The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-01
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were blow to pieces by an explosion OF
dynamite at Clearwater. n. Y.
The United States training ship ALI
ance has arrived in New York after an
extended cruise.
Mrs. Barney Picker. aged widow, died
in want ut Lima, o., and the admins
traitor found over $4,000 in cash and
$4,000 in notes sccreted in an old bon
net.
In Milwaukee Walter {. Sanger broke
his own worlds indoor bicycle record
for half mile, unpaced, riding the dis
lance in one minute fiat.
A loss OF Sl5000O was sustained by n
fire which consumed the A. ii. Andrews
company's furniture factory in Chica-
go.
PoStmastCr-Gcncrnl Gary has decided
TO order special issue Of stamps COM
memorativc of the holding of the trans
Mississippi exposition at Omaha the
coming year.
The school board of Iron Mountain,
Mich, has forbidden its teachers to at
tend dances or parties on evenings pre-
ccding school days.
The reciprocity negotiations between
practically suspended.
A train struck n stage coach ut n
crossing near Passaic, n. j., and 90 per-
sons were injured, three fatally.
Charles +. Stubbs has been sent to
Europe by this gdycrnment to cncOur
age the use Of thc\.lmcrican horse in
the cavalries Of Europe.
The consttutiOnality of the civil
service law was upheld by the Illinois
supreme court.
In an open letter to the Federation OF
Labor Secretary Of the Treasury Gage
defends the gold standard.
1t is announced that President Nc
Kinlcy will send message to congress
recommending the. establishment Of
department Of commerce and industry.
Chadwick Marshall and John Melon
Md, the alleged murdercrs of Orvillc
Hayden ut Pennington, Wash, were
taken from jail by n mob and hanged.
w. H. Hughes \. II. Dolphin, John w.
Bright and Samuel Sewer, hunters
from Chicago, were frozen to death
near Dawes creek, in Newton county,
Ky. ..
In a riot during trial in the court
house at Macarthur, O., Elijah Brown
and Plyly Tcetcrs were fatally injured.
At the commencement of 1898 the
United States will have 1St, 4Gi miles of
completed railway.
A buggy containing William Pcarcy
and Miss Brooks, of Pennington, Ind,
was struck by train and the latter
was killed and the former fatally hurt.
3 Freight traffic through the United
States and Canadian Sault canals for
the year 1897 exceeds all previous years
by nearly 100000 tons.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the goth was: Wheat,
81, 500, 900 bushels; corn, IS, 500, 900 bush
els; oats, 14,2s2, 900 bushels; rye, 3,O45,-
600 bushels: harley, 4,G050OO bushels.
The consolidation of the three great
cracker companies of the United States
is now an assured fact, its capitalization
being $55, 900.
Leading cotton planters met in Mem
phis and formed an association to main
tain prices.
A report as to the penitcntiary scan
dial in Nebraska disclos, irregularities
nggregating $537, S7l.S7.
The doors of the First national bank
of Pembina, n. D., were closed, with
liabilities of $4,000.
William Gordon Prince, who was the
oldest living graduate of Harvard col |
lege, died in Dcdham, Mass, aged o. |
years.
Twenty-yenrold Peter S. Mcmahon. |
crazed by cigarettes, shot and killed |
himself at Syracuse, N. Y.
Three schooncrs OF the Gloucester |
(Mass.) fishing fleet with 40 men were |
given up as lost.
Mrs. August Radke, Of Oshkosh, Wis, |
gave birth to 10 pound baby, breaking |
the record for weight in this country.
The expectation of raw cotton from
the southern states TO Japan is prac-
tically double what IL was last season.
Freezing weather has greatly dam
aged the orange crop in California.
The Southern Express company's of
flee at Columbia, S. c., was robbed Of |
$4,000.
Fire destroyed the business portion
OF Doniphan, Mo.
The Auditorium thenter and the Au-
ditorium hotel in Kansas City, Mo-,
owned by Alexander Fraser, were
burned, the loss being 100000
The Hide and Leather bank in Chi
cago went into voluntary liquidation
and the assets were transferred to the
Union national bank.
Leda Charland. 10 years old, George
NORM, aged Is, and Frank Waterman,
aged 1s, were drowned Mt Gardner,
Mas, while skating on thin ice.
Mrs. Ann Kelly, aged 65 years, and
Miss Mary Baird, aged so years. died
in Plainfield, N. j., from drinking wood
alcohol
Samuel Sloan, president of the Della
ware, Lackawanna & Western railroad,
was presented In New York with &c.
300 golden service. !