The L'Anse sentinel., 1904-12-24

dt DOibS, luduO.
The body OF former President Paul
Kruger was inferred with impressive
ceremonies at Pretoria.
Will Jones, colored, was hanged at
Helena. Ark. for the murder OF A. w.
Robertson.
Mr.. Davis, the American consul at
Alexandretta, who recently got into
trouble with the Turkish authorities be-
cause he lowered the flag from the con-
sulate during celebration In honor OF
the sultan's birthday. will resign.
Augustus Macon. an attorney, died at
Denver, Col. of acute stomach trouble,
aged 73 years. He was a native of Ken
tucky and studied law In Abraham Lin
coins Office.
One girl was killed, two fatally in
jured, and score of others hurt by jump
ing from windows during an explosion
which wrecked Lloyd Adams & Simp-
sons toy pistol factory at Ports
mouth, o.
Plans are forming for the establish
ment OF an exhibition of American
manufactures In Paris, France.
A Minneapolis man shot his fancee
dead and killed himself. Illness is sup
posed to have unbalanced his mind.
Weekly trade reviews show that hol-
iday sales have reached an unusually
large volume. Railroad traffic in
creases and collections are good. The
number of unemployed men is grow
ing less and fewer labor disputes ex-
list.
A great meeting was held at Carnegie
hall, New York, in the interests OF in
ternational arbitration. Archbishop
Ireland and Oscar s. Straus were the
principal speakers.
Mail Clerk George Burr, of New AL
bany, and Fireman Harry Hardin, of
Jeffersonville, were fatally injured In
a collision between passenger train
and switch engine at Jeffersonville,
Ind.
Robert II. Patton, newly elected ma
tional chairman Of the prohibition par
ty, refuses the place. o. W.. Stewart,
the deposed leader, declines to call an
other meeting.
Owen Kelly, wealthy Philadelphian,
prominent in Irish societies and once
Clan-na-G leader, has been miss
ing since October 25. Violence is sug-
gested as clue to the mystery.
Henry Wellington Wack, who says
he suffered in the recent slump of
Amalgamated copper, asks the district
attorney of New York to indict Thomas
w. Lawson.
W. w. Kimball. pioneer of the piano
and organ-making business, died at his
Chicago residence at the age of 76
years.
A fast mail train on the Chicago.
Burlington & Quincy railway was
wrecked near Bristol. III. One person
was killed outright, two fatally in
jured and n number of mail clerks
bruised. The wreck was, caused by a
spreading OF the rails
The contract for the sale of the prop
erty offered by the worlds fair COM
pany to Chicago wrecking company
for s450,OO0, has been signed in st.
Louis and the first payment OF 100000
made.
August Belmont has been elected
president of the National Civic FEEDER
Gus A. Hanna.
Fire In Goshen. Ind. destroyed
Hawks hardware store. Hawks Elec-
trio company. Collins saloon and the
Globe Milling company The loss Is
about $l0O.O0O.
Wireless telegraph messages were
sent from Kansas City to Cleveland,
725 miles, without relaying. This is
said to be the longest distance over
land ever covered.
Three men lost their lives and four
others were terribly scalded by a rush
of steam and boiling water In the fire
room of the battleship Massachusetts,,
lying at the League Island navy yard,
Philadelphia.
Philip Weinseimer, former president
Of the New York Building Trades al
lance, who has been in the Tombs
since October Is last under sentence to
Sing Sing for extortion. was released
In $4,000 cash bail.
Horace Wolcott Robbins. lawyer and
well-known landscape artist. Is dead at
his home In New York. He was a ma
tive Of Mobile, Ala, where he was born
In 1912.
A loss of between $150.000 and $780,
300 was caused In Cincinnati by fire
which destroyed the Ohio Seat com
pany's plant and the Rudolph Sure
Anchor tannery.
Disease of the spine, attributed to an
injury received in a football game, has
caused the death at Lakewood, N. j.,
of Augustus F.. Holly. Jr., former
of the Princeton team.
Acting presumably for the bondhold-
ers, Henry Jayne purchased the Musca-
tine North & South railroad at receiv-
er's sale in Muscatine, la. The price
paid was 100000.
Three persons are known to have
been killed and four others seriously
injured by the collapse OF the suspen.
sion bridge across the Elk river. which
connects East and West Charleston,
w. Va.
Berlin has passed the 1000, 1000 mark
In the population of the city proper.