The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-06-23

The news from China is distinctly
confused, but the general trend indi-
Gates that the gravity of the situa-
tion has in no way diminished. The
Boxers have killed, up to the present,
l,764 Chinese Christians.
Rochester, n. Y, welcomed Gen. Otis
home with a crowd of 100000, with
cannon. a parade and banquet.
Samuel Waters (colored was hanged
at New Madrid. Mo-, for the murder
in April, 1899, of Frank Holmes and
wife. ~
Rose Hudson and Merle Bressler, IL
year-old girls, were drowned while
bathing at Bellewood. Neb.
Because she refused to live with him
Charles r. Myrick shot and killed his
wife at Gilbertsville, n. Y, and then
killed himself.
| McNair & ! leXander. cattlemen at
Ashland. Kan. failed for s542, 900.
The British ship Sierra Nevada was
wrecked near Port Philip, b. c., and 20
of the crew including Capt. Scott, were
Bradstfet/ says actual business
throughout the country is greater than
a year ago.
Admiral Dewey says he is not can
didate for the vice presidency and
would decline the honor were it prof
fered him.
Seven American artists have re-
ceived awards at the Paris exposition.
The St. Louis car strikers agreed to
a plan of settlement on a basis of re-
instatement without reference to their
union.
Turkey is still silent as to the in
demnity claims of the United States.
| Gen. Macabulos, the most important
and last Filipino leader in Tarlac and
Pangasenan. surrendered with eight
officers and 1874 men to the Americans.
Arnold Feldstein, New York bank
rupt. lost $164,254 at roulette.
| Estimates indicate that the census
will show population of 7S,o64, 742, an
increase of 26 per cent; value of man
ufacturcd products, S12,60s, 4O3,06 a
gain of &c per cent; and farm lands,
S17.sG5, 1881 gain of 35 per cent.
The Missouri prohibitionists have
| Illuminated NHdTleS Il. StOhes, OF Mex
leo, for governor.
London has received word of Boer
activity in the Orange River colony
under the leadership of Steyn. The
surrender of Klerksdorp gives the
English a strategic position of i'm
portance. Gen. Botha continues his
retreat to the eastward, keeping the
British at distance.
Anxiety is aroused in Washington
over the silence of Admiral Kempff and
Minister Conger. The Ninth regiment
has been ordered from Manila to China.
The Chinese are said to have killed the
German minister and burned all the le-
cations at Picking.
John Henry Hoffecker, congressman
from Delaware, dropped dead at his
home in Smyrna.
All negotiations for settlement Of
the St. Louis strike are off and labor
officials will fight to win if it takes
five years. Strikers beat several
women for riding on street cars and
one car was blown up.
An order has been issued quarantine
ing the state of California on account
of the alleged bubonic plague.
The large auditorium in Des Moines,
Ia. used for convention hall and only
constructed year ago at cost of
$4,000. was destroyed by fire.
Six thousand Indians are starving on
the Gila reservation in Arizona because
of failure of crops. ~
The elections in Cuba were extremely
peaceable, not a gunshot being fired in
the island. Gen. Rodriguez was elected
mayor of.Havana.
Fire destroyed the business center
and most of the dwelling houses in Mos
COW. y. Y.
Lord Roberts believes the end Of the
war is near and is reducing his forces,
the Natal volunteers having been sent
home. President Steyn says that the
Orange Free State still exists. The
Boer capital has been moved to Atk-
MAR.
Census enumerators found in Leaven-
worth the oldest person in Kansas,
Mrs. Kittie Williams, aged ia years.
As a result of a weeks scouting in the
Philippines 60 Filipinos were killed. 200
were captured, and 300 rifles, with 3d.
600 rounds of ammunition. were sur
rendered. Three Americans were
killed.
Three men were killed and ii persons
were injured by an explosion of pow
Ger in Philadelphia.
Andrew Popp died in Minneapolis,
Mimi, at the age of 100 years month
and ~ days.
The big Union grain elevator in Kan
sas City was burned, the loss being
100000.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 18th were: Phila-
delphia, GA; Brooklyn, .636; Chicago,
.4s9; Boston, .476; Pittsburgh, AGO;
st. Louis. .444; New York, .42o; Gin
cinnati, .395.