The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-07-15

IL is stated at the war department
that almost every officer who served in
the volunteer army during the war with
Spain and who had been honorably
mustered out has again offered his SER
vices to meet the needs of the Philip
pine campaign.
Orders have been issued for the re-
sumption of all idle coke companies
in the country.
The Savings bank of st. Paul, the old
est, savings institution in Minnesota,
closed its doors with deposits of nearly
81 100000.
In trying to stop runaway team
and prevent il from trampiing a mum
Der of children Theodore Weber, pro-
pr ietor of n restaurant in Madison, Wis.
was killed.
Burglars tried to rob the county treas
ury at Medina, o., but were frightened
away after they had blown off the
outer door of the safe.
Maj. Joseph lleatwole, chief commits
sary of Cuba, died in Santiago of yellow
fever. He was a resident of Indiana.
George w. Julian, several times a
congressman and at one time one OF
the most prominent men in national af'
fairs in the west, died at his home in
Iryington, Ind, aged 81 years.
George Coppell, chairman of the re-
organization committee of the Wiscon-
sin Central railway lines, bid in the
system in entirety for $7,300.00o.
Fire and explosion in the residence
at Washington of Capt. Dickins, of the
United States navy, resulted in the
death of Mrs. Dickins.
The volume of business throughout
the country for the first week of july
was 50 per cent. greater than at the
same time last year.
Many plantations i'm Texas are still
under water and hundreds of persons
who had taken refuge on mound three
miles below Sealey are slowly perish
ing for want of food.
John ii. Stallings, los years of age,
died near Seviervil!e, Tenn.
There were 1856 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9TH. against Isl the week
previous and 2il in the corresponding
period Of 1898.
Atornado near Union, Wis. destroyed
many farmhouses. barns and outbuild-
ings and miles of fencing.
Admiral Cervera and the other COM
manders of the Spanish fleet destroyed
in the battle of Santiago, whose conduct
has been the subject of inquiry by spe-
cial court-martial. were acquitted in
Madrid and liberated.
Thirty-eight known dead, $4,000 des-
titute refugees herded into the towns,
10000 to $4,000 square miles of fertile
farming country under water and prop
erty losses exceeding Sc, 600. 000-this is
in brief the story of the food that has
swept down the thousandmile valley of
the Brazos river in Texas during the
last ten days.
A freight train carrying six cars OF
horses was wrecked at Moors. New, and
nearly all the animals were killed.
a warrant was issued in Salt Lake
City for the arrest of President Angus
NJ. Cannon, of the Mormon church,
charging him with polygamy.
The street car strike which has been
weeks led to "A serious rioting and the
city was placed under martial law.
Charles Knauss, aged Is years. shot
and seriously wounded Mrs. Edwin
Deiirenderfer, aged 20 years. ut Allen
town. Pa. because she would not clopc
with him, and then killed himself.
Dick Williams. negro. charged with
of x,.hi
lynched at Almo, Kan, by mob of
white men.
George and Louis Grim, brothers,
aged respectively ten and twelve years,
were drowned at Beloit, Wis, while
swimming.
As result of n strike the 90 largest
cigar factories in Tampa, Fla, insti-
tuted a general lockout and 5000 cigar
makers were idle.
Heavy rain, together with n cloud
burst, completely flooded Lower Ger
mantown, Conn, and 400 residents were
driven from their homes.
An official dispatch from Manila says
that 30 Spanish military prisoners and
IL civilians, who were held by the Fill
pinos, have been released.
The Citizens national bank at Niles,
Mich, was Obliged to close it's doors
owing to run on the bank by depos-
itors..
A carriage containing William M.
Diem and Miss Lizzie Prequesel was
struck by train in Buffalo, n. Y, and
both of the occupants were killed.
Gov. Roosevelt, of New York, went to
Washington for conference with the
president at the latter's solicitation con-
corning the Philippine war.
William Reinhard and his wife and
four boys were killed by the cars at
railway crossing in Columbus, o.
Isaac Thomas, aged 10, killed his
mother and sister at Athens, W. Va,
and was also charged with numbering
his father, who was killed while hunt
Ing few months ago.