The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-09-16
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News Of tho Industrial Iield, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
Mt Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

sixth annual convention in Seattle,
Wash. October 2O-25.
The national convention of the Letter
Carriers association was formally
opened in Scranton, Pa.
Senator Carter, of Montana, in an in
terview in Washington said that in his
opinion the war i'm the Philippines
would be ended by January 1.
At Greentown, Ind, James Ball, la
borer, fatally shot his fathcr-in-law,
Henry Murden, well-known real es-
tate and insurance man, and then killed
himself. Family trouble was the cause.
The central Porto Rican relief COM
mittce in New York has issued another
appeal TO the people of the United
States on behafhof the sufferers from
the hurricane. -
Ten persons were seriously injured by
the running away of u team in Burling-
ton, Wis.
At a meeting of the presidents cab
met President Schurman, of the Philip
pine commission, made a comprehen
siye statement of the situation on the
islands.
Richard Kessee, in Jail at Springfield,
Mo-, under sentence of death for kill
ing Dave Shelby at Marshfeld, commit
ted suicide.
The corn crop of the United States
for 1899 is estimated ut 2,500,000,000
bushels, breaking all previous records.
At Bayonnc, n. j., John Flanagan,
the worlds champion hammer thrower,
made new worlds record, fiinging the
missile 1G4 feet 6 inches.
Consul Bedloe, whose status as our
representative in Canton, China, is in
question, arrived in Washington TO con-
fer with the state department.
The United States and treat Britain
have about concluded modus vvendi
covering the disputed boundary of
Alaska.
worlds professional record for the one
handed 56-pound weight throw, landing
il 80 feet inches.
The first-class battlcship Kcarsargc
was given her builders trial trip at
Newport News, Va, and made n maxi
mum speed Of Ia knots, showing her
10 be the fastest boat in the navy.
The number of yellow fever cases at
Key West, Fla. is increasing steadily.
The doors of the Atchison national
bank of Atchison, Kan, were closed,
with liabilities of $3.50, 163. Bad invest
mcnts caused the suspension.
The twenty-fifth annual convention
of the American Bankers association
commenced in Cleveland, o.
Gold in large quantities has been dis
covered on Lookout mountain at Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
At the Hawthorne race track in Chi
cago Carnero established new worlds
record for one mile and sixteenth, the
time being AS.
The amount of net gold in the United
States treasury on the 5th was $249,-
2i6,254, exceeding all records.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 9Th was: Wheat,
34,76s,000 bushels; corn, 6,73S,0 900 bush
els; oats, 5,0s5,OOO bushels; rye, 52S,-
900 bushels; barley, oi4,O00 bushels.
The steamer Douglas lIoughton, the
largest ship on the lakes, sunk across
the channel OF st. Mary's river at Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich, stopping all paviga-
ton.
Frederick Max Brookhousc was
hanged at Wethersfeld, Conn, for com
plicity in the murder of Daniel n. S.
Lambert in Wilton, December ", 1897.
Advices from Illinois, Iowa. Missouri,
Nebraska and Kentucky tell Of IN
tense heat, the mercury ranging from
96 degrees to 1903 degrees.
The .,,,isar M,rllabnnI Cant CnIb,.
command arrived in San Francisco
from her long cruise of $4,000 miles
from New York around Cape Horn.
BY the capsizing OF the yacht Ahadia
in Sheepscot bay at Bath, Me-, five per-
IONS were drowned.
Forty thousand grand army veterans
passed in review before President Nc
Kinley ut the national encampment in
Philadelphia.
The yacht Buckeye was lost off Am
herstburg, o., with six prominent To-
ledo people aboard.
The business portion of the village of
Hortonville, Wis.,, was burned, Is stores
being destroyed, including the post Of
flee and the bank.
Seven members of scientific pros
pecting company of New York died of
scurvy in Alaska.
President Mckinley and party ar
rived in Washington from the grand
army encampment.
Thirty-t.vo rioters at Darien, Ga, were
convicted and sent to the chain gang
for year.
Fifty persons were injured in n rear
n
Connellsville. Pa.
Extreme heat has done considerable
damage to the corn crop in Nebraska,
Iowa and Missouri.
An open switch caused wreck on
the Erie railroad at Miller's Station,
Pa, in which four men were killed.