The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-04-12

Three hundred Chicago police began
compulsory vacation to reduce city
expenses.
II. II. Rand, of Milwaukee, has been
appointed confidential secretary TO
Postmaster General Payne.
Wesley II. Elkins, an Iowa boy, who
murdered his parents on his eleventh
birthday in 1880, has been paroled by
a vote of the senate.
Gov. Heard, of Louisiana, informed
the state department that the British
governments camp for army mules ut
New Orleans is military camp.
Passengers reaching st. Paul after
having been snowbound for four days
tell stories OF mutiny, threatened riot
for food, attempted suicide and in
tense suffering from cold.
Andrew Carnegie will give $250,00O
for library in Havana, Cuba.
The transport Crook arrived at San
Francisco from Manila with GET sol
diers, Of whom 500 belong to the Sew
enth United States infantry.
DR.. Brose S. Horne, former ply sician
at the Michigan City Qnd.) peniten-
tiary, charges that inmates of that in
stitution are treated with shocking
cruelty.
The president has promoted Gen. r.
p. Hughes, Coils. Isaac ID. Derussy, An
drew S. Burt and NJ. v. Sheridan to va
cancies caused by retirements.
A. G. Spalding has resigned the pres
idency of the National Baseball league
and W. G. Temple, of Pittsburg, has
been offered the place.
The public debt statement shows
that the debt decreased s6,s23, 72O dur
ing the month Of March. The cash
balance in the treasury was $327,s56,-
$50. The total debt, less the cash in
the treasury, amounts to 1907, 1882, 1892.
Burlington train No. IS was held up
by four masked men near st. Joseph,
Mo-, but nothing of value was secured.
A bill designed to stamp out an
archy in New York state has been
signed by Gov Odell.
At banquet in San Francisco Gen.
Funston said Filipino rebels murdered
1000 of their own countrymen in two
years.
James Wilson has been convicted at
Ava, Mo-, of numbering Orville Lyons
35 years ago, and sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary.
Della Tansey, of Buffalo, N. Y, COM
mitted suicide by jumping into the
river and being carried over Niagara
falls.
be paid the surgeons who attended
President Mckinley in Buffalo will not
exceed $4,000.
The National League baseball mag
mates have decided to run the league
this season without president.
Witnesses in the Danish island in
quiry in Washington failed to support
the charges of Capt. Christmas or to
show any reprehensible methods in ne
gotiations for the sale.
Opposition in the house to the ship
subsidy bill will prevent considera-
ton during the present session of con-
gress.
Lyman J. Gage has been elected n
director and president Of the United
States Trust company at New York.
Spanish-American war veterans COM
pleted national organization at
Springfield, ILL.,, electing Col. George NJ.
Moulton, of Chicago, commander in
chief.
Fire at Atlantic City, N. j., destroyed
number of summer hotels and adj
joining stores, entailing loss of $780,
600.
Gen. Palma, president-elect of Cuba,
in a speech before the New York cham
Der of commerce appealed to business
men of the United States to urge tariff
cut. He said the welfare of Cuba lies
with the United States.
DR.. Edward Everett Hale was pre-
scented with purse of $4,000 at the
celebration of his eightieth birthday
in Boston.
All antitrust laws of Texas have
been made invalid by decision of the
Texas state court of appeals.