The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-06-17
LATER.

LATER.
Four dispatches from Maj Gen. Otis
were received at the war department,
but i'm none of these did he refer to the
military situation, and this fact is taken
to mean that there have been no opera
tons of importance within the hast few
days. -
Peter Miller shot his wife in Warsaw,
Ind, and then cut his own throat.
Jealousy was the cause.
Ii is announced that Gen. Miles has
asked the president to be sent to the
Philippines. No decision has been
reached in the matter. Gen. Miles does
not expect to supersede Gen. Otis.
a fine monument to the memory Of
Frederick Douglass was dedicated in
Rochester, y. y.
Antonio Garcia, a bandit chief, was
taken from the gendarmerie at Hol-
gum, Cuba, by indignant citizens and
hanged.
President Mckinley has named the
commissioners who are to determine
the most feasible and practical route
for n canal across the 1sthmus of Pana-
ma, Admiral Walker being at the head.
a train on the Kansas City, Pitts
burgh d. Gulf railroad was derailed
three miles south of Grandview, No.,
and 40 persons were injured.
The work of erecting the United
States government building on the
grounds of the Paris exposition has
commenced.
United States Consul j. c. McCook at
Dawson City reports to the secretary
of state that the gold output il, Alaska
this year will probably be $4O.O0O0o0.
According to advices received in
Madrid from Manila two-ffths of the
Spanish prisoners in the hands of the
Filipinos are dead, and of the survivors
more than 100 are sick and starving.
James j. Jeffries. of California,
whipped Robert Fitzsimmons in the
eleventh round in prize fight in New
York for the worlds championship.
There were $50 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9th, against las the week
previous and 203 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
| Joseph Povelick fatally shot his
boarding mistress, Mrs. Mary Smoski,
at Lecchburg, Pa. because she de-
manded money for his board, and then
killed himself.
The ninetieth birthday anniversary
of Col. Richard w. Thompson, secretary
of the navy in President Hayes cabinet,
was celebrated in Terre IIaute. Ind. by
a banquet given in his honor by the
Thompson club.
An American force $500 strong. in a
brilliant advance through jungle and
morass. cleared the country from San
Pedro Macati south to Paranaque. be-
tween the bay of Manila and Bay lake,
of insurgents. Fierce fighting marked
| the movement, the United States forces
losing two officers killed and 81 soldiers
wounded. The Filipinos loss was heavy.
William Lynch celebrated his one
hundredth birthday at his home in Ke.
nosha, Wis.
John l.. Mount, n well-to-do farmer
near Scottsburg, Ind, fatally shot his
wife while insane and then killed him
self.
Simon Brooks (colorcd) was lynched
by mob of negroes near Sardis, Miss,
for the murder of negro woman
named Armistead
The II street railway lines in Cleve-
land, o., operated by the Big CONSOLE
dated company, were tied up by strike
of the employees for an increase in
wages.
The Dane County state bank at
IIoughton, Wis. closed its doors with
liabilities of $l73,0OO and assets OF
$a23,OOo.
John Moore, a member of the Saliva
ton Army at Fort Smith, Ark, killed
his wife in fit of jealousy and then
killed himself.
At Canon City, COL, Samuel Roberts
shot and killed his wife and her mother,
Mrs. George Lewis, and then blew out
his own brains. Domestic trouble was
the cause.
A TORNADO did great damage to prop
Malloy and his wife and son and badly
injured five other children.
In the peace conference at The
Hague DIR. Zorn, the German delegate,
presented Germany's objections to the
scheme for n permanent arbitration tri-
bunal.
A cablegram from Manila says that
Capt. Henry Nichols, commander of the
monitor Monadnock, died of sunstroke.
a freight train was wrecked near
Suffolk, Va, and Engineer w. A. Clay
ton, Firemen William Pool and Thomas
Wells were killed.
A tornado that swept over San Pedro
and Alarse, Spain, wrecked $50 houses
and many lives were lost.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the the week
ended on the 18th were: Brooklyn,
.766; Boston, $50; Chicago, .5s3; Bal
timore, SIS; Philadelphia, .5Ts; st.
Louis, .574; Cincinnati, 500; New York,
.457; Pittsburgh, .422; Washington,
.SG2; Louisville, ZOE; Cleveland. .1S6.