The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-06-14
DOMESTIC.

N. +. Graves, mining man, shot
and killed his wife and fatally shot
himself ut Salt Lake City. a.
The public debt statement issued on
the Cd shows that the debt decreased
s646, 400 during the month of May. The
cash balance in the treasury was $685.
35o,220. The total debt, less the cash
in the treasury, amounts to 1882, 469,-
573.
The supreme court of the United
States has adjourned to October 10
next.
The United States supreme court, in
an opinion delivered by Chief Justice
Fuller, decided that the national bank
ruptcy law is constitutional.
The May fire loss in the United
States was $13,197,720, against $751;
9s5, 700 in 1901. The loss for 1902 to
date is s72.272.133.
At Rolling Prairie, Wis, William
Strause shot his wife and killed him
self with the same revolver.
The packers attempt to break the
Chicago meat famine started riots
by striking Transfers, in which police
and citizens were hurt and scores ar.
rested.
DR.. s. A. Knopf, in a paper read be-
fore the national conference of chart
ties and corrections at Detroit, insist
ed that tuberculosisi not infectious
and declared that it could be cured
without change of climate.
The earthquake throughout Alaska
was followed by an eruption OF
Mount Blackburn, and dust, powders
and ashes were emitted from the
mountain, which was supposed to
have had no crater.
President Roosevelt at a confer
ence urged senators to unite and ex.
pedite Cuban reciprocity and canal
legislation at this session.
During the month of May the influx
of foreigners at the port of New York
broke all previous records, $500.
Packers broke the Transfers block
ade in Chicago and delivered meat, but
fierce riots ensued, in which several
persons were hurt. An attempt of a
department store to deliver goods also
resulted in an outbreak, the battles
between the mob and police being des-
perate.
John A. and Alexander Davidson,
marble contractors in Chicago, have
filed joint petition in bankruptcy,
scheduling 1891, s3s of liabilities and
$3.50 of assets.
The anthracite miners strike shows
no signs of settlement. Strikers
burned a stockade at Wilkesbarre and
attacked non-union men elsewhere.
Some shafts are being flooded.
A 20-hour train between Chicago and
New York will be put on by the Lake
Shore and Pennsylvania railroads
June IS. Extra fare of eight dollars is
to be charged.
The weekly crop report says that
crops have been checked by the cool
weather and that corn is making slow
growth and has been hurt by frosts in
the lake region.
At Nevada, Mo-, Benjamin Franklin
Birch, aged 20 and very wealthy, mar
ried Miss Emma Jennings, aged II.
Miss Bacon, a teacher at Bristol,
Wis, rescued II pupils stunned by
lightning from burning school, risk.
ing her own life.
A cloudburst near Joliet, ILL.,, flooded
the city, drowned three persons and
caused a property loss of $750,000.
President Roosevelt negatives sug-
gestions that the Filipinos be given
pledge of future independence, cling
ing firmly to the present island policy.
Robert W. De Forest, of New York,
has been elected president Of the Ma
tional Conference of Charities and Cor
rections.
Six railroad magnates are said to
have absolute monopoly of the anthra-
cite coal trade, restricting the output
and regulating prices at will.
Mrs. Belle Smith and her two small
children were burnedto death in their
home at Hardin, Mo. Triple murderis
suspected. -