The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-12-11

The government receipts during No.
yemher were Si3.3G3.605 and the ex'
penditures were S37.slO.s3S.
Fire in the r. o. Sawyer & Co. paper
factory in ST. Louis caused loss OF
100000.
Miss Susan Wesson died in Roxbury,
Mass. aged 100 years 4 months and
days. She was the oldest unmarried
woman in Massachusetts.
Justice Fields retirement from the
supreme court, of which he gave official
notice last October. has taken place.
At the annual convention in New
York OF the American Society of Me-
chanical Engineers Charles w. Hunt, of
New York. was elected president.
BY order of Assistant Postmaster
General Heath it has been made an Of
Tense punishable by dismissal from the
service for a letter carrier to work more
than eight hours day.
Mrs. Christine l,ehrens. who muir
dered her husband. Claus Behrens. last
July. by giving him Paris green. was
sentenced in Davenport, Ia, to life i'm
prisonment.
The deposits in state banks of North
Dakota have nearly doubled in GO
days.
The gold output Of the Cripple Creek
(Col.) district in November was S1,25s.-
GOO. the largest for one month in the
history of the camp.
Charles W. Spaldiug. late president
Of the defunct Globe savings bank in
Chicago and former treasurer Of the
state university. was given an indeter.
inmate sentence to the penitentiary.
The executive board of the Knights
Of Labor reports the order largely in
creased in membership during the last
year.
The Moosehead Pulp & Paper COM
pany at Scion, Me-, failed for, 100000
Nearly 1000 men in the limestone and
iron trades at Youngstown, o., have
had their wages advanced from ten to
twenty per cent.
A suburban population of fully 10000
viii be added to Kansas City, Mo-, as
result of a special election.
BY the explosion of an engine on
street car line near East Titusville, Pa,
four men were injured. two fatally.
Light earthquake shocks were felt
at several points in Kansas, but no dam
aye was reported.
Seth Lowe, William Phillips and John
Howard. farmers living near huntsville.
Ark. fought for the hand Miss Irene
Pruitt and all three we've fatally
wounded.
Anna Nigel, n young married wom-
an. murdered her two younger chill
dren in Philadelphia and attempted sui
eide. No cause was known for the
deed.
Bill Scott (coloredl killed John Sing
ley, Il wealthy farme,'. and his wife and
child at Warrens, Ala. and stole 500
and escaped.
Albert Kruger, butcher. shot and
killed his wife and then committed sui
eide in Milwaukee. \ quarrel was the
cause.
The president has appointed Blanche
X. Bruce (colored). of Mississippi, to be
register of the treasury
The annual reports Of Indian schools
show progress at Carlisle, Pa, and
| lluIlplOn, IL. lHc pliHClpdi ihSt4'u-
tions, where 900 students are enrolled.
The Piedmont state bank at Morgan
| town. y. c.. closed its doors.
Nine Cinnamon captured near Ma
lone, y. Y. will be sent back to China.
The imports of dutiable sugar dur
| ing October last amounted to 1S2,9os,-
o4j pounds, valued at S3,643.613, which
| is an increase over the September i'm
ports of nearly 72 100000 pounds.
Five robbers entered Miles g. IIigbee's
bank at Milford. Ind, but secured no
booty.
Giuseppe Fuda. convicted Of the MUIR
der Of his wife in East Norwalk. Conn
February II last, was hanged at the
state prison at Wetherstied.
Two orphan children of George Cope.
land were fatally burned in the house
of their grandmother. Mrs. Eliza Cope
| land, at Sullivan, Ind.