The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-02-03

voted to eulogies upon the life and
public services of the late Vice Presi-
deSj Hobart, The conference report
upon the census bill was adopted, the
Indian appropriation bill was report
ed and joint resolution was intro
duced providing for an amendment to
the constitution giving congress the
power to create corporations for the
purpose of commerce between the
states
On the 27th the United States senate
was not in session. In the house joint
resolution setting apart 100000 of the
appropriation made for the support of
the regular and volunteer army for
the current year for the construction
of military hospital at Fort Leaven-
worth. Kan, was introduced. Eulogies
were delivered upon the late Samuel
L, Baird, Il representative from Louisi-
ana.
Fred Lind, Victor Frederickson and
Walter Grazesky were killed in a mine
near Hurley, Wis.
Six American prospectors were shot
in the Bacatello mountains in Mexico
~
ness toward 1aqui Indians.
Indiana republicans have changed
the date Of their state convention to
April %.
DR.. Edwin Klebs. of Chicago, urges
that the United States establish serum
stations to prepare for an invasion of
the Asatic plague.
Illinois coal miners may inaugurate
n general strike involving 100000 men.
Thomas Reynolds, who escaped from
the penitentiary at Canon City, Col,
after numbering Night Capt. w. G.
Rooney, was captureda at Florence, taken
back to Canon City and lynched by
mob.
Mrs. Maria McLain and Mrs. Polly
Gabriel were killed by passenger train
ut Evanston, Ill.
\ Manila dispatch says that Gen.
Kobbe defeated 600 Filipinos in the
province of Albay and occupied the
towns of Sorsogon, Donsol and Bulan.
Kate ClaXton, the actress, filed Il pc
tition in bankruptcy in New York with
liabilities of $l0.730 and no assets.
Reports from many parts of the Unit
ed States show that fight against
smallpox is going on in almost every To-
cality.
Maj. Gen. Brooke will succeed Maj.
Gen. Merritt in command at New York
CT the department of the east.
Cen Buffers announcement of the
abandonment of Spon kop has de-
pressed the British public. 1t is feared
he has met with a more serious repulse
than has been made known to the
public. London papers consider the
situation in South Africa very grave
and urge the sending of more troops.
Seven days of fighting have left the
main Eoer positions intact and Gen
Buffers army FOG weaker.
Official announcement is made OF the
death Of Emperor Kuang-Hsu, of
China.
Charles Bartruff, a tanner. murdered
his wife. fiveyear-old son and infant
daughter in Cincinnati and then at
tempted suicide by burning himself,
but failed.
All cigar stores, groceries, bakeries
and most drug stores in Baltimore
were closed on Sunday.
Tom Queenan. well-known young
man. killed HRS wife and himself mt
Oklahoma City, o. 7. Business re-
verses were the cause.
Fire nearly wiped out the town of
Ramsey, I'll.
Philip ID. Armour. Jr., son Of +. ID.
Armour. the well-known Chicago cap
italst, died at Montecito, Cal, after
brief Illness. aged 81 years.
In running fight in Quincy. H.,
police officers killed two expert safe
blowers and fatally wounded another.
Charles Giles Foster. one of the old
est newspaper men in the west, died
in Chicago at the age of 20 years.
Rev. Richard IIaney, the oldest ac-
tive Methodist minister in the world,
died at Altoona, H., aged IS years.
William McNabb. the smallest man
in Illinois, died at McLeansboro OF
pneumonia, aged 40 years lie was 80
inches tall and weighed about rs
pounds.
A special election will be held in
Utah April 2 to elect n congressman
III place VI bTlSHdll II. hopeTiS'
The II. u. Fargo company's bank at
Deerfield. Wis, was entered by bur
glars, who secured $500.
Gen. Butler reports the retreat OF
the British forces across the Tugela
river. This is regarded in London as
the most serious defeat in the cam
paign in which they have found al
most nothing but defeat. The Beers
say that the British lost 1900 killed at
Spon kop. The London Times says
"the catastrophe is almost without
precedent in our military history, and,
indeed, without parallel except the
G Irrender of Yorktown"