The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-09-22

George Early. conductor Of the
Norfolk & Western work train, was
shot and fatally wounded by John
James. negro, near Pembroke. Va.
James had been discharged by Early.
The National Hoo-Hoo convention
adjourned at Oklahoma City to. meet
next year at Atlantic City. Norfolk
and Little Rock we're the other con-
testants for the next meeting.
Three men were killed by coming
In contact with barbed wire fence
that had been charged with electricity
from the plant of the Indianapolis Il
Cincinnati Traction company, at Rush
vile, Ind.
District Attorney Bell, OF Philadel-
phia, stated that he had discovered
additional evidence of Segal's peculiar
financial methods. Five issues OF
mortgage bonds were made by Segal
on properties known as the Standard
Iron & Steel company, the Champion
Iron & Separator company and the
American Swedish Crucible Iron COM
pany. The first mortgage for $25O,O0O
was increased by four additional bond
issues to $5,000000, each succeeding
issue being made without the previous
mortgage having been Cancelled.
The fear Of an attack by the insur-
gents on Havana is spreading, and
there are rumors more or less anthem
tic from all directions OF new upris-
ings in various quarters.
In one of the most severe wind
storms that ever swept that district,
damage amounting to several thou
sand dollars was done about the docks
and factories of Escanaba, Mich.
Scores of families will move from
Zion City, ILL.,, to new colony to be
established in Butte county, South
Dakota, according to r. v. Iverson, of
Zion City.
r. w. Arnett and William Jackson,
who escaped from Jail at Carthage,
Mo-, in June last, were captured at
Muskogee, I. T., after struggle
They are charged with forgery and
burglary.
Two hundred union plumbers went
on strike at Kansas City, Mo-, for an
increase of SO cents a day in wages
Building operations were hindered.
The excitement over the copper de
posts discovered recently In the
Greenwater, CAL, district is on the in
crease. Hundreds Of men have braved
the desert to get into Inyo county and
locate prospects in the new field, 6(
miles south of Bullfrog.
| Secretary Root and family, accom-
panied by American Minister Dudley
and the mayor of Lima, visited the
cathedral and other places of interest
At the central market the party re
ceived an ovation. A group of womer
strewed flowers on the staircase al
the party were descending.
Solomon Urbach, a diamond mer
chant of New York city, reported t.
the Baltimore police that he was rob
bed of $4,000 worth Of diamonds
while en- route to that city.
George William Maurer, retired
died at Springfield, ILL.,, aged II years
During the civil war he was lieuten
ant and quartermaster in the Ont
Hundred and Fourteenth Illinois In
fantry, and was brigade quartermaste
for some time.
Judge B. T. Haines ordered the re
lease from Lansing, Kan, penitentiar!
of AL Harpster, who is serving lif'
sentence for the murder of John Jul
Ian at Ponca City, Okla. The dyini
confession of Byron Cole clears Harp
ster.
The approaching end of the DANCE
period for this season from yellow fe
yer infection was indicated by the &C
ton of the Louisiana state board o
health in partially letting down tn,
quarantine bars against some of tn,
Central American ports.
At Chook, /. T., James Martin, ,
stockman, was shot and killed as h,
was riding along the highway. It Il
alleged that trouble with stockmel
was the cause of the trouble.
Congressman Charles e. Littlefeld
Republican, in the Second Maine dis
trict was reelected by greatly re
duced plurality.
Gov. William T. Cobb, of Rockland
Republican, standing on a platform
devoted almost exclusively to a con
tinuance of the prohibitory law of thu
state, was reelected by plurality o
less than 5000, but with few excel
tons the smallest margin of vote
ever given a Republican governor II
the state of Maine.
Cicero Davis, a wealthy stockman
was killed by an unknown ASSASSIN
four miles east of Forum. /. T., beinni
shot from ambush while going aloni
road near his home.
s. A. Huntley, of Omaha, Neb., car
ried Off first prize for high total 70
the amateurs in the two days shoe
of the indianapolis Gun club. Tn
western man shattered 1862 out Of
possible 400.
A cold-blooded, premeditate,
slaughter of Jews by soldiers surpass
ing in atrocity anything yet seen II
the anti-Semite pogroms in Polan,
took place at Siedlce, Russia. A
least 300 Jews have been killed an
1000 wounded. The artillery was use'
against the helpless people, fell