The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-05-09

phia &c Reading railway, told the in
terstate commerce commission that
he controlled the coal market and
could increase or lower prices as he
saw fit.
Three persons were killed, two IA
tally and dozen seriously Injured
in railway wreck at Terre Haute,
Ind. m
C. J. McReynolds, of Nashville,
Tenn. has been appointed assistant
United States attorney general to
succeed James NJ. Beck.
Cattle men are reported to have
subscribed for $25.OO0,oO0 stock in n
cooperative company to fight the
beef trust.
A rock slide on Turtle mountain in
Alberta, British Columbia, killed 112
persons and wrecker the town Of
Frank.
Mayor Rose. of Milwaukee, was
stricken with heart failure and came
near dying before a physician arrived
and relieved him.
John ID. Rockefeller has sent check
for $4,000 to the officers of the Saliva
tion-army in Cleveland to aid in the
erection OF new 800, 900 citadel.
Snowstorms and excessive cold in the
northwest will cause heavy loss in
fruit and early vegetables.
Colored preachers, headed by Rev. X.
c. Ransom, have commenced crusade
against the policy shops in Chicago.
The Indianapolis Journal (repub-
lican) has been sold to former Con-
gresham Charles l.. Henry, of Ander-
son, Ind.
The Illinois legislature has passed a
bill raising the limit of death damages
from $1,000 to $4,000.
Rev. John G. Murray. of Baltimore
Nd. has been elected Episcopal bishop
of Mississippi.
dent Cleveland, Cardinal Gibbons and
other noted men assisted in the for
NAL dedication of the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition at 3. Louis, the ex-
ercises being preceded by an impos-
ing military parade.
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high Valley railroad, declared before
the interstate commerce commission
that unrestricted competition is dan
gerous.
Eighty-three blueiackets on the
United States receiving ship Wabash
were placed in irons at Boston for mu-
tiny.
Direct cable communication between
the United States and the Philippines
will be opened on July4 4.
At Frankfort, KY. James Howard
was found guilty Of the murder of
Gov. William Goebel and sentenced to
life imprisonment.
Over foot Of snow fell at Hougb-
ton. Mich. and vicinity.
Three thousand employees in so OF
Chicago's largest laundries went on a
strike for increased wages.
Gov. Chamberlain, of Oregon, has
presented sword from the people
of the state to Admiral c. +. Clark
who commanded the battleship Ore.
gon during the Spanish war.
Snow to the depth of three inches
fell throughout central Wisconsin.
Four county treasurer's employees
are dead and 30 i'll as result of tax.
payers scramble in Chicago to avoid
delinquent penalty.
One million dollars damage has
been caused by Pennsylvania forest
fires near Bradford. The town OF
jacksonville was destroyed and sew.
eral lives lost
The reports of railroads for March
including St. Paul, Union Pacific and
Reading, show large gains in earn
ings.
At Springfield, ILL.,, the report of the
house investigating committee finds
that no real attempt was made to
bride Speaker Miller.
The plant of the Crescent Powder
company at Ganistock, Pa, was
wrecked by an explosion and nine
men were killed and 81 others badly
injured.
The semiannual assemblage of the
bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
church of the world is i'm session at
Meadville, Pa.