The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-07-16
A WEEKS RECORD
All the News Of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
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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.

A sailboat containing seven pleas
ure seekers was capsized in Muskegon
lake, Micn., and four of the occu-
pants were drowned.
BY the premature explosion OF can
non at Colfax, ILL.,, Leo Chapman, Roy
Harris, Fred Grending and Ralph Hes
ter, of that place. were dangerously
and perhaps in one or two cases fatal
ly injured.
Twenty-Five dead, 1884 injured is the
harvest OF the Fourth of July celebra-
ton in the country. The fire loss was
$17S,800.
Survivors Of the steamship Norge
disaster now are known to number 1913,
102 having been picked up by English
and German vessels from lifeboats in
which they were adrift on the ocean.
Among those saved is Capt. Gundel, Of
the Norge, who was carried down when
the ship sank. He rose and swan far
to a lifeboat filled with other sur
vivors.
Walter Stead and Frank Rule, OF
Princeton, and a young man named
Rulong, of Philadelphia, were drowned
in Milestone river, at Princeton, N. j.,
by the capsizing of their boat.
Full details of the wreck on the
Wabash railroad at Litchfeld, ILL.,,
show that 10 were killed and 40 in
jured. Arrests may be ordered as a
result of the inquiry which is now 60
ing on.
John s. Lord, first deputy collector Of
Internal revenue, for the Springfield Qll.)
district, has been designated to act as
collector pending the permanent ap-
pointment Of a successor to Isaac r.
Mills, who was killed in the railroad ac-
cident at Litchfield, Ill.
Three daughters Of John Young, of
saltwater, Mimi, who were aged re-
spectively Is. IL and 10 years, have been
drowned In the st. Croix river. The
girls were bathing and got into sink
hole.
Gen. Piet Cronje, of Boer war fame,
was married at st. Louis to Mrs. Stertzel,
the widow of Boer soldier. The cere-
mony was performed in the Boer camp
on the worlds fair grounds, and was
private.
John Ratliff, ten years old, was killed
and Hixon Ratliff, aged 10, brother
and Russell Ratliff, aged II, cousin,
were probably fatally injured by the ex-
plosion Of box of dynamite at the
country home of Levi Ratliff, 81 miles
south of Marion, Ind.
A loss OF nearly 100000 resulted from
a fire which destroyed the Electrical We
hicle Equipment company's factory In
Brooklyn.
James Wilson's houseboat, moored on
the Ohio river near Lawrencsburg. Ind.
was blown up with dynamite. Wilson's
wife and infant child are believed to have
persisted. Wilson has disappeared and
no traces Of the bodies of the woman
and child have been found.
Seventeen survivors of the Inflated
Danish steamer Norge were landed al
Aberdeen, Scotland, by trawler tina.
found them afloat, without water OF
food, In an open boat, in which they had
suffered for six days. A search is being
made for three other boats.
Fire in Boston destroyed the Boston
& Maine piers and elevator, causing
81 100000 loss, and damaged the Allen
liner Austrian. The crew Of the steam
err jumped overheard and three are miss
ing.
Mrs. Katherine DAM, convicted In
Philadelphia Of murder In the first de-
gree for poisoning her husband, WI
liam G. DAM, was sentenced to- be
hanged.
In a fire which has destroyed the Cam
mack cottage at Tuxedo Park, NY, tbs
Jewels OF Mrs. Bernard p. Steinman, Of
New Orleans, worth several hundred
thousand dollars, were probably so dam
aged that they will be worthless here
after.
The school board OF Louisville, Ky.
has Instructed the high school commit
tee to inform four Filipino students, who
applied for admission to the Dupont
manual training high school, that theii
color debars them from the privileges OF
the public schools.
Milwaukee has population OF be-
tween .320, 900 and 1926, 900. according to
estimates based on the latest school CEN
sus, which gives the total number Of
children Of school age as los, 953. This
Il an increase OF 2,030 children over the
prsvious census.