The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-07-01
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News Of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News Of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
ut Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

An interesting feature Of the visit of
President Mckinley To Smith college in
Northampton, Mass, was the confer
ring of the degree of Ii. ID. on him.
Iiut one other honorary degree has been
conferred by the college in its history.
DR.. Thomas Osmond Summers, late
major surgeon in charge of the fever
hospital at Santiago and a noted yellow
fever expert, shot himself through the
head in St. Louis while Respondent.
Gen. George VI. Randall has returned
TO Havana from paying the Cuban sol
dicrs. lie says he paid almost $500
men.
~ gang Of masked robbers raided the
receiving Office of the Fairmount Park
Transportation company near Philadel-
phia and stole $4,000.
Three immense forest fires were
sweeping Buckskin mountains in north
ern Arizona and southern Utah.
The funeral of Augustin Daily was
held from st. Patrick's cathedral in
New York. ( \
The Illinois supreme court says that
all students in the state will be required
10 read law three years before making
application to the supreme court for adj
mission to the bar.
Brig. Gen. Leonard Wood military
governor of the province of Santiago,
arrived in New York.
The visible supply Of grain in the
United States on the 10th was: Wheat,
27,023, 900 bushels; corn, 1901 900 bush
els; oats, 1881 900 bushels; rye, slo,-
600 bushels; barley, 100000 bushels.
Julius Grotzkc, aged "a; John Robin
son, aged is, and Minnie Schieflclbcin,
aged II, were drowned near Portage,
Wis, by the upsetting of boat.
John Kennedy was convicted at
Hartvillc, Mo-, of train robbery and
sentenced to II years in prison.
A cyclone swept through Oconto,
Wis. and vicinity, doing great damage.
During a storm n boating party at
Dunbar, Wis, was capsized and six
were drowned, four grown persons and
two children.
President Mckinley participated in
the commencement exercises ut Mount
Iiolyoke college in South IIadley, Mass,
awarding the diplomas to the senior
class, among whom was his niece, Miss
Grace Mckinley, and accepting in a
brief address the degree of doctor Of
civil laws conferred upon him by the
college.
A very severe earthquake shock was
felt ut harrisburg, Va, and vicinity.
Henry Post, New York banker,
fled a petition in bankruptcy with liar
blities of $S,iG4.57j.
a mob of 5000 persons attacked the
1Iolmden avenue car barns of the Cleve-
land CO.. Electric Railway company
and destroyed valuable property.
John Raines and Madison Pratt, each
aged 10 years, fought a duel with pistols
near Pulaski, Va, and both were killed.
A cloudburst at Mansfield, o., and Vi
cinity damaged property to the extent
of 100000.
Dr. {. w. Super has been elected pres
ident of the Ohio university at Athens.
At Johnstown, Pa, the Cambria Steel |
company has advanced the wages of its
$500 employees ten per cent.
1t is announced that Gen. ,Jospeh |
Wheeler has been requested by Secre-
tary Alger to prepare himself to go to
the Philippines.
Daniel Patrick, a negro who assault
ed Miss Bessie Ireland near Scranton,
Miss, was lynched by a mob.
The United States practice vessel
Chesapeake was launched from the
Bath (Me.) iron works yard and chris
tened by Miss Elise Bradford, daughter
of Rear Admiral Bradford.
Ia -, |
Portage, Ont, Charles Adams, Charles
Haas and John Howe were killed.
Maj. Thomas +. Fitzpatrick. superin-
tendent of the national cemetery in
Mound City, ILL.,, was shot and killed
by Michael Tobin, one of the en-
ployes.
The United States cruiser Philade-
phia, Admiral Kautz in command, ar
rived in San Francisco from Apia,
Samoa.
At the annual commencement in
Providence, II. l., of Brown university
Rev. w. II. T. Faunce, of New York, was
installed as president.
AS n result of the settlement of the
coal miners strike % 900 of the 10000
strikers in Missouri, Kansas, Indian ter
ritory and Arkansas will return to work
Mt once.
Charles NJ. Murphy rode a mile on q
bicycle near Babylon, l.. l., in G5 sec
onds, breaking all mile records. He was
paced by railroad locomotive. =
Fred Gruelin, an aged man in Milwau-
kee, Wis.,. quarreled with his young
wife and shot her twice aud then killed
himself. The woman Rat- recover.
An incendiary fire destroyed the bust
ness portion of Livermore Falls. Me.
Loss, 100000. Thirty families lost ev- |
crything.
by an explosion at the United States
Powder company's factory ,
n San Rafael, Cal, Edward Secumbe, 4
John secumbe, James Morrissey and VI.
Hollenbeck were killed. I