The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-01-30

Mrs. Louisa Elton. 2S years Of age,
killed her two children and herself In
New York city.
William Sparrow and wife, old resi-
dents at Kasson. Mimi. were asphyxiated
by coal gas.
The United States Steel corporation
sustained a $1,000 900 loss by fire at the
plant OF the Shelby (O) Steel Tube COM
pany.
Secretary Hay left Washington for
Townsville, Ca, where ne expects to
remain two weeks as the guest OF Col.
Payne.
The will OF former Gov. Asa 8. Bush
nell, OF Ohio, distributes an estate esti-
mated at $1,000, 900.
Alderman Jacob p. Ellen was found
guilty OF accepting bride OF $3.50 In the
Lake Michigan water deal scandal in
Grand Rapids. Mich.
A movement Is under way to secure
investigation by the national govern
ment into the causes of fires and to avert
the great loss Of life and property.
At Brighton. Col, the Adams county
courthouse was burned to the ground.
At the miners convention In IndiaIap-
oils an attempt OF the radical socialistic
faction to commit the organization 70
socialism was defeated.
In a CAVERN at the coal mine at Rouse
Col, six miners lost their lives.
Sixty students at tho Methodist col
lege at Sioux City, Ia. were threatened
with prosecution for tearing a live roos-
ter to pieces.
Findlay. o., was partly submerged by
foods and $50 families were rescued.
A. w. Machen wss.accused by govern
ment counsel In the postal fraud trial
in Washington with Saving" $20.00s
yearly on $500 salary.
Chicago Is shown by insurance Stats
tics to stand third In number Of suicides
In so principal American cities, st. Louis
being first.
The Pere Marquette railway system
Is to double track its line between st
Joseph, Mich, and Chicago.
Word has been received at the navy
department OF arrival at Ilongapo, in SUI
big bay, of Rear Admiral Evans battle
ship squadron. consisting Of the Ken
lucky, Wisconsin and Oregon.
Excitement prevailed over newly dis
covered gold fields Is miles east of Tu-
cumari N. M.
Harry Hoffman, Charles Batser and
John Keen repairmen on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, were killed by the cars
near Lancaster, Pa.
Five members of the Brewers and
Maltsters' union in Chicago were indicted
for an alleged conspiracy to boycott a
brewery.
The National Board of Trade in ses-
sion in Washington urged the govern
ment to begin the construction of ship
canals between Chicago and the Atlantic
ocean and Gulf of Mexico, and to con-
struct a system of canals on the Atlantic
coast.
Ice gorges and heavy floods in the riv-
ers Of Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania
drove hundreds of families from their
homes and caused great damage.
The Chinese minister to the United
States in speech at the Holland Society
dinner in New York declared that The
Hague tribunal offered way to avoid
war for every nation.
John Alexander Dowie, with his party
from the east, sailed from San Francisco
for Australia.
Three people have been burned to
death and ten badly injured In hotel
fire at Marion, Ind.
In rail mill at Johnstown. Pa, three
men were killed, three fatally injured
and six moro or less severely wounded
by bursting ny wheel.
]. w. War;, president Of the Moline
Ull.) Building & Loan association, has
been indicted for embezzling $31 900.
The first lake Of oil ever discovered In
Colorado was tapped while drilling a
we'll near Florence.
Train robbers stole the safe from the
express car OF the north-bound Sunset
limited train on the Southern Pacific
railway near San Luis Obispo, Cal, and
secured $4,000.