The L'Anse sentinel., 1906-12-08
NEWS OF A WEEK
TERSELy OUTLINED
A SUMMARY OF THE MOST I'M
PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM
Complete Review Of Happenings Of
Greatest Interest from All Parts
of the Globe-The Latest Foreign
Information.

nized as one of the foremost men In
the development Of the southern
states, and six other persons were
killed in a rear end collision between
two fast passenger trains ten miles
south of Lynchburg, Va.
American residents in London,
Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Mexico City
and other foreign cities, celebrated
Thanksgiving day with banquets and
receptions.
George f. Pollock, Of the depart
ment of the interior, says the charges
made against him by Special Agent
Myendorff in the Utah coal land fraud
case, are false.
Senior Moret y Prendergast formed
a new cabinet for Spain with Perez
Caballero as minister Of foreign
affairs.
1t is rumored that the Australian
government will prosecute the Aus
tralian representatives OF the Ameri-
can oil combine under the antitrust
act
Charles II. Chamberlin, senior coun'
cillor of the Wisconsin grand council
OF the United Commercial Travellers,
died suddenly Of paralysis at La
Crosse, Wis.
The members-elect of the Hawaiian
legislature will ask the United States
to raise their pay to $1,000 session.
Vincent Spinner and wife and two
children, of Eastern Wells county,
North Dakota, lost their way while
driving home from neighbor's, and
Mr.. Spilner and one child were frozen
to death.
Jennie Yeamans, popular as singer
and actress a decade ago, died after
long illness in New York from
tuberculosis.
William Fisher, an inventor Of
steam contrivances in use in every
civilized country on the globe, is
dead at Marshalltown, la.
Ten thousand dollars worth Of jew
elry was stolen from two boarders in
fashionable boarding house at 33
Twenty-second street, New York.
,S-Brig. Gen. George W. Baird, U. 8.
A., retired, Is dead at Asheville, N. C..
in December, 1889. He served in the
civil war and on the western frontier,
participating with gallantry In several
Indian campaigns.
Eugene Motz, Chilian consul to
Mexico City, has received an official
notice from his government to the
effect that the report circulated last
August at the time of the disastrous
earthquake saying that Juan Fernan-
dez island had sunk into the ocean
was untrue.
So far as can be ascertained, "a
persons were killed, SO were seriously
wounded and several hundred were
slightly injured as result of the ex-
plosion of the Roburit factory near
Amen, Germany.
The cathedral of the Sacred Heart,
the gift of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas F.
Ryan, was dedicated at Richmond, Va.
The Interstate commerce commits
sion recommends to President Roose-
velt that the public coal lands be with
drawn permanently from entry and
developed under government control,
thereby breaking up the coal monop-
oily and producing revenue which
It is estimated, would pay the ex-
penses Of the government.
Ethel Smith, 15 years old. defended
her home against a man who broke
into the house at Thornton, r. l.,
shooting and killing him. She was
arrested, but the chief of police kept
her in his own home, giving her
Thanksgiving dinner.
Sweet Marie, noted trotting mare,
was bought for $4,000 by Philadel-
phia banker at auction sale In New
York.
Engineer O'Brien was found dead by
the fireman in the cab of west
bound Rock Island passenger train
which was running so miles an hour.
O'Brien's skull was crushed. supposed
ly by some projecting timber.
Billy Melody won welter-weight
boxing title in 12-round fight with
Joe Walcott at Chelsea, Mass.
Secretary Wilson's annual report
shows the value OF farm crops Is in
creasing enormously with the progress
In the science of agriculture.
An unknown man was swept over
the Horseshoe falls at Niagara In
small boat after daring attempt had
been made to save him.
Senator Platt denied an interview
in which he was reported to have said
he would not resign his seat in the
senate.
The big defaIcation rumored in a
New York bank proves to have been
only the theft of check for $12.ss.
A lone robber, masked and armed.
held up fifteen passengers on an east
bound Chicago & Alton passenger
train near Glasgow. Mo. He was ar
rested before he could leave. the train.