The L'Anse sentinel., 1897-07-17
LATER.

birth at her home in New York city.
The National Educational association
closed it's meeting in Milwaukee after
electing James NJ. Greenwood, of Kan
sas City, Mo-, president.
Mrs. Priscilla Spooner died in Kent,
o., aged l03 years.
Throughout Illinois, Wisconsin. Iowa,
Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Missouri
many persons were Frustrated by the
extreme heat and numerous deaths oc-
Cured.
Gen. Aparicio Saraiva. the Brazilian
chief of the revolutionist forces in Uru-
quay, has declared that he will not ac-
sept the terms of pacification offered
by the government.
Acting upon instructions received
from their respective governments the
ambassadors of the powers presented n
collective note to the Turkish govern
ment demanding cessation of the OBJ
struction of the peace negotiations.
In Chicago on the 9th 20 persons
died. two others were driven insane and
60 were Frustrated by the intense heat.
Reports say that the excessive heat,
storms and industrial disturbances have
caused slight check to business
throughout the country.
There were 206 bushes failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9th, against PAL the week
previous and 2l5 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
Labor leaders met in Pittsburgh, Pa,
TO devise means to assist the miners in
their contest for increased wages.
President Mckinley will spend most
of his summer vacation on the shores
of Lake Champlain. five miles from
Plattsburg. \. Y.
George Howey. aged "a. who eloped
with the wife of John Funderberg near
Springfield. H., killed himself upon be-
ing arrested.
a tornado did great damage to prop
erty in western Kentucky and southern
Illinois and several persons were fatally
injured.
Edward William Cowells. the 1s-year-
old son of widow, and Miss Nellie A.
Lusher. girl slightly younger than
her boy lover, took their own lives at
Moline, o., because they were too young
to marry.
Tom Cooper rode mile on circular
track in Detroit. Mich, in 1:44 1-5,
breaking the worlds bicycle record.
The order of President Cleveland re-
ducing the number of pension agencies
in the United States from eighteen to
nine will be revoked by President Nc
Kinley.
There is great destitution among the
miners at Jelico, Tenn.
The breaking of the heated term
throughout the northwest was signal
lied by terrific electrical storms in
many places.
The Christian Endeavorers in session
in San Francisco decided TO hold their
1898 meeting in Nashville, Tenn.
Erastus Brown, negro who made n
criminal assault upon Miss Annie Foer-
vinger near Villa Ridge, Mo-, was taken
from the Jail at Union by mob and
hanged.
Tom Stergul and Anthony Dollar be-
came involved in difficulty over
woman near Greenwood, Ark, and
killed each other.
William Duffy, linotype operator in
Philadelphia, set in six days the enor-
nous amount of 469.30O ems of nom
pareil, breaking the type-setting rec
ord.
The Golfer dam on the Rum river at
Anoka. Mimi. gave way, entailing a
loss of 100000.
Fire destroyed a portion of the Viles
q Robbins packing establishment in
Chicago, the loss being 100000.
Forty families of Polish Jews who ar
rived in New York from Europe were
deported because they were in desti-
tute condition.
DR.. Roswell ID. Valentine, one of the
best-known physicians in Springfield,
Mo-, committed suicide.
"A dispatch from London says that no
power is inclined to undertake coercive
measures to bring about settlement
between Greece and Turkey.
The First Methodist church in New
Rochelle, n. Y, was destroyed by fire.
1t was more than 100 years old.
ihe PSiccH'dRcs Oh tne DaSeDall cluDs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 11th were: Boston. .726;
Cincinnati. .6s3; Baltimore, $50; New
York, GIT; Cleveland, $40; Brooklyn,
400; Pittsburgh, .46s; Philadelphia,
ASS; Louisville. AIT; Chicago, AIS;
Washington, .377; st. Louis, .o03.
In the United States senate on the
9th the death of Senator Harris, of Ten
nessee. was announced. and as a mark
of respect an adjournment was taken.
In the house no bushes was transacted.
The conferees on the tariff bill were in
session all day.
No work was done in the United
States senate on the 10th, the senators
adjourning to attend the funeral of the
late Senator Harris, of Tennessee. The
house was not in session.