The L'Anse sentinel., 1897-07-17
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DOMESTIC.
Mrs. MattI Goodwin. a seamstres'
was shot ut Evansville, Ind, by Charlie
Stickman, who afterwards killed him
self. Jealousy was the cause.
The percentages Of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the weel
ended on the 5th were: Boston, .75o
Cincinnati, .673; Baltimore, .667; New
York, 500; Cleveland, .525; Pittsburgh
.4s3; Brooklyn, AIS; Philadelphia. .4Gs;
Louisville, .4o7; Washington, .4o4: Chi
cago. 1903; St. Louis, .1s3.
The. National Council of Education
met in Milwaukee.
The village of Bnrnum, Mimi, was
partially destroyed by a tornado.
Lake Ann, Michigan village of 500
people, was almost entirely destroyed
by fire.
Mrs. Mckinley, mother of the presi'
dent, fell on the porch of her home at
Canton, o., and was quite seriously in
jured. She is SO years old.
Fire nearly wiped out the village of
Erie, Ill.
Thomas Morgan and his wife were
driving near Youngstown, O., when
their horse backed the rig over Man
ning's heights and both were killed.
BY the upsetting of n boat at Little
Rock, Ark, Joseph and Jacob Dante
and Miss Mary Arbor and Miss Josie
Sanders were drowned.
Six persons lost their lives in Chicago
from fireworks.
An exhibition sparring bout in Brook
lyn, n. Y, between Robert Fitzsim-
mons and John L. Sullivan was stopped
by the police.
The shafting department Of the Ak
ron (O) Iron and Steel company's
works was destroyed by fire, the loss
being 100000.
Daniel Mcdonald and his brother and
sister and Burton McCreary were
drowned at West Superior. Wis. by the
upsetting of a skiff.
Henry B. Stone, of Chicago, formerly
vice president and general manager of
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail
road, was killed at his summer home in
Nonquitt, Mass, by an explosion of
fireworks.
Erastus Brown (colored) was lynched
by a mob near Villaridge, Mo-. for as
saulting Annie Foervipg, white girl.
Edward Robertson and his wife were
killed and John Wall was fatally in
iured by a boiler explosion in a mill at
Syracuse, Mo.
Charles ii. Seymour, an engineer, and
his wife were drowned in the Blue river
at Beatrice, Neb.. while bathing.
= The great wage struggle of the coal
miners was inaugurated throughout
the Pittsburgh CPa.) district.
A. &. Blair, minister of railways and
canals, refused to sanction the opening
Of the canals in Canada to traffic on Sun
days.
President Mckinley and his party re-
turned to Washington from Canton y.
A cyclone obliterated the town of
Lowry, Mimi. and ten people were re-
ported killed and several injured.
Proprietors of the &c breweries in
Detroit, Mich, are planning to sell out
to q syndicate of English capitalists.
George Weston, an aeronaut, and his
assistant, S. Cotton. fell from q balloon
at Eureka, Cal, and were killed.
John Henry Barker (colored) was
electrocuted at Sing Sing, n. Y, for
wife murder.
The National Educational association
convened in Milwaukee with $4,000 ed
ucators in attendance.
A boiler explosion on the farm of W.
A. Allen, near Hartsville, Tenn. killed
nine persons and five others were badly
injured.
The monument Of the First Mime
sofa regiment was dedicated on the
Gettysburg battle field.
Lemuel W. Nelson was hanged ut
Grants Pass, Ore. for the murder Of
Charles Perry in Josephine county in
March, 1906.
. At Colorado Springs McReynolds and
Carruthers, the celebrated tandem BIZ
cycle pair, broke the worlds tandem
records. They did the third of mile
in O:34 AS, half in O:55 3-5 and two
thirds in 1:17 2-5.
Information comes from parts OF
Mclean county and the vicinity Of
Mackinaw in Tazewell county. ILL.,, that
the chinch bugs are threatening COM
plete destruction of the spring wheat.
The governor of California has grant
ed another reprieve until October IS in
the case of Salter d. Worden, the con-
demned train wrecker, who was to have
been hanged at the Folsom prison Fri
day. Worden was reprieved in the early
part of June until July9.
Robert Fitzsimmons and John L. Sui
Ivan are arranging tour Of the large
eastern cities in which they will appear
In friendly sparring contests.