The L'Anse sentinel., 1906-04-28

The court at Sunbury, Pa, consid-
cred the application of A. Herndon for
wholesale liquor license. He fiipped
a coin with the attorney for the petit
toner, and the lawyer won.
State Secretary NJ. T. Filming of the
Illinois Association of Letter Carriers
issued call for the eighth annual
convention, the date being fixed at
May 30 at Elgin.
Fire has swept the town OF Mari
quina, Rizl province, p. |. Many thou
sands OF persons are homeless and
starving. Two thousand dwellings are
in ruins. The government is rushing
assistance to the sufferers.
Fire destroyed Pasil, near the town
of Cebu, p. |. Two hundred dwellings
were burned and many persons are
homeless.
Miners spurned the arbitration
scheme of operators in western Penn
sylyania. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
X. G. Dun & Co. report trade condi-
| tions as favorable.
The report of the Canadian section
of the international waterways COM
mission declares the maintenance Of
| Niagara falls is a national matter and
should be dealt with as such.
| DR.. Mary +. Breen. en- route for her
home at Lemars, went violently insane
at Fort Dodge. Ia. upon hearing Of
the terrible catastrophe at San Fran
cisco.
William Perry, a negro. who killed
Lewis Williams and Alice Merritt also
colored, in New York, gave himself
up to the Philadelphia police.
Maggie Goeken, Of Green Valley ILL.,.
aged four years was burned to death.
Her clothes caught fire from a stove.
A committee of the Ohio Brewers
association decided to employ attor-
neys to contest the constitutionality
of the Aiken law and the Jones local
option law, passed recently by the
general! assembly.
Fire Chief William Kennedy of Greer
Bay, Wis, pleaded guilty to charge ol
bribery on information secured on his
voluntary statement.
|
Daniel Kenney, formerly of Chicago
and containing three friends, wa.
struck and demolished on the Big Foul
crossing at Danville, one occupant be
ing killed.
The Chicago Burlington & Quincy
Railroad company, Darius o. Miller
the vice president and traffic manager
and Claude G.. Burnham, the foreign
freight traffic manager, were fined an
aggregate Of 100000 by Judge Bethea
in the United States district court al
Chicago on the charge of granting H.
legal rebates in the shipment of tin
plates to British Columbia.
An earthquake shock of unusual vio
lence at Calumet, Mich, spread con
sternation through the mining coun
try and caused the death Of one man
and the serious injury of four others.
A gift OF 1,200 pennies, saved up
in bag, representing the absolute
self-denial for the year OF nine-year
old Raymond Shannon from candy
and other childish luxuries, was the
most cherished gift received ON Easter
by the sisters of st. Francis hospital
in Trenton, N. J.
Dependency because the trial board
had recommended his dismissal from
the department. Christopher A
Schreck, Chicago policeman, killed
himself.
An overhead walk at the Duluth
Mesabe & Northern docks collapsed al
Duluth. Mimi, and q men sustained
serious injury,
Representative and Mrs. Nicholas
June for England. They will remain
abroad all summer and return to
Washington October /.
Vast coal interests in West Virginia
are aroused by the state tax commits
sioner's announcement that coal as
: sessments previously made in variou.
, counties would be advanced.
. Two simple cures for domestic quar-
, rels have been discovered by Magis
trate Eisenbrown, of Philadelphia. On
Is to allow an angry wife at all time
to have the last word and the othe
. requires the husband to take wal
of four squares as soon as a quarre
. starts.
Frank Thompson, son of Gardne
! Thompson, a prominent farmer livin
]. two miles south of Paw Paw. ILL.,, CON
p mitted suicide by shooting himself !
the neck with shotgun.
= The anthracite coal operators afts
{ blaming President Mitchell, Of Ii
= miners union for the coal strike, "a
they have nothing further to offer.
Many divorced persons prominent
New York society are affected by II
!, supreme court decision. among the
Mrs. Shaw, young Waldorf Astor
q promised bride.
/ An all-American crusade to resi-.
unwarranted advances in freight rate
: and compel the railroads to cease r,
3 classifcations that have extorted mi
!. lions OF dollars from merchants an
manufacturers has been begun by th
shippers.