The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-06-30
ALI 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.


els; oats, 5,s91,ooO bushels; rye, 923,-
900 bushels; barley, TO- 900 bushels.
Fighting Joe" Wheeler has been
named to succeed Brig Gen. Wade in
command of the department of the
lakes at Chicago.
The Commonwealth Mining COM
pany's mill ut Pearce, A.. r., was
burned, the loss being 100000.
Sidney Spears was hanged at Sher-
man, Tex, for the murder of his wife
July 6, 1899.
Thirty thousand republicans turned
out for night parade in Philadelphia.
The end Of the sixth week of the
strike in St. Louis was marked by
boycott, which, at the instgation of
the union leaders, was spreading over
the city.
By reason of age Maj. Gen. Wesley
Merritt, United States army, has been
retired. "...
President Mckinley and members OF
the cabinet now in Washington are very
deeply concerned over the situation in
China, and the former is giving his I'M
divided attention to the subject.
Penniless union men are fiocking TO
the Illinois employment agency in Chi
cago seeking work in lines other than
those Of trades.
Fire in Bloomington, H., caused 49,
100000 damage in the business district.
Many big stores and the courthouse
were burned. ..... .... "..
The entire bushes section of the vii
lage of Middleton, Wis, was wiped out
by fire. ...
Otis Fox, Knox college student, and
Miss Nina Wilcox, young woman
prominent in society at Galesburg, H.,
were killed by being run down by a
train.
The Michigan supreme court has de-
clared the act creating the state tax
commission valid.
The japanese consul in Chicago,
Toshio Fujita, fears that foreigners
now in Picking will be mastered.
Burglars blew the safe in the county
treasurer's Office at St. Clairsville, o.,
and secured $1,000.
Samuel Berry, farmer near
Louise, Ia, was robbed of 81 cattle that
were in his pasture.
In fire at Buffalo, N. Y, Mrs. G. Mi
landa and her three children were
burned to death.
The elevator in the Hotel Walton in
Philadelphia fell seven stories and in
jured five of the passengers, two being
delegates to the republican convention.
Hawaiians have formed an independ-
ent political party and will endeavor to
secure the consent of congress of the
United States to make a state of Ha-
wall.
More rioting occurred in ST. Louis
because of the street railway strike.
Gen. Wood reports that expert ac-
countants have examined the treas
urer's Office in Havana and found it in
good condition.
A boiler in a sawmill near Eden, n.
Y, exploded, killing three men.
At the annual meeting in Dies Moines,
Ia, Of the National Music Teachers as
ISOLATION Arthur L. Manchester, Of
Camden, N. j., was elected president.
Robert Lockhart, OF Covington,
Tenn, and Miss Katherine Cline, of Pa
toka, Ind, were married by long-dis-
tance telephone.
The Kentucky court Of appeals en-
Joined the state board of health from
interfering with physicians Of the os-
teopatbic school in their practice.
At Galena, Kan, City Marshal Mil
ford Parker was instantly killed by
an electric shock from a broken tele-
phone wire.
An incendiary fire destroyed the
Morrison hotel in South Bend, Ind,
and L. C. Smart, of Hudson, Mich,
was killed and five other persons were
seriously injured.
Engineer Richard Ricksacker and
Fireman Moses Livingston were killed
in railway wreck near .rownpoint,
Ind.
Charles Fultz, of Quincy, Ill, has in
vented a new match. Instead of wood
he uses the stems of prairie grass.
The exchanges ut the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
$1,4j5, 365, 7s7, against S1,655 ,695,17 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week Of 1899
was 14.3.
There were 162 business failures in
the United States In the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 206 the
week previous and 1876 in the CORE
spending period of 1899.
At cabinet meeting IL was decided
TO send the Brooklyn and New Orleans
from Manila to Taku. China, with 800
marines, and 5000 soldiers will be sent
81 necessary.
Four gold seekers were murdered
in a mining camp at Norfon's Bay,
Alaska.
Exports for the fiscal year will be
$4,000, 900 greater than ever before.
the increase being chiefly in manu-
features.