The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-05-20
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News Of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
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HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.


nance of the gold standard is made in
the bill drafted by the congressional
currency committee in Atlantic City,
y. j., for submission to the next con
gress.
Rear Admiral Watson has been or
dcrcd to report to Admiral Dewey at
Manila, to relieve that officer when he
feels that he can be spared there.
Russell & Co.'s mammoth thrcshcr
and engine plant at Massillon, o., was
burned, the loss being 100000, and Al
bert Bambcrgcr and G. l.. Baalz were
buried in the ruins.
In three days there were Is suicides
in Chicago.
William +. Gooding, formerly editor
of the Minneapolis Times, committed
suicide in Walla Walla, Wash.
President and Mrs. Mckinley left
Washington for vacation of II week
or ten days ut Hot Springs. Va.
The Brotherhood Of Railway Train
men began its annual convention in
New Orleans with $40 delegates in at
tendance.
Plow manufacturers met in Chicago
and formed n trust to be capitalized at
SG5, 100000 and to include the principal
plants in the United States.
Maj. l.. G. Ovcrman, u. 5. A., retired,
was instantly killed by II fall at his sum
mcr home in Nantucket. Mass.
The sales for week in the print
cloth market at Fall River. Mass, broke
all records, the number of pieces cX-
cccding 100000, which is 100000 more
than the record.
Brig. Gen. George w. Davis, who
succeeds Mai. Gen. Guy Y. Henry as
military governor of Porto Rico, ar
rived in San Juan, and Gen. Henry
sailed for the United States.
4 report from Gen. Lope Rccio, civil
governor of Puerto Principe, states that
during the war 10 towns in that prov
ince were completely destroyed.
The family of George Humphreys,
composed of fourpcrsons, were drowned
bv the sudden overflow of Il branch ct
the Brazos river near Benjamin, Tex.
The duke of ARGOS will present his
credentials to the president as minister
of Spain early in June, and Beiamy
Storer will be received by the queen re-
gent of Spain at the same time.
Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn
says the Chinese exclusion act does not
apply to our insular possessions.
Capt. John A. Logan, United States
volunteers, has been appointed adj
jutant general of the department of the
gulf
The schooner Loyal. which sailed
from Seattle one year ago for Kotzebue
sound, Alaska, with II persons on
board, is lost
The sixth annual convention of the
Police Chiefs Association of the United
States began in Chattanooga, Tenn.
An experiment at Sandy Hook with
gun cotton shells shows that they can
be safely used in war rs engines of de-
struction.
In n dispute over bill at Okolona,
Miss, DR., william Murphy and his son
and Charles ID. Clarke and his son were
killed.
An order has been issued creating
the military district of Alaska, with
headquarters Mt Pyramid IIarbor.
The cighty-seventh annual COM
mencemcnt of the Princeton theolog-
zeal seminary was held in Princeton,
n. J..
The will of the late Edward Y. Perry,
of Hanover, Mass, leaves the greater
portion of his estate of $i,O00,000 as a
trust fund for the benefit of the poor.
Great Britain and tins country will
act together at the cars disarmament
conference in urging the adoption OF a
scheme of arbitration of international
disputes.
Ten native Filipinos under contract
10 exhibit in a dime museum in New
York were forbidden to land in San
Francisco. "
The new Ward line steamer Havana
made the trip from Havana to New
York In two days and 90 hours, the fast
est time on record. Fifteen hundred
soldiers were on board.
All the post Offices and school houses
in the island of Porto Rico will soon be
flying United States flags.
Alex Vollrath, of Sheboygan, Wis,
and ii. ID. Eivers, Of Baltimore, Nd,
students at Mission House college in
Elkhart Lake, Wis, were drowned ~
the upsetting Of boot.