The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-12-04
LATER.

LATER.
The annual report of the secretary OF
the navy, John ID. Long, says that the
navy consists of 50 vessels in fighting
order and an auxiliary fleet of over 40
steamers. The cost of the navy for the
fiscal year ended June 30. 1897, was
S17,514,23l. More enlisted men and bet
ter dockage facilities are asked for,
December wheat sold at one dollar on
the Chicago board OF, trade.
Hicks Price. a negro charged with
criminal assault, was taken from the
iail at Starks, Fla, By n mob and
hanged.
The 5000 miners in the Wilmington
(Ill.) coal field resumed work. ending
the big strike.
Miss Louise Lasalle and Miss Jennie
SEcress, each II years of age. were
drowned at Duluth. Mimi, while skat-
ing.
The Official Gazette at Madrid has
published the royal decree granting
autonomy 10 Cuba and Porto Rico.
In Indiana the towns of Chesterfield.
Dalcville and the Indiana spiritualists'
camp were wrecked by the explosion of
30 quarts of nitroglyccrin.
The trial of the battle ship Iowa shows
ii TO be MS fine ship Of her class as there
is in the world.
The answer of the Cuban govern
ment to the offer of autonomous terms
by Spain declines any proposition that
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independence from Spanish domination.
Riots prevailed in the Austrian reichs-
r@th and police were called upon to pre-
serve order.
Augustin Cossio, the father of the
young girl who escaped from n Cuban
prison and came to the United States
has been released from prison in Cuba
The wages OF the $1,000 employees of
the Missouri Pacific railway have been
increased temper cent.
Fusionist republicans elected 10 the
Ohio legislature have decided tovote for
the republican caucus nominee which
will make the legislature stand 50 re-
rublicans to G5 democrats on joint bal
lot for senator.
The cod fishing was only half as large
this year as usal, and there will be great
suffering among the poor in Nova
Scotia.
There were CSC business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Goth. against 2G7 the week
previous and 500 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
Antonio Minirano quarrelcd with his
wife ut Erie, Pa. and. after first fail
ing to brain her. doused her with oil
and then set fire 10 the oil. burning her
10 death.
The steamship City of Seattle arrived
in Seattle. Wash, from Alaska with IS
passengers from Dawson City, whose
money possessions amount TO $1,000, 900
in drafts and gold dust. They reported
that fear of famine amounting to panic
prevailed in the Klondike gold fields.
The resignation of Mr.. Eckels as
comptroller Of the currency Will take
effect the last of December
Nathan Willis (coloredD. charged
with the murder of white man near
Town Creek, y. C., was burned to death
by lynchcrs.
James w. Loyeridge. aged 10, died
from injuries received i'm football
game at 1Iammondsport, n. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Hitler, of Elkton,
Mich. celebrated their eighty-eighth
Wedding anniversary. The husband is
los Years old and the wife 107.
The product from beets in Nebraska
this season will he nearly 12.QOo.oo0
pounds Of sugar.
a typhoon which swept over he Phil
ippine islands destroyed several towns
and 400 Europeans and G,000 natives
were killed.
Col John Laing. n noted engineer OF
England and America. died at his home
| in Baltimore. Nd. aged so years.
Mary Luxton. aged % years. shot and
fatally wounded Ole Halverson. aged %
years. at Tnkster. n. c.. as the result
Of lovers quarrel. and then shot her
self, but not fatally.
The members of the Austrian minis
try rendered their resignation to En-
peror Francis Joseph.
| Counterfeit dollars better in the guam
tity of silver they contain than those
turned out by Uncle Sans mint are In
circulation in San Francisco.
| Hundreds Of persons are arriving ir
Oklahoma. anticipating the opening OF
the new lands to settlement.
Lawrence Mccarthy. the last sur
vivor of the combatants at Waterloo
died in the workhouse at Nenagh. Tip
perary. aged 11G years.
| At Mason, Mich.. Scott Bowdish sho
his nine-year-old daughter. fatally in
| juring her. and then killed himself.
The autonomy decree for Cuba hai
been published. II gives Spain great
powers of control and is regarded un
favorably in Washington.
| Walter l.. Sessions. A. w. Jordan ant
Miss Sadie Voss persisted in fire Al
Jamestown, n. Y.
At Rainey Mountain. o. T., Baptis
association was organized. consisting
Of four church organizations composed
wholly of Indians.