The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-07-01

insurgent cause.
LATER.
A dispatch from Manila says that q
desperate battle at San Fernando was
expected any moment. The city, which
was held by Gen. MacArthur's forces,
was practically surrounded by the
largest insurgent army yet modified
and the natives were determined to re-
take their former stronghold at any
cost. Aguinaldo had assumed charge
of operations and was prepared to risk
all in the attempt to recapture the city.
"A party of 20 MeNicans which left
San Ignacio for the mines lost their way
and died of thirst
There were IFS business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 23d, against 1876 the week
previous and 2S5 in the corresponding
period of 1898.
The government of India has adopted
the gold standard.
Cain Stephens, one of the murdcrers
of Marshal Osborne at Chancey, Ca,
last January, was executed at East
man, Ga.
The great street railway strike in
Cleveland. O., is ended.
Acting Secretary Of War Meikleioh
announces that the receipts from all
sources at Philippine ports for the
| month of April were S533,21G.
benjamin PARROT was hanged at
| Hamilton. Ont, for the murder of his
| mother.
Charles Post, Charles Lee and Mike
Griffith were blown to pieces by an
lexplosion of dynamite in mine at
Rossland. Il. c.
Nebraska republicans will hold their
state convention in Omaha on Septem-
Der Il.
Coy. Pingrec. of Michigan. gave out a
public statement To the effect that he
had combined with Secretary Alger in
the interests of Ayers senatorial can
| didacy.
o. II. Hills, clerk of the United
| states circuit court at Omaha. Neb..
died in bath tub of heart disease.
Mrs. Potts, the wife of Levi Potts,
Il day laborcr ut Mechanicsburg, o.,
gave birth to four children, three boys
and n girl. All of them died.
The four daughters of Mrs. T. j..
Lloyd and Miss Childers were drowned
while bathing near Lampasas, Tex.
Thomas j. Semmes, the recognized
lender of the southern bar. died sud-
denly in New Orleans, aged 75 years.
\ passenger train on the Muscatine
division of the burlington, Cedar Rapids
d Northern road was wrecked by a
broken rail near Muscatine, Ia, and
three persons were seriously injured
BY the sinking of the steamer Apal-
ache in the Chipola river near Wewa-
hitchka. Fla, Mrs. S. +. Clark. of Chi
cago; Mrs. Mcknight and her daughter.
of jackson, Tenn, and deck hand
were drowned.
The village of St. Raymond, Ont, was
almost wiped ont by fire.
William o. Pruitt fatally shot Jessie
Porter, a chambermaid employed at the
Palmer house in Chicago. and then
killed himself. jealousy was the cause.
The New York Central Railway com
pany has acquired by lease the Boston
Il Albany line.
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shot NJ. Cunopop and III. Horivitz, pawn
brokers in Marion, Ind. They were
abusing the boy because he refused to
buy n pistol.
The Michigan legislature has adj
journcd sine die.
Henry and William Mann, aged re-
spectively II and 10 years, and Charles
Baker. aged II, were killed by the cars
near Elizabeth City. y. {.
The transport Sheridan sailed from
San Francisco for Manila with 1.O42
armed men and Ga officers.
BY the capsizing of boat in the Vel
lowstone river at Greycliff. Mont, Reno
Sherman. Centralia, H.. j. w. Dicker-
son, Centralia, ILL.,. and w. S. Thompson,
Kansas City, Mo-. were drowned.
The citizens of San Juan, the capital
of Porto Rico, propose to celebrate the
Fourth of July in good American style.
Fire in Laurel, Del, destroyed 7s
including two hotels. bank,
the post Office, nearly all the business
houses and the homes of the most
wealthy residents of the place.
a Russian military survey party of
ten persons were massacred by brig
ands in the province of Kirin, China.
The posse of officers which has been
the trail of the Union Pacific
train robbers for three weeks has given
up the chase and returned to Casper,
Wyo.
Joshua Gray, one of the best-known
inventors in the country, among his
productions being the rubber-topped
lead pencil. died in Boston, aged rs
years.
Acyclone nearly wiped out the village
Of hartley, Neb.
The percentages of the baseball clubs |
N the National league for the week |
ended on the 25th were: Brooklyn,
7d3: Boston, COL; Philadelphia. .625;
'hicago, .593; 81. Louis. .5G7; Baltimore.
sol; Cincinnati. .49i: New York. AIS;
.436; Louisville, .330; Wash
ngton, 800; Cleveland, .1S2.