The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-05-06

The cnnals OF New York have been
opened for navigation. the earliest open
ing in ii years.
The American National Red Cross So
ciety, through its president, Miss Clara
Barton, has appealed TO the people Of
the United States for assistance in its
relief work in Cuba and the Philippines.
Freddie Limp, aged IA, who in n fit of
anger killed n playmate in Washington.
Ind, has been sent to reformatory un-
III of age.
The United States dispatch boat
Badger with the Samoan commission
ers on board sailed from San Francisco
for Apia.
1t was discovered that counterfeit sill
yer dollars were being made in the state
penitentiary at Canon City, Col.
a prairie fire burned over $4,000 acres
of land near Mitchell, S. d., and Frank
Howard and Allie Smith persisted in the
flames.
Speaker Reed sailed from New York
fer Europe on the steamer New York.
A combine of leo of the largest bicy-
Gle manufacturing plants in the United
States. with capital of sj0,O00,0O0, is
proposed.
There is big oil strike in the fields
at Cambridge, o., and spectators are
rushing in from all over the country.
The thirty-first annual convention OF
the National American Woman Suf-
fragc association began in Grand Rap
ids. Mich.
Alleged bribe-taking is said to lie the
cause Of the suspension of % customs
inspectors in New York city.
High water in the Missouri river at
Rock Island and the Burlington, and
bottom lands opposite Leavenworth,
Kan, were all inundated.
The transport Cook reached New
York, bearing $50 bodies of American
soldiers who died in Cuba and Porto
Rico.
Confederate Decoration day was OBJ
served generally throughout the south
New York capitalists are planning to
combine the principal mineral springs
in Saratoga under enc management.
Work on the harbor at San Pedro,
Cal. commenced when President Nc
Kinley, in his library at the white house,
pressed an electric button.
w. i. Mcdowell, for nine years at the
head OF the University of Denver, has
been elected president of the Colorado
agricultural college.
An equestrian statue of Gen. Grant
was unveiled in Fairmount park, Phil
adelphia, in the presence of Mrs. Grant,
President Mckinley and members of
his cabinet and other distinguished per-
sons.
tornado did great damage in the
vicinity of Onawa, Ia, and five persons
were killed and several other persons
were injured.
The seventy-seventh birthday of Cen
Grant was fttingly celebrated at his
old home in Galena, III.
a cyclone swept away 400 buildings
at Kirksvillc, Mo-, and from the ruins
IS dead bodies were recovered and 9TH
or persons were missing, while over
1000 were injured.
Fifteen persons were killed and great
damage done toproperty by cyclone at
Newtown, Mo.
Mitchell Daniel, n negro, was lynched
by n mob near Leesburg, Ga. for at
tempted assault upon n white woman.
The Missouri legislature has passed
bills prohibiting the formation of trusts
in the state and taxing department
stores from $500 to $500 for each class
of goods, except one, handled by them.
The transport Comal arrived in New
York from Havana with Ga passengers
and $50 discharged soldiers.
The president has issued proclamn-
ton announcing the ratification of the
new cNtradition treaty between the
United States and Mexico.
Rear Admiral Howell has been re-
lieved as senior member of the naval re-
firing board and will he succeeded by
Admiral Schley.
The Lake Village savings bank at
Lakeport, n. H., closed its doors with
liabilities of s230,000.
Gov. Gen. Brooke is considering a de-
cree to prohibit rafiies and lotteries in
Havana.
Nearly the entire village Of Croton,
Mich, was destroyed by fire.