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

demned canned Deer, put SAID That re-
frigerated beef was generally good.
John Rathgeber, u prominent farm
er near Carrollton, H., shot and killed
his wife and then killed himself. Do
nestle trouble was the cause.
DIR. Carroll, the commissioner named
by President Mckinley to report on the
situation in Porto Rico, has completed
tour of the island and says that under
the administration Of Gen. Henry the
conditions are daily improving.
Gov. Powers, of Maine, has called q
special election for June 10 to choose
n successor in congress to the late Mel
son Dingley, Jr.
The post Office department has
shipped TO Porto Rico 100000 United
States stamps with the words porto
Rico" printed on each
Joseph III. Choate, the new ambassa-
dor TO the court of St. James, sailed
from New York on the American liner
st. Paul.
Washington's birthday was generally
observed throughout the country.
Bachelor broke the four-mile racing
record at San Francisco, the time being
7:16h.
President McKinley gave public re-
ccption AT the white house and 5000
visitors were welcomed.
The inhabitants Of the island of Ne
eros, in the Philippines, have submitted
to American rule and voluntarily raised
the stars and stripes.
a corporation composed OF 90 per
cent. of the builders of iron and steel
bridges in America. capitalized for $780,
Ooo, 600 and backed by Andrew Carnegie,
is announced.
Gov. Roosevelt. OF New York, ccle-
brated Washington's birthday by aflix-
irg his signature to the bill TO prevent
improper use of the national flag.
Rev Theodore y. Morrison, ID. D., was
consecrated third bishop Of the diocese
Of Iowa at the Church of the Epiphany
in Chicago. &
The total receipts OF internal revenue
for January last were $50, Sl2,212, a gain
over the same month in 1s0S Of $S,47G,-
aS5.
The Union Pacific overland limited
was wrecked AT Rawlins, Wyo., and sew
eral persons were killed.
Salutes were fired in Havana in honor
of Washington's birthday,
Four survivors of the missing steam
er Bulgaria arrived in Baltimore and re-
ported that undoubtedly Il3 persons
were lost by the laundering Of the YES
sci while en- route from New York for
Bremen.
\ fire destroyed nearly onC-half of
Muscogee, /. r., entailing loss aggre-
eating 100000.
The Lind building, the only big build
ing in the business center that stood
during the great fire in Chicago in 1871,
has been burned, the loss being $225 COO.
William Reid was hanged in Jersey
City, y. j., for the murder of Andrew
Henry in lIoboken on May II, 1895.
An explosion caused by fire at Hart
ford City, Ind, killed Lewis Laforge
and wife and James Bone and William
Lewis.
tits reported that ex-President Cleve-
land will rcentcr national politics. and
will doubtless be n candidate for the
democrats nomination for presidentin
1900.
The United States is feeding five per
cent. of the total population Of Cuba.
Former Commissary General Eagan
testified before the beef inquiry com
mission in Washington that the refrig-
crted beef was good, and Gen. Weston
said that few complaints were based
on facts.
Christian c. Kohlsaat was nominated
by the president as federal judge at
Chicago.
\ warehouse belonging to Swift C
Co. was burned at the stock yards in
Chicago, the loss being 100000, and
Patrick O'Niel, n fireman, was killed by
falling walls.