The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-11-27

Edward Vancy fatally shot his sweet
heart, Nellie Skitman, and her brother
at Bear Creek, Mich. Jealousy was the
cause.
For the four months of the present
fiscal year the total internal revenue
receipts of the government exceeded
those of the corresponding period in
1896 by $6,75o,OGo.
Henry Sherry, one of the greatest
lumber operators and manufacturers
Wisconsin ever knew, made an assign
ment at Oshkosh for $l,000,0oo.
George and Homer Brewer, aged II
and 10 respectively, were drowned while
skating on Big Stone lake at ortonville,
MINI.
Because of trouble over trifling mat
ter julius Egg0rt shot and killed his
father. Joachim Eggert, in Saginaw,
Mich, and then killed himself.
II is said that Attorney-General Nc
Kenna's appointment us associate JUS
tice of the supreme court to succeed
Justice Field has been formally decided
upon by the president.
Miss Caroline Hamilton Pier and John
Henry Roemer, prominent members of
the Milwaukee bar, were married by
the bride'sNmother, who is also lawyer.
New style postal cards will soon make
their appearance.
In train wreck near Cleveland, o.,
Miss Grace Chapman, b. S. Baxter and
John Roe, all of Chagrin Falls, sus-
famed severe INJURIES.
John r. Gentry and Robert j., the
PAGERS, have closed their 1897 campaign
and been taken to Somerville, n. j.
Brig Gen. j. G. Breckenridge will sug-
gest that new bureau of the war de-
partment be created to manage the vol
unteer soldiers homes.
At Barboursville, KY, John Smith and
Fred Harkler killed each other in a quar-
rel over a debt
Albert j. FrantZ, aged %, the MUIR
derer of Bessie Little, of Dayton, o.,
was electrocuted in the annex at the
Ohio penitentiary at Columbus.
The secret service bureau announces
the discovery of new counterfeit $40
silver certificate and also n counterfeit
national bank note.
Tom Sweat, a negro, who killed an
other colored man near Bryan, Tex,
was taken by mob from the officers
and lynched.
George Wheeler Hnman is to sue
coed William Penn Nixon as editor in
chief of the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Henry Clay johnson (colored) was
hanged at st. Louis, No, for the murder
of William Amend, newsboy, August
l, 1896.
In a quarrel over money matters
Henry Kammerer killed his father near
Benton Harbor, Mich, and then killed
himself.
A prairie fire burned over 400 square
miles of territory in three counties in
Texas and thousands of cattle and sheep
persisted.
The report of Secretary Bliss of the
department of the interior for the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1897. says
that the total area of the public domain
is 1,s35,O17,602 acres; there were &c.
044 names on the pension rolls June 80,
1897, an increase of $3.50; the Indians
number 177,17S, exclusive of civilized
tribes; the number of children in pub
lie schools was nearly 100000 and the
value of school property $45G,000,000.
A municipal government for Alaska is
recommended
Reports indicate total failure of
the fall mackerel fishery on the At
lantic coast.
Mount IIolyoke college at South Had
ley, Mass, the pioneer Institution for
the higher education of women, OBJ
served its sixtieth anniversary.
III. Compton and his young wife were
killed by the cars at Compton, Cal,
while crossing the tracks in n wagon.
Silas d. Fargo, of HappyHollow, Mo-,
was shot by mob on suspicion of hav-
ing set fire to building.
The directors of the Rochester On.
" savings bank voted to place that in
stitution in liquidation.
The Anchor line steamer Bluff City,
one of the fastest and newest boats on
the lower Mississippi. was burned at
Chester, ILL.,, the loss being 100000.
The Western Baseball association next
year will consist of clubs from st. Jo-
seph, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Du-
buque, Burlington, Quincy, Peoria and
Rockford.
1t is announced on high authority that
President Mckinley will tacitly APP
prove the programme for autonomy or
home rule for Cuba which Spain now
promises.
In train wreck near Williford, Ark,
Il +, Hoover of Pleasant Hill Mo- wns
killed and 30 other persons were in
jured.
The coal operators of northern Illi-
nois refused absolutely TO arbitrate
with the miners.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.