The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-07-29

seek liberty IN the Ouiteu otntSo uhu
reached New York In the steerage.
Five human skeletons were founc
on an island near Hammond. Ind.
The $6S5,0OO blind loan made by
the Mercantile Trust company to Alex
ander and Jordan as Equitable trus-
tees has been mysteriously made
good.
The British government was beaten
in the commons on a motion to reduce
the Irish land commission, but the
ministry, expecting a vote of conf
dence on another issue, will not re-
sign.
Tho New York legislature. before
which Justice Hooker of the supreme
court has been on trial, has voted not
to remove him from Office.
The death rate of Chicago shows an
increase of more than 20 per cent for
the week as a result of the hot spell.
Fred Mcdonald, a young negro, was
placed in Jail at Lebanon. Mo-, charged
with the assassination of his father-in-
law, Alfred Eldredge.
The Farmers bank OF Spring Valley,
O., a private institution owned by
George w. Smith. closed its doors and
a receiver has been appointed. The as
sets are $4,000 with liabilities in excess.
The troop stable at Fort Washakie,
Wyo, has been destroyed by fire. Fifty
horses belonging to troop F, Tenth Unit
ed States cavalry, were burned and also
three mules and considerable saddlery.
Rear Admiral Francis ]. Higginson,
commandant of the Washington navy
yard, has been placed on the retired list
of the navy.
Five miners were literally torn to
pieces by the explosion Of rs pounds OF
dynamite in a storage powder house at
the West Riverside coal mine, two miles
west of Des Moines, la.
Chairman Paul Morton, of the Equl-
table Life Assurance society, summarily
removed as comptroller T. d. Jordan,
and appointed in his stead William A.
Day. assistant attorney general of the
United States.
Sen. Oliver o. Ashton, Of Boston,
dropped dead in the Hotel Washington,
In Seattle. Wash, from stroke of apo
plexy brought on by the heat.
George Brown, a well-known farmer
living near New Martinsville, w. Va,
shot and killed William Williams, Is
years old. because he found the lad in his
blackberry patch.
The final intermept Of the remains Of
John Paul Jones may not take place this
fall. II is the present intention finally
to deposit the remains beneath the
great Memorial chapel at Annapolis.
which cannot be completed this year.
Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, sew
enth Earl Cowper, who was lord lleuten-
ant of Ireland from 1880 to 1882, is dead
There being no heir the earldom is now
extinct. Earl Cowner was born in 1894
Elihu Root, of New York, has been
sworn in as secretary of state.
murderer in the st. Paul prison con-
demned to death ended his life by
s:rangllng himself in his cell.
In Chicago Esther Hacken, angered
by her aged fathers interference in
household affairs. threw carbolic acid in
his face and destroyed his sight.
Railroad companies in Wisconsin
evince desire comply strictly with
the new rate law OF that state.
United Mine Workers are declared to
have spent $1,500,0 600 to keep alive the
strike in the Tennessee Coal & Iron
company's mines.
At Grantsville, w. Va, Louis Hend-
rick and Robert McCroskey pleaded
| guilty to first degree murder and were
sentenced to the penitentiary for life
| They were charged with the murder Of
Henry Blackshire.
Jealous over the supposed infatuation
| of her husband for her sister, a Viii
liamsburg IN. Y.) woman kills her own
child.
President Roosevelt will urge con-
gress to decide on some plan for the fed
eral supervision of life insurance COM
panies. Leading lawyers already are en-
deavoring to work out measure that
would be constitutional.
| The forty-sixth annual campmeeting
of Methodists at Desplaines, ILL.,, opened
with meeting attended by over 1000.
The Chinese empire is on the eve Of
sweeping reforms. Officials will 60 to
all parts of the world to study questions
of government
Justice Brewer in Milwaukee
speech denounced graft as nations
peril.
Vice Governor Deutrich, Of Finland,
Wv badly wounded by bomb, thrown
by terrorist as the official was leav-
ing the senate at Helsingfors.
e. H. Funston, father OF Gen Funs-
ton, was found guilty in a Kansas po-
lice court for disturbing the peace.
Daniel Maloney, who had made numer-
GUS successful ascensions with Prof.
Montgomery's aeroplane, fell 5000 feet
to his death at Santa Clara, Cal.
Seven lives were lost in disastrous
fire, which destroyed the Hoffman house,
al Wabasha, MINI.
Gen. Francis e. Pinto, who was the
Only surviving commissioned officer Of
the First regiment, New York volunteers,
which served with distinction in the
Mexican war, died at his home in Brook
lyn. He was SO years old.
The yearly outing Of George A. Hulss
and his family of eight had tragic end
ing at Southampton. L. l.. when Hulse