The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-29

| Mrs. u. N. IrOuse, OF InicuBo, wa
reelected president OF the Woman'i
| Baptist Home Mission society at the an
nual meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa.
| Morris Sullivan, a police officer In
Homestead. Pa, tried to stop Polish
riot at a wedding and was fatally in
jured.
The Pennsylvania Legislature passed
bill prohibiting the public exhibition
of Photographic reproductions of prize
fights.
John Smith, the colored candidate for
the naval academy at Annapolis. Nd,
| has failed in three out of four branches
of the English examination.
The village of Talihina, l. T.. with the
exception of two stores, was destroyed
by fire,
Nearly all the business houses, Is in
| number, and several dwellings in the
town of Calumet. Ia, were destroyed
by fire.
White caps shot and killed John
Mitchell and his stepbrother, Jack Golf
man. near Mountain Grove, Mo.
Gov. Black, of New York, signed the
bill providing the death penalty for
train wreckers who cause death.
The Belknap savings bank at Laconia,
n. H., closed its doors with about ST.
100000 due depositors.
A fire in Jersey City, n. j., caused a
loss of 100000 and made GO families
homeless.
The rapid fall of the Mississippi river
at all points from Memphis to the gulf
gives notice that the flood Of 1897 is
over. The total area overlooked was:
Arkansas, 1920 square miles; Missis-
sippi, G,520 square miles; Louisiana, 075
square miles, and the total damage
amounts to S14,520,0OO.
The first public test of the acrograph,
an instrument by which photographs
may be instantaneously transmitted by
wire, was successfully made in Cleve-
land, o.
Albert w. King, a 10-year-old mes
senger Of the Boylston national bank in
Boston, was missing with about S20,O
in cash.
Two children of Augustus Muetzc,
residing IL miles from Redfeld, S. d.,
were killed by lightning.
Tramps fired the home of Thomas
Biddle, u farmer at White Oak Creek,
Tenn, and he and his wife and three
children were cremated.
The sixty-fifth annual meeting of the
American Baptist Home Missionary So
ciety convened in Pittsburgh, Pa.
hn ,+b
Associated Press was given in Chicago,
$40 members being present.
The State bank of Monticello, Ind,
payment. 1t had S135, 900 in
deposits.
At Oakland, Cal, Lucretia Borgia. a
four-year-old FLY, broke. the worlds
record for four miles, making the dis
tarce in 7:11.
Terrific wind and transforms in In
diana did great damage at indianapolis,
Kokomo and Wabash.
Fire at Hoboken, n. j., caused loss
of SG5O,Oo0 and $50 families were rem
dered homeless.
The National Good Citizens conven-
ton at Nashville, Tenn, adopted plat
for m which seeks to unite all friends of
good government, to promote the duty
of good citizens, to contend for purity
in politics and to make known to all
the truth about the principles of Ameri-
can institutions.
The State national bank OF Logans-
port, Ind, closed its doors with liabili-
ties Of 100000.
The Randolph county courthouse at
Beverly, w. Va, was destroyed by fire
with all the official records for 100 years.
The Third national bank of New
York has decided to retire from bust
ness.
The one hundred and ninth General
Assembly of the Presbyterian church
net at Eagle Lake, Ind.
President Mckinley will visit the
Nashville exposition on June ~.
Michigan will have no state fair this
year. The treasury is bankrupt.
A statue of Stephen Girard, the
and founder of Girard
college, was unveiled in Philadelphia.
Col. f. b. Gray, of Madison, was elect
I'd state commander of the G. A. r. at
he annual encampment in Eau Claire,
Wis.
a statue of the late Cornelius Van
lerbilt, "the commodore" was I'M
yelled on the campus of Vanderbilt uni
eersity at Nashville, Tenn.