The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-04-28

| The United States senate on the Goth
discussed the Hawaiian civil govern
ment and the Alaska civil code bills.
In the house the naval appropriation
bill occupied the time.
| The Quay resolution was taken up
in the United States senate on the
21st and Senator Perkins (Cal) spoke
in favor of seating Mr.. Quay as a SEN
ator from Pennsylvania on the APP
pointment of the governor. No action
was taken. In the house the naval
appropriation bill, which provides for
two battleships, three armored cruis-
ers and three protected cruisers, was
passed.
Famine is increasing in India and
100000 people are receiving relief.
Riley Powell (colored) was hanged
at Cairo, H., for the murder of Elmo
Erie in October, 1899.
Fire destroyed ten buildings in the
business portion of Lewiston, Me,
Elmer Harris, II years old, fell
dead in Hamilton, o., at the end of
boxing bout.
| The flood situation in Mississippi
was growing worse. several towns be-
ing under water and a number of lives
| lost.
| Homer Crawford, a negro, was
hanged in Hawkinsville, Ca, for the
murder of Johnson Pate (colore6.
| There were 1874 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Goth, against 1913 the
| h.
spending period of 1899.
Three men were blown to atoms by
| the explosion of dynamite plant at
Kawkawlin, Mich.
At Tazewell, w. Va, John Peters
| (colored), who assaulted Katie Richie,
white girl 16 years of age, was
lynched by mob.
The big cement plant near La Sale,
| ILL.,, was burned; loss $250,000.
Marie Rosalie Dinse jumped from
the Brooklyn bridge into the East
| river, 1928 feet, but will live.
n. L. Michael, eX-vice president OF
| the American national bank of Lima,
o., which was robbed two years ago
| of $4,000, has been indicted for the
| robbery.
The New York democratic state
convention will be held in New York
| city June 5.
The republicans have nominated
| Edwin Wright for congress in the
Fourth Ohio district, Colon Melville in
| the Seventeenth, and John j. Esch in
the Seventh Wisconsin district.
Fire destroyed the town of Edin-
burg. n. d., and two women were
burned to death.lD
Reports from South Africa say that
Mai. Gen. Schalkenburger succeeds
Gen. Joubert as vice president of the
Transvaal and Gen. Botha has been
made commander of the Boer forces.
The Beers in Natal have commenced
guerilla warfare and are compelling
the natives to bear arms. The Beers
| captured two British officers and cor
respondent near Wepener.
Matt PARROT, of Waterloo, ex-lieu-
tenant governor of Iowa, died at
sanitarium in Battle Creek. Mich.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 22d were: Phila-
delphia, 1000; Brooklyn, .667; ST.
Louis. .667; Chicago, 1913; Pittsburgh,
1893; New York, 1913; Boston. .0G0.
Five children of Harvey Jackson
were fatally poisoned near Fairbury,
Neb., by eating wild plant.
John Hugely and Ed Ames (ne-
groes) were lynched by mob at AL
lentown, Pa, for attempted assassina-
ton of white people.
Mrs. Glass killed herself and two
children in Chicago by asphyxiation
Nearly every country in the world
was represented at the opening of the
ecumenical conference on foreign mis-
sions in New York. Ex-President Har-
rison presided and President Mckinley
and Gov. Roosevelt made addresses.
Prairie fires were doing immense
damage in Minnesota and North Da-
kota.
Five hundred people were surrounded
by fierce forest fires in Manitoba and it
was feared the conflagration would re-
suit in awful loss of life.
Charles III. Allen, the new governor Of
Porto Rico, has gone to assume his du-
ties.
AS result OF n weeks nEht1ng
around Manila fully 1000 Filipinos have
been killed or disabled. Americans lost
nine killed and 16 wounded.
Ex-Congressman David G. Colson was
acquitted of murder at Frankfort. Ky.
The plant of the st. Louis Chronicle
was burned, the loss being $4,000.
At Brownville, Neb., Charles Smith
shot and killed his wife and himself.
Domestic trouble was the cause.
The British forces sent to the relief
of Wepener were still 20 miles away
and their advance was slow. Fighting
was reported with Beers along the
line. The present Boer strength is said
to be $4,000 men, $4,000 of whom are in
the Free State, 10000 in the Biggars-
berg district and 10000 at other points.