The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-05-06
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Col. Arguelles and Lieut.. Bernal
members of insurgent Gen. Luna's sta II,
arrived ut Manila and consulted with
Gen. Otis regarding peace negotiations.
Gen. Otis informed them that uncondi.
lional surrender was the only terms for
peace; that they would he allowed per.
feet amnesty, and that there would be
no punishment for acts already com.
mitted. The truce bearers asked for
time to communicate with their chief
for further instructions.
Fire destroyed j. j. Welden's grocery
and the Novelty candy works in Pitts
burgh, Pa. Total loss. 100000.
Six inches of snow fell in the Black
Hills in South Dakota.
The Second Illinois regiment,
| hronzcd and weatherbeaten after long
service in Cuba, arrived in Chicago.
| A statement prepared at the war de-
partment shows that 1913 of our men
were killed in the Philippines from Feb
ruary to April rs, and LII wounded;
| total, 1909.
The hospital building of the Iowa
asylum for the feeble-minded at Glen
wood was totally destroyed by fire.
| The Filipinos at Baler say they have
the men of the gunboat Yorktown who
are missing and are holding them as
prisoners.
Henry +. Sloane, the well-known and
wealthy society man. was granted di-
| lie fa A in
New York, and on the same day Mrs.
Sloane was married TO Perry Belmont.
The business portion of St. Francis,
Kan, county seat of Cheyenne county,
was destroyed by fire.
-Four families were annihilated by a
cyclone at Milan, Mo-, and great dam
age was inflicted on property.
Thomas Robinson (colored) was
hanged in Hillsboro, Tex, for having
assaulted Mary Adams, a white woman.
President Mckinley sent dispatch
to Gen. Otis conveying to officers and
men heartfelt congratulate and graf
itude for their signal gallantry and tri-
umph
The jury at Canton, o., acquitted Mrs.
Anna George of the murder of George
d. Saxton. brother of Mrs. Mckinley.
The funeral of eN-Gov. Richard j.
Oglesby took place at his home near
Elkhart, H., and was largely attended
by prominent persons from many
places.
| As a result of the tornado that swept
through the eastern portion of Kinks
vile, Mo-, demolishing half of the resi-
dences and other buildings, more than
SO dead bodies and 20 injured persons
have been recovered from the ruins.
Manila advices say that while il is the
general expectation that the Filipino
cmissares will return with revised pro-
posals from Gen. Luna, Maj. Gen. Otis
is not letting this prospect interfere
with his preparations for pushing the
war.
| Willie Sees, a negro aged so, was taken
from the Jail AT Osceola, Ark, by mol
and hanged for barn burning.
Brig. Gen. George W. Davis has been
assigned to the department of Porto
Rico, with headquarters at San Juan.
He relieves Maj Gen. Guy V. Henry.
who retires on account of i'll health.
Houses were wrecked and other dam
age was done by tornado at Avoca,
Ia, and vicinity.
The report of the court of inquiry
which Investigated Gen. Miles charges
regarding army meat is now in the
hands of the president.
Fire in Krupp's Germania dock yard
in Eiel, Prussia, caused loss of $780,.
coo.
Three persons were killed, over q
dozen severely injured and 80 less seri'
lously hurt in n wreck on the Rochester
I& Lake Ontario railroad near Roches.
ter, n. Y.
Brig. Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, L. S.
w., arrived in San Francisco from Ma
Mia. His home is in Los Angeles.
One of the press mills of the Dupont
smokeless powder works at Carney's
Point, n. j., blew up and killed six
men.
Andrew j. Miller. aged So, vice presi
dent of the Bank of Golden, ILL.,, which
failed March /, 1899, committed suicide.
Many towns in Indiana, Illinois and
Kentucky felt earthquake shocks, and
in nearly every case the vibrations were
severe TO stop clocks, shake
down chimncys, crack walls and dis
turb dishes and light objects.
John Weber, aged 60 years, an engi-
ncer. shot and killed his wife and him
self at Peterboro, Ont.
The III. &. Frick Coke company in
Pittsburgh, Pa, which employs $4,000 |
men, has advanced wages from six to
ts1, per cent.
Sixty-two miners were killed by the
flooding of the Ktschnar gold mine in
Poland.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 3Oth ult. were: St. Louis,
SIS; Philadelphia, .7i4; Chicago. 600;
$685. Boston, .52S; Brook
Ign. .53s; Baltimore, .53s; Louisville,
500; New York, 1893; Washington, .30S;
200; Cleveland, .125.