The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-04-24

East Omaha and North Omaha. Neb.,
were flooded by the waters that were
rushing from the Missouri river and
the residents fed for their lives, leaving
their possessions behind.
The president has decided to rec
ommend TO congress an appropriation
as indemnity for the killing by mob
of lynchers of three Italian citizens at
Hahnville, La. August last.
A delegation representing the Ten
nessee exposition called on President
Mckinley and extended to him and his
| cabinet an invitation to be present at
the opening exercises at Nashville
May /.
The work of unseaLng the steel casket
in the temporary tomb Of Gen. Grant
was finished in New York and every
thing is in readiness for the removal of
the body TO the crypt of the new tomb
on the 27th inst
Seven incendiary fires were started
in Kansas City. No., the total loss being
s1oo.o 900.
The river continued to rise slowly at
yicksburg and all points south and the
situation along the Louisiana system of
levees was acute.
Sylvester Sanders and his wife and
five children were drowned near Helena,
Ark, by the upsctting Of boat.
Joseph Bloodworth, Jock Gooden and
Sarah Evanson. children who were bit
ten by mad dog in Gordon, Ca. died OF
hydrophobia.
John Formella shot and instantly
killed his stepson, Matthias Dostert. in
Chicago while in rage and then killed
himself.
Jesse Evans, a negro charged with ac-
costing two little white girls, was riddled
with bullets at Edwards, Miss. by a
mob.
Two-thirds of the winter wheat crop
of Illinois is said to have been winter
killed.
South of Council Bluffs, Ia, the water
has inundated farms for distance Of
three or four miles and much stock
has been drowned.
Edward Reynolds and his wife and
daughter were murdered near Sweet
hill, r. l., and the house set on fire.
presumably to cover the crime. Mar
tin Mowry, the hired man. was under
arrest.
A snowslide near Ketcham. Idaho,
buried a man named White, Fred Tul-
ford and his six-year-old stepson so feet
deep.
The Long Mead Iron company and
the Conshohocken Tube company at
Conshohocken, Pa, failed for 100000.
A passenger train on the Wabash rail-
road strucl; buggy near West Point.
Ind. and James Holton. Plymouth
Field and Miss Nan Wilson (all col
ored) were killed.
Ten thousand acres of the best land
in the Quincy (Ill.) district were sub
merged under from four to ten feet of
water.
Near Dekoven, KY, James Green and
William Green, deputy constable,
were shot dead, and Constable William
Beset fatally wounded by William Cody
and Thomas Hite, post Office thieves.
John Donallen & Son, one of the
largest firms of morocco manufacturers
at Lynn. Mass. failed for Sl50,o00.
The Moresque building in New Or
leans, occupied by business firms, was
burned, the loss being 100000.
The funeral of ex-senator Daniel ".
Voorhees, took place from ST. Stephens
Episcopal church in Terre Haute, Ind,
Rev. John E. Sulger, the rector, Of
floating.
Fire destroyed the business portion
Of the village of Lindsey, o.
The new laws passed by the last legis-
lature went into force in Indiana by
the governors proclamation.
Army officers detailed to distribute
supplies in the flooded districts in the
south say that over nine-tenths of Wash
ington, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunfower
and considerable of Yazoo and Warren
counties in Mississippi are overfiowed
and that 10000 persons need food.
Judge James j. Storrow, aged 60,
well-known Boston lawyer, dropped
dead while at the congressional library
in Washington.
Services commemorative of the death
of Abraham Lincoln, .32 years ago, were
held in Representatives. hall in Spring
field, Ill.