The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-08

Ten business houses were destroyed
by fire at Lebanon. Tenn.
DR.. Wiley Meyer, of New York, has
discovered n new anaesthetic, consist
ing of chloroform, sulphuric ether and
petrolic ether.
The Pennsylvania Building and Loan
association of Altoona went into the
hands of a receiver.
Henry Behner and Joseph Browneller
were asphyxiated at the formers home
In Findlay, o.
President Mckinley has accepted the
invitation of the National Manufacture
ers' association to attend it's banquet
In New York on January 81.
Stephen V. White, who failed in the
financial panic of 1898, has been rein
stated to full membership in the New
York stock exchange.
Actor Stultz, of the Stultz Theater
company at Manti, Utah, and his wife
were fatally burned while preparing
fireworks TO be used in their play.
John j. Stevenson, of New York, has
been elected president of the Geological
Society of America.
The long-distance telephone is held
responsible for the decrease in railway
passenger earnings.
Canada and the United States will
work together in giving aid to the
needy in Alaska.
There were 305 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the LIST, against 202 the week
period of 1897.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in, the United States during
the week ended on the 1st aggregated
Sl,1sS, 1851 ,0i6, against 81 1881 ,263,SS1 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1897
was 42.4.
The losses by fire in the United States
in 1897 aggregated $l29, 001 ,707, against
Sill, s56,067 in 1896.
In fire in Jersey City, n. j., Adolph
Reich and his wife and four children
were crcmated.
AS closely as can be estimated 2,4eG
lives were lost upon the ocean in 1897,
G5 upon inland waters, 2,7Gl by railroad
accidents, 4S,353 by disasters abroad,
0,ll5 by disasters in this country, 222,-
COZ by epidemics and famine and 1o3,-
451 by war or massacre, making total
of 3S9,077, against 2i6,546 in 1896.
During 1897 there were 166 persons
lynched in the United States, against
l31 in 1896, and G,G00 persons commit
ted suicide, against G,52O in 1896.
The Red Cross society has opened
headquarters in New York for the re-
ception and forwarding to Havana of
contributions for the benefit of suffer-
ing Cubans.
The record of embezzling, forgery, de-
faulting and bank wrecking for 1897
in the United States was 1l,24S,0S4,
against $0,4G5,021 in 1896.
The gold product of the United States
for 1896 was S53,1O0.oO0; for 1897 it will
approximate $G1.5Oo,o0o an increase of
SS,4O0,000.
Severe earthquake shocks were felt
at Exeter, n. H., and vicinity.
The loss of life by railroad disasters
of various kinds in the United States
was 2,7G4 in 1897, against 3,076 in 1896.
The total number of murders com
mitted in the United States in 1897 was
$3.50, against 1862 in 1896.
Mrs. James Miller and her 1s-months-
old baby were fatally burned al Ames,
Ia.
An aged negro was lynched by mob
near Sheriff., Ark, for stealing hog.
+. II. Mabry. agent of the Southern
Express company ut Brunswick, Ca,
who embczzled more than $4,000, was
with the money.
In football game at Marysville, Cal.
Clyde MAXWELL had his back broken.