The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-12-17
LATER.

Admiral Dewey reported TO Washing
ton a notable improvement in condi-
tons in the Philippines and the growth
of better spirit among those factions
of the natives which promised to give
trouble.
Three persons were killed and three
wounded in wrecks on the Clarion River
railroad near Portland Mills, Pa.
The report that Japan had offered
b2oo.00o.o00 for the Philippines is said
by Washington authorities to be entire
ly without foundation.
Karl Decker known all over the coun-
try as the prince of forgers. was SEN
fenced to seven years in prison at San
Quentin, CAL, for defrauding bank.
Advices from Cairo say that the gov
eminent has decided to prohibit the
sale of alcoholic liquors in the Soudan.
Now that peace is again assured, the
United States war vessels are to be re-
stored to their former color and the
white squadron" will be revived.
The soldiers of the Second Illinois
regiment left Savannah. Ca. on the
transport Michigan for M.ranao, Cuba.
The Two Hundred ard Second New
York regiment. under Gen Davies,
numbering $500 men, arrived in Ha-
yana.
y blizzard prevailing In FL Paso Tex,
and vicinity was the worst since 1891
and would result in great damage to
cattle and other interests.
Jordan Webb (colored), who oommit-
ted a criminal assault upon Mrs. Lucy
Bowden an aged lady, was hanged at
CORTLAND, Va,
John Andersen. the murderer of Mate
Saunders, of the schooner Olive Peckcr.
was executed in the Jail at Norfolk, Va.
Three men were killed and eight in
jured three fatally. by an explosion in
the Dupont powder works at Whining
ton. Del.
Increased activity is reported in bust
ness circles throughout the country.
Henry Mortimer Plat died in New
York, aged &c years. He established
in New York city the first gold and sill
yer refinery in the United States.
A fire in the works of the Stand
ard Oil company at Los Angeles, CAL,
caused loss of $225000.
The River Neva suddenly rose nine
feet, inundating the lower quarters of
the city of ST. Petersburg, Russia,
causing great loss of property and
lives.
There were PAS business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9th. against PSI the week
previous and 312 in the corresponding
period of 1897.
Gen. CaliXto Garcia, the distinguished
Cuban warrior and the head of the COM
mission elected by the Cuban assembly
TO visit this country, died in Washing
ton Of pneumonia. aged 50 years.
1t is announced that Col. William
Jennings Bryan. of the Third Nebras-
ka regiment. has resigned.
Rev. Theodore y. Morrison, pastor of
the Epiphany Episcopal church in Chi
cago, has accepted the Office of bishop
of Iowa.
The treaty of peace between the
United States and Spain was signed in
Paris
In n fit Ct insanity William IIutchings
killed John Hunt and wife and Thomas
Haywood at Free Soil, Mich, and then
took his own life.
The United States flag was unfurled
over the city hall at Marianao Cuba,
by Col. Young,
The transport Saratoga with the first
battalion of the Tenth infantry on
board sailed from Charleston, s. c., for
Cuba
BY the bursting of water pipe in
Brooklyn, n. Y, property was dam
aged to the extent of 81 ,000,0 900.
The agricultural department. figures
place the 1898 crop of corn and oats as
worth $s3 900 more than the crops
of 1897.
Judge John William Showalter. of the
Seventh judicial district of the United
States circuit court, died in Chicago,
aged "a years.
Charles w. Miller, of Chicago, won
the six-day bicycle race in New York,
making 2,007 miles. On the last day
Miller was married in the rink to Miss
Genevieve Hanson.
Gen. Lee and staff sailed from Sa-
vannah. Ga, for Cuba on the transport
Panama.
In fire in a fiat building in Brook
Ign, y. Y, Joseph Noblett and his wife
and her mother and Thomas Whine
were burned to death.
William Black, one of the most pro-
life writers of fiction, died in London,
aged 81 years.
Mrs. Lulu Johnston, of Pond Creek,
o. T., is in Jail and will be tried on the
charge of poisoning her sixth husband
at Lawrence, Kan.
The Dattleship Massachusetts ground
ed near Governors island, New York,
and was badly damaged.
President Mckinley, 1t is said, con-
templates trip TO Cuba and Porto
Rico at an early date. Mrs. Mckinley
and several members of the cabinet,
with their wives, will probably accom-
pany the president.