The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-04-19
Fire wiped out the business portion

The British camp at Lathrop, Mo-,
has shipped more than $4,000 mules
and horses to South Africa since the
beginning Of the Boer war.
Capt. Samuel Silvey and Fireman
Lee Legg were drowned at Pittsburg
by the capsizing Of q towboat.
Friends of the ship subsidy bill
have abandoned the measure for the
present session of congress.
Roosevelt day was celebrated at
the Charleston exposition, and the
president paid tribute to north and
south in the civil war and pleaded
for Cuba. A sword was given to
Maj. Jenkins.
The Iowa supreme court has re-
versed the life sentence of Mrs. Mary
Hossack, convicted of numbering her
husband at Indianola, and granted
her q new trial.
Mrs. Nancy Austin, who died at
Sparta, Mich, weighed 500 pounds
and is supposed to have been the
largest woman in the state.
Fire destroyed half the business
section of Macarthur, o.
A consolidation of the great hard
ware jobbing interests of the coun-
try, capitalized at $12o, 100000, is re-
ported.
Postal receipts for the three
months ended January last were
$32, 005, 621, the largest quarterly re-
ceipts in the history Of the service.
Maj. Gen. s. B. M. Young has been
assigned to duty as president of the
army war college to be established in
Washington.
Frank Meyers, Dudley Boyd and
James Shaffer were instantly killed
in boiler explosion at Peoria, Ia.
The Maryland legislature will meet
in extra session April 10 to provide
for tax levy.
Snow has fallen at Fairfax, w. Va,
to the depth Of 80 inches.
Lee Gallagher, paying teller OF the
First national bank of st. Joseph,
Mo-, has been arrested on charge
of embezzling $4,000.
Col. E. H. Crowder, U. 8. A., has
begun inquiry in the British camp at
New Orleans, aided by secret service
agents.
Mrs. Shepard R. BUGGY, wife Of the
assistant cashier Of the American ma
tional bank in Everett, Wash, killed
her husband, their four-year-old son
and herself in At Of insanity.
James Wright, a negro criminal,
with party Of friends stood off a sher-
if and posse in SCOTT county, Va, kill
ing five men and wounding two.
Ellen M. Stone, kidnapped missionary,
| reached New York and declared she
was not treated harshly by brigands.
She left at once for her home in Chel-
| sea. Mass.
Fire in the pillow shop Of the South
ern pillow works at Columbus Ca,
caused loss Of 100000.
Robert J. Wynne, Washington CORE
spondent of the New York Press, has
accepted the Office of first assistant
postmaster general.
Western roads have declared boy
colt against steamship lines which re-
fuse to abolish commissions.
Santos-Dumont, the Brazilian aero
maui, has arrived at New York.
Gov. Dole, of Hawaii, arrived in
Washington to confer with the presi-
dent, at the latter'srequest, regarding
conditions in Hawaii.
Thomas BACKYARD, a young farmer
at Dukedom, Tenn, was hanged by q
mob for killing Frank Taylor.
The April government crop report
announces low wheat condition.
The report of the acting governor
of Batangas, presented to the Phil
ippines committee of the senate,
makes serious charges against the
army.
A large section of the business por-
ton of Sycamore, ILL.,, has been de-
stroyed by fire.
Ohio's new tax plan requires pub
tic corporations to pay one per cent.
on gross incomes and private corpo-
rations to pay one-tenth of one per
cent. on capital stock.