The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-09-16

Montague w mite, IHe cDlSul SSuSidi
of the South African republic in Lon
don, says that Queen Victoria will not
permit war with the Transvaal.
A storm swept over Wayne county, o.,
causing great loss 70 farmers.
Because he was refused a peddler's
license Henry Fry killed in St. Louis
William c. Pape, general superintend-
ent of parks, and then killed himself.
One man killed and number wound {
ed is the result of a fresh outbreak of
the French Eversole feud at Hazard, Ky.
ST. Nayier's academy and the Sisters
Of Mercy convent was destroyed by fire
at Ottawa, ILL.,, the inmates, 60 sisters
and pupils, escaping in their night
clothes.
The number of yellow fever cases at
Key West. Fla, is above the 100 mark.
Hundreds of fishing boats were
wrecked in a storm in the Gulf of ST.
Lawrence and over dozen lives were
lost.
Six persons were seriously hurt by
the collision of two electric street cars
in Cleveland.
Al the cabinet meeting in Washing
ton Secretary Root reported plans for
| sending Il large force to the Philippines,
as soon as the rainy season should end.
The funeral Of Samuel Merrill, gov
crnor of Iowa from 1865 to 1872, was
| held in Des Moncs.
| Fire destroyed the stove foundry of
Bridgeford d Go. and the Phoenix Can
ming company's works in Louisville,
| Ky, causing loss of $250,000.
| A boat was overturned in the bay at
| Quincy, ILL.,, and two women and one
man were drowned.
| Eduardo Romano has been inaugu-
rated as president of the republic of
| Peru for the term of four years.
| The schooner Gen. Ilardcastle, of Bal
! timore, was wrecked i'm Pamlico sound
and Capt. Todd, his son and the crew of
six men were lost.
| Admiral Dewey inspected in Gibraltar
the United States training ships Sara
toga and Alliance and was loudly
cheered.
| Three miners, Fred Hamilton, Gar
cnce ITardesty and Eliza Powers, lost
their lives in mines near Fairmont, w.
| Va. by a powder explosion.
NJ. II. Roberts, a machnist. while in
sane killed his son in Hannibal, Mo-,
| and then shot himself fatally.
There were 1872 business failures in
| the United States in the seven days
ended on the Sth. against 49, the week
previous and 16I in the corresponding
period of 1898.
Capt. Alfred Dreyfus. accused of high
| treason TO the republic OF France ard
convicted by the court-martial of 1894,
| has been condemned again by the court
martial of 1899 in Rennes to ten years.
| imprisonment.
The annual reunion of the Society of
, the Army of the Cumberland will be
held in Detroit September 1927.
Dispatches from Pretoria represent
President Kruger as prepared to recog-
nize Great Brtain's suzerainty in the
| Transvaa!.
Four masked men held up Il southern
| Pacific train ut Cachise, \. r., blew open
Wells, Fargo d Co.'S through-money
safe and secured probably $4,000.
At Pittsburgh, Pa, Mrs. Mary Gal
lagher, aged 81, poisoned herself and
her three children with laudanum. Mrs.
Gallagherand her four-months-old baby
are dead.
Instructions have been sent to Maj.
Gen. Otis by the war department 10 pro-
vide for The full coope ration of the navy
in the coming campaign in the Philip
| pines.
| The war department reports won
/ in l,af m,
the United States and it's new posses
sions in the last seven months.
a force of $50 Filipinos, with one
cannon, attacked Santa Rita. and stimuli
taneously Guagua and San Antonio
were attacked by bodies of rebels num-
bering about GO men. All the attacks
were repulsed without loss TO the Amer
leans.
\ freight train went through tres
tie near Columbia, s. c.. killing En-
gineer Wcatherly, Fireman Rennick
land two other men.
James u. Eustis, of New York, am
bassador TO France during the second
Cleveland administration and formerly
q United States senator from Louis
lana, died at Newport, Il. l., aged 65
years. ~
The war department issued an order
for the enlistment of two additional
Regiments of volunteer infantry to be
composed of negroes. This will pro-
vide for military force of nearly $1,000
men for service in the Philippines.
The United States cruiser Olympia,
with Admiral Dewey, sailed from Glib
raltar for New York.
| The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week end
ed on the 10th were: Brooklyn, .694;
Philadelphia. .624; Boston. COZ; Balti-
more, 500; st. Louis, .563; Cincinnati,
1863: Chicago. SIG; Pittsburgh, 500;
Louisville, ASS; New York, AIS; Wash
.347; Cleveland. Jas.