The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-05-13
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
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The cash balance in the treasury WIS
1854 ,o37,9Si. The total debt less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $l,172,5 7,2O1.
Treasury receipts for April fell $751;
100000 below those for March, while
the expenditures were So, 100000 more
than those for the month previous.
The United States supreme court has
adjourned until Monday, the 18th inst.
More than go persons We're left
homeless by IA fire in the Polish district
in Chicago.
The last move in the negotiations ter
minating the war with Spain occurred
when Secretary Hay paid to the French
ambassador, NJ. Cambon, the $4,000, 900
provided by the treaty of peace for the
cession of the Philippines.
Fire in Sebastopol, Cal, destroyed
Chinatown, consuming about 50
houses. .
The monthly sta<emcnt of the comp
trollcr of the currency shows the total
national bank note circulation on April
90, 1899, to have been $2i2,7lI, 1913, an
Increase for the year of SIS, l01, iSS.
Samuel Powell, umpire in game of
ball at Lowndesboro, Ala, was instant
" killed by Frank Mccoy, one of the
players, because of a decision.
Nearly one-third of Brule county, in
South Dakota, has been burned over
by prairie fires, many buildings lost and
much stock burned
a cyclone cut path quarter of n
mile wide in Cassopolis, Mich, wreck
ing many buildings, and in the vicinity
barns were destroyed and stock killed.
Addison johnson, of Port Chester, y.
y, is the new warden of Sing Sing
prison.
A consolidation of many of the great
steel trusts into one company, with a
capitalization OF 81 ,0OO,OOOO0O, is under
way.
President Mckinley has returned &c
Washington from his trip to Philndel-
phia and New York.
Dewey day" was celebrated through
out the country by exercises commence
rating the victory ut Manila and by the
flying of flags on all school buildings.
\ consolidation of the peanut trade
of the country under the control of a
WIN 81 VI f'i'OV,
COO is about TO be effected.
Gov. Stephens, of Missouri has signed
the bill prohibiting the employment of
nonresidcnts as deputy shcrilfs, deputy
constablcs or as police officers.
The government receipts for the ten
months of the present fiscal year were
si2i,056,014, against S340, o2G,050 for the
same period i'm the last fiscal year. The
expenditures were $533,451 400, which
include the payment of $20,00O,00O to
Spain.
Albert j. Hopkins, of Aurora, repre-
senting the Eighth district of Illinois,
was named by a caucus of republican
congressman in Chicago as the Illinois
candidate for the speakership.
Troops occupy Wardncr, Idaho, and
martial law prevails on account OF riots
caused by striking miners.
Admiral SIMPSONS North Atlantic
squadron returned to New York from
it's cruise in the West Indies.
The Alabama legislature met in spe-
cial session in Montgomery to settle the
question of n constitutional convention.
The circuit court of appeals in st.
Louis says that trusts operating as cor
porations in Missouri cannot collect ac-
counts from their debtors.
The National American Woman's
Suffrage association in session in Grand
Rapids, Mich, reelected Susan B. An
thony president.
President Mckinley has approved
parcels post convention between this
government and Venezuela, to take eff
feet July next.
York has been unusually great this
spring, averaging over 1000 persons
day.
Col. Frederick Funston, of the Twen-
tieth Kansas volunteers, has been made
a brigadier general.
The third annual convention of the
Good Citizenship League of the United
States began in Cincinnati.
james j. Smith, a well-to-do farmer
living near Dernadotte, ILL.,. shot his di-
vorced wife and then killed himself.
jealousy was the cause.
Rear Admiral J.. Stewart, paymaster
general of the navy. has retired and Nay
Inspector II. G. Colby succeeds him.
Pamphlets issued by Edward Atkin-
son, Of Boston, have been barred from
the mails going to the Philippines as
REASONABLE.
Keokuk, chief Of the Sac and Fox In
dians, died in Guthrie, o. T., of small
pox.
G. A. Shinkle's bank at Ellsworth, ILL.,,
was robbed by burglars of 81, 100.
John Cavanaugh, who killed Kid La
velle in prize fight at Pittsburgh. Pa.
has been held for manslaughter by
coroner's jury.
The international Sunday school con-
vcntion at Atlanta, Ca, refused negroes
representation on committees.