The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-03-26
LATER.

The United States senate was not in
session on the 18th. In the house, after
agreeing to the conference report on the
agricultural bill, the post Office appro-
priation bill was further considered.
A memorial from the Illinois legisla-
ture asking for the erection of monu>
ment to Abraham Lincoln was intro
duccd by Mr.. Belllnap. The committee
on ways and means favorably reported
the Dingley bill for the temporary adj
mission, free of duty, of naval and mill
tary supplies purchased abroad.
There was no session of the United
States senate on the 10th. In the house
the post Office appropriation bill was
passed. The military affairs commit
tee held special meeting to consider
the bill for the reorganization of the
army.
Ex-Congressman A. A. Barker, Of
Ebensburg, Pa, dropped dead on the
street at Altoona, Pa.
The cruiser Amanzonas, built at
Gravesend, England, for Brazil and pur-
chased by the United States, was for
maly transferred from the Brazilian
flag to the stars and stripes.
The United States cruiser Montgom-
cry arrived in Key West from Havana.
Charles w. Woodman, of Chicago, for
mer republican congressman from the
Fourth Illinois district, died at the Ell
gin insane asylum. aged "a years.
Twelve tons of supplies for the re-
concentrates in Cuba were started
south by rail from Cincinnati.
1t is reported from Madrid that Gen.
Blanco is about to begin an aggressive
campaign against insurgents in the
eastern part of Cuba.
In the Santa Isabel mine at Belmez,
Spain, an explosion killed over 60 per-
sons.
A dispatch from Washington says
that Mt cabinet meeting the general
tenor of the discussion was that the Gu
ban question must be settled, and set
tied very soon, and that it was useless
to waste any more time in delay or
diplomatic correspondence.
The damage TO the fruit by tie frost
in the Suisun and Vaca valleys in CAL
ifornia is placed at 100000.
Judge Solomon Claypool, one of the
most prominent attorneys in Indiana,
died at indianapolis, aged q! years.
Matilda Joslyn Gage, one of the best
known advocates of woman's suffrage
in the country, died at her home in Chi
cago, aged ~ years.
Business throughout the country is
reported 10 be steadily on the gain.
The Maine board Of inquiry still con-
tinues at work at Key West, and Cap
tain Sampson says he is unable to state
when the report will be ready. Presi-
dent Mckinley, it is said, will submit
the report to congress as soon as it ar
rives and allow that body to choose be-
tween indemnity, independence or war.
The British government is massing a
very powerful fleet of warships in
Chinese waters.
Capt. Albert S. Barker, of the navy,
left Key West for Washington with the
official report of the board of inquiry
into the Maine explosion.
The state bank at Nickerson, Kan,
was blown open and robbed of $4,000.
President Mckinley stated that he
did not want congress to adjourn be-
fore the present trouble with Spain
was settled.
The Bank of Franklin, ILL.,, was
robbed of $4,000 in cash by burglars.
Three officers and other survivors of
tine Maine disaster arrived unexpectedly
in Washington and held conferences
with the president and Secretary Long.
LODI it,n
captured at Los Angeles. Cal
An explosion occurred in n mine of
the Tennessee Coal, Iron e. Railway
company at Pratt City, Ala, killing six
negro convicts.
Twenty-Five car loads of provisions
donated in Kansas and Kansas City have
been forwarded to MatanZas, Cuba.
The Morris O. Butts meat packing
house in the City of Mexico was burned,
the loss being $l,50J, 900 and no insur-
ance. 4
The great station of the Pennsylvania
railroad in Jersey City, n. j., was de-
by fire.
l. henotorious Black Jack gang of out
laws, nine in number, that has for years
utllti tHt WAS hliltU Nv IL
Mormon colony in the Sierra Madre
mountains in Mexico.
The thirty-ffth international Sunday
school convention will meet in Chicago
March 30.
Ed Chalmers, negro who recently
married white woman named Headly,
was, with his wife, murdered by mob
near Wybark. |. T.
DIR. George Clinton Hubbard, aged 81.
assistant surgeon United States navy,
committed suicide in Washington while
temporarily insane.
The little town of Clancy, Mont, was
nearly wiped out by fire.
SPANS proposal that the United
States join in effecting a settlement of
the Cuban question upon the basis of
complete autonomy of the Canadian
pattern, under Spanish sovereignty, has
been rejected by the United States.