The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-14

Four girls, Myrtle Pample, aged IS;
Emma Pample, aged IL; Ethel Pam
pie. aged IS, and Bessie Adams, aged
IL. were drowned in Skunk river neaI
Nugent, H., while bathing.
A new worlds half-mile unpaced tan
dem record was made at Scranton, Pa.
by Ralph Gregory and Ben Kelley, their
time being o:55h.
A cloudburst in Douglas county. Col.
destroyed over 100 bridges.
The banking house OF James G.
Kings Sons, founded in New York in
1915, is going out of business.
Clarence Temperly. of 1rvington
Neb.. and Joseph Scanlon, of Corning
Ia. were killed by lightning near Wi.
ota. la.
The wife and child of Wallace Scoby
were burned to death in Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Cattle were dying by hundreds OF
anthrax in the vicinity of Sioux City.
Ia.
Fire in the chemical works of d.
Jayne & Sons at Frankford, Pa, caused
loss of 100000 and seven firemen
and two workmen were seriously
burned.
Charles Dietz shot and fatally
wounded Kate Scollon in Philadelphia
because she would not marry him and
then killed himself.
| Two children were killed and six per-
sons were fatally injured in a rail-
way accident near Rockland, N. Y.
| Jim Key, marvelously we'll educated
horse owned by William Key, n negro,
was sold in Nashville, Tenn, to U. g..
| Dufleld, of New York, for $4,000.
| Three carrier pigeons made the fly
from Carlyle, ILL.,, to Grafton, W. Va,
500 miles, in 30h hours, an average OF
| 1917 miles per hour. This record sur
| passes any previous one made.
Judge Jackson, in the United States
court at Parkersburg, W. Va. granted
sweeping injunction restraining Eu-
gene V. Debs and his associates from In
any way interfering with the property
of the Monongah Coke G. Coal company
or its employees, either by trespassing
upon the property of the company or
melting its employees to strike.
The latest official estimate of the pop
ulation of the United States is 77,000-
06S.
Carl Yates fatally shot his wife and
attempted suicide at Oskaioosa. Ia. The
woman had brought suit for divorce.
Yates may recover.
Peter Bons. the tramp charged with
criminally assaulting and numbering
Pearl Morrison at Crystal Falls, Mich,
has made n complete confession, ac-
knowledging that he assaulted the girl
and then strangled her to death.
monument to Edmund Kirby Smith,
the last full general of the confederate
army, was unveiled at the University of
the South at Sewanee, Tenn.
A passenger train on the Union Pa
cific road made the Remarkable run of
o55 miles, from Evanston, Wyo., to
Omaha, Neb., in "a hours, the fastest
time on record.
Four men were crushed to death and
two-score injured by falling walls and
fire which destroyed the Northwestern
elevator at Chicago. The property loss
was $350,000.
Three men and one woman perlshed
in fire which destroyed an all-night
restaurant at Cincinnati.
Jose Perryman, a negro who criminal
ly assaulted Miss Nellie Walters. on
May FL, was hanged at Hattiesburg,
Miss.
1t was announced at Washington that
the king of the Belgians had been Sc
lected as arbitrator of the dispute be-
tween japan and Hawaii.
Fibel e. Crabb, Eminence (Ky) dis
tillers, made an assignment with liabili-
ties of 100000.
Henry A. Rucker, the negro recently
appointed collector of internal revenue
for the district of Georgia, took the
oath and assumed charge of the office.
Six deputies resigned rather than serve
under colored collector.
At the meeting of stenographers from
various states held at the Tennessee ey-
position it was decided to form ma
tional organization at an early date.
Two persons were fatally, and a num-
Der seriously, injured by the collapse OF
a temporary stand at race track at
Lancaster, Pa.