The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-02-24
Henry C. Frick began suit in Pitts

burgh against the Carnegie Steel COM
pany for $16.2G0,o0o. lie said the cor
poration made $21 100000 IN 1899 and
was worth $500,oOO,000
Heavy rainfall in New England caused
factories TO shut down, threw many per-
sons out OF work and did great damage.
The baled grass storehouse of the
Minnesota Grass Irvine company was
burned in ST. Paul, the loss being
100000.
Mrs. Rosana Roberts, a widow, aged
&c, her son, G. T, Roberts, bachelor,
aged 50, and Miss Jennie Roberts, n
daughter, aged 81, were murdered at
their home near jacksonville, Fla, by
burglars.
The national antitrust conference
ut its closing session in Chicago elect
cd ". i. Lockwood, of Pennsylvania,
president.
Trinity Methodist church was burned
in Chicago, with loss of 100000
The Salvation Army celebrated in
New York the twentieth anniversary
of its establishment in the United
States.
The state odd fellows home, stu
ated a mile south of Liberty, Mo-, was
destroyed by fire.
Three men were drowned and $780,
600 damage done to property along
the Hudson river front in Albany,
y. Y. ~"
Floods along the Mcrrimac and Con-
nccticut rivers in New England have
caused immense damage.
The Chicago post Office handled $780,
900 valentines, the greatest number
in its record.
Charles L. Macrum, former Ameri-
can consul in Pretoria, says he re-
signed because Hay left him Gin posi-
ton of British consul and not an
American consul" and that British
officials examined and delayed his cor
espondenccD
The coal barges Blossom and Alice
Tryon foundcrcd Off Port Chester, n.
y, and six lives were lost.
The steel sheet mills of the country
were combined at n meeting in Pitts
burgh with a capital of So, 100000.
The annual report of the Maine de-
partment of the q. A. Il. shows the
deaths of 23i members in the past
year
Tom Sharkey has accepted Bob Iitz7
simmons challenge and will fight the
eX-champion as soon rs possible.
Holding that the federal court had no
jurisdiction in the contests in Ken
To
fused TO grant the application for in
functions against the state board of
elections and the democratic contest
ants for state offices other than COVER
nor and lieutenant governor.
The anticipated big rush to the Cape
Nome gold fields in Alaska has started.
The industrial department of the
Iowa state hospital for the insane was
burned ut Mount Pleasant.
The eighticth birthday of Miss Susan
Il. Anthony was honorcd by the dele
gates attending the National American
Women's Suffrage association inWash-
inCton.
Miners in the Springfield CID con-
vcntion decided to put negroes on an
equal footing with white workmen.
The fight between James j. JEFF
fries and James j. Corbctt will take
place May II at Concy Island.
Thomas Brennan was hanged at
Pa, for the murder of IIar-
ry Elliott.
EX.Corsul Macrum's report that his
official mail in Durham was tempered
with by British officials is discredited
by the state department in Washing
ton.
George Weeks (colorcD was hanged
in Philadelphia for the murder of Alice
White (also colorcd).
There is no change in the political
in Kentucky.
The second anniversary of the de-
struction Of the United State battle
ship Maine was observed in Havana.