The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-12-31
LATER.

| IUssts 1910 "eIE ""-
terially greater than during any pre-
yious season on the lakes, the aggre gate
being estimated at $2,G00,000.
| Lieutenant Commander Sumner c.
Payne, United States navy. retired,
died in Asheville. n. c.
While Deputy Sheriff Frank f NNye
was forcing an entrance to a residence
in Chicago he was shot and killed by
Thomas G. Crosby, aged 10 years.
Patrick Haggerty. who would have
been 100 years old January II. died near
Malone, n. Y.
X Rear Admiral Schley was presented
with a sword in Philadelphia valued at
$4,000 from citizens of New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Delaware.
large portion of the town of Me-
chanicsburg. o., was destroyed by fire.
Miss Margaret Dodge, prominent
literary worker, was found dead in
pew in church in Boston. She had
taken poison.
The Third and last battalion Of the
| Tenth infantry, 443 strong, sailed from
Charleston, S. c., for Havana.
| The minority of the house military
committee has prepared an army bill
which provides for standing army of
10000 men, with an auxiliary force of
$4,000 for present eXigencies.
| Many deaths from the grip were re-
ported in New York. Brooklyn. Phila-
delphia and other eastern cities.
1t has been decided by the govern
ment to muster out all the volunteers
in the Philippines as fast as they can
be replaced with regulars.
Mrs. John Ozark, aged 100 years. died
at her home near Galena. III.
Pittsburgh company has received
a contract from the United States gov
eminent TO reeqnlp MORO castle in Ha-
| vana.
The Carlist citation ontinucs in sew
eral of the northern provinces OF
Spain, and number of agtators have
been arrested.
james Mcdonald, aged 1o2. resident
of Chippewa Falls. Wis. died at ST. Jo-
seph's hospital, Milwaukee.
| Mrs. Olive Barnes. aged 20 wears, wife
of c. p. Barnes, prominent attorney
in Woodstock, ILL.,, committed suicide
with poison.
| The tenth annual convention of the
| United Mine Workers will be held in
| Pittsburgh, Pa, in January.
Encouraging reports of the condition
of affairs in Manila and Porto Rico
reached the war department from the
officers commanding the troops in
those departments.
t. IL. Rose. cheesemaker at Warren,
| o.. operating 3 factories, has failed.
| Advices show that more business is
being done now by the merchants and
manufacturers of the United States
than at any previous time in the history
of the country
Sebastian Bach Mills, the well-known
composer and pianist, died in Wies-
baden. Germany, aged GO years.
The preliminary report of the Mic
aragua canal commission shows that il
will require about $4,000, 900 to build
the canal.
Ohio school children have given $4.275
for the La Faye;tc monument fund.
a new counterfeit one-dollar silver
certificate has been discovered. 1t is
OF the series Of 1896, Bruce, register,
Roberts. treasurer.
| The first American flag over Philip
pine educational institution was raised
over the Malate schoolhouse.
| AT joint meeting in Havana of the
| United States and Spanish military
commissioners the programme was
finally agreed upon for the exchange
of flags on January at noon.
| The United States cruiser New York
from Havana arrived in New York with
Admiral Sampson and wife on board.
| The government has determined to
hoist the American flag over Wake is
land, the westernmost of the Hawaiian
group.
Several hundred Montenegrn SOL
diers who were overtaken by snow
storm in the Lara pass in Austria were
frozen to death.
The American liner st. Louis arrived
in New York, having on board the Unit
ed States commissioners who con-
cluded the treaty of peace with Spain
in Paris.
| The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Odd aggregated
673,030.023. against 81 .691. 765 POS the
previous week, The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1897
was 25.7.
Strenuous efforts are being made to
put enough American troops IN Cuba to
meet any call upon them through the
speedy evacuation of the Spanish gar
r:sons.
An ordinance passed by the city coun-
, Gil puts a stop to all kinds of business
IN Fort Scott Kan, on Sunday, includ-
ling preaching in churches by pastors
for pay.
There were 25s business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Esd. against 261 the week
previous and 2s2 in the corresponding
period OF 1897.