The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-06-04
LATER.

Discussion or the war revenue meas
ure occupied the time of the United
States senate on the Goth. In the house
the pension deficiency bill as amended
and passed by the senate was passed
and a bill TO amend the internal revenue
laws was discussed.
A bill providing for second assist
ant secretary of war, to be named by
the president and to receive salary of
$4,000, was passed in the United States
senate on the 9th. Senator Lodge
(Mass.) offered an, amendment to the
war revenue bill providing for the an
nexation of Hawaii. In the house the
senate joint resolution authorizing the
If honor TO Admiral Dewey and bronze
medals to the officers and men of the
Asiatic squadron, in memory of Dewey's
great victory, was passed. AT the night
session 20 pension bills were passed.
Adjourned to the 31st.
Capt. Clark, has reached Key West with
the battleship Oregon and is rapidly
getting into shape for active work.
A train on the Midland Terminal rail-
road ran into hand car near Gillette,
Col. and four men on the hand car were
killed.
Admiral SIMPSONS fleet has returned
TO point near Havana after six days Of
scouting for hostile ships along the Gu
ban coast.
The states are readily responding to
the second call for volunteers.
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bandits who held up the Sante Fe ex-
press near Albuquerque, n. NJ, three
officers were shot dead and the robbers
escaped.
Seven men from Nashua, n. H., and
Haverhill, Mass, were drowned by the
breaking of the ice in Frazier lake in
Alaska.
The republicans of the Twelfth In
diana district have nominated DR.. Chris
tian b. Stemen for congress.
Arrangements were being made at
San Francisco TO send the second and
third detachments of troops to aid Adj
miral Dewey at Manila without delay.
ENJOYS from Gen. Garcia sent to
Washington to arrange plans of coop
Grafton with the American forces say
there are between 10000 and $4,000
Cubans now in the field.
President Mckinley, Secretaries Long
and Alger, Gen, Miles and others held
an important conference at which the
bombardment of Havana and Puerto
Rico was agreed on.
The queen regent of Spain was urged
to flee from that country in fear of
threatened revolution.
Commodore Schley cabled TO Wash
ington that he had the Spanish armada
under Admiral Cervera securely cooped
up in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba
Twenty-one of the twenty-nine Span
ish prizes in Key West harbor were
condemned by the Judge and ordered to
be disposed of by the marshal.
In collision at sea the British steam
er Mecca was sunk and her captain and
so other persons were drowned.
The residence of A. Richter was de-
strIyed by fire at Iron Mountain, Mich,
and two children were burned to-
crisp and two others were fatally
burned.
Engineer Hudson and two brakemen,
Sevarson and Matthews, were killed in
a freight collision near Dayton, Tenn.
While miners were working in col
liery near Pittsville. Pa. large body
of water was struck, and six men were
drowned.
Fire among business houses in Dali
las. Tex, caused loss of S350,OO0, and
j. W Cowan was burned to death.
Edward Hammerstrom, of Knoxville,
ILL.,. drowned his little girl in tub OF
water and shot himself. Temporary
insanity caused the tragedy.
The gunboat Zafire arrived at Hong
Kong from Manila and reported that all
was quiet a Admiral Dewey's station.
There were 245 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 27th, against ESQ the week
previous and PA in the corresponding
period of 1897.
President Mckinley has nominated |
rs brigadier generals for the volunteer
army.
Advices from Tampa, Fla, say 10000 |
men have sailed for Cuba and ere this |
have effected junction with the insur-
gents.
Gen. Blanco telegraphed 10 Madrid |
that Cervera's squadron was at Santi-
ago, but definite information had not |
reached Washington.
Eugene Burt was hanged at Austin,
Tex, for the murder of his wife and |
two children in July, 1896.
Spain has abandoned hope Of aid from
European powers.
All lines of business throughout the
are reported good, with an in
'rease in exports.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
n the National league for the week
'nded on the 2Sth were: Cincinnati,
CO.,; Cleveland, .710; Boston, .625; New
York, .567; Chicago, .54s; Baltimore,
53s: Pittsburgh, .531; Brooklyn, .4O7;
1893; Louisville, 1893; st.