of 81 years and upward"
The Oregon legislature adjourned
/ sine die without clccting United
| States senator.
The resignation of Consul-General
! Ice has been received at the state de-
! partment in Washington. 1t is accom-
panied by long letter, in which Gen.
Lee complains that repeated requests
have been ignored.
The German-American Bank of Tona-
wanda, y. Y, closed its doors with de-
posits of 100000.
An incendiary fire at Palmer, Tex,
destroyed ii business houses.
a National Sound Money league mon
partisan) was organized in New York
TO maintain the gold standard as the
basis of the money system Of the
United States.
Charles Calender, aged ca, the IA
Their of negro sninstrelsy, died suddenly
of heart failure in Chicago. He leaves
widow and daughter at Cromwell,
Conn.
Mrs. August Hanson and her four
children were suffocated by gas from
stove at Lake Preston, S. d., and Mr..
Hanson was dying.
The president has issued a proclama-
ton calling a session of the senate at
noon on March 1 to receive communica-
tons from the executive.
The main business portion of sun
Prairie, a Wisconsin village of 1900 in
habitants, was wiped out by fire.
On n crossing near Sherman Heights,
n suburb of Chattanooga, Tenn. v'om-
m named Woodward, and nine children,
all in a wagon, were struck by train
and the mother and six of the children
were killed and the other three children
were dangerously hurt.
The North Dakota senate killed bill
increasing the residence requisite 10 a
divorce from ninety days 10 one year.
The United States Building & Loan
association in Louisville, Ky, failed
with liabilities of S5o3,OO0.
Mrs. Letitia Green Stevenson. wife OF
the vice president, was reelected pres
ident-gcneral of the Daughters of the
American Revolution at their session in
Washington.
An electric car was crushed at a
crossing in Chicago between two trains
and George O'Malley, II. W. Young and
y Prius we've killed and several other
persons were injured.
AS result of brutal haIing at the
hands of sophomores, Clarence 4. Aus
tin. a freshman of the University of
Rochester. y. V, is raving maniac.
At least 10000 people in the Monon-
rahcla, Allegheny and upper Ohio val
leys are out of employment at pres
eEt, owing to the floods.
President Cleveland has ordered AZ
townships of the Black hills TO be added
to tho forest reserve. and $4,000 South
Dakota people will have TO seek new
homes.
At Pine Bluff, Ark. Robert Cox (col-
cred) was hanged for criminal assault
and Jim Davis (colored) was executed
for the murder of Lawrence Williams,
Z boy.
Ntro-glycerin exploded in the Gould
oil field near Steubenville, o.. and two
men were blown to atoms.
1t is said that ]. B. Brigham, of Delta,
O., master of the National Grange, has
been offered and has accepted the Office
of assistant secretary of agriculture.