The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-06-04
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News Of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

r. II. Plant, OF Macon. Ga, whose
two banks closed last week. committed
suicide In order, 1t Is said. that his
life insurance could be used to pay his
debts, amounting to 100000.
Terrell Thomas, local manager OF
lumber company in Pasadena, Cal,
iytic, by stabbing him in the back with
q hunting knife. He then shot himself
to death. Thomas is supposed to have
become suddenly demented.
The California Fruit agency, the big
merger in control of the packing and
shipping of a largo part of the orange
crop Of southern California, will go out
OF business next September.
The battleship Kentucky, under Rear
Admiral Evans, made a record-break-
Ing run from Hongkong to New, York,
going 1888 miles in SO days.
While the nuns of st. Elizabeth's
hospital in Chicago were in prayer, a
thief broke into the Office safe and got
$500
Only two lives were lost in the food
which swept through west and south
Cheyenne.
Willis Hall pleaded guilty at St.,
Louis to the murder of Victor Daus-
son, and was sentenced to SO years In
the penitentiary.
Estimates have been received from
county clerks to the effect that Kan
sas will need 10000 helpers from 9th
er states to save the wheat crop. Last
year the farmers asked for $4,000 men.
Prosecution of the anthracite coal
trust railroads by the government is
promised. Just when and where the
proceedings will be instituted officials
OF the department of justice refuse to
disclose.
AS q result Of an explosion In the
two drying rooms of the Lake Shore
Novelty company's plant at Findlay,
o.. seven persons are known to. be
dead, five are so seriously hurt that re-
covery is believed to be impossible,
and IL or 10 are injured badly.
George |. Wilkes. secretary of the
Packers Baseball league, was killed by
a batted ball In Chicago.
The closing OF the poolrooms In New
York city means the loss Of 10000 daily
patrons and of $15,O00,O00 annually in
receipts to the bookmakers.
The Standard OIL company is the real
defendant in a suit for $50,000,000 for
royalty brought by the widow of the
inventor of process for refining OIL
Sherman Bell, adjutant general Of
Colorado, has resigned because he says
military Is used to awe laboring men
and protect corporations. The COVER
nor and the mayor of Denver are ac-
cused.
Ormonde, the world famous horse
is dead. He was killed at the Menlo
Park stock farm of w. o. d. MacDon-
ough, near San Francisco, to relieve
great suffering from paralysis.
David Rothschild. former president
OF the defunct Federal bank, of New
York, who was convicted of grand lar
ceny, was sentenced to serve nine
years in the state prison.
Hester Jackson, negro woman
who claimed to be 10S years old, is
dead in Washington. d. c.
Lieut-Col. John M. Matheny. u. s.
A., retired, is dead, at Berkeley, CAL,
aged 60 years. He was native OF
Indiana and served as captain during
the civil war.
Three persons were killed and ten
others injured, two Of them probably
fatally, by an explosion In the factory
of the Independent Fire Works COM
pany at Camden, N. J.
Daniel Graves, aged 80. was struck
by lightning at North Branch, Mich,
and killed
Nancy Hanks, the mare which for
nearly three years held the trotting
championship Of the world. when the
record stood at 1904. has been sold
for $4,000 to J. M. Johnson, mayor OF
Malais, Me.
The French Eversole feud In Ken
lucky has been reopened by John Ev-
ersole shooting William Smith while
he was asleep, causing instant death.
George Lehrter. of st. Louis, pleaded
guilty in the United States district
court to coloring and selling oleomar-
garine without labelling 1t as such and
was fined $1,000
Shipbuilders told the congressional
commission that subsidy Is necessary
TO build up merchant marine.
At Berkeley, Cal, Prof Marcus j.
Spinello, instructor Of French and Ital-
ian at the University Of California, was
thrown under the wheels of moving
train and received injuries from which
he died soon afterward.
Myer s. Isaacs, president Of the Baron
de Hirsch fund, and prominently identl-
fed with many other local and national
organizations, dropped dead in New
York cafe. He was SO years Of age.
c. c. Clark, a farmer near Wayne.
Neb., was killed by lightning and his
son severely injured. Three horses they
were driving we're killed.
w. J. Showers, editor Of the Onalaska,
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