The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-01

| passenger train near Murray, Ia, failed.
Sonly Ryan, who on the 4th inst MUIR
dered his wife, was hanged ut Green's
| boro, n. c.
The ninth annual convention OF the
United Mine Workers OF America will
| he held at Columbus. o.. January IL.
1898.
Stephen Spellcn, who killed Michael
Rohrer at Dubois, Pa, was shot dead
while attempting TO escape his pur-
| suers.
Fire damaged the Power and Will
shire blocks in the business center OF
Cleveland, o., to the extent Of 100000.
The revenue cutter Onondaga was
launched ut Cleveland, o.
a counterfeit fye-dollar silver GER
tficatc was discovered in Washington
OF the series of 1896, j. Fount Tillman,
registrar, ID. n. Morgan, treasurer. No.
2S52GS7.
The two little children of George
Conkley, n farmer near Tiff City, Mo-.
were killed and eaten by vicious hogs.
The Chestnut Street national bank
and the Chestnut Street Trust and Saw
ings Fund company failed in Phila-
drlphia with combined liabilities of 3d.
100000. William NJ. Singerly, publisher
of the Record, is president of both com
pnnics.
Fire and an explosion in the build
ing in Chicago occupied by the Tosctti
Cafe q Restaurant company caused Il
loss of 100000 and % persons were in
iurcd.
The steamer China made the trip from
Honolulu to San Francisco in II days
and IL hours aud Is minutes, heating
all previous records.
Two hundred schoolhouscs in the de-
populated districts of western Kansas
are to be sold at auction.
There were 202 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the cath, against 800 the week
previous and 297 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
The exchanges ut the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the cath aggregated
81 1891 ,2G3 ,SS1. against 81 ,3Gs, 0ls,2S the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
was 2G.0.
Fire destroyed the Coliseum building
in Chicago, the loss being $350,000 on
the structure and $l25,OO0 on exhibits
contained therein. One man was
burned TO death and many other per-
sons were injured
The grand jury voted So indictments
against proprictors Of alleged gambling
resorts in Chicago, among those in
dicted being three aldermen.
Four children named Maltbcslli were
suirocated by smoke during fire at
Philadelphia.
Peter Coleman, who murdered his
wife, was hanged at Vancouver Court
House. Va.
Wesley Mcbride and his wife were
killed and their daughter, aged six
years, fatally injured, by train at
Stanton, Dcla
The wife OF Jacob j. Payer, a well-to-
do farmer living at Park River, n. d.,
committed suicide after killing her four
little children with poison. Family
trouble was the cause.
Christmas day was the most quiet
and peaceful on record at the white
house owing to the recent bereavement
Of the president.
William Gottzyer and Mrs. John Rice,
both of New York city, dropped dead
while trimming Christmas trees for the
children.
Milton Neal and his aged wife were
shot to death by an unknown assassin
at their home near Jacksonville, Pa.
Mrs. John Moore and Miss Clara Brat
tain were killed by the cars at Terhune.
Ind. Mrs. Moore had only been married
one day.
The Iowa legislature will meet in Des
Moincs January 10.
James and Samuel Lyle (brothers)
were killed on the Erie railroad near
Atlanta, Pa, while driving to rela-
tive's house to spend Christmas.
The treasury gold reserve on the 25th
was $lG0,2G7, 4G3. the highest on record.
Michael and Terence McDermott,
aged twin brothers, died at the same
time in New York.
The NJ. ID. IIarter company's Touring
mill at Fostoria, o., was burned, the loss
being $15O,000.
The output Of gold in Alaska this win
ter is estimated at $l0,000,000.
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