The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-06-09

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Seventy-nine private pension bills
were passed in the Cnited States senate
on the LIST and also the military acad-
envy appropriation bill, which carries
amendments making Gen. Miles and all
future commanders of the army lieu
tenant generals and Gen. Corbin ma
jor general. In the house the joint res
olution proposing n constitutional
amendment empowering congress 10
regulate trusts was defeated.
The United States senate on the I'd
passed the river and harbor bill and a
bill providing for the extradition Of
persons committing crimes in Cuba.
Secretary of War Root reported that
the casualties in the Philippines from
July 81, lS9S TO May 24. 1900, were:
Deaths. regulars. SO officers and 920
men: volunteers, Al officers and ssh
men. In the house an antitrust bill.
designed to broaden the powers con-
ferred by the Sherman act of 1890 was
lpassed.
During the last II months of the
fiscal year the government receipts eN-
ceeded the expenditures by S63,335.ooo.
The United States transport Sher-
man sailed from San Francisco for
Manila heavily laden with commissary
supplies
The Building Trades council in Kan
sas City Mo-, ordered 5000 men to go
on strike.
Rev. John c. Lowrie. ID. D., one of
the foremost missionary workers in
the Presbyterian church, died at
East Orange. y. j., aged % years.
Wharton Barker. of Philadelphia,
has formally accepted the nomination
by the populist party for presideni.
An explosion on the steamer Holi-
var at Key West. Fla. killed Chief En-
gineer John Thompson, Pablo Zeal,
fireman, and Willie Hancock, a boy.
The total coinage at the minis Of
the United States during May amount
ed TO Sll,5C0GC3.
The savings bank at Sheldahl, Ia,
was blown up by four robbers, who
secured $lCG0 and escaped,
At the opening of the CHILEAN con-
grcssSthc president said Chill was at
peace with all the world.
Seven persons thus far have been
killed in Tie street railway riots inst.
Louis.
The public debt statement issued on
the lst shows that the debt decreased
S2.l9s,@74 during the month of May.
The cash balance in the treasury was
S29j.7s3.:29. The total debt. less the
cash balance in the treasury. amounts
to Sl.l@2 .6Gs.St1.
The rational bank note circulation
increased Sl5.OCo.CGO in May.
| Lord Roberts has not vet entered
| Pretoria ut last accounts. but il is be-
levcd in London that he will advance
to the Transvaal capital without OPP
position. Kruger is reported collect
ing forces and provisions for a long
siege in the Leydenburg district. The
Beers have reentercd the northeast
ern part Of the Orange Free State and
were engaged near Ncntersburg and
IIlarrismith.
Refugees from the mission stations
amid the boxer uprisings in China re-
port that several missionaries have
been murdered
In freight train wreck near Ham
ilton O.. Timothy Mahoney. David
Starkry ard Ambrose Smith. trainmen,
and two unknown boys were killed,
John II. TIaldcn and his wife. an aged
Chic1ro coupe. committed suicide by
drinking carho.ic acid because OF pow
lcrty.
In riots In 81. Louis caused Ev the
street railway strike hoy was killed
and Il young woman was striped Of
her clothing and beaten for riding on
n car.
Rohc;t Il. Roosevelt. cf New York.
says the Paris opposition is the
worst faheard fraud ever pcrpctratcd
o. mari;ird.'
Smith Afford wGs iurrcsl ard fcath-
cred n; EridG,tnu. %.J.netcr the death
Of his wife, whon lie is said to have
abused.
The bank Ut Nc~ Lisbon. Wis, owned
hv ". II. II. CASH was robbed of several
thousand dollars Is burglars.
\ NEGRO known ne Dago Pete was
lyuchcG It, Tutwiltr. Miss. BY mob of
negroes for c;iTHina,,y assaulting col
orcd woman.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
wccl; ended on The al were: phila-
dclphia, C16; Brooklyn SIC; st.
Louis. !@l: Pittsburgh. sec: Chicago.
ili: I;cstcn, ii9; New York, .373;
Cincinnati. .2Gi.
Npuiuaido is reported to have been
Killed by Americans under Maj March
ut Ia Cat On May 10.
Messages from Lord Roberts show
unexpected activity of the Eocrs at sew
raj points. President Kruger has left
Pretoria and the scat OF government
las been shifted to LyGenburg. prcgi-
lent Sieyn. Gen. Dewct and the Free
itaiers were again attgrkir~ kroon-
'tad and guerrilla commands were
threatening the British lines northeast
II Bloemfontein.