The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-01-20

oreign sentiment to be very strong
Forty-one leading German profes.
,ional men signed letter to the Brit
sh press deploring the sentiment
which threatens to involve the two
powers In war.
The chief Of the bureau OF weights
md measures In New York says many
dealers in all lines Of business rob
he poor giving short weight.
Herman Neidner, thing contractor,
charged with bribery by the last grand
Jury in Milwaukee, Wis, pleaded gull
~ to the indictment in the municipal
court and was fined 5000 and costs oy
Judge Brace.
Grant Goodhart and Shirley Bolton
were run down and killed by fast
passenger train on the Erie road near
o.
Pat Grove was indicted at Council
Ia, by the grand jury for al
legged completely in a street car hold
up on July 2, 1906, when about $50 was
secured from two conductors and q
motorman.
Plunging from the terminal elevated
tracks In st. Louis Pullman sleeping
car attached to the Wabash train
dropped Is feet to the granite pave
ment OF the levee. Ten passengers on
board were injured.
Sir Thomas Upton is making plans
for another campaign against the New
York Yacht club next year, and the
Zone of contention will be the Amer
ica's cup, for which the popular Irish
baronet already has tried three times.
An oil pipe line across the isthmus
OF Panama will be built IL Secretary
Taft's recommendations to President
Roosevelt are accepted.
Details are made known of plans for
chain of municipal hospitals in New
York costing $75,O00,000.
The second national conference to
discuss reforms in election laws of the
country will convene in New York
March 5.
During the last year a single dia-
mond was found in South Africa which
is the largest precious stone known to
history. 1t weighs 1924 carats, or 1877
pounds avoidupois and its dimensions
are four by two and half by one and
half inches, having value of $i5,-
100000.
A mass convention at Wichita, Kan.
adopted resolutions urging congress
to take action for rate reform.
The claim Is made that railroads
hAI mi trta
est as excess deposits on mileage
books issued to travelling men.
Eight persons lost their lives in a
fire In the West hotel, Minneapolis, and
20 were injured in rush to escape.
Secretary Taft, in letter to Presi-
dent Roosevelt. declares Poultney Big
Glow, critic Of the Panama canal, was
on the isthmus only 20 hours and got
his information from two men whom
the canal authorities had refused to
employ at large salaries.
The general assembly of Virginia
convened at Richmond. The governors
message opposes convict labor, recon-
mends reorganization OF the state
treasury, favors civil service as to
clerks, and advocates public school and
road improvement.
The Chinese minister at Washington
has telegraphed his government that
any satisfactory legislation on the ex-
clusion act is improbable.
The National Negro Business league,
OF New York city, has been incorporat-
ed to promote the commercial and
financial development of the negroes of
the United States.
Formal announcement of the suspen-
sion OF the firm Of Denison, Prior &
Co., investment bankers and brokers,
was made on the floor of the Cleveland
stock exchange.
The Waverly car barns of the United
railways, which company controls all
the street railways of Baltimore, Nd,
were almost entirely destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
Adam Hauck, rs years. and Christian
Clauser, IS years of age, of Eureka, s..
D., blew out the gas when retiring at a
hotel at Aberdeen, s. ID. They were
found dead In the morning.
The plant of the Virginia Carolina
Chemical company, near Charlotte, N.
c., was damaged $125, 900 by fire.
The sixteenth annual reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans will be
held in New Orleans April 26 and q.
Ben Harris, the negro charged with
the assassination of Ore Polk, at Ber-
ings Mill, Tex, was taken from officers
by mob and lynched at Moscow, Tex.
Angered at being made scapegoat
for scandals in the Mutual Life Insur-
ance company, Richard A. McCurdy,
former president of the company, says
he will reveal tho true conditions, and
IT. is expected new scandals will be ex-
posed.
In a quarrel over politics, Sheriff w.
j. Thompson, of La Plata county, and
Policeman Jesse Stensel of Durango,
Col, exchanged dozen shots with re-
volvers on the main street in that city,
and both were MORALLY wounded
Thompson died later.
Postmaster General Cortelyou asks
that his estimate of 2S,S25, 900 for the
maintenance Of rural free delivery in
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907 be
reduced to $27,799,O0O.
BY a decision of the United States