The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-05-14
LATER.

Details of the "corking" of Port Ar
thur, reported by Vice Admiral Togoto
Toxic, show that the feat was one ofthe
bravest deeds in warfare.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw drew
a warrant for $40 200, 900 in favor Of j.
P. Morgan &c Co. to be used in payment
for the Panama canal.
Mayor Crolius, of Joliet, H., two po-
licemen and former city employe have
been indicted on the charge of criminal
conspiracy at the recent election.
John Mitchell in an address before
the executive committee of the Civic
Federation said the trade agreement is
the essence of unionism. X
Andrew McNally, head Of Rand, Nc
Nally & Co., the well-known Chicago
publishers, died in California of pneu-
monia after two days illness.
Kuropatkin's army, after losing
heavily in battle, was compelled to aban-
don Fenwangcheng. 1t was outflanked
by the japanese army and forced to re-
treat toward Mukden.
1t is reported that Viceroy Alexieff was
slightly wounded prior to his departure
from Port Arthur. He barely escaped
from there before the japanese closed
the lines of communication.
Jubilee exercises of the University Of
Wisconsin to be held during the week
beginning Sunday, June 5, include the
celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of
the graduation of the first class In 1854
W. A. j. Sparks, former congressman,
Missouri and Illinois politics. died in st.
Louis. During President Cfeveland's
administration Mr.. Sparks was commits
sioner of the general land Office.
Twenty-one were killed and 40 in
jured at Toxic during a great demon
stration in honor of victories of troops.
Russian losses in the Yalu battle on
April 80 and May l, are officially stated
as Gas killed, 1907 wounded. The Japs
claim to have buried 1868 Russians
and to hold 500 prisoners.
The Interchurch conference, through
its executive committee, issued an ap-
peal to Christian people as the first
move in its campaign of education
against the evil of divorce.
Russia has decided to make an ex-
hibit at the st. Louis exposition and
reserved 20 900 square feet of space
Dalny, the great Russian port north
of Port Arthur, has fallen before the
onslaught of the japanese. Russians
believe the Japanese will move on
Mukden next. concentrating two armies
against that town.
During the Russian retreat on Sun
day last large force of Russians mis-
took small body of their own men
for Japanese, killing and wounding 1870
of them
At its session in New York the Ma
tional Civic Federation adopted res
olutions expressive of sorrow at the
death of its late chairman, Senator
Hanna.
Caleb Marrette, aged IS, of Dennison,
Tex, who, in company with his sister,
so years old, was on his way to Pitts
burg to visit relatives. fell under the
wheels of train at Vincennes, Ind,
and was killed.
The president has determined to APP
point Col Albert l.. Mills brigadier
general. A/NN
Vice Admiral Alexieff Is in Mukden.
Demonstrations of mourning on the
death of Maurus Jokai, the Hungarian
novelist, are reported from all towns
of Hungary.
Five miners are entombed and be-
lieved to be dead as a result of fierce
fire which is burning in the Locust
Gap colliery of the Philadelphia 6
Reading Coal & Iron company.
Extensive damage is being don,
throughout the upper peninsula of
Michigan by forest fires. Many home
steaders have been burned out of their
homes with loss of all their posses
sions.
The bite Of pickerel resulted in
the death of John e. Beckman, of
Amery, Wis. AS he was landing 1t the
pickerel clamped his jaws down upon
Beckman's fingers. lacerating one of
them. Complications. set in which
caused his death.
Senior Bishop Stephen Merrill, of the
M. Z. church, rendered his resignation
to the general conference at Los An
geles. Bishop Merrill Is in his seventy
ninth year, and his ministry has ex-
tended over period of SO years.
Russians declare they have expected
isolation of Port Arthur since the be-
ginning and that 1t can hold out n
year.
The doom of Port Arthur Is assured
by the landing OK the Japanese army
from go transports. and the railway
and telegraph to the Russian strong
hold are severed. The siege will pre-.
vent Vice Admiral Skrydloff, who was
appointed to take command of the
Russian navy in the far east, from
reaching Port Arthur. and he may GO
to Vladivostok. Vice Admiral Alexieff,
who left Port Arthur Thursday, has
arrived at Mukden.