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

A delegation presented to President
Mckinley two petitions, one from the
great majority of the organized Prot
estant Christian churches of the world
and the other from the Pan-Presbyte-
rian alliance, asking for international
arbitration as n substitute for war.
Eight business houses were destroyed
and six stores damaged by fire at
Oberlin, o.
i Sixty-three thousand dollars and
Charles A. Beeler, the driver of Wells
Fargo express wagon, were missing at
San Antonio, Tex.
The Keystone Mutual Benefit associ-
alton, incorporated in 1878, made an
assignment at Allentown, Pa.
No professions or open-air assem-
blages of bands of Cuban soldiers will
be allowed in Havana during the first
week in January.
President Mckinley issued procla-
nation regarding the payment of taxes,
customs, etc, in Cuba.
An elevator belonging to the George
c. Bagley company was burned at Min
neapolis with 100000 bushels of wheat,
the loss being over 100000.
Rev. Dr. William Maxwell Blackburn,
president of Huron college at Pierre,
S. d., died at the age of 65 years.
AT Furley, Kan, Thomas Greene
| killed his wife and then shot himself.
Jealousy was the cause.
Cornelius McGanney and ten horses
| were burned TO death in fire which
| destroyed stable in New'York.
A violent gale swept over the Eng
| lish channel and the east coast of Great
Britain, doing immense damage.
Ambassador Romero, of Mexico, died
in Washington from the effects of an
operation for appendicitis.
1t is reported that Capt. Dreyfus, who
for the last three years has been kept
in solitary and close confinement on the
Isle de Diable, is now in Paris under
! disguise.
AtAmbrose, NO., William Barton shot
| and killed two men named Cobb and
Henry Winger in fracas.
Prompt steps are being taken by the
| administration TO assert the supremacy
of the United States in the Philippines
and Maj. Gen. Otis has been designated
as encouragement Of the islands.
The controlling interest of the Chi
cago & Alton railroad has passed to
eastern men.
The official canvass of the vote cast
| for governor at the election in New
York gives Theodore Roosevelt (rep.)
| plurality of 1876 over Augustus Van
Wyck (dem.).
Mrs. Cortlelia Botkin was found
guilty in San Francisco of murder in
the first degree and sentenced to life
| imprisonment for causing the death of
! Mrs. John p. Dunning by sending
box of poisoned candy to her home in
Dover, Del.
Harry Hoffman and Grace Doran
were drowned at New Rochelle, n. Y.
while skating. The boy lost his life in
trying to save the girl.
The letter postage from Canada to
the United States is now two cents per
ounce.
Arsenic placed in coffee by some one
unknown caused the deaths of Frank
Lomack, his wife and five children at
Shelby, Tex.
At Seaside, Ore, Charles Willard,
desperate character, shot and killed
Sheriff j. w. Williams and Deputy La
mers and was himself killed by X. w.
Fulton.
The Merritt & Chapman Wrecking
company's outfit arrived at Santiago de
Cuba to raise the former Spanish
cruiser Reina Mercedes.
The Cubans in Havana postponed
their six days celebration in compli-
ance with the wish of Gen. Brooke, the
military governor.
Over 100 houses at IIankow, China,
fell into the river Han and 1000 per-
sons were drowned
Benjamin II. Willetts, aged %, was
hanged at Wethersfeld. Conn, for the
murder of David S. Lambert on Deem
Der II. 1897.
The steamer Glenavon was wrecked
near Hong-Kong and 20 of the crew
were lost.
There were 1888 failures in the
United States in 1898, involving liabili-
ties of Sal, 137,117, decrease from
1897 In number of 1i.2 per cent. and in
liabilities Of 9.5 per cent.
a lieutenant and 13 men of the
French wnrship Sure were killed in the
New Hebrides by natives. \
Nearly 5000 United States troops
sailed from Charleston. s. c., for Cuba.
Dominique Krathofski was hanged
a: Springfield, Mass. for the murder of
his stepdnughter, Victoria Pinkus, 16
years Of age, on January II, 1897.
Samples of the new 1890 issue of one
dollar silver certificates were shown at
the treasury department in Washing
ton. They are printed from entirely
new designs. rr~
The year of 1898 has been one of the
Most phenomenal In the history of Wall
street, New York. The total business
OF the stock exchange was o1s.o2s, ITO
and the total bank exchanges exceeded
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