The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-01-17


his purpose to prosecute the railway
merger suit.
The nonunion men continued to &C.
cupy che attention of the coal strike
commission in Philadelphia in pre-
senting evidence of lawlessness in the
anthraite coal region during the
strike.
The public library for which An
drew Carnegie gave $35o,Oo0 was dedi-
Gated at Washington with addresses
by the donor and President Roosevelt.
Paul Woodward, aged II years, was
hanged in Camden, n. j., for the muir
der last October of John Coffin, aged
II. and Price Jennings, aged IA years.
Both branches of the Michigan legis-
lature met at Lansing.
The Pennsylvania road has divided
ownership of the Reading with the
Vanderbilt interests. the two now con-
trolling almost the entire eastern
anthracite and bituminous coal indus
try.
President Roosevelt conferred with
Speaker Henderson and urged that the
house take the lead and pass at this
session an antitrust bill framed on
the lines suggested by Attorney Gen
eral Knox.
Seven men were killed and six injured
in collision between a passenger and
freight train on the Pennsylvania
railroad near Dequesne.
The Missouri legislature convened at
Jefferson City.
Gov. Odell, in his message to the New
York legislature, urges law to pre-
vent labor unions denying, member
ship right to militia-men.
The forty-third Illinois general as
sembly began its sessions at Spring
field. John II. Miller, of McLeansboro,
was chosen speaker of the house.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, the temperance
reformer, has purchased large resi-
dence at Kansas City, Kan, to be used
as home for drupkards' wives.
The state university building in Nor
man, Okla, has been destroyed by
fire.
Board of trade corners establishing
fictitious prices for grain were de-
clared illegal by the appellate court
in Chicago.
Chicago's poor are suffering for fuel
and Mayor Harrison has appealed for
aid.
Pennsylvania and Reading compa-
| MES were accused at the senate inves-
! tigation with holding back their coal
from Washington and aiding indepen-
dent operators to market theirs at
high prices.
The American Beet Sugar associa-
ton has formally withdrawn its oppo-
sition to Cuban reciprocity.
The New York $50,000,000 bank pool
organized during therecent stringency
has dissolved because danger of panic
has passed. ~
The bank of Louisville, Neb.. was
broken into and robbed of $4,000.
Three persons were killed and IA or
more injured, one fatally, by COLI
sion on the Pennsylvania road at Ada.
Ohio.
A case of smallpox appeared in the
| Hamilton house in Washington,
where Senator Frye and many other
statesmen are regular guests.
Gov. Durbin, of Indiana, in his mes
sage to the Sixty-third assembly re-
ferred to convict labor, favored vot-
ing machines and advised the egisla-
ture to protect the people against
| trusts.
John Mitchell resented remark OF
Chairman Gray at the coal strike
hearing in Philadelphia, and insist ed
that the United Mine Workers should
not be helu responsible for acts Of
| violence.
Forty-eight Howard county Gnd.)
girls will go to North Dakota to
marry farmers.
Scores Of poor people in Indianap-
oils stole coal in broad daylight to
keep their families from freezing.
With production of 1929, sos bar
rels of -four in the year just closed,
Minneapolis passed every previous
record.
Fire destroyed the central building
Of the Young Mems Christian associ-
alton at Cleveland, 0.