The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-03-13
DOMESTIC,


The North Dakota legislature has
passed hill which prohibits convict
labor in the state
The public debt statement issued on
the lst shows that the debt increased
Ss,jg2,lG7 during the month Of Febru-
cry. The cash balance in the treasury
was s,G4, ,lG7. The total debt, less
the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts 20 S,,Vl2, CO0.+j4.
The visible supply of grain II the
United States on the Ist was: Wheat,
42,1g7. 900 bushels: corn. &c. sos. 600 bush
els; oats. !3,so7.oCC bushels; rye. 3.5,-,-
COO bushels; barley, 3.3l5.O0O bushels.
President Cleveland has refused 10
interfere with the sentence of Joseph
Dunlop, editor of the Chicago Dispatch.
convicted OF sending obscene literature
through the mails.
The receipts and expenditures OF the
United States during February were:
Receipts, s2i40O ,937; disbursements.
S2s,796, O56, which lea"cs a deficit for
the month of S+,39j.059. Since July !,
1886, the aggregate deficit is SIS, 1871.
The Chicago city council has passed
law that dealers in cigarettes must
pay an annual license OF 500 10 the city
treasury, and that TO cigarettes can be
sold within 200 feet of schoolhouse.
William Mckinley was rendered a
great ovation by the citizens of Canton
upon his departure for Washington TO
assume the rank of chief executive OF
the nation.
vt Hamilton, H.. Mrs. Sarah Ann
Gray held a reception in celebration Of
her one hurdredth birthday aaniver-
sary az the home Of her only dauch-
ter.
\ fire at Casey, H., damaged business
property valued at 100000.
Several houses in Wyoming. Pa, fell
20 teet into the shaft OF an old mine.
William Mckinley and his party ar
rived safely in Washington. In the
evening the presidsnt-elect dined with
President Cleveland.
Charles Wiling and Carl o. Peterson
were killed in a snow slide at Marys-
Vile. Wyo.
The New Hampshire legislature has
4
hill to abolish fast day" and to make
April 70 a legal holiday to DC known
as patriots day"
Judge Wofford. OF the criminal court
in Kansas City, Mo. decided that the
Jaw fixing the death penalty for train
robbing was constitutional.
P2ymaster John Corwine, United
u
l., is said 10 be $4,000 short in his &C.
counts.
Mount Holyoke college at South Had
ley. Mass. announces the gift of s40. 900
for dormitory by John d. Rockefeller.
of New York.
The last spike in the Kansas City.
Pittsburgh & Gulf railway connecting
Kansas City with Shreveport, La, was
driven near Horatio, Ark.
Gold and silver in paying quantities
have been discovered in the Wichita
mountains in Indian territory.
EN-Gov. John d. Long. of Massachu-
sets, announces that he has accepted
the navy portfolio in President-elect
cabinet.
President McKinley's cabinet has
been completed and is as follows: Sec
rotary Of state, John Sherman, of Ohio;
secretary of the treasury, Lyman j.
Gage. of Illinois; secretary of war. Rus
sell A. Alger. of Michigan; attorney
general, Joseph McKenna, of Califor-
nia; postmaster-general. James A. |
Gary, OF Maryland; secretary of the
kavy. John ID. Long. Of Massachusetts,; |
\eretary of the interior, Cornelius ". |
3f9s, of New York; secretary of ngri-
~ pure. James Wilson. Of Iowa.
~ Stre.cht d Bros wagon factory
Tas burned at Oshkosh, Wis, the loss be-
ng 100000. ]