The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-12-13

Lake Superior, In Whlch their snip was
battered to pieces on the rocks above
the 500.
The entire membership of the anthra-
cite coal strike commission is in Scran-
ton ready to resume hearings.
The government monthly crop re-
port shows winter wheat condition
promising and the crop making rapid
growth.
The bank at Bridger, Mont, was en-
tered by three masked men and robbed
Of So 500.
It has been decided that the America
cup race shall be sailed beginning Au-
gust 20, 1908, and continuing on al
ternate days until concluded.
Shamrock, bred by the Iowa Agricul-
tural college, is declared grand cham
pion steer at the live stock show in
Chicago.
President Roosevelt's message to
congress urges legislation for regula-
ton of trusts, warns against radical
tariff changes as menace to prosperity,
urges the appointment of an expert
commission, Endorses the reciprocity
plan of securing reduction of duties,
and recommends removal of tariff from
anthracite coal.
Caleb Powers, convicted in the
Goebel murder conspiracy in Kentucky
and sentenced to life Imprisonment,
has been granted new trial. /
Secretary Shaw in his annual report
says the revenues Of the government
- ha
ended June 80, 1902, were $6s4, 326,2s0
and the expenditures $500, OBS, 904, leav-
ing n surplus of SOL 1887, 375.
Bernard N. Baker, of New York,
former head of the Atlantic Transport
company, will distribute 100000
among former employees as reward for
faithful service.
Fireman Frank Elliott and Express
Messenger Richard Helm were killed
and nine other men injured in rail-
way collision at Sunbright, Tenn.
Twelve workmen were killed and
over 40 hurt at San Francisco by an oil
tank explosion on the steamer Prog
| ress.
The anthracite strike arbitration
committee resumed hearings at Scran-
| ton, Pa.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson in
| his annual report says remedies for
pear blight and bitter rot in apples
have been found; that experiments
with tea prove the crop will succeed
| here, and that the capital invested in
agriculture in the United States is
about $4,000, Ooo, 900, or four times the
amount invested in manufactures.
| President King, of Oberlin co., col
lege, announced a donation of $50, 900
to the university.
| Through navigation from. the lakes
to the ocean is practically closed.
Thomas Il. Reed is seriously i'll in
Washington with appendicitis.
In fire that partially destroyed
the Lincoln hotel in Chicago IA men
lost their lives. The victims were
mostly non-residents of Chicago.
The United States navy has begun
q war game in the Caribbean sea.
Senate leaders have decided that
the United States should not con-
struct the Panama canal under the
French company's concession and
favor a treaty with Colombia.
A girl aged six years and an infant
| of two months, children of Mrs. Aims
ley Bowers, of Saginaw, Mich, were
burned to death while their mother
was absent from the house.
Thomas Thornton, receiver for the
defunct Lemars national bank of Le-
mars, Ia, has filed his final report,
showing that creditors get 60 cents on
the dollar.
The Pickering Manufacturing COM
pany of Lowell, Mass, maker of knit
ted cotton underwear, announces its
failure. with liabilities over $500, 900.
The three men who are supposed to
have robbed the bank at Bridger,
Mont, and escaped with $3,73s, were
captured after wild ride of 300 miles.
Alfred f. Buck, United States minis
ter to japan, died suddenly while at
tending the imperial duck shoot in the
suburbs of Toxic.
| Wayne MacVeagh is again the mover
in plan to settle the coal strike issues
independent Of the commission
The president has received assur-
ances from former opponents of Cuban
reciprocity in the senate that they will
support the ratification of treaty at
the present session.
A well-known New York fnancier
says that Of $4,000, 900 silver dollars
now in circulation it is likely that not
less than 10000, 900 are counterfeit.
Assistant Commissioner Richards, of
the general land Office, reports that
| s,109,039 acres of land wese disposed
of by the government during the first
| quarter of the current fiscal year.
The house committee on appropria-
tions has agreed upon the pension ap-
propriating $139, s47, 900, which is 1870
more than for the current year.
Before the anthracite strike commits
sion in Scranton the witnesses were
mostly practical miners, who told
their story of conditions as they now
exist in the Hazelton or middle coal
| fields.
The president has appointed Robert
M. McWade, of Pennsylvania, to be