The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-07-01

At an election in Rhode Island prop
osition to change the constitution in ia
for OF biennial elections was defeated.
President Mckinley and party
reached Adams, Mass, to be guests OF
W. u. Plunkett for several days.
Further rioting occurred in Cleve-
land, o., engineered by sympathizers Of
the street railway strike, and $4,000
worth of damage was done 10 the COM
pany's property.
Floods have caused great damage TO
the mining towns of Murray City and
Coal Gate, in Ohio, the latter town be-
ing almost entirely destroyed.
The monthly statement OF the col
lcctions of internal revenue shows that
the total receipts during May last were
$23, 500,73 an increase over May, 1898,
OF S0,4O2,6l6.
The splendid home of Gen. John Il.
Gordon ut Kirkwood, a suburb of At
lanta, Ca, was destroyed by fire.
Negroes imported to take the place
ofstriking miners near Evansville, Ind,
were fired upon by the strikers ana sew
eral were badly wounded.
DR.. Charles A. McQuesten, who was
on the staff of Gen. l.. S. Otis, and who
was health officer at Manila, arrived i'm
San Francisco, and in an interview said
he thought II would take from 100000
to 10000 soldiers TO properly subdue
and hold the islands.
George Wray, aged 1913 years, was
granted n divorce in Columbus. Ind,
T.
II is reported that President McKin-
ley has decided to call for 10000 volun-
tcers for service in the Philippines.
The North Atlantic squadron. under |
command of Admiral Sampson, arrived |
at Newport from Boston.
The secretary OF state has received |
word that peace has been restored in
Samoa; that the kingship was to he |
abolished and a provisional government |
established.
Fourcompanies of the Twenty-fourth |
United States infantry sailed from San
Francisco for Manila on the transport |
Iealandia.
All the possessions of more than 300 |
miners, who existed on less than one |
dollar day, were swept away by n
food at Murray City, o.
During the first six months of the
present year 1,1s1 miles Of new railway
have been built in the United States.
An unknown man and woman while
crossing the Michigan Central tracks 4
at Toledo, o., were struck by Il flyer and
both were killed.
George Weber and Fred Riemaur
broke the half-mile tandem record in
Toledo, o., going in one minute.
\ receiver has been appointed for the
rrang-Taber Art company in Boston,
the liabilities being $4,000.
The total number of deaths from the
tornado in New Richmond, Wis, is 1l2.
The honorary degree of IL. ID. was
conferred by the Georgetown univer-
sity on Rear Admirals Winfield Scott
Schley and George w. Melville and Maj.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler.
The board of regents of Heidelberg
university at Tifiin, o., conferred the
degree of doctor of laws upon Andrew
Carnegie, the iron and steel magnate of
Pittsburgh.
A sneak thief who entered the Met
ropolitan national bank in Boston and
stole $4,000, while the paying tcller's
attention was drawn away for IA mo-
ment, was captured with the money in
New York
A drought has destroyed all the large |
Colorado ranges.
The old town of Garlic, Tex, was
washed away by flood. not n vestige |
a.. Al l..
ton of about 200 Mcxicans, remaining. |