The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-09-09
LATER.

the LIST shows that the debt decreased
$I,2S1,116 during the month of August.
The cash balance in the treasury was
$g62, $40, $50. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $157,306,55
All the yellow fever patients ut the
soldiers home at Hampton, Va, are
well.
In Il collision between two river
steamers on the North Sen canal one of
| the vessels sunk and nine persons were
drowned.
President Mckinley and wife arrived
in Washington from Canton, o.
Hiram Cronk died at Ava, \. y, aged
90 years. He was the last surviving
soldier of the war of 1912 and the old
est pensioner.
Government receipts during August
were S4o,97s,175, and expenditures, $40
522,31l. leaving a surplus of Si,i5j,S62.
\ boiler explosion at the Republic
iron works in Pittsburgh, Pa, killed
five men and seriously injured seven
others.
Six hundred lives were lost by the
flooding of "A copper mine at Besshi,
Japan.
| The revolutionists in Santo Domingo
have formed a provisional government
with lIoracio Nasquez as president.
| AneNplosion in Sargent's bowl factory
at Copemish, Mich, killed three men
and four others were fatally injured.
Communication with Key West, Fla,
by the rest of the world has been cut
off on account of yellow fever.
Jim Jeffrics, of California, and Tom
Sharkey, of Ireland, will fight for the
heavyweight championship of the
world at Coney Island, \. y, October %.
There were 131 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the LIST, against 1853 the week
previous and 164 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
President Kruger told u prominent
Bocr in Pretoria that war was practi.
cally certain.
a very dangerous five-dollar counter
felt is in circulation in New Orleans. 1t
is treasury note of 1850, series a."
Thomas B. Reed, former speaker of
the house of representatives, has be-
| come II New OIh lawyer.
Four girls aud one boy, children of
farmers living in Easton, Conn, were
drowned while sea bathing.
4 dispatch from Rennes, France.
says that Col. Du Patty de Clam has
made the most sensational revelation.
eXposing all the crookedness of which
he is guilty i'm the Drevfus case.
| Il 90, hot 4 In hp
most impregnable stronghold of the
bands which have been destroying plan
tations and levying tribute on the peo-
pie of Negros, was taken by the Sixth
infantry. The insurgents made an un-
successful attempt to drive Col. Smiths
command out of Angeles.
The transport Warren sailed from
San Francisco for Manila with l,02l re-
cruits ard eight officers.
Gen. Wood in report to the war de-
lpartment says the Cubans are not fit
for s-government, and that Ameri-
can control must be continued indef-
linitely to bring about needed reforms.
The transport Indiana arrived in
Manila with ten officers and s07 soldiers.
Henry Emdc killed his wife and five
lyear-old daughter in Chicago and then
took his own life. Domestic trouble
Twas the cause.
His Holiness Pope Sophronius, pa
trjarch of all Egypt, died in Alexandria,
aged 1913 years.
Admiral Dewey has notified the navy
department that he will remain at
lGibraltar until the middle of this
month, when he will sail for New York.
The yellow fever has become epidemic
al Key West, Fla.
Gen. Brooke informed the war depart
ment that the Cuban army had been
lpaid. and Of the $4,000. 900 set apart for
that purpose there was 100000 left.
Michael Burns shot and killed his
wife in Brooklyn, y. Y, and then killed
himself. Jealousy was the cause.
Insane from illness, \. Van Guilder. a
carpenter in Salt Lake City, killed his
daughter and boy and then committed
suicide.
Fire at Pihconning. Mich. destroyed
II business houses and % dwellings,
with their contents.
The war department offers reward
of $50 and travel pay not TO exceed $50
10 any civil officer who will deliver to
the military authorities any deserter
from the United States army.
james, Henry and Puss Campbell
tbrothcrs) were suffocated by foul air
In well near Kcnnard. Ky.
| Nicholas Fass. William Holl and Au-
gust Schirck was killed by the cars at
a crossing in Cedar Grove, Wis.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the Sd were: Brooklyn,
.6S4; Boston, .62i; Philadelphia, .613;
Baltimore. $50; ST. Louis. 500; Gin
clnnati. .5i7: Chicago, .5O4; Pittsburgh,
/ 504; Louisville, .452: New York, .435;
Washington, 1851; Cleveland, 1856.