The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-09
LATER.

Senator Quay (Pa.) offered resolu.
ton in the United States senate on the
LIST providing that the committee on
foreign relations be and is hereby in.
structed to report on or before the 18th
inst. bill for the recognition of the re-
public of Cuba. The bill providing fol
the purchase of the Danish islands in
the West Indies for coaling stations
was indefinitely laid aside. Adjourned
to the 4th In the house the naval ap.
preparation bill $3.50, 900, 0O0) was passed
with an amendment providing for three
tirst-class battleships, i2 fast torpedo
boats and IL torpedo boat destroyers
Adjourned TO the 4th,
The opinion held in Washington by
public men and diplomatists is that the
crisis will reach its climax this week
and that the question of war with Spain
or peace will be determined within tho
next seven days. The disposition to
hurry the president seems to have dis.
appeared in congress since members
realize that his message must be a docu.
ment that is to justify congress in its
action, whatever his recommendations
The pope has sent an urgent message
to the queen regent of Spain asking
that the Cuban war be brought to an
end in the interests of progress and
Christianity.
In duel at Waco, Ten, w. c. Brann
editor of the lconoclast, and Capt. NJ
L. Davis killed each other.
Orders concentrating 10000 troops in
Florida have been prepared and will be
issued by telegraph the instant hostili.
ties are declared.
boiler explosion near Campbles.
vile, Ky, killed four men outright and
fatally hurt another.
The public debt statement issued on
the LIST shows that the debt decreased
Sl,3s7, sos during the month of March
The cash balance in the treasury was
So53,79S,loS. The total debt. less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $t,00S, 71G.351.
a dispatch from Madrid' says the
Spanish torpedo boa: hotifia has ar.
rived at the island of Porto Rico.
Word comes from Madrid that Gen
Woodford, the American minister to
Spain. is preparing to leave there in the
event OF diplomatic rupture.
Prince Bismarck celebrated his
eighty-thrd birthday at his home in
Berlin.
Noah Raby, an inmate of the aims
house near New Brunswick, y. j.. ccle-
bratcd his one hundred and twenty
sixth birthday.
1t is reported that shanty boat
sunk three miles above Mount Carmel
ILL.,, and family consisting Of five per.
sons lost their lives.
At cabinet meeting it was an
nounced that SPANS answer to the ulti-
matum of this government was unsatis-
factory, and policy which seems GER
tainly to involve hostilities was de-
cided upon. President Mckinley will
send message to congress explaining
the status of affairs and asking the CO.
operation of the legislative body in
dealing with Spain. One of the signif-
cant happenings of the day was an Of
fer of mediation by France, but it was
automatically declined by the presi-
dent.
NJ. Whrendorf, his three children and
Observation-Disclosures, were drowned
in the river near st. Francis, Ark, by the
upsetting of boat.
The state department has ordered all
consuls i'm Cuba to repair at once to
Havana, there to be in readiness for in
slant departure.
John Harris and his wife and child
n, al 4 \
near Spottsville, Ky, by the capsizing
of boat.
Mrs. Mary Ann Mcbride (colored)
died in Mount Carmel, H.. aged 1902
years.
The report that the Spanish torpedo
hotilla had arrived at Porto Rico was
untrue. The fotilla is at Cape Verde
Islands, where it will remain until fur
Their orders.
The Mexican government will prevent
any raising of troops by Spaniards. as
has been contemplated, along the from
tier.
Mrs. Glover cut the throats of her six
children at Hobart, b. c., and then
drowned herself while temporarily in
sane.
Commodore Schley has notified the
navy department that the flying squad
ron at Hampton Roads is ready to sail
at an hours notice.
Mrs. Louise Brewer, wife of Justice
Brewer. of the United States supreme
court. died Mt her home in Washington,
aged 60 years.
The Missouri populists Withhold their
state convention in st. Louis on July Z.
Shawnectown (lll) aplace of 800 in
hnbitants, was practically wiped out Of
existence by the breaking of levee,
and it was reported that $50 persons
were caught in the sudden flood and
drowned. Hundreds of others were
swept into the OHIO, clinging to the
roofs of houses or floating on pieces of
board. The food extends four miles
inland, and people were fleeing for their
lives from all lowland hamlets.