The L'Anse sentinel., 1906-12-08

/ bid Panama trip, resumed work on Inn
portant afEairs. Including the canal.
Porto Rico and the Japanese complica-
tions. Several special messages to
congress are expected to result from
his observations abroad.
Mrs. Rosa Eckerman. q pillar In the
Methodist church of Muskegon. Mich,
an ardent w. c. T. u. worker and
society woman, was found guilty OF
selling liquor to minors from her drug
store.
Capt. Horatio N. Read was shot and
instantly killed by his wife at their
home, four miles southeast of Burling-
ton, Kan. Mrs. Read claims that her
husband threatened to kill her with
corn knife and that she shot In self
defense.
Elsie Jacobs, the 1S.year-old col
lege student OF Mount Pleasant, Ia,
who attempted to swindle the First
| National bank of Galesburg out OF
s., 900 by means of a bogus check. was
sentenced in the circuit court at Gales
burg to an indeterminate term In the
penitentiary.
An attempt was made Tuesday by
unknown parties to kill Burgess A. G.
Marsh, Of Washington, Pa, through
the medium of an Internal ma
chine which he received by mail.
The arrangements failed to ex-
plode when opened. The sending OF
the Internal machine is credited to the
Black Hand society, which Burgess
Marsh has tried to break up.
Fire destroyed most of the business
section of Belmont, o. The total loss
was about about 100000.
Jean Daniel Debs, father of Eugene
V. Debs, former socialist candidate for
president, Is dead at Terre Haute, Ind.
Mr.. Debs was native OF Alsace,
France, and was friend and neigh
Dor of August Bartholdi, sculptor OF
the statue of liberty. He was So years
old.
Lashed to the wheel of the almost
disabled schooner Gold Hunter, buff
feted by fierce gale for As hours,
Mrs. Frank Mcclure, wife of the cap
; tain of the vessel, clung to her post,
and to her heroic struggle is due the
safe entry of the ship into port, eleven
days overdue from Portland, Me.
For accepting from the New York
Central and Hudson River Railway
company some $4,000 rebates on
payment made on shipments Of sugar
from Brooklyn to Cleveland, fine OF
$4,000 was imposed by Judge Holt in
. the United States circuit court, crimi'
= nal bench, upon the American Sugar
u Refining company, of New Jersey.
A marriage has been arranged be.
!, tween the Due de Chaultness ct de
l. Picquigny and Miss Theodore Shonts
younger daughter of Theodore Shonts
+ chairman of the Panama canal com
: mission.
T. Stirred to action by the death Of q
l. girl on the Metropolitan elevated, the
Q Chicago city council adopted resolu
tions ordering Chief of Police Collins
to take action toward ending the in
8 tolerable overcrowding of both elevat
l. ed and surface cars.
Two children, boy of three and 9
girl year and half old. perished ir
!. fire which the older child started II
their home at 491 Milwaukee avenue
+, Chicago.
l. A syndicate of capitalists proposed
g to committee Of congress to take
J. over the postal service, promising
penny postage and a better service
Il than Is provided by the government.
;, Enrico Caruso was granted new
! hearing in New York on plea made by
| Icouueal that tho oictr In the
:. case had committed legal error.
Miss Blanche Walsh has become
the wife of a member Of her company
at New Orleans. and Harry d. Smith
the author of librettos, has married
Miss Irene Bentley
President Roosevelt returned to
Washington from his trip, and de.
clared that he was deeply impressed
with the United States navy, Panama
and Porto Rico.
Edward M. Shepard, counsel for DR..
Crapsey, scored Bishop Potter for his
comment on the formers heresy case
while 1t was under judicial consid.
l Grafton.
The Russian ukase for the disrup-
. | tlOu VI tue COLlIuuneS anu the pdTCel-
ing of their land among the peasants
Is regarded as a new scheme of the
czar to gain allies for the bureaucracy.
Not single American died on the
canal zone from disease in the last
three months, according to a report
the isthmian canal commission has
received from Col. w. c. Gorgas, the
chief sanitary officer on the zone.
A coroner's jury returned verdict
holding Mrs. Anisia Louise de Massey
responsible for the death of Gustav
Simon, shirt-waist manufacturer,
whom she shot last week in the fac
tory In New York city.
Pierre Merlou, who was minister Of
finance In the Rouvier cabinet, and
was appointed French minister to
Peru last September. was shot on the
Boulevard des Italiens, Paris, by a
woman named Allemagne.
On the petition of James Pallitz, Of
New York, stockholder, a temporary