The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-08-27

The fourteenth annual meeting O
the Society Of American Fioristi
opened in Omaha, Neb.. with an nj
tendance Of over 900 delegates.
The National Wholesale Liquor
Dealers association convened in an
nual session in Detroit. Mich. with del
egates in attendance from every stat,
In the union.
The New York board OF aldermen
adopted a resolution requesting the
government 10 lay out national Gem
etcry 10 which the bodies OF the sol.
diers who have fallen in the Spanish
war shall be transferred for burial.
State Senator W. II. Wall Yves shot
and instantly killed mt Staunton, H.,
by Otto Matthias, who escaped after the
murder.
The New York board of aldermen
| killed an ordinance introduced provid-
| ing punishment for swearing in public
places by laying Il on the table by an
almost unanimous vote.
The American bar association con-
vened in annual session at Saratoga, n.
Y, there being a large attendance OF
distinguished members Of the bar from
all parts Of the country.
Herman T.. Blair, the millionaire cap
italist OF Cincinnati. at n dinner in
Denver. Col. gave his wife birthday
presents amounting TO $500, 900.
Arsenic in Jumps as big as peas was
found in the chocolate bonbons which
were sent 10 Mrs. John p. Cunning. of
al "a ...hs H. Al,
her TO her grave but caused the death
of her sister, Mrs. Joshua ID. Dean.
Capt. John Carmichael, commissary
department, committed suicide by
shooting ct Lakeland. Fla, i'll health
being the cause.
The North American Trust company
of New York has been designated by
the treasury department as fiscal
agents of the United States at Santi-
ago de Cuba.
j. +. Static, ex-state treasurer and
pioneer Of central Kansas. died sud-
denly OF heart disease at Enterprise.
Frank Gilling. an expert miner and
mineralogist, went TO the powder
house of the Eureka mine, at Benton.
Wis, and set OF 40 pounds of dynamite.
blowing the building and his body to
atoms. .
Rev. Samuel Breakwell, an aged Dap.
tist clergyman and one of the oldest
settlers of IIighwood and Lake county
H., was stabbed to death by Carl
Pethke. trouble over property being
the cause.
\ mob took Amos Nicely, n negro
rapist, from the officers near Sheridan,
Ark, and shot him. killing him in
stantly.
The woodworkers' strike, in progress
atOshkosh. Wis, the post three months,
is declared off. most of the strikers go
ing back TO work.
At Stanford, by. George Stephenson
(colorod) was hanged for the murder of
Joe Tilford, q white boy II years old,
at Crab Orchard July 4.
Hon. Joseph II. Choate, of New York.
delivered the annual address before the
American Bar association in session at
Saratoga, Ny.
The barn of Peter Foy, ten miles
north of Independence, Ia, was struck
by lightning, and five sons, the eldest
being 16, who we're sleeping in the NOV,
were burned TO death.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
rany's central cable Office announces
that all censorship on cable messages
has been abolished.
Gov. Budd of California, pardoned
John Corbett, brother Of James Corbett,
the pugilist, from the penitcntiary,
who has been serving fve-years' SEN
tence at San Quentin for burglary.
Charles 0. Kaiser, who was under
sentence to be hanged September for
the murder of his wife, committed sui
eide in his cell in the county Jail at Nor
ristown, Pa.
The Admiral Dewey, the first Of the
four steamers being built by the
Cramps for the American Mail Steam
ship company, was successfully
launched at Philadelphia.
II was the opinion of the officials of
the treasury department that there
would Ike no necessity for another bond
issue growing out of the war; and that
the present revenue law should be re-
tanned on the statute books for an in
definite period.
-Four men were killed and five others
badly injured by the collapse of a
cornice on q new building in the
course of erection at Philadelphia.
Alphonso Dayton, a private in the
Twenty-third Kansas volunteer in
fantry, and another negro, name I'M
known, were run over and killed by a
train near Kansas City. Mo.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The Fourth Wisconsin district re-