The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-08
LATER.

A telegram from Athens says great
battle was fought at Velestino between
a Turkish force of 5000 and Gen. Smo-
lentz's brigade and the Turks were re-
pulsed with enormous losses. lhe
Greek forces which have been operating
in Epirus against the Turks were said
to be retreating.
David H. Hays. for IS years cashier
| of the st. Louis post office, was arrested
pn charge of embezzling $4,000.
The United States supreme court has
adjourned until May 10. when il will
assemble to deliver opinions, but not 10
hear arguments.
Gin Pom. Chinaman, was hanged at
Spokane, Wash. for the murder OF Lee
Tong.
| There were 237 business failures in
| the United States in the seven days
| ended on the 3Oth ult-. against 2ls the
week previous and 2Ss in the CORE
spending period of 1896.
The new one, two and five-dollar sill
yer certificates issued last year are to
be withdrawn from circulation as rap
| iGly as possible and destroyed.
l.
ropean intervention between Turkey
| and Greece in the present position OF
| affairs is regarded as wholly imprac-
ticable. both Greece and Turkey having
resolved TO continue the war.
1 A five per cent. advance in the price
of window glass. including al! sections
Of the country. has been made.
John L. Lane, wife and child were
found dead at Bonny Eagle. Ne. All
had been shot.
A series of earthquakes throughout
the chain of Leeward islands in the
West Indies destroyed numerous build
ings and many persons were killed.
The business portion of ST. Augustine,
H.. was destroyed by fire.
For three murders. ravishing two
girls and burning down the humble
home of Henry Daniels at Sunnyside,
Tex, a mob lynched four brothers
named Thomas and Fayette Rhone, W.
williams and w. Gates GALL colored).
= Old Trinity church, which for nearly
200 years has stood at the top of Wall
street. New York, began its bicenten-
NAL celebration.
. |
nearly wiped out by fire.
The president decided not to interfere
in the case of Joseph Dunlop. proprietor
Of the Chicago Dispatch, who was SEN
fenced 10 two years Imprisonment for
: sending obscene matter through the
mails. and Dunlop was taken TO prison
: at Joliet.
: The public debt statement issued on
: the list shows that the debt decreased
s5.7ls.O6s during the month OF April
: The cash balance in the treasury was
, ss76.746.655. The total debt, less th'
r cash balance in the treasury, amounts
tC 1895, 244.132.
Ex-Congressman John j. Perry diec
suddenly at his home in Portland, Me.
: aged Sc years.
The government receipts during
April were SGT SIP. 135 and the expendi
u lures s32.072. oo7. leaving the surplus fol
L the month s5,740.o3s. against deficit
: for April, 1896, of 81. 7O4 ass.
3 In accordance with a decision of the
n government all official timekeepins
throughout Belgium will hereafter b'
q done on the 1-to-24 o'clock principle.
l. August Norman cut the threats o
Ut four children of Knute Hillstead,
farmer near Larimore. n. d.. who wa
y away from home, assaulted Mrs. Hill
10 stead and escaped.
The bakery of Nicholas Sinnig wa
ol burned in Detroit. Mich. and two of hi
e children persisted in the flames.
Charles w. Spalding, the president
and four other officials connected wit
the defunct Globe savings bank in Oh
:, cago have been indicted by the gran
jury.
a, Snow to the depth of four inches fe
!. in portions of Indiana and Ohio an
"a heavy frosts were reported in Illinois.
- Flames. fed by petroleum, sweT
a. through several big business building
n in Pittsburgh. Pa, causing loss est
NJ mated at Si,0O0.000.
A waterspout wrecked the house {
~ farmer named Branders on Whit
~ Oak Ncreek, in Tennessee. and killed III
L. farmer, his wife and one child and tw
farmhands.
q, The business portion of the village
=. Bradner, o.. was destroyed by fire.
n Epirus has again been invaded by Il
,er Greeks, and the troops have advanced
he far as Philippiada, which they have o
he cupied for the third time. Capt. Ra
he bek. of King Georges personal sta
nd said that all hope of continuing Il
war had been virtually abandoned.
he In fire at st. Paul Park, Mimi, Mi
uv Lydia Butscher was burned to dea
rs. and her sister, Mrs. Charles Fieher
lit was fatally burned.
ed The percentage of the baseball clu
rly in the National league for the wet
ks- ended on the LIST was: Philadelph;
in .sss; Baltimore. .s75; Cincinnati, IS
err Louisville, 500; Pittsburgh, 90
yas Brooklyn. .333; Washington, .333; {
be Louis, .2s6; New York. .2s6; Clevelan
.2es; Chicago. $50; Boston, .l4a.