The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-06-05
LAIR

| \ collision between q freight train
end passenger train at American
| Falls, Idaho. caused the death of nine
men and the serious injury of eight
others.
| \ severe earthquake shock was felt
in Montreal, Can. ana all down the OF
tawa valley and through eastern Que
! bee.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe observed her
seventy-eighth birthday with an infor-
| NAL reception at her home in Boston.
In shooting affray at Oakman. Ala,
Mayor Isaac Appling and Charles VIII
liams were shot dead and two other men
were fatally wounded.
Another break in the levee NJ FL Paso,
Tex, left hundreds Of families home
less.
Mrs. Elsie Neumiller, of Milwaukee,
crazed by domestic trouble, gave her
eight-year-old son carbolic acid and
then took dose herself
James Hoskins. an infdcl street
preacher AT Atlanta, Ga, was arrested
and fined because Of the vicious terms
with which he characterized Christ.
The British sailing vessel Buckhurst,
with a cargo OF coal for Panama, was
burned at sea, and many of the crew
were missing.
Whitelaw Reid, of New York. has been
selected by President Mckinley rs spe-
cial ambassador of the United States
ut Queen Nictoria's jubilee.
The big fourmill of the Northern
Grain Mercantile company was burned
at Ashland. Wis. the loss being 500, 900.
The Greek government sent memo
randum TO the powers protesting
against the indemnity demanded by
Turkey and also protesting against the
proposed rectitcation of the Greek
frontier. r
The Michigan legislature has adj
journed sine die.
There were pa business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 2sth. against PAS the week
previous and 239 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
At the siNty-eighth anniversary of the
Brooklyn tN. " Sunday school union
10000 children marched in the parade.
William Thomas Powers and John
baltimore, negro murderers. were
hanged in Chicago, the former for kill
ing John j. Murphy. a saloon keeper,
and the latter for taking the life of
Louis Maryic AT Summit, H.
y severe earthquake shock was felt
at Whitehall, Plattsburg. Port Henry
and Ticonderoga. in New York.
John F.Johnson. late president OF the
State national bank of Logansport, Ind,
was sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment in the Ohio state penitentiary for
wrecking the bank.
Another new bridge is TO span Nj
agara's gorge at Niagara Falls. TO be
finished April /, 1895.
The Turkish government has made
formal objection 10 receiving DR.. Frank
b. Angel. of Michigan, as minister from
the United States.
The proposition to call convention
TO frame new constitution! for Mir
ginia has been defeated.
Over 500 homeless families, or 900
people, were on the streets of FL Paso.
Ten, searching for shelter. their houses
having been destroyed by high water.
At Hot Springs, Ark, the State eX-
change bani; closed it's doors. transfer
ring its deposits and good will to the
Arkansas national bank.
Advices from Constantinople say that
| Tie sultan has consented to negotiate
| for peace, provided the Greek com
manders first sign an armistice. As
soon as this is done the government
viii negotiate as to the peace conditions
with the ambassadors. and the treaty
will be signed by the Turkish and
Greek plenipotentaries in Thessaly.
| The final conference report on the
sundry civil bill was agreed to in
the United States senate on the 27th.
This involves the suspension until
March next of the forest reserve proc
lamation. Ten pages OF the tariff bill
were disposed of. IN the house bills
were introduced to exclude from the
nails all matter emanating from COM
mercial agencies which publish bust
ness ratings and carry on collections,
and to tax business corporations such
as oil companies, iron and steel rail-
ways and street railways, banks, stock
exchanges and glass. wool. silk. paper.
leather and sugar manufacturing. The
house adjourned to the 31st.
| Considerable progress was made on
the tariff bill in the United States SEN
ate on the 2sth, IS pages being covered.
Several votes were taken during the
day, but the finance committee had a
liberal majority in every instance. SEN
ator Tillman Is. c. presented a resolu-
ton for the appointment of special
committee of five senator's to inyesti-
gate charges of speculation by senators
while the tariff bill was before the
finance committee. 1t was referred to
the committee on contingent expenses.
The house was not in session.