The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-06-11
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
| The United States and France hav,
concluded the first commercial agree
ment entered into under the Dingle,
tariff law.
In collision off Fire Island. y. Y.
the cruiser Columbia sank n British
steamer and was itself badly damaged
No lives were lost.
BY the fall of a platform at Denver
Col. 100 children, ranging in age from
babies to IL and II years, were more oil
less severely injured.
The car barn of the Consolidated Rail
way company was burned in Baltimore
the loss being $250,000.
II has been proved that Sampson and
| McGeisy, the Indians who were burned
to death by white mob near Newark
/. T., last January, for the murder OF
Mrs. Laird. were not guilty of the
crime.
| Lady Anderson, one of the three
! "guideless and driverless wonders OF
| the American trotting turf, died at
| Greenfield, Ind.
Decoration day services were general
the country.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 31st ult. was:
Wheat. 23,G72, 900 bushels; corn, 20,115,-
900 bushels; oats, 0, 107, 900 bushels; rye,
1 100000 bushels; barley $4,000 bush
els.
The output of gold in Alaska this sea-
4
President Mckinley nominated Oscar
S. Straus, of New York. to be minister
to Turkey, to succeed DR.. Angel, re-
signed.
A sailboat capsized near Manistique
| Mich, and four men were drowned.
William S. Greene, of Fall River
| Mass, has been elected to congress by
the republicans in the Thirteenth dis
trict. to succeed the late Congressman
| ShWpkins.
| N'he steamer Florida arrived AZ Ike,
| West aftOr having delivered $40 men
$4,000 rihes,AAnl a large quantity o
ammunition to the Cuban insurgents.
Samuel JenksF andih son William
were killed while walking on the rail
|
The public debt statement issued OF
the LIST shows that thetdebt increase,
Sl0,3i1,1 los during the month of May
The cash balance in the treasury wa
$s21 070,36 The total debt, less tn
cash balance in the treasury, amount
to S1,037, 773.76o.
The Worthington (EpiscopaD colleg
building near Lincoln, Neb.. was de
stroyed by fire.
The schooner Jane Grey, which sailet
from Seattle for Alaska with gold seek
ers, foundered 90 miles west Of Cap
Flattery and "a persons were drowned
A cyclone that tore through a section
of DeKalb county, Mo-, did an immens
amount of damage and killed the wifi
and three children of Calvin Smith.
The twenty-eighth annual conference,
of the general secretaries of tho Youn;
Mems Christian Association of Nortl
America was held in Warsaw, Ind.
The government receipts during Ma,
amounted TO $30,O74,s1s and the cxpen
| d!tures to S47,O49,000. For the l
months of the fiscal year the receipt
| show an increase over 1897 of more thar
SGO.OO0,0O0.
The Trans-Mississippi and interna
tional exposition opened at Omaha
| Neb., from the white house Presiden
| Mckinley starting the electric sparl
which set the shafting of machiner,
hall in motion.
The new reciprocity arrangement be
| tween the United States and France ha
| gone into effect.
The amount of gold and silver coin
| and certificates and United States an,
national bank notes in circulation jun
/ was 81, s3o, sos,256, an increase of $50,
| 164,361 over that of June last year.
The town of Bicknell, Ind, was al
most entirely wiped out by fire.
The tug Record was run down ant
| sunk in the canal at Duluth, Mimi, an,
Capt. John Bricklet, Elmer Cook, stew
ard, and George Riggs, engineer. wer
drowned.
A tornado swept through the resi-
dence portion of Brainerd, Mimi, wreck
ing outbuildings, uprooting trees, de
molishing store fronts and tearing of
roofs.
| A line fence dispute caused the dealt
| in fight of Farmer James Kilgore an,
County Commissioner Samuel Barne
near Muscadine. Ala.