The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-16
LATER.

Cuba was discussed at cabinet meet
ing and there was strong sentiment in
favor of sending more urgent repre-
sensations to Spain. The president will
insist upon an early answer to his
friendly note.
John II. Gentry and Robert j. broke
the pacing team record, going the mile
at Glens Falls, n. Y, in 2:oS.
The Spanish cabinet decided to recall
Gen. Weyler and Marshal Blanco will
succeed him as governor general of
Cuba.
Mai. Gen. Nelson A. Miles arrived in
New York on the steamer ST. Louis from
Southampton.
There were 1913 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the sth, against 1o4 the week
previous and COG in the corresponding
period of 1896.
The stables of DR.. w. T. Frady near
Marietta, Ind, were destroyed by fire
and 43 horses were cremated.
John Roderick Mcpherson, United
States senator from New Jersey from
1887 until 1895. died in Jersey City, aged
Ga years.
At Lafayette. Ind. fire destroyed the
new Second Presbyterian church, the
loss being $4,000.
George Morgan was hanged at Omaha,
Neb., for the murder of Ida Gaskill in
November, 1895. He died protesting his
innocence.
The transfer of the congressional IL
brary in Washington from the capitol
to the new library building has been
completed
Glass workers in session at Columbus,
o., representing the entire glass in
dustry of the United States, took steps
TO form trust.
Fire at glastonbury, o., destroyed the
post office and many other business
places. the total loss being 100000.
A typhoon in Japan caused the loss
of 90 lives. Three hundred persons were
injured and thousands of houses were
destroyed in the vicinity of Toxic.
Prof. Slaby. in experimenting at Der
lin with Maroon's wireless telegraph,
succeeded perfectly in exchanging mes
sages without wires at u distance of 81
kilometers.
Up to the sth there had been sos cases
of yellow fever in New Orleans and so
deaths and 100 cases at Mobile, Ala,
and II deaths.
The tobacco crop has been cut short
16 per cent as result of the drought in
Kentucky.
A company has been organized to
build railroad from Skaguay to Lake
Bennett over the White pass to the
Alaska gold fields.
Capt. Gen. Blanco will sail for Cuba
October IS, and Capt. Gen. Weyler will
return to Spain Immediately. Gen.
Castellanos assumes the direction Of af-
fairs until Blanco's arrival.
Twelve persons were frozen to death
al Glane, Austria.
r Leander Peterson and Joseph john
son were killed and man named Harris
was fatally injured by~a blast in mine
at Wakefield, Mich.
Chicagoans on tue 9th observed the
twenty-siXth anniversary of the great
.confagration of 1871.
Frank Early (colored) shot and killed
his wife, from whom he had been sep
arated six years, and then fatally shot
his mistress, Mamie Frey, in Cincinnati.
Nicaragua is establishing gold
standard and will use temporarily the
gold coin of the United States.
Peter +. Studebaker, treasurer of the
wagon and carriage firm of Studebaker
Brothers Manufacturing company of
South Bend, Ind, died at the age of 81
years.
The two hundredth anniversary of the
Old Dutch church made famous by
Washington Irving, and near which he
is buried, was celebrated in the old
building at Tarrytown, N. Y.
William Timmons, who shot his wife,
her father and mother at Ednor, Md,
was found dead with bullet in his
brain.
Funeral services over the remains of
Charles Eneu Johnson, the well-known
ink manufacturer, were held in Phila-
delphia.
The estimated yield of gold for the
year in the United States is $s0,000,000,
which is one-third of the worlds esti-
mated output for the year.
ht WY vi DNdttiC
Victoria, ID. c., from Alaska laden with
gold and with about 1O6persons who
had left there because of the scarcity of
food.
Charles Gallagher, for years connect
ed with the Missouri Republican, now
the Republic, died in st. Louis, aged II
years.
BY the bursting of huge water main
in New York 100000 gallons of water
poured into fashionable neighbor-
hood, causing immense damage.
The gunboat Marietta, detailed to re-
lieve the Concord in Alaskan waters,
ssiled from San Francisco.
Rain which fell throughout the west
marked the end of the long drought
that for months has harassed the farm
ers of 20 of the producing or cat
t!e-raising states of the union.
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