The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-06-04
LATER.

Maryland met In Baltimore, adopted
a platform and elected delegates-at-
large to the st. Louis convention.
In the superior court at Grand Rap
ids, Mich, jury was secured in the
trial of Eugene d. Conger, manager of
the Grand Rapids Herald. who Is
charged with conspiracy in the Lake
Michigan water deal of 1900.
The president has appointed Com
mander Samuel w. b. Diehl to succeed
Capt. Samuel c. Lemly as judge advo-
cate general of the navy, when the lat
ter's term expires June 8.
The Ohio river towboat Fred Wilson
was torn to flinders, ten men were
blown to bits and 16 others injured by
a tremendous explosion of the boats
boilers near Louisville, Ky.
The Texas state pavilion at the
worlds fair in St. Louis was dedicated.
| r. d Harvey, a banker of Eldon,
Mo-, was nominated for congress by
the republicans Of the Eighth congress
sional district.
| Lee Culvers, aged 80, Of st. Louis,
fell into coal tipple at the Norfolk
& Western terminals at Portsmouth,
o., and was buried alive.
Maj. Gen. Sir John c. Mcneil is
dead in London.
The Oxford University Athletic club
on behalf of Oxford and Cambridge
universities, has sent challenge to
| Harvard and Yale to hold an athletic
meeting in London this summer.
Prof William H. Pettee, senior pro-
fessor of mining engineering at the
University of Michigan, dropped dead
att Ann Arbor.
On the first ballot Robert H. Pat
ton, of Springfield, was nominated for
| governor by the Illinois state prohibit
ton convention. A full state ticket
was named.
| A serious battle was fought between
| tionists at Esperanza, San Domingo.
The losses on both sides were heavy.
Gen. Raoul Cabrera, minister of war,
who commanded the government
troops, was killed. The revolutionists
were victorious.
| President Roosevelt has intimated to
Russia and Japan that the United States
is willing to offer good offices to end war
at any time both nations are willing to
accept.
| Japanese armies are reported to have
ended eight days fighting around Kin
chou, 80 miles north of Port Arthur, by
storming and capturing the town.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg says
Gen. Kuropatkin has cut the land
communications between the armies of
Gems. Kuroki and Oku.
A bulletin issued by the census
bureau gives the total number of en-
ployes in the executive civil service
of the United States as 150,3S3. These
| figures include only those employees
who are required to take an examina-
ton.
Stephen Herbert was arrested in
Providence, r. l., charged with steal
ing jewelry valued at $4,000 from ].
w. Kiser, of Chicago.
| The Republicans of the Twelfth
Pennsylvania district renominated
George r. Patterson for congress.
The Illinois democratic state con-
vention will meet in Springfield June
IA to nominate candidates for state
officers. delegates-at large to the ma
tional convention and presidential
clectors-at-large
Ten miners were suffocated by gas
and sulphur fumes from a small loco
motive drawing train through long
| ~ nj tva In, ta,,, otn Do
Annie Piatt, aged IA years, and
Sadie Hardie, aged IL years, were
drowned at Hammondsville. o.
1t is estimated that more than one
half Of the ripening cherry crop Is de-
stroyed. and that from 100000 to
100000 pounds of prunes are on the
ground as the result Of high wind in
the Santa Clara valley, California.
Fire almost entirely destroyed Yazoo
City. Miss. The loss will be nearly
$1,000,000. All the banks, business
houses, newspaper Offices, post Office,
courthouse, city hall and other build
ings. we're destroyed. Chambless
White was killed and Mayor Holmes
badly injured.
Charles Penio, the oldest chief of the
Ukiah tribe, Is dead at Cox ranchero,
In California, and the Indians cele-
brated death feast. Penia was LOT
years of age.
A report reached Chefoo that the
Japanese fleet have again bombarded
Port Arthur from the sea side.
The Russian correspondent of Lon
don paper says disturbances in War
saw, Cronstadt and Moscow have been
followed by hundreds Of secret execu-
lions.
The National Plano Manufacturers
association. In Session at Atlantic City,
N. j., elected George p. Bent. Of Chi
cago, president, and William Bauer, Of