The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-03-05

place of the wrecked Maine In Havana
harbor.
Family troubles caused a duel be
tween DR.. j. ii. IIartzell and w. X. FL
lott at Little Rock, Ark. and both
were fatally shot.
Henry Williams, n negro, aged 25,
shot and killed Miss Ethel Gray, a white
girl, at Oakland. Cal. and then killed
himself.
Thomas Ford, who cut the throat of
his brother in-law, escaped from Jail
at Mascot, Neb., and killed four men
before he could be overpowered.
The remains of Miss Frances F..
Willard lay in state I'm Willard hall, Chi
cago, and were viewed by thousands.
Naval officials in Washington admit
that work is being pushed with all pos
sble speed on ships now in the various
navy yards.
Sawyer, Manning q Co., dry goods
commission merchants in New York
and Boston, failed for 100000.
Richard Allen and Tom Holmes were
lyncbed at Mayfcld. KY Allen robbed
II house and Holmes killed his wife six
months ago.
The business portion of De Kalb,
Tex, was destroyed by fire.
President Mckinley is said to have
made the following statement to SEN
ator: IL do not propose to do any
thing Mt all TO precipitate war with
Spain. Up to the present ! do not
think war is either necessary or inev-
n L.. T.. a "a.
however, if ! did not prepare for the
future. The situation is grave, and the
POLICY of the administration will be de-
tcrmned almost entirely by the course
Of events from time to time"
Angry because he could not go hunt
ing Richard Clauson, aged IS, fatally
shot Miss Minnie Foght near Cedar
Falls, Ia, and then killed himself.
James Mcnamara, formerly of Spring
field, H., and Clara Schaller, of Mas
coutah, H., were found at n hotel in st.
Louis with their throats cut, making II
suicides in that city within As hours.
Senior Du Bose, Spanish charge at
Washington, has admitted that the au-
thorities at Havana planted submarine
mines in the channels but not in the
harbor.
At Des Moincs prominent women have
formed the Iowa Ass ociation Opposed to
Woman Suffrage.
Mrs. Daniel Manning, of New York,
was elected president general of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
at the annual meeting in Washington.
Baltimore. Md, went into a receivers
hands with liabilities of $170,0G0.
Passengers on n vessel from Cuba ar
irving at New York tell of insults Of
fered Americans in Havana and to the
American flag.
The president has signed the resolu-
ton passed by congress appropriating
100000 for the raising of the Maine.
In Fairfield county, S. c., 20 houses
were destroyed by forest fires and seven
women We're burned to death.
The cotton mill strikers at New Bed
ford, Mass, have issued an appeal for
aid to continue their fight.
The planning mill of the \. NJ. Stevens
Lumber company and 20 dwellings were
burned at Dycrsburg, Tenn, causing
loss OF 100000.
During the absence of his wife Fred
Simons, aged 80 years, in a fit of drunken
dependency killed his two little daugh
tcrs and himself at Garrett, Ind.
While resisting arrest ut Bursonvillc,
Pa, Adam Weaver shot and killed Ed
win Mondeau, n deputy constable, and
fatally wounded Constable Athcrholt.
Jesse Kelley shot and killed II. n.
and l.. Il. DcWalt, brothers, near Rca-
gain IeS;, ifr--;t quarrel concerning
valentine.
Final services over the remains of
Miss Frances +. Willard were held in
the Methodist church in Evanston, H..
and the body was laid to rest in Rose
Hill cemetery.
The battle ships Kentucky and Kcar-
sarge will be launched at Newport News
March "a, and il will he the first double
launching of first-class battle ships in
the world.