The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-10-27

Five PERSONS Verc kllieu anu dDout
hundred injured by gasoline explo-
sion in the Meinerding dry goods and
hardware store at Fort Recovery, o.
Willie Hoppe, of New York, again
proved his right to the title Of worlds
champion at 1S-inch balk line, one
shot In The young lad was challeng-
ed by the veteran Jake Schaefer, Of
Chicago, and won by score Of 500
to 472 In AZ innings.
While there Is some apprehension
with regard to yellow fever in Cuba,
the situation Is not regarded as espe-
cially dangerous. The number Of
cases under treatment in Havana Is
ten. There is one case at Cruces, two
at Cienfuegos. Dr. Finlay, chief OF
the department of health and santa
ton, said that while the fever in Ha-
vana was epidemic, the situation was
not one to cause serious alarm and
that there was every expectation that
the spread of the disease could be
prevented.
At Lockport. N, Y, the jury in the
case of Mrs. Della b. Sweeting against
the steamer Western States reported
to Judge Hazel In federal court a YER
dict of $4,000 in favor of the plain
tiff. Mrs. Sweeting, whose home is in
jackson, Mich, sued for $4,000.
James b. Mapen claims that on
shipments of baled straw from Cen
ter Point, Ia, to Chicago the Rock
Island road charged him IA cents per
hundred pounds on a weight of a.
900 pounds to a car, although the pre-
else weight was only 1920 pounds.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the
president of the confederacy. who had
been Ill In New York, Is dead. Death
was due to pneumonia, induced by a
severe cold which Mrs. Davis con-
tracted upon her return from the Adj
rondacks, where she had spent the
summer months.
The controversy which had been
waged between the American and
Canadian lake fishermen for the past
20 years has been placed in an en-
tirely different light by report made
to the state department by Capt. e. c..
Chayter, commanding the United
States revenue cutter Morrell on the
great lakes. The report shows in sub
stance that the American fishermen
have been transgressors and that they
have been treated with the greatest
consideration by the Canadian fish
ing patrol.
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Holmes, wife Of
William M. Holmes, of Brooklyn, who
was arrested In Washington last jan
uary while attempting to secure an
interview with President Roosevelt,
was ordered to be committed to
Bloomingdale asylum as a paranoiac.
Three children, aged three, four
and seven years respectively, Were
smothered to death in gravel pit at
Canton, o. Their bodies were found
in the pit, where they had been play
ing. A landslide had caught them.
At Carmia, b. c., James A. Dale, a
boarding house keeper, Is alleged to
have killed two men and to have
wounded third. Dale is said to
have attempted to eject the men from
his house when the fight started.
A military expedition of consider
able strength Is at present being or
ganized in Fee for the purpose of
gathering taxes, which for four years
have remained unpaid from the turbu-
lent tribes In the south.
The legislative assembly at Perth,
by a vote of 10 to 8, adopted motion
that the state of Western Australia
secede from the rest of the common
wealth.
A squadron of soldiers from the
Sixth cavalry stationed at Fort Mead
has been sent out to assist in fighting
terrific prairie fire, which started
about mile from Tilford, s. D., and
which burned over a large expanse
of country.
John Horgan, champion continuous
pool player of the world, has formally
surrendered his title and returned the
diamond championship emblem to the
donor.
The Lincoln (Neb.) city council
adopted the report of committee de-
claring the Lincoln Gas company
without franchise and instructed
the city attorney to begin suit of
custer.
Celestian Antoine shot and killed
his wife at Chatfield, Mimi, because Of
some domestic trouble. He Is Sc years
of age.
Vice President w. p. Dewar, of the
Missouri, Oklahoma & Gulf railroad,
which has its road already built from
Wagner, I. T., announced that work
would begin at once on an extension
to Denison, Tex.
To prevent corn famine Gov. Abu-
mazda, OF Jalisco, has made an appeal
to the general government Of Mexico
for the removal of duties from
American corn for Importation.
Samuel Jones, the noted evangelist,
dropped dead in an Oklahoma, Choc-
taw G. Gulf train near Little Rock.
Mr.. Jones' home was at Gainesville,
Ca, SO miles from Atlanta.
Ezra M. Boswell, one of the leading
Science practitioners and
teachers of the west, died quite sud-
denly at his home at Beatrice, Neb.
A naphtha launch containing a par