The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-07-05

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all the churches in England on behalf
of the stricken monarch.
LATER.
A joint resolution appropriating
100000 for monument to prison
ship martyrs, to be erected at Fort
Green, Brooklyn, N. Y, was passed in
the United States senate on the 9th.
Conferees were appointed on the
| Philippine bill and resolution was
adopted authorizing the committee
on territories to sit during the recess.
In the house the senate amendments
to the general deficiency appropria-
ton bill were disagreed to and the
bill was sent to conference. A bill
was passed to amend the internal rev.
enue laws so as to place perique to-
bacco on a similar footing with other
tobaccos regarding packages. A ia
vorable report was made on bills re-
funding the duties paid on goods
from Porto Rico and the Philippines
prior to the passage of the tariff
acts.
Senator Teller presented petition
in the United States senate on the 2Sth
from Estes G.. Rathbone, praying for
a full investigation into his perform
ance of duties as director of posts of
Cuba during the occupation of Cuba.
The committee on Pacific islands was
authorized to investigate, during the
recess, the condition of things in Ha-
wall. In the house resolutions were
adopted declaring the seat occupied
by Mr.. Butler, of Missouri, vacant on
the ground that there had been no
valid election. A resolution was adopt
, ed to empower the commissioners of
the District of Columbia to make spe-
cial regulations for the G. A. r. en-
campment in Washington next Sep
TENDER.
At cabinet meeting in Washing
ton it was agreed to issue procla-
nation of amnesty in favor of allcpo-
litical prisoners in the Philippines, to
take effect on the Fourth of July. 1t
includes Aguinaldo and all others like
him.
A joint conference of Michigan min
ers and operators will be held in Sag
inaw July 2 to consider the wage
scale.
Millions of grasshoppers are at
lacking the grain in the Hill river
district near Mcintosh, MINI.
Gov. Nash has appointed Henry L.
Gordon, a well-known attorney of
Cincinnati, lieutenant governor of
Ohio, to succeed Carl n. Nippert, re-
signed.
For the first time in lightweight
lyears regular session of the cabi-
net was held outside of the white
house, owing to repairs.
Frank j. Kerscher, aged 20, and AL
bert Nelly, aged II, were killed in To-
ledo, o., by the cars.
Melvin l.. Youngs, grand lecturer
of the masonic grand lodge of Wis
consin, died after prolonged illness
in Milwaukee. aged 76 years.
The latest bulletin reports the
condition of King Edward as satisfac-
tory in all respects. He has made
substantial improvement, and it is
considered by many conversant with
his condition that the king is practi-
cally out of danger.
Later advices from the recent tor
nado in the south say that Mrs.
Frank Johnson, of Hudson; Mrs.
Bierce, of Violin, and Knud Rye, of
Irene, were killed.
| The isthmian canal bill has been
made a law by the signature Of Presi-
ident Roosevelt.
An excursion train was wrecked
near Colorado Springs, Col, and one
person was killed and 30 were injured,
some probably fatally.
The weather during the month of
June has been the coolest and wet
test in years.
Physicians attending King Edward
!announce that he is practically out of
immediate danger. He sleeps well,
enjoys his food and is constantly
gaining strength.
Four persons were killed and much
damage done to farms in the vicinity
of Chattanooga, Tenn, by storms.
The steamer George Dunbar, from
Cleveland to Alpena with coal cargo,
foundered in Lake Erie and six men
were drowned.
Anthracite operators issued state
ment declaring the mine strike brok-
en- and saying that strikers were
Applying for work faster than they
could be used.
A storm caused three deaths at st.
Wendell, Ind, seriously injured eight
persons and destroyed much prop
lerty.
Treasury figures show an exceed
ingly prosperous year for the nations
finances, the surplus for the fiscal year
amounting to nearly $90,00O,O00.
Henry II. Garfield killed his wife
and himself at Morrison, Ill. Domes-
tic trouble was the cause.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended June so were: Pittsburg,
TIA; Brooklyn, $50; Chicago, SAT;
Boston, 500; Philadelphia, 400; Gin
cinnati. .4o7; New York, .ae4; st.
Louis, $3.50.