The L'Anse sentinel., 1899-06-24
A WEEKS RECORD
all the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News Of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

The municipality of Havana has pre-
scented TO Gen. Maximo Gomez GER
tificate naming him as an adopted son
of the city.
A pitched battle in which ten cars
were demolished and scores of persons,
including many policemen, were injured
ended n day Of rioting in Cleveland, o.,
and the street railway strike was as
suminE more serious aspect with
every hour.
The gross receipts of the 80 largest
post Offices in the United States in May
were $3,5GG,3I3 an increase of $337 $50
over the receipts for May, 1898.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat,
27,GOl 900 bushels; corn. 13 ,236, 900 bush
els; oats, S,S05,CO0 bushels; rye, s92,-
600 bushels barley, 1,2Gi,000 bushels.
james Lowe shot his wife fatally at
Ncillsvillc, Wis, and then shot himself.
Family trouble was the cause.
The receipts Of the Fitzsimmons-Jcf-
fries fight at New York were SOS, 900, Of
which Fitzsimmons gets $4,000, the
club $4,000 and Jcffries $4,000.
For the II months of the present fis
cal year the exports of domestic prod
nets amounted to $GG7 SOS PSI, against
$I47, ,5G5,S07 for the corresponding Pc
riod last year.
Three boys, aged II, 12 and Il, con-
fcssed to robbing the post Office at
Peru. Ill.
Scores of persons were killcd-thc
number may reach into the hundreds
and hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of property destroyed by a cy-
clone that swept across the Mississippi
valley, practically annihilating the vii
lage of New Richmond, Wis, and caus-
ing great property loss also at Hudson,
Wis, and at Hastings, Mimi, and in the
section OF country lying between.
+. o. Kragness, of San Francisco, has
broken the American 200-mile bicycle
road record by making double century
around San Francisco bay in IL hours
and 81 minutes.
\ passenger train on the Rock Island
road jumped the track near Gencseo,
I'LL, and one woman was killed and Is
other persons were injured, two fatally.
Clyde Porter and Calvin S. Hart were
blown to atoms in an explosion in n tor
pedo factory in Marietta, o.
a dispatch received at Washington
announces the safe arrival of the cruiser
Newark at Hocanee island, Chill.
c. A. Larson and his eight-year-old
son were drowned while attempting TO
cross the river at La Crosse, Wis.
-Four small children named Christcn-
sen were drowned in the Platte river
while attempting.t TO rescue one of their
number.
The supreme lodge, Ancient Order of
United Workmen, is in session at In
lianapols.
Over 200 steamfttcrs in Cleveland, o.,
are on a strike for higher wages and
for uniform scale for Cleveland work
men.
Holman Sheffield, n hermit aged 60,
living near Toledo, o., was found dead.
Robbery was evidently the motive of
his murderers.
Two negroes were lynchcd at Dun
melon, Fla, by n mob Of their own color
for shooting colorcd man.
The town of Herman, Neb., was en-
tirely destroyed by tornado. The
town had 500 people and 300 houses.
Not q house was left standing and IL is
estimated that 90 arc killed and 40 or
so badly hurt.
II is now estimated that the loss OF
life in the storm at New Richmond,
Wis, is about 100, while nearly 200
buildings were destroyed and loss
cntailed of over $500,000. The entire
business portion of the city is dcvas-
tatcd. Reports from other points in the
stricken district tell of serious dam
age and many deaths.
Mrs. Maggie Neal, OF Des Moines, Ia,
and farmer named Vossler are dead
and four others are very seriously Ill
from drinking wood alcohol at picnic
near Mingo, Ia.
a plan has been arranged whereby
the American fighting force in the Phil
ippines will be increased to $4,000 men,
all regulars, by the beginning of the
dry season.
Gaylord Sangston Truesdell, an artist
of some distinction, is dead at New
York city, agcd 40 years.
Rudyard Kipling, his father, wife,
son and daughter sailed from New York
for Europe.