The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-11-30
Efforts will be made at the coming


der placing several offices in the war
department under civil service rules.
A. =. Wilcox, his wife and two-year-
old son, were murdered in their home
at Downey, Cal.
Seven men lost their lives and many
other persons were injured in a wreck
on the Santa Fe road, near Needles,
Cal.
James Wynn returned to life at Ok
ford, Ala, just as his encoffined body
was being lowered into the grave.
The contest over the Office OF attor-
ney general in Kentucky has ended in
the seating of Clifton j. Pratt (rep.).
A report on railway labor in the
United States shows that railways in
this country employ nearly 100000
people.
Other northwestern states will
join Minnesota in the fight against
the consolidation of railroads in that
section.
Admiral Schley declined the offer
of Knoxville (Tenn.) paper to raise
fund to pay for his court of in
quiry expenses.
A Burlington stock train broke in
two near Walnut, ILL.,, killing one man
and injuring nine.
William ID. Brookman, Chicago
printer, who thought he had fatally
wounded his Wife with bullet fired
at burglar in dream, committed
suicide.
Fred Krist has been electrocuted in
Auburn On. W prison for the MIR
dor of his sweetheart, Katie Tobin,
at Waverly.
President Roosevelt in his mes
sage to congress will recommend the
reenactment of the Chinese exclusion
law with amendments intended to
make it more effective.
Manufacturers in convention at
Washington declared for reciprocity if
it does not hurt home industries and
stand by the principle of protection.
George Trap, n union picket at the
Allis-Chambers plant in Chicago, was
shot and killed while attacking a non
union employe.
In wreck on the Santa Fe near the
Needles, Cal, at least 10000 letters
were burned.
Four trainmen were killed and seven
injured in a head-end collision at
Hughes Siding, Ala.
Alabama's new constitution will be-
come effective Thanksgiving day, No
yember rs.
Fire destroyed five business blocks
at Frankfort, Ind.
Nicholas Muller, of the Seventh New
York district, has resigned as member
of congress because of i'll health.
Burglars secured $1,000 at the post
Office in Duncansville, Pa.
An unknown man at Pittsburg, Pa,
jumped into a furnace filled with
molten metal.
The rule of the railroads in charging
excess fare on fast trains between Chi
cago and New York is likely to be abol-
ished.
Gov. Van SAINT, of Minnesota, has
written to the governors of other
northwestern states, asking their as
sistance in his fight against the Hill
railway combination.
Gov. Hunt, of Porto Rico, who is in
this country on n vacation, says that
the people are enjoying great pros
perity and are not only acquiescing
in American rule, but they are becom-
ing enthusiastically American.
Students of Wabash college, at
Charlottesville, Ind, revolted because
of the refusal of the faculty to OBJ
serve Founders day, and locked the
president in his room.
Western members of congress be-
lieve a new department of commerce
will be established.
A Michigan game warden seized 1S
miles of new trout nets in Lake
Michigan belonging to the A. Booth
company, of Chicago.
One thousand drunken men held a
street parade at Syracuse, N. Y.
The Whitney grand opera house at
Detroit, Mich, was partially destroyed
by fire.
Twenty-three bodies have been
taken from the Smuggler-Union mine
at Telluride, Col.
Whisky distillers will urge congress
to reduce the tax from $1.10 to 20
cents n gallon, thus representing to
them saving of $6O,0OO,00O.