The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-01-14

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| A resolution was adopted in the Unit
ed States senate on the 9th calling on
the president fer copies of all instruc
tons given by him TO the commission
ers for negotiating the treaty with
Spain so far as not inconsistent with
the public interests. Senator Catfrey
| Ua.) spoke in opposition to eXpan-
sion. In the house. in committee of
the whole, the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill was taken
up for consideration, and when the APP.
preparation for the civil service was
reached motion to strike it out was
carried by vote of G7 to G1.
A resolution was introduced in the
United States senate on the 18th pro-
viding that the government of the
United States will not attempt to gov
ern. the people of any other conn,ry
without the consent of the people, or
subject them by force to our dominion
against their will. A bill was intro
duced to provide for submarine cable
between the United States and Hawaii,
the Philippines, Japan, China and Aus
tralia.. In the house the time was occu-
pied in the consideration of the eXecu-
tive appropriation bill.
Lord Curzon. Of London, formally as
sumed the viceroyalty of India.
The secretary of war has directed
that the army camp at Knoxville, Tenn,
be broken up, and the troops there will
go to Cuba.
The cabinet at its regular meeting
| gave special consideration to the ad-
ministration of affairs in Cuba.
| There were 243 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9Th, against 25S the week
previous and 322 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
The Lima (O) paper mills were al
most totally destroyed by fire, the loss
being S125,000.
boiler in Hewitt's shipbuilding
yards at Barking, England, burst, and
nine men and one woman were killed
and 40 persons were injured.
Gen. Ludlow has captured the arms
which Spanish sympathizers have been
secreting in Havana.
A severe windstorm swept over Aio-
bile, Ala. and jackson, Miss, blowing
down telegraph lines, wrecking houses
and uprootirg trees.
Albert b. Hilton, u rea. estate broker,
filed a petition in bankruptcy in New
York with liabilities of So, $50 ,907 and
no assets.
| Lionel L. G. Garden has been gaZetted
British consul general for the Island of
Cuba.
| Mrs. F. A. Collins, an actress, known
TO the public as Miss Florence Richie,
tainted while in the bathtub in hotel
in Denver and was drowned.
The Chinese government has decided
not 10 grant the extension of territory
at Shanghai demanded by the French.
Col. San Martin, who was in com
mand of the Spanish garrison at Ponce.
Porto Rico, when the United States
troops landed. and who abandoned the
place without resistance. has been sem
fenced in Madrid to Imprisonment for
life.
Ex-Congrcssman Thomas II. Stock
dale, aged II years, died at his home in
Summit. Miss.
Benjamin +. Fifeld, of Montpelier.
has been appointed by Gov. Smith. of
Vermont, to serve the unexpired term
of the late United States Senator JUS
tin s. Morrill,.
In a railway wreck near Elk Valley,
Tenn, four persons were killed and
others were injured. some fatally.
Through careless handling Of gaso-
line stove in Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Charles
Lucius was fatally burned and her two
| year-old son was suffocated.
| A dispatch from Havana says that all
the Spanish soldiers have now left the
island.
Officials in the custom house at Ma
Mia report that trade in the city has
received great impetus since American
occupation.
| John Bleyins, city treasurer Of Bir-
gen, Pa, was murdered and robbed of
5000.
The American evacuation commits
sion left Havana for home.
Three guests lost their lives in fire
in the Hotel Richlieu at Pittsburgh,
Pa, and five others were badly burned
Four schooners were reported lost
on the New England coast with their
crews of eight men each.
Burglars took $500 in money and
stamps from the post Office at Glencoe,
MINI.
During n storm schoolhouse was
blown down at Boles, Ark, and three
pupils were killed. another was fatally
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jured.
Oliver Acher established a worlds
record at Dayton, o., in the running
double high kick with score of seven
feet three inches.
Aguinaldo issued n most defiant proc
lamation, addressed to his Filipino
brethren, the foreign consuls and 9TH
er foreigners. protesting against the
intrusion" of the Americans in the
Philippines.