The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-08-18
LATER.

LATER.
In dispatch to Washington Minister
Conger giveS new evidence of Chinese
duplicity and is told in reply that re-
lief is near. China appoints Ii Hung
Chang as minister plenipotentiary to
arrange terms of peace. In massacre
at Yung-Kung all the native Chris tians
were stoned to death.
George ID. Jackson declined the DEM
ocratic nomination for congress in the
Tenth Michigan district.
The two robbers Of Union Pacific
train near Hugo, Col, were surrounded
on ranch near Goodland, Kan, by Off
GERS and killed.
Baron Russell of Killowen, lord chief
justice of England, died in London,
aged 6s years.
There were 172 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th. against 22s the week
previous and 10 the corresponding pc
Rod of 1899.
The government crop report shows
declines in the condition of nearly all
crops for July.
Gen. Kruger denies that he contem-
plates surrender, apd says the Beers
will continue guerrilla warfare for
years.
Sayers, of Bastrop county, for gov
ernor.
Fire at Atlanta, H., destroyed the
livery barn of John Longnecker and
90 horses were cremated, one valued at
$4,000
Iowa democrats will hold their state
convention in Cedar Rapids on Aug
ust 16.
An express train on the Pennsyl-
vania road was robbed or $4,000 near
Columbus. o., and Charles Lane, the
express messenger, was killed.
In n railway collision at GAINESVILLE,
Wis. Engineer Schlatter and Fireman
Bondrath were killed.
ST. Louis union street car men have
formed a street railway company.
Fifty-two cases of yellow fever were
under treatment at Havana, IS of the
victims being Americans.
viii Wright (colored) was hanged
in Tallahassee, Fla. for the murder
of John Smith (colored) in October,
1897.
Bob Fitzsimmons knocked out Gus
Rubin. of Akron, o., in the sixth
round in fight in New York.
Forty-seven deaths. 131 prostrations
and six persons driven insane by heat
is the record of one week of the hottest
weather Chicago has ever known. The
whole country is in the embrace of the
torrid wave.
Officials in Washington received an
imperial edict appointing Ii Hung
Chang to arrange for peace, but de-
clined to consider the plea until pre-
vious demands are met. France in
formed China that it's minister will
not leave Peking so long as the route
Is unsafe. A belated message from
Minister Conger says he will hold out
till rescued. The massacre of 1000
Christians is reported to have taken
place at Pao-Ting.
Fifteen persons were killed and sew
eral fatally hurt by n train crashing
into an omnibus at Slatington. Pa.
c. Il. II. Terrell. an ex-employe of the
Adams Express company, confessed in
Columbus. O.. To the murder of Mes
senger Lane on Pennsylvania train
and said he committed the robbery so
he could wed.
Several persons were killed and 40
injured by the wrecking Of a train at
Iowa. La.
Nine persons in the vicinity Of New
York met violent deaths in a terrific
storm which put an end to the hot
weather and nine others were injured.
Since March IA there has been gain
of S7O.OO0.OO0 in bank-note circulation.
Samuel NJ. Clark editor of the Gate
City for 30 years and member of the
Fifty-fourth and Fifty-ffth congresses.
died at Keokuk, Ia.
The first session of the Fifty-sixth
congress appropriated s7lO,45o, s6s.ss.
The French torpedo boat France
was sunk in collision during naval
off Cape st. Vincent and so
men were drowned.
Col. Grassa and his Filipino COM
mand surrendered TO an American
force in the vicinity of Tayug.
S. c. Reighard, aged So. killed his
wife. aged 26. in Toledo. o., and then
killed himself. Jealousy was the
cause.
Seattle (Wash.) will have worlds
fair in 1904.
According TO the secretary of agri-
culture there will be dollar wheat this
year and farmers are advised to feed
corn to stock.
Seventy-eight couples were married
at st. Joseph. Mich, breaking all pre-
vious Sunday records.
The percentages OF the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 18TH were: Brook
ly2, .632; Pittsburgh, .544; Philadel-
phia, $40; Chicago, .494; Boston, .4s9;
st. Louis, .447; Cincinnati, ABS; New
York, .410.