The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-03-31
LATER.

The United States senate on the 23d
agreed to send the diplomatic and con
sular bill to conference and passed
the Porto Rico $2,0OO,0O0 appropriation
| bill as amended in confcrcnee>by vote
of 35 to 10. In the house the confer
ence report on the Porto Rican relief
bill was presented, 142 private pension
| bills were passed, and Mr.. Fitzgerald
| (Mass.) offered n resolution directing
the postmaster general to exclude the
book "Sapho" from the mails.
The United States senate on the
gath recommittcd the bill providing
fora civil government for Porto Rico
and accepted a statue of Oliver u.
Morton from the state Of Indiana to
be placed in Statuary hall. In the
house the conference report on the
Porto ltican relief bill was agreed to
and the bill appropriating 10000 for
plans for II Grant memorial to be
erected in Washington was passed.
Secretary Root explained to the cab
met his action in granting permits for
sea mining off Cape Nome.
A mob bcsiogcd all day the Jail at
| Emporia, Va, and was only prevented
from lynching n negro murderer by
| the arrival of state troops.
Capt. Thomas Wilson, the millionaire
vessel owner of Cleveland. o.. and pres
ident of the Centyal national bank of
that city, died in Jerusalem.
The preliminary trial of Caleb Pow
| ers, republican secretary of state,
| charged with having conspired to
bring about the assassination of Will
liam Goebel, begun in Frankfort, Ky
A lone highwayman held up train
| four miles south of Hamburg, Ia, and
robbed the passengers of 5000.
Silver republicans will meet in Kan
sas City, Mo-, July 4, to nominate can
ddates for president and vice presi-
| dent.
Reuben Griggs (coloreD, aged 16
years, was hanged at Cumberland
Court House, Va, for criminal assault
upon girl of seven years.
Burglars fatally beat Mr.. and Mrs
| Adams an aged couple in Kanliakee,
| Ill.
A boiler exploded in sawmill near
Muncie, Ind, killing Lon Won Buskirk,
Thomas Sullivan, Clifford Won BUS
| kirk and Marion Carey.
Louis Rice (colored) was hanged by
| a mob in Ripley, Tenn, because of
testimony he gave in n murder trial.
Nevison Morris and Frank White
| (negrocs) were hanged at Benham,
| Tex, for murder.
Orange Free Staters were preparing
| n r In of Of
which they will fall back to the
Naal river. Col. Plumer admits his
repulse north of Mafekng, and Lord
Methuen appears equally unable to
relieve the besieged town. The Boer
commander, having prevented the
raising of the siege, can now return
to Mafeking and resume operations
there. 1t is reported that Mr.. Steyn
has been deposed from the presidency
of the Free State.
The national bank of Hardy, Neb.,
was robbed by burglars of 10000.
In fire in New York three firemen
William j. Smith, Peter +. Bowen
and Foreman John j. Grady-were
killed.
Walter Cotton (colored) and O'Grady
(white) were lynched by mob at
Emporia, Va, for murder.
The explosion of a boiler in saw
mill near Lancaster, o., killed Louis
Neubaucr, owner, and probably fatal
ly scaded his four sons and his SON
in-law, William Young.
| The Norwegian schooner Triton was
wrecked at Dunkirk, France, and ten
of her crew drowned.
A Manila dispatch says that Pedro
Palermo. who was the head of the Fill
pino national assembly, proposes to
surrender to the Americans. Gen.
Hughes, military commander in the
Island of Panay, says that the Island of
Negros has a model civil government
and that everything is peaceful there.
The situation in Cebu is improving. In
Panay the natives are FESTIVE, and Gen.
Hughes expects that some campaigning
will be necessary.
The National League baseball sea-
son will open April 10.
The bank of Alex Pate at Yelling
ton, ILL.,, was robbed of over $4,000 by
burglars.
queen Nlciolld VIII give DTedhlusl
to 10000 Irish children during her visit
to Ireland.
Mrs Mark Sellars and her baby
were accidentally drowned in well
near Rushville. ILL.,
Advices received in London say that
the Beers have retaken Griquatown
and that British troops have been
sent from Kimberley to drive them
out. 1t was believed that the Beers
would abandon Kroonstad and make
their first stand ut Johannesburg. A
British cavalry column invaded the
Transyaal at its extreme southeastern
corner. The total British losses thus
far, exclusive of the invalids sent
home. are 16,41s in killed, wounded
and missir-.