The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-05-11
LATER.

| flre at JacKSOnVllle, Fla., destroyed
property valued at SIS, 1000, 900, left 10,-
900 persons homeless and six lives were
lost. Buildings in district 2R miles
long by half mile wide We're de-
lstroyed.
Hickman Rich and wife were instant
~ killed by train at Sullivan, Ind.
President Mckinley reached the cap
ital of Texas in hiscross continent trip
and was welcomed to the state by Gov.
Sayers at Houston.
The Philippine commission has es-
tablished civil government in Manila.
Forty thousand italian emigrants
are booked to sail for the United States
this month.
Mrs. Fenton. wife of former Gov.
and United States Senator Reuben
Fenton, died in jamestown, n. y,
aged rs years.
The tug Tecumseh foundered off
Gore Bay, Ont, and Capt. John Wylie
and two other persons were drowned.
An attempt was made to kill Actress
Ellie Fay in London by sending her an
internal machine.
Fire destroyed 80 buildings in the
Village of Gridley, Ia.
Edwin ii. Conger, minister to China,
and his family were given public
reception by the people of Des
Moines, la.
| Fire at Ewart, Ia, practically de-
|stroyed the entire town, including n
big grain elevator.
The five-year-old daughter of w. b.
Matthews, of Prosser, Wash. lost her
way on the prairie and starved 10
death.
The Standard Oil company has Sc
Icured control of the Mexican Central
and will reorganize the road.
Nearly 100 mothers with their chill
dren were drowned in a ferryboat dis
aster near Katchkarovka, Russia.
Ex-Empress Eugene has presented
Prince Louis Napoleon's cradle to
Paris.
There were 1863 business failures in
1.-THE United States in the seven days
Tended on the Sd. against 215 the
week previous and 204 the correspond
ing period of 1900.
Four chiden persisted in n fire at
| MuSkegOn, Mich.
Emperor William prorogued the
Prussan diet, forcing the resignation
of the minister of finance, together
with other members of the cabinet.
II. q. Dun & CO. report trade in won
derfully healthy condition, labor diff
culties fewer than for several years,
and the demand for merchandise ac-
tive and prices well held.
President Mckinley visited historic
Alamo and Fort Sam Houston among
other points of interest in Texas and
was warmly welcomed everywhere.
Hundreds of Russians were arrest
ed charged with completely in revolu-
tionary conspiracies.
The army in the Philippines will be
reduced TO the smallest possible force
as soon as arrangements can be made.
Manuel Mess, n constable at Heb
ronville. Tex, killed his wife and him
lself. Jealousy was the cause.
Fire swept away % business houses
and their contents at Lufkin, Tex.
The battleship Ohio is TO be launched
at San Francisco on May 49, Mrs. Nc
Kinley will press the button setting
the ship afoat.
The Cuban Washington commission
has arrived in Havana.
Ten thousand persons are homeless
as result of the-Jacksonville (Fla.)
fire, which devastated 14s blocks, over
three-quarters of the city, causing a
property loss of at least $15,OOO,0O0.
The Illinois legislature, after pass
ling senatorial and congressional APP
|portionment bills, adjourned sine die.
In fit of insanity Mrs. Freeman
Randle killed her two-year-old daugh-
ter and herself near Edwardsville, Ill.
Fire destroyed the block owned by
the Southern Rock Island Plow com.
Ipany in Dallas, Tex, the loss being
$500,00O.
Cape Town advices, announce the
capture of Col. Dennison and his
patrol of scouts ny the Beers.
The American cavalry left Picking
for Tientsin, escorted by detachment
of British troops.
In a fire in South Chicago, ILL.,, Mrs.
Josephine Cooley and her two children
and Peter Zook and his wife and two
lchildren were burned to death.
Judge j. J. Healy, of Aberdeen. s. d.,
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
Business of every kind was sus-
pended in Omaha on Sunday by order
of the mayor. The sale of cigars,
drinks and newspapers was pre-
vented.
Saloons in Kansas City. Mo-, were
losed tight Sunday, the first time in
six years.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 5th were: Cincin-
natl, 700; Brooklyn, goo; Pittsburgh,
.545; Philadelphia. 500; Boston, 500;
ISt. Louis. ass; New York, 1915; Chi
Icago, 1857.