The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-22
LATER.

senator FORAKER spoke In the united
States senate on the 14th in favor of the
ship subsidy bill and Senators McLau-
rim and Harris opposed it. The Hague
convention relative to the conduct of
war was ratified. In the house the post
Office appropriation bill was passed.
The committee on territories decided
upon an omnibus" bill providing state
hood for Arizona, New Mexica and
Oklahoma.
The ship subsidy bill was further
discussed i'm the United States senate
on the 18th. A bill appropriating
$150,0o0 to establish marine hos
pital at Savannah, Ca, was passed;
also bill providing for the construc-
ton of bridge across the Missouri
river at South Omaha, Neb. In the
house the day was devoted to private
pension bills, 220 being passed, clear
ing the calendar. This is the largest
number of pension bills ever passed
by the house at one session.
The principal business houses of the
town of Winslow, ILL.,, have been de-
stroyed by fire.
Sen" Washington, a negro con-
victed of conspiring to kill the wife of
r. L. Taylor, white man, was hanged
at Mansfield, La.
John Lawson, "the Terrible Swede,"
the well-known bicycle rider, died in a
hospital in Milwaukee of pneumonia.
The old Lincoln farm at Lincoln
City, Ind, is to be sold for taxes. The
mother of Abraham Lincoln is buried
on the property.
A man arrested at San Antonio, Tex,
is charged with having nine wives.
Seymour Swartz, of Chicago, who was
elected from Kenosha (Wis.) hotel
because he is Jew, will sue for SIC, 900
damages.
Field Marshal Wolseley left for
South Africa and the object of his trip
is causing comment in London.
Bankers from every state in the
union met in New York and organized
national money order concern to
compete with the express companies
and the government.
King Edward held the first court of
his reign in the ballroom of Bucking-
ham palace in London.
Eight hundred soldiers were killed
in battle between Colombians and
revolutionists at Aqua Dulce.
Mrs. Conger gave reception in
Picking for nine Chinese princesses,
some of whom had never seen for
eigner.
Passengers on the Nickel Plate road
had narrow escape at Knox, Ind,
from a collision and fire which de-
stroyed the train and seriously injured
six trainmen.
Rupert Fritz, who supplied the lunch
con at the launching of the Meteor, the
emperor's yacht, was ruined by the
theft of silver as souvenirs.
Dun's review of trade says the Bos-
ton strike retarded trade in Massachu-
sets, but the rest of the country is
prosperous. Enormous orders for
spring goods in every line are being
placed.
Republicans of the Seventh Indiana
district have renominated Jesse Over
street for fifth term in congress.
julius Conitz, private banker at
Wanatah, Ind, filed petition in
with liabilities of $45,-
600.
A cyclone wrecked 40 houses at
Piper, Ala, killing one man.
Denbigh hall, dormitory at Bryn
Mawr (Pa.) college, was destroyed by
fire, the loss being $150,000.
North Dakota and the Canadian
has experienced the worst
in many years and railroad
traffic is practically paralyzed.
David II. Rose has been renominated
for mayor of Milwaukee,
Martin Welker,member of the Thir-
ty-ninth, Fortieth,and Forty-frst con-
crosses, and once lieutenant governor
Of Ohio, died in Wooster, aged SO years.
Fire destroyed nearly half the town
of Campbell, Neb.
Russia is declared to be preparing
for war by forwarding troops and sup
plies TO the far east.
The body OF ex-Gov. John p. Altgeld
has been committed to the grave at
cemetery, Chicago.
The president has nominated Capt.
Aren't Schuyler Crowninshield to be
rear admiral.
The Dominion Coal company's steam
err Tiber was wrecked off White Point
Lodges, N. s., and 20 of the crew were
drowned.
John Chadwick's stables at Con-
cord, N. H., were burned and IL valu-
able horses were cremated.
A man who registered at a hotel
in Niagara Falls as p. JIO'Connell, of
South Bend. Ind. jumped into the
river and was carried over the falls.
Gov. Savage has named April 20 as
Arbor day in Nebraska.
The position of commissioner gen.
eral of immigration has been rendered
BY the president to Frank p. Sargent.
chief of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
live Piremen.