The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-06-30
LATEP

Tsin by Chinese troops with modern
artillery is confirmed. Fighting last
ed five days and many on both sides
killed; foreign concessions nearly all
burned and American consulate RACED.
| Admiral Kempff. in a message received
at Washington, asked for more troops
and warships.
L. II. Thompson, judge of the YER
mont supreme court, died at his home
at Irasburg, aged 80 years.
| Mrs. Lois S. Hall, who celebrated her
one hundredth birthday anniversary
on May % last, died at her home in
| Canton, Ill.
| Congressman j. A. T. Hull was re-
nominated by the republicans of the
Seventh Iowa district
| At Eldorado, Kan. Miss Jessie Nor
rison killed Mrs. Olin Castle with a
razor and then fatally wounded her
| self. Jealousy was the cause.
South Dakota farmers. by digging
short cut for the Missouri river al Rem
myers Neck, changed its course.
Lord Roberts has almost accom-
plished his object of cutting apart the
Boer army and preventing intercom-
munication of isolated commands.
Fire in one of the principal business
blocks in Pittsburgh, Pa, caused a loss
of $250,OO0.
| Cars now run regularly in the day
time on all lines and at night on many
in st. Louis.
There were 1877 business failures in
the United States in the seven DAYS
ended on the Esd, against 162 the week
previous and $50 in the corresponding
period of 1899.
| The Worlds Woman's Christian Tenn
perance union opened its annual meet
ing in Edinburgh. Scotland.
| Jasper Francis Cropsey, one of the
oldest American portrait painters, died
at his home in Hastings. n. Y. aged rs.
~ rainstorm in Indiana did great
damage at Fort Wayne. Warsaw, Peru
and other towns in the Wabash valley.
Oliver Dalrymp!e says two-thirds of
the North Dakota wheat crop has been
destroyed by drought.
National republican headquarters
will be opened in New York and Chi
cago about July 90.
John ii. Butler, one of the most
prominent lawyers of Indiana, died in
indianapolis, aged So years.
Lightning struck a church at Gilling-
ham, Wis, while services were in prog
ress and Louis Peckham was killed, the
entire congregation shocked and the
building wrecked.
Rear Admiral Kempff's report of the
repulse at Tientsin of allied forces
prompted the ordering to Taku of Rear
Admiral Remy with the cruiser Brook
llyn. Four Americans were killed and
several wounded AT Tientsin. The en-
press is reported TO have ordered the
determination of all foreigners and this
faction is considered declaration of
war on all the powers.
John Whitehead. a farmer, killed his
lwife and himself near Poseyville, Ind.
No cause is known for the crime.
Charles Milford, crazy man in Ce-
dar Rapids. Ia, killed james Fitzsim-
mons and wounded Mrs. Fitzsimmons
and her daughter, fatally shot Joseph
Drake and then killed himself.
In mine explosion at Champion,
Mich, four men were killed.
The American Derby at the Wash
ington Park race track in Chicago was
won by Sidney Lucas, twenty to one
outsider. in 2:40K.
The residence of Mrs. Collier at
Thatcher, A. T.. was burned and five
small children persisted in the flames.
Maj. Schaefer. a retired army officer.
committed suicide in the cemetery at
New Prague. MINI.
Trains collided on the Chicago e.
Northwestern road at Depere, Wis,
and six persons were killed and SO in
ljured.
a transport left Cuba with 1875 teach
Iers TO attend the summer course at
Harvard university.
The Beers made bold dash on Hon
ing spruit and cut Lord Roberts line
OF communication. They were driven
away and the damage was repaired
A mob in Livingston parish, La,
lynched Frank Gilmore, n white man,
for the murder of an aged woman.
An American force of 100 men was
ambushed by Filipinos and driven back
to Tagayan, losing nine men killed
and ~ wounded.
Traffic was resumed on all st. Louis
street railway lines and neither pas
sengers nor crews were molested.
Thirty-five persons were killed i'm a
wreck caused by a washout on the
Southern railroad near McDonough,
Ga.
Five persons were killed and great
damage was done to property by cy-
clone in Beaver county, o. T.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the cath were: Brook
Ign, .660; Philadelphia. .627; Pitts
burgh, .4sl; Boston, 40; Chicago, All;
Cincinnati, .449; st. Louis, .427; New
York, .396.