The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-04-29

Two persons are dead and two near
death from asphyxiation by illuminat-
ing gas because two German servant
girls employed by Herman Pagel, a
Chicago saloonkeeper, did not know
how to turn off the stops.
The jury which Is to decide the fate
of Nan" Patterson. on trial in New
York for the third time upon the
charge of numbering Caesar" Young,
bookmaker, has been completed. II
is composed almost entirely OF mar
ried men, only two of the accepted
panel of IL being single, one a bach
elor, the other widower.
The anniversary of the battle OF
Lexington was observed as holiday
in Massachusetts
Rev. Daniel Lloyd, the Oldest Meth
odlst minister in Ohio. who would
have reached his one hundredth birth
day next week died at Portsmouth
while seated in his favorite chair.
Secretary of State Hays physician
reports from Nervi. Italy, that Mr..
Hay has recovered his health.
| Edgar NJ. Calm, an attorney, filed
| suit in the civil court in New Orleans
on behalf of himself and other policy
| holders OF the Equitable Life Assur-
| ance Society of The United States, ask
| ing for a receivership.
Hon. Henry 6. Thayer, 72 years old,
prominent Indiana republican and
Mason, is dead at his home in Ply
mouth, Ind.
The railroad strike in Italy con-
tinues. Several thousand emigrants,
mostly going to America, could not
leave Rome because it was impossible
for them to reach Naples.
Secretary Taft has concluded to visit
Toxic on the occasion of his Philip
pine trip, and pay his respects to the
Japanese foreign Office officials.
In an attempt to escape three pris-
oners fired the parish jail at Pont-
chatoula, La, 4S miles from New Or
leans, two of them being cremated and
third fatally burned.
4 The Illinois building at the Lewis
and Clark exposition will be an exact
reproduction Of Abraham Lincoln's
home in Springfield. In addition, a
| paBOua Will De CTeCteu u SHOTt us
tance from the rlain building.
Arrangements are completed for the
annual encampment of the Grand
Army Of the Republic of Illinois at
Rockford May %, "a and 25.
J Prince George, of Greece, governor
Of Crete, is reported assassinated. He
} ruled six years as tyrant.
Ixh Do t,,or mi In, LET tn
Panama, is accused of duplicity toward
his own and isthmian governments in
canal zone crisis and is likely to be
retired to private life.
Gov. Higgins. OF New York, signed
the bill placing tax of two dollars
per hundred shares on transfers OF
corporate shares, or two cents on each
: 500 par value thereof.
The designations of nine Of the ten
pension examiners constituting the
! board of review, who were accused OF
Irregularities, were accepted by Secre-
tary Hitchcock at Washington
Worcester. Mass. the home city oil
United States Senator George Frisbie
Hoar, paid tribute to his memory at
a great meeting in Mechanics hall.
The Unile,. -.ates supreme court de-
clares the New York law limiting a
days work In a bakery at ten hours
unconstitutional because 1t .interferes
with the free right of contract between
individuals.
After many annoying delays Nan Pat
terson for the third time went into court
in New York to stand trial on an indict-
ment charging her with the murder OF
Caesar Young, wealthy bookmaker.
Bessie Jordan, colored, 40 years old,
and her daughter. Mary, nine years old
were burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed their home in Marion, Ind
Russia seems disposed to end her
policy of trade retaliation against The
United States, begun in 1901.
A gas buoy in process of filing on
board the government steamer Scout
exploded at Kingston, Ont, killing one
and injuring four of her crew.
Samuel r. Boyd, a prominent lawyer
and democratic politician, aged 45y years,
was found dead in his bed at Cynthi-
ana. Ky.
Elliott Northcott, assistant. United
States district attorney for the southern
district of West Virginia, mas been ap-
pointed United States attorney for the
same district.
Senator James b. Taliaferro was for
mally reelected to the United States SEN
ate by the Florida joint assembly for the
term ending 1910
The state department has advised AMI
bassador Porter that an American
; squadron will be sent to Paris to take
the body of Paul Jones to the United
States probably in June.
J Fire, starting in the west end of the
Diamond sawmill at Minneapolis, Minn.,
entirely demolished the structure, en-
failing loss of about $50,000
Without debate by vote of rs to II,
the Wisconsin assembly passed the ad-
ministration railroad rate commission
, bill.
President Diaz and party Of friends
left Mexico City on special train for
Parque Station, on the Cuernavaca
branch of the Mexican Central, where
they will begin a week & deer hunt in the