The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-07-16
LATE NEWS.
Brief Summary Of the Leading
Events Of the
Week.

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The total attendance at the st.
Louis fair up to and including July
10th was 4,O93. 226.
President Roosevelt is hard at
work, at Oyster Bay, on his speech
OF acceptance.
The Pere Marquette railroad be-
tween Chicago and Grand Rapids
is to be doubled tracked within two
years. The work will cost about
$4,000, 900.
A cloudburst over the hills Of
northeast Manila, Philippine Islands,
Tuesday, caused food which de-
stroyed Saujuan Del Monte, and two
hundred lives were lost.
William I. Stein, formerly chief
clerk to General Manager Scott, of
the Chicago, Minneapolis & Omaha
Railway, was arrested at St. Paul
Wednesday upon charge Of stealing
$1O,OOOin bonds from the safe in the
general managers Office.
James Brainard, postmaster from
a suburb Of Washington, D. c., who
is alleged to have disappeared with
$4,000 worth OF negotiable money
orders, and woman some months
ago, was arrested in Montreal Tues
day, by secret service officials.
Two hundred persons in Milling
ton, Nd, arr. homeless and without
shelter and food as the result OF o
fire Wednesday, which destroyed
thirty-nine dwellings and seventeen
places OF business. The property
loss is placed at $4,000.
Paul Kruger, former president OF
the Transvaal Republic, died at
Clarens, Switzerland, Thursday, OF
pneumonia and heart weakness. APP
plication will be made to the British
government for authority to trans
port the remains to the Transvaal.
R. H. F. Sewell, q contractor OF
New Orleans, has been awarded a
contract with the Cuban govern
ment to raise the battleship Maine,
which lays in Havana harbor. Be
fore proceeding, however, Mr.. Sewell
desires to know what claim the
United States has ia the wreck.
Seventeen persons were killed and
fifty injured in collision at Mid
vale, N. j., Sunday, when regular
passenger train on the Greenwood
Lake branch of the Erie railroad ran
into an excursion train that had
stopped to take water. All the dead
and injured lived in Hoboken, Jer.
sey City and New York.
According to late report the
United States assay Office at Seattle
has received Sc, 100000 in gold dust
from the mines of Alaska this year.
The lowest estimate for the gold out.
put of this season is $18, 900, 900.
This will make the total receipts OF
the assay Office since the Knondike
discoveries, $50, 900, 600.
Charles E. Adams, dairyman at
Port Chester, N. r., has unconven-
tional daughters. Each in her turn
has eloped, and Thursday night,
when the dairyman reached home
and found that his third and young
est daughter had followed the exam
pie of her two elders, he vowed that
never again would he see them OF
grant them forgiveness.
The total dead in the destruction
of the excursion steamer General
Slocum, on June 18th, is given as
$50, in the final report of the police
commissioner OF New York. Only
1897 bodies were identified; 81 per-
sons are reported missing; 81 bodies
are unidentified, while $50 were in
jured and only 235 out OF nearly L. 400
on the steamer escaped uninjured.
Twenty-one people we're killed and
sixty eight injured We'd nesday. in a
collision on the Chicago & Eastern
! Illinois Railroad at Glenwood, I'll
Tie collision occurred between q
picnic train, which was returning to
Chicago from Momence, and o freight
train, into which the picnic train
dashed at high speed. The engine,
baggage car and first coach of the.
picnic train we're demolished.
The strike Of the butchers OF the
big packing houses OF the country
continues. Over $4,000 employees
are affected. The result Of the
packers preliminary meeting held
in Chicago Thursday was an invita-
tion to President Donnelly, OF the