The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-11-11
The public debt statement issued on

The public debt statement issued on
the LIST shows that the debt decreased
S2,276, 10S during the month of October.
The cash balance in the treasury was
Sl,02j, l55,si0. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $1,04G,0lo,o2
The transport City of Puebla arrived
in San Francisco from Manila with
troops. Seven volunteers died on the
voyage.
Gov. Murphy, OF Arizona, says the ter
ritory will ask for admission to state
hood when congress meets.
Slosson won the professional billiard
match with Schaefcr at Madison Square
garden in New York.
Judge John {. Long, of Florida, has
been appointed diplomatic agent and
consul general at Cairo, Egypt.
The state department has been in
formed of the arrival at Reval Russia,
OF the first steamer with American In
dian corn.
The Philippine commission in
preliminary report to the president
says that the natives are not az present
fitted for self-governnent, that inter
necine warfare would result il the
United States should withdraw. and
that there is no course open except to
prosecute the war until the insurgents
are reduced to submission.
John Balm g. Sons livery stable was
destroyed by fire at Boone, Ia, and 25
horses were cremated.
During October more than 20,000,000
pieces of money were coined at the mint
in Philadelphia, representing a total
value Of $3,2G3,5 63.96.
Chief Examiner Server, Of the civil
service commission, in his annual report
says Assoc persons were examined for
entrance TO the government service and
not quite - per cent of the candidates
passed.
Albert Sloss, n negro, was lynched by
a mob near CORTLAND, Ala, for criminal
assault on Mrs w. T.. Bussey.
Burglars robbed the state bank at
Chiffon. Wis, of 50. 500.
The Twentieth Kansas regiment was
given n royal welcome in Topeka and
Gen. Funston was presented with a fine
sword.
Criticism Of his speeches led to the
resignation Of G. d. Heron from the
faculty Of Iowa college at Grinncll
John Ovens three small children were
burned to death AT Rowan, Ia. while
their parents were away.
The schooner CEiquita went ashore
near Miller's Station, Ind, and Capt.
ID. S. Way and three sailors persisted
\. il. Patterson, a railway cmploye,
killed his wife and then took his own
life in Il hotel in Chicago. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
II is said that Il colonial bureau will
be established to take charge of all mat
tcrs pertaining 10 the outlying depend
cncics Of the United States.
The private banking firm of Wood
bury & Moulton NJ Rutland, Me-. made
an assignment with liabilities of $780,
600.
Efforts TO combine all the threshing
machine manufactures in the United
States in one organization have failed.
Levi Il. Doty, n Chicago coal mer-
chant and capitalist, filed a petition in
bankruptcy, with liabilities of $5,OOO,-
600 aud assets of 100000.
The annual report of Rear Admiral
y. s. Crowninshicld, chief of the bureau
of navigation, says that the number OF
men and apprentices in service on June
30 was 1861.
j. O. Russell, an old resident Of Mani
tou Park. Col, was caught in blizzard
and frozen 10 death.
The project for national university
at Washington was discussed in that
city by COLLEGE presidents.