The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-03-05
LATER.

LATER.
| The time in the senate on the 9th
was occupied in discussing the bill re-
quiring the use of American ships Tor
the shipment of government supplies
In the house nearly the entire session
was devoted to the passage of 269 private
pension bills.
William Ratcliff. aged 1902, died near
Mexico. Mo. His first vote was for Old
Hickory, Andrew Jackson.
The Wisconsin state capitol building
at Madison was practically destroyed
by fire with loss estimated at $500, 900;
insurance, $4,000.
The congressional elections, the first
ever conducted entirely under Cuban
auspices, resulted in victory for the re-
publicans.
James Warden, aged 102 years, sup
posed to be the oldest expounder of
Methodism in the world, died in Balti-
more.
| Mrs. Mahala Altman, aged 20 years,
and her daughter, Mrs. Caroline Early,
aged so, were suffocated by gas at Hunt
ington, Ind
The Taunton (Mass) Safe Deposit G
Trust company bank closed its doors
with liabilities OF 100000. -
| Robbers held up train on the Ala
bama Great Southern road near Birm-
ingham and killed two railway mail
clerks.
| At Opelika. Ala, the Shapard bank
closed its doors with liabilities of $780,
900.
Seven hundred Western Union tele-
graph messenger boys went on a strike
in Chicago because of the discharge OF
several of their number
| The battleship Wisconsin broke the
worlds record with 13-inch guns at Ma
Mia, its gunners making nine bull's-eyes
out Of ten shots fired In ten minutes,
Fourteen lives were lost on the Pacific
steamer Queen in a desperate battle with
fire and gale. The waves swamped two
lifeboats and the occupants were
drowned.
Macheh, Diller B. Croft and Lorenz
were sentenced in Washington to two
years Imprisonment and $4,000 fine in
the postal case.
A. w. Pressed, of Huntington, Ind, and
his wife Of three days, killed each other
by agreement in Chicago hotel.
The Japanese have landed q, 900 troops
at Chemulpo and were combining dis
embarkation to that of transports and
supplies. Eight thousand troops were
believed to be marching toward Ping
Yang. Russian soldiers in northern
Corea killed a number of defenseless
| persons.
The senate on the 26th considered Mt
some length the bill requiring the
| use of American ships in carrying gov
eminent supplies. In the house the
naval appropriation bill was passed.
A treaty of arbitration between
France and Spain has been signed.
There were 249 business failures in.
the United States during the seven
days ended on the 2Sth, against 211 the
same week in 1903.
\ ~ dispatch from Madison, Wis, said
the state capitol was on fire and half
of the building was in flames.
President Roosevelt issued procla-
nation putting into effect the Panama
canal treaty, and Publications were
formally exchanged by Secretary Hay
and Minister Bunau-Varilla.
Dun's review of trade says develop
ment of spring business is slow, owing
to cold weather.
Nearly 200 houses were damaged,
some OF them being completely wrecked,
by cave-in covering an area Of 40 acres
at West Scranton, Pa.
Mrs c. B. Fountain and her mother,
Mrs. A. Hoch, Of Valley Junction, Ia,
were crushed to death in the elevator
at the capitol building at Des Moines.
Michigan socialists met in Lansing
and nominated c. ]. Lamb. of Dry.
den. for governor.
James Byron was killed and 30 men
injured by the collapse Of scaffold 161
feet high in the dome Of the new post
Office building in Chicago.
In freight wreck near Sikeston,
Mo-. four treSnmen were killed
Five members of Franklin Union of
Press Feeders we're given jail sentences
by Judge Holdom in Chicago for picket
ing in violation of the courts injunc-
ton.
The business center of Rochester, N.
Y, was swept by fire that did damage
Of from 100000 to $5.OOO.0O0.
August w. Machen, George f. Lorenz
and Samuel A. and Diller B. Groff we're
found guilty of conspiracy to defraud
the government in the postal case In
Washington.
Fire destroyed the business portion
OF Nicholson, Pa.
There was a general advance Of
troops from all Japanese ports for the
mainland, Dalny and Possiet bay
seeming to be the main objective
points. Dalny has been evacuated and
the Russians boast they have mined
the city SO the japanese will not dare
occupy 1t. The Corean government has
ordered It's soldiers to join the Japan
ese arm- In the field.