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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22
PENINSULA POINTERS.

Hancock people will have a chance
on the 2ith OF this month to vote on
the proposition to bond the village
for $4,000 for an electric lighting
plant.
The 'longshoremen 5 strike on
Pickands. Mather Il Co. 5 dock at
Detour has been settled Prescott
ing Attorney Oren, who arrived
there Saturday noon from the 500.
and Sheriff AIcNaughton acted as
mediators between the company aud
the men and an agreement was final
~ arrived at The men will get 80
cents per hour Non-union men who
have families will be permitted to
join the union, but the men from
Cheboygan and Mackinac will not
be employed All warrants against
the strikers have been withdrawn.
Saturday night the union men began
to unload the contested steamer Flint
and no further trouble is anticipated.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22
$4,000 APPROPRIATION
Voted for the Relief Of Amcri-
cans In Cuba.

Washington. May 1.-THE presi-
dent sent a special message to con
grcss in which he stated that from
official information received from
the consuls in Cuba established the
fact that there are from GG0 to 500
Americans in Cuba without means
of support and suffering for the want
Of food and medicine. The president
therefore recommended that an APP
preparation of 500, 000ba immediately
made available for use under the di-
rectiou Of the secretary of state to
relieve their wants and permit the
return oil any American citizen who
may desire to do so.
Congress immediately passed res
olutions appropriating the sum OF
$50 900 without any provision.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22
4 Sure Thing.

When firm is in the heydey ofits
prosperity. when business is good
and competition not felt, it is no un-
usual thing for an advertising solic-
itor to be informed that Tie concern
is so well known and its business al
ready so extensive that advertising
is useless expenditure of money.
We have known Il number to argue
in this way In almost every in
stance where this has happened we
have seen younger competitors by
judicious advertising and push, pass
them in the race for business. Then
these concerns that were too we'll
known TO advertise would awaken
to the situation and their advertise
mentS would again appear, but while
they were sleeping their wide.awake
competitors must necessarily have
made inroadS into their business,
which with fair treatment and busi-
ness-like methods they will hold. Let
the largest house in any line stop
advertising and note in what in
creditably short space of time a
larger business viii be built up by
somebody who works while they
sleep. Are you sleeping?
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22
Suicide at Hancock.

Monday morning a distressing
case of suicide occurred at Hancock
in the family of A. ID. Petit, one of
the proprietors of the Houghton
County Progress. 1t appears that
about 1870 O'Clock the hired girl
noticed Mrs. Petit going toward
the cellar and as she did not make
her appearance, the girl became
alarmed and went to the cellar in
search of her. Finding the door
locked the girl called in some of the
nelghborS, when an entrance was
made to the cellar and Mrs. Petit
was found suspended by a clothes
line to a beam The body was at
once cut down and u doctor called.
who found that life was extinct. al
though the body was quite warm.
Mrs. Petit had for some time been
subject to melancholia, which was
brought on from her having attend
ed, just before coming to Hancock,
a friend who was laid up with ty-
phoid fever, and the attendance
caused such strain that her system
was entirely run down, so much so
that she had more than once re-
markcd She was afraid she was los
ing her mind, aud there is no doubt
she committed the rash act while
laboring under one of these attacks.
The deceased, who was about 36
years OF age. leaves a husband and
son TO mourn her sad taking of. -
Calumet News,
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22
Cyclists Can't Dance.

\ new terror threatens the cyclist.
1t is asserted that bicycling injurcS
the powers of dancing. People who
cycle lot, according to Il medical
man, find it almost impossible to
perform the graceful movements re-
quired by Waiting, says Answers.
wheeling, says the doctor,
causes the muscular portion of the
calf of the leg To bulge out consider
ably beyond its natural line, and any
cycist will admit that after ride of
ten or fifteen miles walking is irk-
some.
The muscles that are brought in
to play by dancing are deadened by
riding wheel. The lightness of
toe SO necessary in waltz becomes
impossible to the man or woman
who is continually pedaling, as the
one set action contracts the muscles
and the whirling motion of the dance
can only be performed in u clumsy
fashion.
The joints should be free for
dancing. After spin on q bicycle
they are stiff and clogged. The CON
tinual bending over the handles, too,
make the upright posture used in
dancing painful. A cyclist who uses
the wheel in moderation would be
very little affected; it is those per-
sons who cycle from morning till
night that are the sufferers.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22
Laid on the Table.

Lansing, Mich, May 19.-The
Robinson bill for three cent passen-
ger fares upon the railroads of the
upper peninsula held the front ofthc
senate stage for a brief time this
afternoon 1t was finally laid upon
the table upon motion OF Senator
Colman. who said he did not deem
it wise to consider this measure
while there were other railroad mat
ters in conferences. While the bill
was occupying senatorial attention
Senator Maitland sent up a stack of
letters several inches thick protest
Ing against it. and Senator Jibb
coutended that Robinson 5 mind was
so confused with figures that the
figures presented by the father of
the bill were not correct Senator
Robinson made no extended argu-
ment upon his measure but content
ed himself with telling senator's that
there was lHothing compulsory about
voting forAthe bill. but that the same
measure would be back here in two
years from now and be advocated
either by Republicans on represents
tivCs OF some other party
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22
There was quite heavy frost
Thursday night.

There was quite a heavy frost
Thursday night.
If you have not removed your
heating stove do not do so.
as you may have use for it all
summer.
:. An exchange hits the nail on the
head by saying: Gardening time is
now here. Shoot your chickens or
shut them up. One old hen with no
tail feathers is capable of breaking
up the friendship between the best
of neighbors. Better make pot
pie Of her before she does it. >
Guests at Hotel Thomas during
the'week: G.. A. Mcdonald, Sam
karger, Houghton; +. W. Halsey.
John Parks, Lake Linden;J f. Sui
livan, Fond du Lac; b. W. Goodsell,
w. .Grau, Chicago; L. A. Holzhausen.
Marquette; John Glass, Cadillac; II.
c. Barnes, st. Joseph p. Rnppe,
Hancock; w. II. Gillet, J. .Gootenaut,
O. w Wilkinson. f. w. S. Thaycr.
Grand Rapids; G., W. Potsch. J. A.
Fuller, j. II. Newman. J. c. Buch-
land, +. j, Dean, Evan Edwards. c.
f. Adams, Milwaukee; f. A Stearns,
Cincinnati; +. D. Pierson. West
Bay City: ]. w. Aston, Laird. C.G.
Spencer, Duluth; II. c.. Warner. St.
Paul.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22
QuecnVictOria's Diamond Jubilee

In its June number the Ladies
Home Journal will celebrate the
diamond jubilee in way distinctly
its own. In an article by George
William Jordan entitled what
Victoria has seem" the reader will
be taken on the British throne, aud
the marvellous panorama of the
world history for sixty years will
pass before him. He will at a glance
see the progress in art. science, in
vention, music, education; the great
social reforms, the growth of ma
tions and the advance of civilization.
The whole story of the world ;
progress of the longest reign in Eng
lish history will be vividly presented.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22
HUNGER AND DEATH.
Between 125,OOO and 225,OOO
Concentrates are Suffering
from Hunger, and Sixty
Perish Daily.

New York, May 1.-THE Herald s
correspondent writes from Havana
that he has investigated conditions
in Cuba, and estimates that there
are between l25. 600 and 225, 900 peo-
| pie suffering from hunger and that
! the deaths directly traceable to
| starvation alone are between 60 and
40 daily. He continues:
Things are growing worse. Food
becomes scarcer daily and the heat
is increasing The rainy season is at
hand. The poor folk, who have been
driven into the towns, can do moth
ing to help themselves and the
authorities are careless of their fate.
Indeed, it is understood that the
misery is part OF the captain-geher-
al 5 plan of campaign, and was duly
expected. There is scarcely pre-
tense at attempting to feed and
house the poor wretchcS.
There is an alleged distribution
of rations. but the country no longer
produces food enough. Disease in
creases, but ten of these refugees
die to one resident. Short rations.
hunger and exposure and the eating
Of vile food have developed pc
culiar and fatal form of disease
SUFFERING IN GUANABACOA.
Some Americans here contem-
plate an appeal to American charity,
but this causes much hostile com
ment by Spanards.
An old resident OF Guanabacoa
told me that in one house where 20
persons had been living together, 20
had died within few weeks, and
that Is of them perished through
lack OF food and overcrowding.
"a high official in the city of Ma
tunzas writes to me that there are
now in that city between 1900 and
5000 destitute, starving persons.
The streets swarm with half-clad
men, women and children begging
for food. In many instances babes
in their mothers arms have died in
the streets, actually starved TO death
There have been |, 100 deaths in the
last three months.
The civil authorities issue cooked
rations occasionally toaf few people, -
he continues, but they are unfit for
any human being to eat. Hundreds
of persons who, three years ago,
were well off, are today in need of
food and clothes. There are about
l29 American citizens destitute.
These have been cared for by
American Consul Bricc, and have
Jared better than most. There is
not much smallpox. Yellow fever
is on the increase among the troops.
Measles are fatal among the
refugees. while dyscntery and malar
ial fevers prevail among all classes.
In the interior towns smallpox is
making awful ravages.
The average yearly death rate in
Madruga and vicinity for popula
ton of 4 300 inhabitants. huctuates
between l30 and 100 deaths. The
death rate during two weeks of
April, for a population of 5000 in
habtants. WAS 20T. In one day
there were p deaths II has been
necessary to enlarge the cemetery
and dig bitches for two or three
tiers Of cotiiDs.
And their is no help OF any kind,
nor even any hope OF obtaining help.
According to reliable information
20 per cent of the population OF
Guines have died from Jan, up to
date. Sma!lpoX, ,dysentery, ,malarial
fever and hunger have been the
causes.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22

The store room in the Sicotte
building, at l. 'Anse, formerly occu-
pied by Jacobson Il Levitan,
is now for rent, or the entire
building will be rented for one year
to responsible party for So per
month. For particulars address,
OCTAVE SICoTTE.
[Il0tfl Minneapolis, MINI.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22

Mrs. +. Beeberts has opened
dressmaking rooms at Mrs. Siegel 5
residence. and is prepared to do all
kinds of dressmaking. Prices rea-
sonable and satisfaction guaranteed.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22

Menominee county has seventy
eight miles of good roads, and has
expended nearly S75, 900 in their
building and maintenance.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22

Miss X Wahl is daily receiving a
new line of sailors and walking hats.
in all the latest shapes and shades.
Also nice line OF trimmed hats
always on hand. Be sure and call
before purchasing.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22

Write us for samples of our men:
$500 suits.
Ep. HAAS & Co., Houghton.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22

The Odd Fellows of the upper
peninsula and northern Wisconsin
will hold their annual reunion in
Iron wood on June 24th.
The tug Irene, owned by the
Menominee River Shingle Co., burn
ed at her dock Saturday night. The
loss was 81, 900, partly insured. The
Irene was built in 1898 and rated AL.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
Part of the dock and 20 cords OF
wood were also DESTROYED.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22

Commencing tomorrow Mrs. A.
Siegel will serve ice cream either by
dish or in quantity at her parlors
on Third street.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22

w. L. Douglass $500 shoes. All
styles. Ed. HAAS & Co., Houghton.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22

Knox Hat. Mail us your order.
Ed. HAAS & Co, Houghton.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-22

Fancy Laundered Shirts, all novel
ties. Selection sent on approval.
Ed. HAAS & Co., Hougnton.
Evening star., 1897-04-02
NEW PUBLIC PRINTER
He Makes Mr.. w. II. ColItn. Cb,es
Clerk of the Office

Clerk of the Office
MI Palmer. the newly appointed public
printer. assumed charge of his new duties
this morning. When he went to the gov
ernment printing Office and sought his
old desk he found on it a magnificent mann.
moth horseshoe made of American beauty
and other roses. this little tribute of well
come having been made by employees of
the ONCE whose names did not appear on
the flower piece. Mr. Palmer remained in
the building but short time. though long
enough for many of the old employees who
had known him during his former admins
tratlon TO visit his room and welcome him
back 10 his old duties. Mr.. Palmer then
left the building to meet an engagement
uptown and returned in the afternoon.
IL mas been three years since he was in
sue the government printing Office build
ing ana many changes in the arrangement
OF the structure have been made during
that time.
MI PalmeTs only official act this morn
ing was to appoint w. H. Collins chief
clerk In place of w. s. Waterbury, VINO
was appointed to that position two years
ago. put VINO tende,ed his resignation to
the pubic printer immedia tely he assun.-
ed office. Mr.. Waterbury was, as are all
the employees of the department. under the
protection of the civil service law. but bis
appointment having been personal one
with the retiring public printer ne had
maze arrangements to go into business
elsewhere. Mr.. Collins, who succeeds In,
went into the government printing office
as an apprentice over thirty Years ago
and has worked himself up through various
sraues OF service He was chief clerk
when Mr.. Palmer formerly had charge of
the office. Mr.. Palmer also reapnointed
capt II. T. Brian foreman of the offlce
"hlcn ne mas nlied for many years.
Evening star., 1897-04-02
RETAINING SAMPLES,
Secretary Gage Gives Out "a Statement
md Holds IL Conference.


The Secretary Of the Treasury today
gave out the following for publication:
Under the last clause of the tariff bill
as it passed the House, it Is made the
duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to
prescribe and enforce suitable regulations
TO carry out the provisions of this sec
ton, including the retention in bonded
warehouses of the United States, or any
other place where such goods are i'm
ported. of samples of such goods until re-
quired FOR evidence on any trial
OF course. this provision is not yet a law.
but unless action is taken to retain sam
pies, IL Will be difficult for the depart-
ment, in cases where ii is necessary to
nave samples of the goods TO determine
the rate OF duty, to successfully maintain
its position that the importation was SUBJ
Ject 10 the rates applicable under the So
called Dingley bill.
Section 2i9 of the Revised Statutes pro-
vides that The Secretary of the Treasury
shall direct the superintendence of the
collection of the duties on Imports and ton
mage as he shall judge best
IL a regulation is issued providing for the
retention Of samples upon imports from
and after April l, the regulation must be
made under this statute. for obviously no
action could be taken by the Treasury De-
pariment under the bill which passed tine
House until X has also passed the Senate
and received the approval of the Presi-
dent
Up 10 this time no regulations have been
issued looking to the retention of SAMPLES
OF imports as required by the bill Sec
retdfF Gage mad "A consultation on the sub
Ject with Assistant Secretary Howell and
chairman Dinsley. but so far no definite
decision has been arrived at. 1t is beliey-
ed, however. that steps will be taken at
once TO carry out the intent of the bill
Evening star., 1897-04-02
BressA<inS the InM.

On the Virginia side of the river in the
vicinity of the Chain bridge fishermen are
violating the law with impunity, the same
as the gamblers are near the free bridge
AT this season of the year, when the shad
and herring make their way to the spawn
ing grounds, a number of men with. dip
nets make business of catching the fish
near the bridge. They operate from the
rocks alorg the shore as well as from
boats, and effort is made to conceal their
business. This morning one of these fisher
men was particularly lucky, catching a
number of fine black bass These fish
weighed from one to three pounds, about
forty pounds in all. and were sold to a
dealer in the market, so it is reported.
Evening star., 1897-04-02
SHIP RIvETERs STRIKE.
Demand for Increased Pay at Harlan
4 Hol1ingsworth Refused.

WILMINGTON, Del, April "A strike
at the shipyaTd of the Harlan & Hollings-
worth Company Of this city is IN progress
today, involving the riveters employed on
repairs to the steamship Tallahassee.
The strike originated yesterday In a de-
mand made by the men for an increase of
pay from $40 to $50 a hundred rivets.
The demand was refused.
This morning the strikers to the number
of fifty men held a meeting, and sent a
committee to call on Superintendent Benson
with renewal of the request for an in
crease of pay. The request was refused
whereupon the strike was formally de-
clared- The strikers are members of the
Brotherhood of Boiler Makers and Iron
Shipbuilders. They expect other workmen
in the yard to join them. but there are no
indications of an increase of the strike, and
the company expects to replace the men
who went out without difficulty
The men insist that at the present rate
they can make only $50 to 81 a day The
officials say they make on an average about
81 a day.
This afternoon several of the strikers re-
turned 10 work. The places of all who fail
TO return wsll be filed tomorrow
Evening star., 1897-04-02
NEARLY AsPHYxIATED.
Narrow Escspe y Mr.. John Hicke.
From DEATH

Narrow Escspe 4 Mr.. John Hickey
ErOnT Death.
A narrow ese4pe from death by asphyxia-
tion was made ny John Hickey. who is liv-
ing at 61 1 street northwest. Mr.. Hickey is
an electrotype{ {dinisser In the government
printing office, and c2me to this CITY about
two years ago, from Cincinnati. Tuesday
morning at 8 o'clockisone one went to Mr..
Hiekeys room5to dall him in accordance
with the requeEt he had made the night be-
fore, and failedlto gsin access to the room
Sounds of moaning we're heard from with
In the room, and realizing that some I'm
usual condition existed, the door was
broken in. when it was found that the gas
was turned on. the winIow tightly closed
condition. There was not The least evil
dence that the act was other than an acci-
dent, the gas evidently having been put
out and then by slip turned on and al
lowed to escape. Drs. Chadwick and Mas
terston were at once summoned. They
found their patient in an extremely critical
ctLdltlon. The heartbeat was scarcely
perceptible. and they were obliged to pro-
duce respiration by artificial means for five
EGurs before their patient could breathe.
!dr. Hickey remained UNCONSCIOUS for for
ty-efght hours. but today he was pronounc-
ed out OF danger and was resting easily.
He has not been told the cause of his i'll
ness, and he is suffering from great
soreness of his chest as the result of in
halinS the gas and from the artificial res
plration which was resorted to, he was un-
der the impression that he had had Sc
we're case OF pneumonia. Mr.. Hickey is
about thirty-ffve years of age, and is a man
or powerful physique. Otherwise his ply
siclans do no. think it would have been
possible for him to have recovered.
Evening star., 1897-04-02
MADE HIS ESCAPE.
VIM. Coats Gets Away From the Police
Court.

rather mysterious escape of a prisoner
occurred this afternoon at the Police Court.
The man who disappeared. and completely
too was William Coats. considered the
mcst dangerous of the gang of five colored
irdividuais arrested last night for the bur
glary Wednesday at the establishment of
Charles l.. Beatty on Pennsylvania .enue.
l. seems that. unknown 10 the detectives
interested In the case. Coats and Hood were
this morning sent TO court from the sta
ton where they have been confined At
the clos. of business the prisoners in the
court cells were loaded into the work
house and Jail vans, answ ering TO their
names as called from the commitment ma
pers.
When ali haG responded. a search of
the cells disclosed man crouching in a
corner. The bailiffs were about to turn
him loose. they knew of no reason 70
hold him. when Bnilin Darr, as a prscau-
ton, took him to police headquarters to
see IL he was wanted there Detective
Helan happened to be in the Office. and he
at once recognized the man as Hood one
OF the alleged burglars.
Hood informed the detective that Coats
was at court also. The party returned
there and made a careful search of the
building and cells. but without avail the
other prisoner having effected his escane
in some unknown manner. Much perturb-
ed. Detectives Helan and Lacy left the
building to find where the responsibility '
lay for taking the men to court
--
Evening star., 1897-04-02
The Late Robert Bau.. VIII

The will of the late Robert Ball, dated
February II. 1897. and naming two of his
children, DR.. Charles A Ball and Florence
Ball, as executors. was filed today. Prem
ises 23 G street are given to Clara E. and
Florence Ball, daughters, as joint tenants,
together with the household furniture.
Houses 231 G street and 703 Sd street are
given to the four children, DR.. Charles A
Ball, Clara e. and Florence Ball and Mary
T. hyatt, as joint tenants. as we'll as a
quarter acre of ground near Balls cross
ROADS. in Ballston. Va, together with a
burial lot in the Congressional cemetery
10 Dr. Ball. the testator's swords and
pistols. The residue of the estate, includ-
ing twelve shares Of stock in the Masonic
Hall Association stock and deposits in the
Perpetual Building Association anu life in
surance in the Masonic Mutual Relief AS
soclation. and all Masonic jewels, jewelry,
medals and badges. is to be divided equally
among the children.
Evening star., 1897-04-02
Personal Mention.

Lieutenant H. NJ McCrea of the Brook
lyn Is at the Cairo.
Surgeon s. H. Dickson Of the Texas is
at 1729 H street for few days
Mr.. H. w. Van Scnden of Kentucky, pri-
vate secretary to ex-Secretary Carlisle. is
on a business visit to this city from Louis
Vile.
Lieutenant Oliver Edwards, 14th Infan-
try. has been granted four months leave.
Lieutenant F. s. Foltz has been granted
leave OF absence for four months. with
permission to go abroad.
Major j. X. McGuinness of the ordnance
department is at the Army and Navy Club
on leave OF absence. -
Major j. &. N'c~~ill of the medical flenart
ment Is at the Ebbitt
Captain Al. =. Maus Of the LIST Infantry
Is at 1913 II street.
Chaplain A. A. McAllister of the cruiser
brcokiyn is on visit to this city on
leave Of absence.