The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-05-07
LATER.

c. o. Webster, manufacturers
agent in Chicago, was mysteriously
murdered IN Grand Rapids, Mich
Thomas Brennan, pioneer and a
member of the Chicago board of edu-
ton since 1878, is dead in that city.
Eight persons were killed and 16 in
jured in the wreck Of a worlds fair
special train at Kimmswick, Mo.
The Louisiana Purchase exposition
in st. Louis was opened with addresses
by the officials in charge OF the enter
prise and by representatives of nation,
state and city. Secretary Of War Taft
as the official representative of the
president delivered the principal ad-
dress, after which the fair was set go
ing. The electric impulse which
started the machinery was transmitted
by President Roosevelt from the white
house.
Serious fighting occurred in the Sas-
sun district of Asia Minor between the
troops and the Armenian insurgents
numbering 2,000 The troops lost 20
killed and % wounded. Twelve vii
lagos in the Talori district were de-
stroyed. Kurds attacked two villages
north of Sassun, losing 26 killed.
Preparations are well under way for
the fourth annual convention of the
American Federation of Catholic Socie-
ties in Detroit August 2-5.
The sealing steamer Diana has ar
rived at st. Johns, N. F., with a full
load of $4,000 hooded seals.
Pan Antonio Dvorak, the composer,
formerly or the Conservatory of Music,
New York, died suddenly at Prague,
Bohemia, Of apoplexy.
William Sheffield, his wife and two
daughters, were murdered near VAL
liant, /. T., by John Wallenburg, a
young farmer, who, 1t is reported, aft
erward committed suicide.
Two thousand Armenian insurgents
attacked the regular Turkish troops in
the Sassun district of Asia Minor, kill
ing 26 and wounding %.
japanese under Gen. Kuroki forced
crossing of the Yalu river and drove
back an army of 10000 Russians. The
Japanese losses were 700 killed and
wounded; Russian losses, 800 killed
and wounded. The Japanese captured
% quick-firing guns, 20 officers and
many men. Compelled to abandon An
tung, the Russians fired the town be-
fore leaving the japanese in control Of
the estuary of the Yalu river.
The Wisconsin state insurance COM
missioner is accused by the Prudential
company of collecting $21 900 fees over
the legal limit.
The supreme court of Indiana decided
that under the provisions of the Nichol-
son liquor law now in force all sa-
looms must face on a street. Selling
liquor in saloon that faces on an alley
Is violation of the law and punishable
Albert Wood, constable, was killed
and Curtis Gregory, a constable, was
seriously wounded in fight near Mount
Vernon, ILL.,, with two men, one of whom
the officers sought to arrest
Because nobody wants to be post
master the post Office at Gillingworth,
Conn, may have to be abolished. Con-
gresham Sperry says he can get no one
to accept the Office. The salary is $172 a
year.
Four lives were lost in the burning OF
the Bryan house, a three-story brick
structure at Lansing, Mich.
The unprecedented speed of 100 miles
an hour has been made by the Michigan
Central train carrying President Led
yard and President Newman to Chicago.
Wendell Phillips Stafford, of Vermont,
has been appointed a justice of the SUI
preme court of the District of Columbia,
to succeed Justice Peter c. Pritchard,
who has been made United States cir
cult Judge.
A jury at Rock Rapids, Ia, found
Charles Rocker guilty of the murder Of
August Schroeder, at Doom, Ia, June 80,
1900, and fixed the penalty at death.
Nine-tenths of Fernia, b. c., town
of 1900, the largest settlement in Crows
Nest Pass district, was destroy ed by fire.
Estimated loss, 100000
Congressman John J. Jenkins was re-
nominated by the Eleventh Wisconsin
district republican convention.
John Terrell. a millionaire MUIR
derer under life sentence at Button,
Indiana, has been ordered by Gov.
Durbln to be sent to the insane asy-
lum.
Homer Mcconnell. farmer Of Sulf,.
van, Ind, was burned in a cabin near
his home. IT Is supposed robbers shot
him and cremated the body.
II. e. Osgood. Of Hiram Me-, shot
and killed his wife and himself during
a quarrel on train.
George A. Mckay, one of Albert A.
Munger's heirs and man of wealth,
supposed to be worth s2.O00,010, com.
mitted suicide at the Auditorium An
mex in Chicago by shooting. No rea-
son known.
An attack on vladlvostok by the
jar anese Is expected at once. Alexieff
reports Japanese feet of the harbor
and another detachment Of the enc
my's ships off Fort Arthur.