The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-04-16
LATER.

In the senate on the 9th Senator
Spooner replied to the attacks on the
post Office department. He defended
the course of the postmaster general.
and also defended the president against
attacks made on him. The bill for the
aid Of the Lewis and Clark expedition
was passed, as was the Philippine
shipping bill. In the house the resolu-
ton directing an inquiry into the legal
ity of the recent executive order relat-
ing to pensions for age disability was
laid on the table by voc of 103 to 100.
Isabella, former queen Of Spain and
the grandmother of King Alfonso, died
at Paris at an advanced age.
William c. Greene, the copper mag
nate, caused the arrest in)New York of
an Arizonian, who threatened to kill
him IL he did not pay 100000.
A plan is under consideration in the
cabinet for the president to meet the
crisis in Chinese immigration affairs
by issuing an executive order excluding
celestials until new treaty Is made.
The secret records of the Russian
army in Manchuria have been captured
by the Japanese and carried to Ping
yang.
The Japanese warships off Port Ar
thur retired without firing shot when,
by means of the Russian searchlights,
their presence had been discovered.
In Washington the Daughters of the
American Revolution will hold their
thirteenth continental congress in the
week beginning April IS. The congress
will be interesting mainly because the
corner stone of the Memorial Continent
tai hall will be placed in position.
One of the Edison company's street
cars ran off the track in Santa Bar
bara, Cal, and was turned over Five
people were killed and IS injured.
The high school building at Gales
burg, ILL.,, burned Loss, 100000. John
Slater. fireman, was killed by fall
ing wall.
The house of representatives on Sun
day conducted memorial services in
memory of the late Representative
Foerderer and Burk, of Pennsylvania.
The Iowa senate, by a vote of 26 to
20, refused to pass resolutions favoring
the pardon of Mrs Sarah Kuhn.
A Tientsin dispatch says two train
loads of Russians wounded in an engage
ment on the Yalu have passed through
Mukden.
Eddie" Fay, arrested for robbery in
Wisconsin, is charged by the postal
inspector with taking part in 5000
stamp robbery in Chicago several years
ago.
The conference report on the Indian
appropriation bill was submitted in
the senate ON the Sth. The bill as re-
ported from the conference carries
$9,2i7,93 The house passed the Phil
ippine shipping bill and the bill APP.
propriating $i75,000 in aid of the
Lewis and Clark centennial exposition,
to be held in Portland. Ore, in 1905.
John J. Combs shot and instantly
killed Greasy" Combs at Hazard, Ky.
In 1876 John j. Combs was cut by
Greasy" Combs in fight, cripplina
him and causing partial paralysis
An earthquake April killed %
persons, injured 40, destroyed 1900
houses and caused great distress in tho
vilayets OF Kossovo and Salonica, Ma.
cedonia
Mail advices from the new Alaska
district of Tanana indicate that tho
reach 81 100000
Gen. Cronje and Commandant Van
Dam, of Boer war fame, accompanied
by $50 Boer soldiers, arrived In st.
Louis to participate in the worlds
fair. After the fair is over they will
go to Mexico to live.
The managers Of the Luse campaign
in Wisconsin announce that they have
given up hope of electing their candi.
date to the supreme court justiceship
and acknowledge the election of James
G. Kerwin, Of Neenah. Almost com.
plete returns give Kerwin's majority
as $3.50.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Rocker, Of
Boone, Ia, are in Jail under an indict.
ment for murder. and Mrs. Rocker has
confessed to Attorney c. A. Irwin that
her present husband murdered her for.
mer husband, August Schroeder, June
80, 1900.
A treaty signed In London gives
France a free hand in Morocco and Eng
land full liberty in Egypt France sur
renders shore rights in Newfoundland.
Three men were killed and one ia
tally injured in an explosion at the
Pintsch Gas COMPRISING company's
plant in Southwest Washington. ID. G.
Four children OF William Burke were
burned to death at Sebastopol, a suburb
OF Pittston, Pa, in fire which destroyed
their home.
Dun and Bradstreet agencies report
slight improvement in trade; prices less
inflated; weather conditions more IA
orable; iron and steel looking up.
II 10 reported that the Russian squad
ron left Port Arthur and gave battle to
the japanese feet outside the harbor.