The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-07-15


The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 5th was: Wheat,
$685., 900 bushels; corn, Il, S3S, 900 bush
els; oats, g,o51 900 bushels; rye, 722,-
600 bushels; barley, 500. 900 bushels.
Fire destroyed 20 buildings At Paris,
Tex, the loss being $200,000.
Willie Porter, aged nine years, at
Coats, Kan, killed his mother and baby
sister while playing with pistol.
Further advices from Texas say that
the flood district has II length of over
500 miles and a breadth of 80 miles, and
in all this vast space damage incalcua-
BILE has been done. The number of lives
lost Is placed at 100, and the property
loss AT over $l0,000,000.
A railway engine exploded at Tip Top,
w. Va, killing Engineer j. ID. McColgan,
Fireman T.. w. Albert and brakeman
Oscar j. Owens.
The war department announces that
the aggregate receipts from customs
in Cuba for the past IA weeks were
S3,940,S1i.
The director of the mint estimates
that the total output this year of all
the gold mines of the world will be $780,
100000. which will be larger by about
SAC, 100000 than the product of 1898.
The Michigan supreme court says
that Gov. Pingree's plan for municipal
ownership OF Detroit street railways
is unconstitutional.
Charles Saltzman and Miss Kate Hor-
foldstcimer fought duel with rcvolv-
ers in n buggy near Seatonyille, H.,
over getting married. and both were fa-
tally injured.
apolis Of ostcopathists A. G. Illdreth, of
st. Louis, was elected president.
James McAfee was hanged at Car
thage, Mo-, for the murder of Eben
Brewer, merchant of Joplin, whom he
attempted TO rob July 80, 1897.
Returns from $50 cities and towns in
the United States show that SO persons
were killed and 1870 injured by acct
dents on the Fourth of July.
Later news from Texas say that the
entire valley of the Brazos, from Bren-
ham on the north 10 its mouth at Quin-
tana, is flooded, and its current is filled
with the debris of wrecked houses,
stock and farming implements. Secre-
tary Of War Alger has placed AT the
disposal Of the governor 10000 rations
to be supplied TO the destitute and fam
ishing sufferers.
a severe shock of earthquake in Cali
fornia was felt from San Francisco TO
Monterey.
a wind and hailstorm devastated the
country for miles around Kendalls.
Wis, running large tracts of valuable
timber.
Ed Ciinch, u dealer in general mer-
chandise ut Bakus, Mimi, shot his wife
and then committed suicide.
The New York Central and the Penn
sylvania railroads have become one
system.
August Albert Becker was found
guilty in Chicago of wife murder and
sentenced to be hanged.
Prof. Rush Rhees, of Newton (Mass.)
theological seminary, has been elected
president of the University of Rochcs-
ter. y. Y.
a number of persons were injured
~ u WYNN vi viz il'iEp, toll
q Quincy railroad at Waldron, Mo.
An order for the enlistment of ten
new regiments of infantry TO serve two
years was issued by the secretary of
war.
The mining town of Coultcrville, Cal.
was entirely destroyed by fire.
Brig. Gen. Joseph Wheeler has been
ordered to report to Gen. Otis at Ma
Mia for duty in the Philippines.
The army transport Mcclellan ar
rived in New York from San Juan. Por-
to Rico, and Santiago, Cuba, with two
cases of yellow fever aboard.