The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-02-25

in order 10 put himself in a position 10
defend his action as president of the
Spanish peace commission at Paris.
LATER.
In the United States senate on the
18th the naval personnel bill and a bill
granting pension Of $50 a month to
John NJ Palmer, Of lllonois, were
passed, the private pension calendar
was completed, "A bills being passed,
and a resolution adopted expressing to
the government and people of France
sympathy over the death Of President
Faure. The committee on CONNIE rec
decided to put the Nicaragua canal bill
On the river and harbor bill In the
house the sundry civil appropriation
bill $4,000. 000) was passed. as was
also bin authorizing the president to
appoint five additional cadets at large
to the naval academy. A bill was in
troduced to pay Spain s20,000,O 900, pro-
gided for in the Paris treaty.
Bills were passed in the United States
senate on the 18th to amend the patent
laws so as TO give the right of applying
for patent on the part of an insane
person to his legal guardian, and for the
sale of the surplus lands on the potta-
watomie and Kickapoo Indian reserva-
ton. Kansas. The post Office appropri-
alton bill was discussed and an amends
ment was adopted eXto nding the frank
ing privilege as now fixed by law to the
Hawaiian islands. The house spent
two hours upon the naval appropriation
bill and devoted the remainder of the
session to eulogies upon the life and
public services of the late Representa-
tive Northway, Of Ohio.
The estimate of losses to the cattle
and sheep interests caused by the re-
cent storms in Colorado is 5000. 900.
y dwelling house at French Run. Pa,
belonging to "A woodsman named Carl
son. was burned and four children per-
ished in the flames.
Thirty persons were frozen to death
in West Virginia during the recent cold
snap.
President Mckinley visited the grand
army encampment in Boston, was given
n reception by the state legislature, and
afterward left for Washington.
Receipts from customs at the port
OF Havana, Cuba, in January amounted
TO S7O3, 1888.
The insurgents attacked an American
outpost near the Manila waterworks
and were repulsed. so rebels being
killed. No Americans were killed.
The American Newspaper Publish
ers' association in session in New York
elected as president S. ii. Kaufman,
Of the Washington Star.
Robert Howard (colored) was hanged
in Chicago for participation in the MUIR
der of Frank {. Metcalf on November 9
last.
Three firemen were killed in the
ruins of a burned building in Philadel-
phia.
NJ. Loubet, president of the senate
and former premier. was unanimously
dominated for the presidency of France,
in succession to the late President
Faure.
The court of inquiry to investigate
the allegations of Maj. Gen. Miles in re-
spect to the quality of the beef fur
nished the army met in Washington.
There were IFS business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th. against 217 the week
previous and 265 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
Luther Chaplin. founder Of the senior
order of United American Mechanics,
died in Philadelphia. aged So years.
Albert lIeysler. who murdered his
Me-, committed suicide by taking poi
son.
In railway collision at Foret. Bel
GUM. 80 persons were killed and 100 in
ured.
Agoncillo, the Philippine insurgent
who fed from Washing
ION TO Canada. left Montreal for Lon
Ion.
The transport Sheridan, carrying the
Twelfth infantry. left Brooklyn for
David Bradley president of the David
Bradley Manufacturing company and
the oldest plowmaker in the country,
lied suddenly at his home in Chicago,
Iged IS years.
Fire wiped out the business portion
Of Hunnewell. Kan.
Emile Loubet was elected seventh
president of the French republic by the
rational assembly at Versailles to sue
iced the late Felix Faure.
In n conflict over taxes between the
Russians and Chinese at Talienwan,
china, 300 of the latter were killed.
Charles Miller. of Chicago. won the
'ix-day bicycle race in San Francisco,
,oing 2,102 miles and making new
.ecord.
Mrs. Charles Fuhrenkamp, aged 80,
Ter two children and an unknown
were asphyxiated by gas in a
boarding house.
Miss Sale Potter. said to be the oldest
woman in Illinois, died in Urbana, aged |
O2 years.
Fire which started in the factory of |
he Wisconsin Chair company at Port
Wis, destroyed many
usiness buildings, the total loss being |
YER $4Oc. 900.