The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-01-21

Ex-Gov. Silas CARRIER, the FIRST gov
ernor OF Nebraska under the new con-
stitution. died at his home In Red
Cloud. Neb.
Alexander G. Wilson, a young bank
clerk In Chicago, accidentally caused
the death OF his sweetheart by giving
her poison, and was exonerated by cor
oner's jury.
The charity ball in Chicago proved a
| splendid success socially and financially.
| About $4,000 was realized for charity
from the brilliant affair.
Witnesses for the defense in the Smoot
case denied political activity OF the Nor
mons and declared there have been no
plural marriages In Idaho since the
manifesto was issued.
Gov. La Toilette in his message to the
Wisconsin legislature calls for state SUI
pervision of rates, tax on life insurance
and action against the trusts and the
lobby.
Count Puechler. Germany's greatest
Jew batter, has been sentenced to jail
for melting class hatred.
destroyed the business section OF Arispe.
la. Loss, $4,000.
A poll which the leaders of the house
have conducted Of the republican men,
bers on the question of tariff revision
shows that 80 per cent. OF the members
who have been approached were against
revision.
hn lot NIB for a
time was held as a suspectin connec-
ton with the assassination of President
Lincoln, died In New York at the age
of SO. He was Wilkes Booths room
mate and one Of his closest friends, and
was on the stage in the Washington,
theater when the fatal shot was fired.
Prof. William T. Matthews, an artist,
the friend of many well-known men and
the painter Of portraits of number Of
presidents and others in public life, died
in Washington. aged 70 years.
Frank p. Flint (rep.), Of Los Angeles.
was elected United States senator from
California to succeed Thomas r. Bard.
Three men and a woman were killed
in a wreck on the Cotton Belt railroad
at Piggott, Ark.
Silas S. Whitehead. for As years a
prominent editor. died at Marshall, ILL.,
In 1854 he established the Evansville
(Ind.) Enquirer, now the Courier. Later
he established the Eastern Illinoisan at
Marshall
Committees were appointed in the
Missouri house and senate to investi-
gate the campaign contributions of
Thomas X. Niedringhaus, of st. Louis.
the republican candidate for United
States senator.
H. E. Buckley, who had escaped dur
ing the night from his home in Okla
homa City, Okla, while delirious, was
found frozen to death.
George Betz was instantly killed and
George Koran and John Finlayson were
burned and shocked in St. Louis at
telephone, the wire of which had be-
come crossed with an electric light wire.
John Miller, OF Chicago. killed his
wife and two babes at the end of a
drunken spree. After shooting them,
he cut their threats with razor. Then
he cut his own throat and shot himself
in the breast. He will die
Two men were found dead in room
in Chicago. Gas was flowing from two
open burners in the room. 1t is thought
the deaths were accidental.
Charles ID. Hamill, a leading mem
Der OF the board of trade, and its pres
ident for two terms in former years,
died at his home in Chicago
ho,
an expenditure of s325,000,000 for war
purposes to the middle of December.
A Chicago saloonkeeper who had a
fear Of being held up hid $500 in the
stove and his wife soon after kindled
fire, destroying the money.
The first detachment Of 200, 1000 Rus
sian Quakers, who are to establish a
colony near Los Angeles. Cal, has
arrived
Thirteen sailors were rescued at sea
after drifting IA days in an open boat
They had just drawn lots to see which
should be sacrificed for food.
Detectives. after eight months
search, found jewels valued at $4,000
stolen from the wife of Bishop Potter
The gems were found in a vacant lot
in New York city, hidden beneath a
rock, and William Coleman has been
arrested.
The Illinois state board of charities
in its annual report asked for $780,
$50 for the ensuing two years
A resolution was introduced in the
Missouri legislature calling for an in
vestigation of the report that st. Louis
brewers had given $21 900 to Thomas X.
Niedringhaus, chairman of the state re-
publican committee and caucus nominee
for United States senator, to influence
legislation during the present session OF
the legislature.
DR.. Alonzo Fl. Sylvester, Emperor
Williams American dentist, committed
suicide In Berlin. He shot himself
through the head in his bedroom.
Alva Adams, democrat. Of Pueblo, has
been inaugurated governor Of Colorado.
Ratification OF the treaty Of extradi-
ton between Great Britain and Cuba has
been exchanged.
A heavy snow storm fell throughout
Kansas. In the central Kansas wheat
fields the snow was heavier than any In