The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-22

II #. =. Grimes, ex-treasurer, voluu
/ tarily paid to the state OF Kansas
1881, for which amount an investi
CATION committee some time ago helt
| his administration responsible.
Ex-Gov. Franklin J. Moses, Of Soutf
, Carolina, was found dead In bed al
| his lodging house at Winthrop Beach
Mass, death being caused by asphyx
iation. Gas was found escaping fror-
small stove used to heat the place
Matt Priestly, one OF the county gu
pervisors at Rock Rapids, Ia, re-
Gently indicted by the grand jury for
incorporation Of road funds. com
mitted suicide by cutting his throat
with jack knife.
The American Sugar Refining COM
pany and the Brooklyn Cooperage
company were fined $4,000 and $780,
900 respectively in New York for ac-
cepting rebates on sugar shipments.
DR.. C. w. 'Behm. chief Of the disin-
lection staff Of tho Chicago health
| department, Is seriously Ill with diph-
| iberia, contracted while carrying on
| experiments to secure more potent
germicide.
John J. Kinneally, the socialist
labor candidate for mayor of New
York in the campaign of 1905. was
drowned in Long Island sound, off
Oak Point.
Frank w. Chamberlin, prominent
as theatrical manager In Iowa and
Illinois, died at Augusta, Ga.
John d. Rockefeller has promised
100000 to the board of foreign mis-
sions of the United Presbyterian
church for educational work in Egypt
and the Sudan.
The funeral of Bishop Seymour, of
the Springfield diocese Of the Episco-
pal church. took place from st. Paul's
ro-cathedral, Springfield, Ill.
J. G. F. Harrington, of Decatur, ILL.,.
has been appointed superintendent of
public instruction in Bolivia.
The Norwegian storthing conferred
the Nobel peace prize on President
Roosevelt, who will use the money
to establish an Industrial peace COM
mission.
Mitchell Bruso, a Greek deckhand
on the ocean tug Luckenbach, hero
ically rescued two men from a found
ering barge in an icy storm.
The steamer Monarch was wrecked
on Isle Royale, 40 miles from Fort
William, Ont, and one man was
drowned.
A furious gale in San Francisco did
many thousands of dollars worth of
damage and cost several lives.
The Wisconsin legislative committee
on life insurance made its report,
mingling censure and praise of the
companies doing business in that
state.
Levi Boster, reputed to have been
the oldest person in Missouri, is dead
at his home near Houston, Texas
county, aged 116 years. He was born
in Virginia.
The president has filled the vacancy
to be created by the transfer to the
cabinet of Ambassador Myer at St
Petersburg. by the selection of John
w. Riddle, at present minister to
Roumania and Servia.
Miss Mary McAtee shot and proba
bly, fatally wounded her father, Rev
John Quincy McAtee in Philadelphia
after he had attacked her mother.
w. Scotty Smith, one of the veal
thiest farmers of Woods county, Okla.
was called from his home by party
of unknown men, seized and bound
| u,itb J,o hn =
and dragged by horse across freshl.
plowed ground until life was extinct
The water board of the city o
Omaha voted to rescind the actor
of the city council taken in 1903 pro
viding for the purchase of the Oman,
Water company's plant, and named ;
committee to procure plans and esti
mates for new plant to be bull
by the city which 1t is believed will
cost about $4.000,000
A. b. Hitchcock, Harry c. Moor,
and j, III. Clark, milk dealers of Boone
Iowa, who published an agreement t
put up the price of milk, were indicte,
for conspiracy to combine and contro
output and price contrary to tn
statutes.
Secretary Shaw decided to releas
$20,000,000 from the United State
treasury to relieve financial strir
gency; he will buy $10,000,000 bond
and will accept savings bank secur
ties for deposits.
The annual report Of Second Assis
ant Postmaster General Shallenbarge
says the cost of transporting the mail
of the United States during the las
fiscal year was $76.65S,599.
Two men were instantly killed whe
struck by Rock Island special trai
in front of the Thirty-first street sta
ton, Chicago, and three persons stant
ing on the platform were knocke
down and bruised by the bodies Q
the other two as they we're hurle
through the air.
Eugene J. Leahy, believed to be. tn
last Of the crew Of the Monitor at tn
time of her memorable battle wit
the Merrimac, died at New Londor
Conn, aged SO years.
| Chester e. Gillette, convicted of tn
murder of his sweetheart, Grac
| - In,