The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-21
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

Der Of the firm OF Emden, Gerstle 81 Co"
importers of curtains and embroider'
les, committed suicide by inhalinG gas
at New York.
Capt. b. Il. Bradleys towboat Fritz
blew up ten miles below Cairo, Ill. Ten
men were missing and four more were
badly scalded.
Charles Trautmann, famous rife
shot, died at his home at Elizabeth. n.
j., of dropsy. aged 62 years.
At Plattsburg, n. Y, President Nc
Kinley reviewed dress parade of the
Twenty-frst infantry.
Ex-Secretary Of State Will A. Strong,
now serving in Ouachita parish as a
deputy sheriff, shot and mortally
wounded a. b. Cook n Monroe, La. Cook
was under arrest for burglary and made
an effort TO escape.
John Gordon, negro who killed a
white man al Brunswick, Miss, on July
Is, was hanged by lynchers.
4 southbound freight train went
through a bridge spanning the Wabash
river a mile north of Geneva, Ind. kill
ing the engineer and severely injuring
the fireman and brakeman.
While resisting arrest for various
felonies in Coffee county, Ala, Allen
Lightfoot and his son were killed by Off
GERS.
The exports for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1897, amounted to 81 ,030, 00l. 300.
against $500. 200.4s7 for the year ended
June 30, 1896. The imports amounted
10 s7ji,7l7. COG. against s77o, 72i,674 for
1896. and the balance of trade in favor
of the United States was S275 COT,
against ss5.47G.213 for 1896.
The forty-sixth annual meeting of the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science convened at Detroit,
Mich, with an attendance of about 200.
James Dryer, of Frankfort, Ind, was
instantly killed while attempting TO
board an east-bound Big Four freight
train at the Lafayette junction,
The first bale of the New York state
1897 hop crop was shipped TO Boston,
the price paid being 25 cents per pound.
The eleventh annual convention of
the National Butchers Protective asso-
ciationwas opened at Springfield, Mass.
with large attendance of the trade
from the east and west.
At Barnum, Tex, fire destroyed the
planning mill and dry kiln, lumber yard,
lumber store and q number of tenant
houses and a number OF cars and three
bridges belonging TO the Kansas &; Tex
as railroad. Loss. $3.50, 1000.
The board Of aldermen of Richmond
Va, has concurred in the resolution of
the common council inviting the Grand
Army of the Republic TO hold their an
nual encampment in that city in 1899.
The treasury statement of the inn
ports Of sugar shows that the July inn
portations at the six principal ports
aggregated 17s,004,060 pounds, valued
ut S4,152,245. OF this amount 43,O0o.-
1l3 pounds, valued at S1,242, 1868, came in
free under reciprocity treaty with Ha-
waii.
The report of the statistician Of the
department Of agriculture shows the
following average crop conditions on
August /: Corn, 81; No. 2 spring wheat,
s0.7; spring rye, s9.s; oats, 500; bar
ley, s7.5..
AS n result in an attempt to escape
from the state prison at Charlestown.
Mass, Herbert A.. Willis, n prisoner,
and his brother Everett were fatally
shot, and several prison officials injured.
Martin Lillis and George Weir were
fatally injured by the explosion of dyna-
mite in stone quarry at Easton, Pa.
Frank G. Conroy, the Ogdensburg
IN. W wife murderer. was executed by
electricity at Clinton prison.
Henry G. Loomis, a well-to-do farmer
OF Butler, Ind, committed suicide by
hanging himself to rafter in his barn.
The infant son of Mrs. David Cherry
was scalded to death by falling into q
tub Of boiling water at Shelbyville, Ind
Secretary of the Interior Bliss has
taken cognizance of the rush to the
Klondike gold fields and Alaska, and
has issued warning to the general
public, calling attention to the hard
ship and suffering which will have to be
endured by those who attempt to go
there at this time of the year.
The steamer Mexico. en- route from
the Yukon river, struck on reef or
Sitka and went to the bottom. Her ESQ
passengers were saved. Many valuable
specimens collected by naturalists for
the Columbian museum at Chicago. to-
gether with $50 tons of freight, were
lost.
At Chicago after cutting his wife's
throat Charles NJ. Clifford ended his
own earthly existence by shooting him
self with a revolver. jealousy being the
couse.
Three hundred pounds of giant pow
der exploded in the st. Joe lead mine
near Bonnie Terrc, Mo-, killing William
II. Waddern and Taylor Dodson.
The councilmen of Fort Scott, Kan,
are insisting that an occupation tax be
assessed against the ministers Of the
town rs means of raising revenue to
make up the deficiency occasioned by
tie closing Of the saloop2