The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-03-04
LATER.

| LATER.
The river and harbof bill. with the
! Nicaragua canal bill attached was
passed in the United States senate on
| the 2ith by vote of 80 To ,, and the
| compromise army reorganization bill,
which provides for standing army of
$1,000 men. and gives the president
] power TO enlist $4,000 volunteers when
| neccs sary. was fayorably reported. In
the house the army appropriation bill
was discussed, and Mr.. johnson (rep..
| lnd) violently attacked the policy of
| the administration. Mr.. Grosvcnor (O)
introduced a bill directing that govern
ment publications shall bear the inn
print of the international Topographic
| cal union.
| The bill for increasing the efficiency
! or the army occupied the time in the
| United States senate on the 25th. In
| the house further consideration of the
| army Dppropriation.b bill took up most
| of the time Eulogies upon the late Sen
ator T.. G. Walthall and Representative
| W. +. Love, Of Mississippi, were de-
| liyered.
Fire in Minneapolis destroyed the
| Tribune building and other business
| places, the loss being over $20O,000.
Admiral Dewey sent a dispatch to the
| navy department saying that for politi-
! cal reasons the Oregon should he sent
| TO Manila N once.
Fire at Ripley, o., burned eight bust
| ness houses, including the Reinert ho-
tel.
NJ. Emil Weiti. who was six times
elected president of the Swiss confed-
| Grafton. died in Bern in his seventy
fourth year.
Mrs. Anna T.. George. in Canton. o.,
pleaded not guilty of the murder OF
George ID. Sexton. and her trial was set
for April 4.
Mrs. Mary Stewart, widow of n promi-
ncnt citizen of Mulvanin, Kan. cele-
I brated her one hundred and first birth
| day anniversary with Il dance, in which
she took part.
Gen. Maxine Gomez. the Cuban com
mander in chief. entered Havana. es-
corted by Gen. Ludlow and his staff,
and was received with enthusiasm.
The long-mising steamer Bulgaria, of
the Hamburg American line. almost
given up for lost. arrived at Ponta del
Coda. Azores, with all on board well.
Mrs. Lottie VI. Hughes. on trial at
Mason City. Ia. on a charge of murder
ing her husband with poison, was found
not guilty.
Advices from China say that 100000
Chinese peasants are threatened with
starvation owing to the Yellow river
floods.
Reports from all portions of the coun-
try say that the volume of business is
greater than ever before known.
The transport Scandal, bearing Amer
lean troops, arrived at Manila. Gen.
Otis reports that insurgents who
gained access to outskirts of the city
were routed with loss of 500 killed
and wounded American loss slight.
1t was reported that foreign warships
had landed seamen in Manila to protect
the foreign residents.
The residence of Daniel Eckton at
Walton, Ind, was blown up by natural
gas and seven persons were injured,
three fatally.
Plans are being prepared for a rapid
evacuation of Cuba by the United States
troops.
Advices say that the rebel govern
ment has succeeded the regular Chinese
authority over a vast area of Kuang
Tung and Kingsi provinces.
Col. A.. l.. Couger. for years a member
from Ohio of the republican national
committee. died in Des Moines. la.
Levi Il. Maish, a member from Penn
sylvania of the Fortyfourth, Forty
fifth, Fiftieth and Fifty-frst con-
crosses, died in Washington, aged 62
years.
a cyclone unroofed several houses
and did other damage at Evansville,
Ind.
Gen. Rios, the Spanish military com
mander in the Philippines, says the
Americans will need LOG. 900 men to sup
press the rebellion among the natives.
Texas is passing through an epidemic
of meningitisand the situation is alarm
ing.
William X. Day, of Canton, o.. late Sec
rotary of state, was nominated by Pres
ident Mckinley for United States CIR
cult judge for the Sixth judicial cir
cult, composed oftparts of Ohio, Mich
igan. Kentucky and Tennessee.
Word has been received from Gen.
Otis of the surrender of Cebu, capital of
the island of the same name, to the
United States naval forces.
The North Dakota senate passed
bill providing that all persons must un-
dcrgo physical examination before
license for marriage will be issued.
The bodies of the three victims of the
Arlington flats fire in Chicago-Fred
Marty. his wife and baby-have been
found in the ruins of the building.
Mrs. Mary Miller. of Baker, Ind, died
at the age Of 100 years.
Admiral Cervera stated in the Span
ish cortes. that IL the loss of the Span
ish squadron was crime 1t must be
attributed to the government which
sent him to the Antilles against his will.