The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-05-21
NEWS.
Brief Summary Of the Leading
Events OF the
Week.

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arbitration.
Conventions political and other
wise, have occupied the attention OF
the country the past week.
About II 900 men will be laid off
by the Pennsylvania railroad system,
the aim being to get down to the
1902 basis.
Jealous without cause, Clyde Rob-
inson, aged 81, of Bellevernon, Pa.
shot and killed his 10. year-old wife,
aud then killed himself.
The battleship Rhode Island was
successfully launched Tuesday at the
yards OF the Fore River Ship and
Engine company, Quincy, Mass.
The officials OF the Royal Ulster
Yacht club deny that Sir Thomas
Upton has decided to issue fourth
challenge for the American cup.
The National Editorial Associa-
ton closed its four days session in
St. Louis Thursday. The next meet
ing will be held at Guthrie, Okla.
Jack Sully, the notorious bandit
OF the Rosebud, South Dakota, coun-
try, was killed in running fight
with officers on the reservation Mon
day.
Miss Clara Barton has resigned
the presidency of the American Red
Cross society, and is succeeded by
Mrs. John A. Logan, heretofore
vice president.
Labor Commissioner Wright has
issued a bulletin showing that the
average price OF commodities in the
United States in 1903 was the high
est in the last thirteen years.
BY unanimous vote, the Cleveland
Lake Carriers Association Thursday
decided to continue the fight and
offer no concessions to the Masters
and Pilots Association.
Mrs. Florence Dunkelberg, OF Wa
terloo, Iowa, is one Of three heirs to
the estate OF her uncle, DR.. g. Z.
Robertson, of Boston, Mass. Her
share will be 81, 1875, 900.
The Methodist general conference,
ia session at Los Angeles, voted for
eight bishops, Wednesday, but only
one, ]. F. Berry, editor of the Ep-
worth Herald, was elected.
Every attempt to GUST the Wash
ington base ball club from its Sc
curely intrenched position at the
bottom of the percentage column
meets with ignominious failure.
Having tied her 5.year old daugh-
ter to her left arm and waist, Mrs.
M. B.. Copeland jumped into the
Scioto River at Columbus, O., last
Wednesday, and mother and daugh-
ter were drowned.
The latest news Of the war in the
east is OF conflicting nature. IT.
is reported that 10000 Russians are
marching to the relief OF Port Ar
thur. Another dispatch says that
forty five thousand Japanese troops
have entirely invested the port.
Postmaster.General Payne has
selected VIM. E. Cochran, chief
'postofice Inspector, to be the gen.
eral purchasing agent for the post
office department. The Office was
created at the last session of con-
gress and will not become operative
until July LIST.
Governor LaFolette, OF Wiscon-
sin, was renominated, for the third
time, at Madison Thursday. The
Cook contingent bolted and held
separate convention, and now the
courts will probably have to decide
which faction is entitled to legal
recognition.
Georgina, dowager countess of
Ravensworth, has startled London
society by marrying her coachman,
James Wadsworth. She is nearly
sixty years of age, and the coacbman
twenty-eight. Earl Ravensworth,
who died about year ago, left her
nearly million dollars.
AT Appling, Pa, Sunday morn
ing, one hundred unmasked men
forcibly entered the county Jail took
out John Cumming, a negro, who
was awaiting trial on q charge OF
criminal assault, and hanged him to
tree. The body was afterwards
riddled with shot and bullets.
The provision OF the army app o.
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