The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-12-31


from Bright's disease and heart trouble
for some time.
George l.. Shoup, former United States
senator from Idaho, died at his home In
Boise. Idaho. In his sixty-eighth year.
Mrs. William GLADDEN. shot and killed
her husband at their home at Requa
gulch, south Of Cripple Creek, Col. She
says that he abused and beat her.
Receipts OF the Britt-Nelson glove
contest amounted to $4,000, Of which
Britt received IS ST and Nelson s5.91S.
The postmaster general removed two
more mail carriers for interference In
politics and legislation.
Republican leaders conferred on the
proposed railway rate bill and assured
President Roosevelt congress will act
during the present session.
All traffic in London was tied up and
Christmas shoppers Inconvenience by
dense fog
The Illinois state board of equalization
made cut of $2,000.000 the in assessed
valuation of all property in the state.
After a lingering illness OF three years,
due to infirmities of old age, Rt Rev.
Richard Phelan, bishop of Pittsburg do
cese. of the Roman Catholic church, died
at Pittsburg, Pa, aged 76 years.
Two trainmen were killed and one was
badly scalded in a collision between
freight trains on the Rochester & Pitts
burg road, near West Falls. N. Y.
The John Thompson & Son agricul-
tural machine works and gasoline en-
CINE factory at Beloit, Wis, was de-
stroyed by fire, causing loss of $100, 900.
The official report shows that during
the worlds fair at st. Louis the total ad-
missions were 19,694.S55, of these H.
S04,6l6 were paid. The free admissions
amounted to 6,890,239.
Seven were killed in the disaster at
Minneapolis, Mimi. when the wall of the
Peck building crushed the Croker ho-
tel.
Senator Fairbanks has decided to for
ward his resignation to the governor of
Indiana January 9. the date of the meet
ing of the legislature, to take effect
March 4, next when he will be inaugu-
rated vice president
Four men were killed and their bodies
terribly mangled as the result of a boiler
explosion at the sawmill of b. F. Red
line near Rohrsburg, Pa.
James p. Eagle died at Little Rock,
Ark, after an illness of three weeks. He
was governor of Arkansas from 1889 to
1893.
A disastrous storm which suddenly
ht,r he NJ
has caused great loss of life. From re-
ports already received 81 persons have
persisted
President Roosevelt has accepted an
invitation to deliver an address at the
Lincoln day dinner to be given by tho
Republican club, of New York, on the
18th of next February.
The Minnesota board of pardons has
granted pardon to Col. Ames, brother
of former Mayor Ames, of Minneapolis,
and who was Mayor Ames' chief of police.
He was convicted of graft in connection
with the Ames administration.
The First national bank, of Conneaut.
o., and the Marine bank, of Conneaut
Harbor, have suspended. The suspen.
Germs owing to the panic caused by the
Chadwick affair.
The protestants in the Smoot inquiry
rested their case. The hearing was post
poned until January 10, when the de-
Tense will present evidence.
Many Europeans flocking to America
now are paupers and unfit for citizen
ship. according to Mr. Sargent, commits
sioner of immigration
Frederick Hall White, Harvard foot
ball player. has taken possession of a
fortune of $3,000,000 inherited from his
mother
The government has adopted stand
ard showing the chemical requirements
in foods and liquors, and this is to be
used in prosecutions.
Judge Wilkinson. at Brookhaven,
Miss, sentenced one whitecap for life
and five to 80 years each. He proposes
to end reign of terror.
The convocation of the University OF
Chicago was held and gifts of something
over 100000 were announced
Industries in West ern Pennsylvania
and eastern Ohio are paralyzed by rea-
son of the prolonged drought. There
Is much suffering and scores of towns
and villages in the district are at the
mercy OF flames, there being an utter lack
Of water.
Mrs. William Aston. of New York, has
broken all precedents by issuing 1900
invitations to her great ball in January.
J An order to mobilize reserves in seven
districts will add 100000 men to Kuro-
patkin's army in the far east.
James Britt was given the decision
over Battling Nelson in 20 rounds Of hard
lighting at San Francisco
Nan Patterson withstood severe
cross examination, her story of the
shooting of Caesar" Young remaining
mistaken.
Kingdom Gould. son Of George ].
Gould, fired four shots at sophomores OF
Columbia university who chased him
up Broadway In New York city, seeking
10 haze him. No one was hit.
Plans are forming for the establish
nent Of an exhibition of American
In Paris. France.
BY an explosion and the burning Of
5000 gallons Of petroleum on Stand
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