The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-06-16

The American missionary conference
at Peking sent telegram to President
mckinley appealing for protection and
stating that chapels everywhere were
being burned and hundreds of native
Christians massacred by the Boxers.
viii Hilliker, of Helena, and Clayton
Schock, of Seattle, two bridegrooms,
were drowned at Tacoma, Wash.
Thousands of acres of wheat were
ruined by hail and. wind and many or
chards stripped of all fruit near Guth-
RE, o. II.
Hailstormsin Kansas destroyed large
areas of wheat.
Gen. Otis while in Chicago said or
ganized resistance of f1iipinos is at an
| END, but ''chaos, absolute anarchy and
ruin" would follow American with
drawal.
| Mobs of St. Louis women denuded,
beat and smeared with green paint
three women patrons of the Transit
car line.
Mrs. Rebecca Lowe, of Georgia, has
been reelected president ofathe General
Federation of Women's Clubs.
Capt. Henry Il. Blake, commanding
the revenue cutter Galveston, died at
Galveston, Tex. He was native of
Brooklyn and was 65 years of age.
Gen. Pho del Pillar, the Filipino lead
er, has been captured near Manila.
Gen. Butler, after slight battle, has
obtained a position which he believes
will render Laing's Mex untenable to
L
An unknown party of three men and
two women were drowned near Ia
coma, Wash, by the sinking of barge.
President Mckinley will remain in
Washington until after the republic
an national convention.
| j. NJ. Anthony, brother of Susan B.
Anthony, dropped dead of heart dis
ease in Fort Scott, Kan.
At Carmel, Ind, Evangelist Johnson
killed Deputy Sheriff Carey and in
turn was shot dead in the fusillade
which followed.
| President McKinleys cabinet has de-
cided to protect Americans in China,
but to avoid an entangling alliance
with other powers.
Admiral Dewey and his wife were
entertained in Detroit.
There were 2O6 business failures in
| the United States in the seven days
ended on the sth, against 100 the week
previous and 159 in the corresponding
period of 1899.
Advices from China say that all the
foreign residents in Picking have been
compelled to take refuge in Legation
street for safety from the mobs. Sew
enty-five native Christians, well-known
men, who had been trained for years
by American missionaries have been
massacred near Tung-Chau.
The boiler in sawmill near Fife
Lake, Mich, exploded, killing three
men and injuring ten others.
The negroes Askew and Ross, be-
leved to have murdered Miss Winter
stein near Biloxi, Miss, were hanged
by mob.
William Korr, banker at Hastings,
Neb.. was swindled out of $4,000 by
the gold brick deception.
The exports at the port of Manila,
Philippine islands, for the first three
| months of 1900 show an increase of So
050,4 43 over the same period of 1899.
Eight men were killed and so over
| come by gas in a mine disaster at
| Glouster, O.
Isaac w. Nicholas, a pioneer ship
builder, died at Cleveland. o., aged SIS
years. He built the first three-masted
| schooner on the lakes.
Simon Adams (colored) was lynched
| by n mob near COLUMBUS. Ca, for at
| tempted assault on two white girls.
The Beers cut Lord Roberts line of
| communications at Roodeval, north of
Kroonstad. in the Orange River Colony.
Unexpected appearance of 1000 burgh-
ers there made the situation serious.
A cyclone east of Charlotte. Mich,
did great damage to farm property
and killed many head of live stock.
BY collision of cars on the Oakland
Beach electric road near Warwick. II. L.,
| four persons were killed and % injured,
three probably fatally.
Unknown thieves stole eight bronze
howitzers from the Chickamauga Ma
tional park.
The thirty-fourth day of the street
car strike in St. Louis was marked
by four men being Killed, one fatally
wounded and half dozen or more in
jured less seriously.
The cities of Guiana, Cumanacoa
and Cariaco. in Venezuela, were near
ly destroyed by an earthquake.
John Rinkard, a produce dealer, aged
IS years. shot and killed his wife and
then shot himself fatally in Marion,
Ind.
DIR. Paul Gibier, founder of the Pas
teur institute of New York city, was
killed in runaway at Suffern, n. Y.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 10th were: Philadelphia,
GAL; Brooklyn, $40; Pittsburgh, .535;
st. Louis, .513; Chicago, 500; Boston,
.444; Cincinnati, 1906; New York, .375.