The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-04-02
LATER.

Fire Saturday destroyed the great
car barn of the Cincinnati Traction
company, at Walnut Hills, o., causing
q loss of $4,000. insured. Over 80 cars
standing in the barn were destroyed.
In fire which destroyed the annex
of the Newcomb hotel, Quincy, ILL.,,
Sunday morning. Rose ODonnell, of
Chicago. and Nettie Bronski, house.
maids, were killed. The former was
suffocated in her room and the latter
died after leaping from a third-story
window.
Brevet Maj. Gen. Thomas o. Osborne
Of Chicago, for many years United
States minister to the Argentine repub-
lie, died in Washington ID. c., of ap-
oplexy.
A tornado caused widespread ruin
throughout the island of Mauritius
March 81 and %. doing an enormous
amount of damage. Twenty-four per-
sons are known to be killed and thou
sands are without food or shelter.
Fire in New York destroyed the
Adams Express and adjoining build
ings, causing total loss OF $250,000.
Thomas Baldorf, a farmer near
Wooster, O., his wife and son. were
drowned while attempting to ford a
swollen stream.
The withdrawal of $19000000 from
western banks to ray for the Panama
canal has imposed considerable loss of
interest upon those institutions.
The condition Of the Panama canal is
said to be bad for the continuation of
the work by the United States, not one
half the excavation made by the French
government being now necessary.
The suicide of George Crossman, of
London, led to the discovery that he
had killed one wife and packed her in
cement, and that he had at least seven
other wives, although he was only 30
years old
the appeal of the car barn bandits, Mel
dermier, Van Dine and Marx, for
new trial, and set the date of their ex-
ecution for April %.
Six persons are dead as the result of a
cyclone near Charlottesville, Mo.
A Japanese army of $4,000 men. with
$50 guns, is advancing on the Yalu to in
wade Manchuria.
The Japanese fleet again attacked
Port Arthur and attempted to block the
entrance to the harbor. A Russian tor
pedo boat defeated the plan, with seven
killed, 13 wounded. Vice Admiral Max
aroff reported that he took the Russian
mt ht,f To ~ mi m
declined challenge to battle.
In the senate on the 25th a resolution
was adopted to consider whether an
amendment to the rules concerning i'm
parchment Is desirable. In the house
the post Office appropriation bill was
further considered.
Prairie fires which have ragged in
Holt, Rock and Wheeler counties, in
Nebraska. for two days were threaten
ing a number of small towns.
The worst blizzard Of the season
ragged at Bismarck, N. D., and snow
drifts from three to six feet deep
stopped business.
Refusals of miners in Joint confer
ence at Des Moines to arbitrate Ques-
lions affecting the wage scale may
cause strike of 10000 men.
Forty of the largest factories in
Grand Rapids, Mich, were obliged to
close because of food, and thousands
of men were out of work.
Engineer Edward French and Brake
scalded to death in freight wreck
near Niles, Mich.
A Russian officer was sentenced to
penal servitude 25 years for selling
military secrets to Japan.
Conservative estimates of the dam
age caused by the flooded rivers and
creeks of lower Michigan place the
property loss at more than $1,000,000.
Two lives have been lost.
The Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany's freight station at Twenty-ninth
and Market streets, West Philadelphia,
was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss
estimated at $4,000.
The empress dowager has negatived
a proposal made by Gen. Yuan Shi
Kai and Gen. Ma that China conclude
an open alliance with japan in view
of Russia's repeated violations of Chi
nese territory.
In|the Tanching country around Med
icine Hat and Moosejaw. Manitoba, 40
per cent. of the cattle have been lost
in the snow and will likely perish.
Jimmy" Britt was awarded q decis-
ion over Young Corbett" in their San
Francisco fight after they had battled
full 20 rounds. Britt rallied in the last
three rounds and won out.
The house committee on judiciary.
In recommending the impeachment of
Judge Charles Swayne. charged him
with being harsh, tyrannical. oppres-
sive and unjust in his decisions. and
hints at corruption.
Representatives of 200 educational
institutions Of the middle states met in
Chicago and recommended drastic rules
to purify intercollegiate athletics.