The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-29

island, New York, &; whom 1888
we're assisted by the society Tor ltal-
ian immigrants.
Justice Stafford. in criminal court In
Washington. named Monday, Febru-
airy 4, as the date for the beginning
OF the trial of Representative Binger
Hermann, of Oregon, charged with
the destruction of certain letter press
copybooks when he retired from the
land Office.
Japanese Ambassador Aoki said the
idea that Japan and the United
States would fight was too absurd to
be considered.
Cardinal Richard vacated his palace
in Paris and his friends made a great
demonstration.
Lincoln bank, Of Morton Park, q
Chicago suburb, failed; deposits sup
posed to be over 100000, OF which
$55, 900 Is town of Cicero's.
BY the will of Daniel b. Shipman.
Of Chicago, $1,260.000 was left in per-
petual trust to Ave charitable institu-
tions.
Developments by commerce commits
sion inquiry into the fuel famine in the
northwest indicated It would be brok-
en- within "a hours.
Chancellor Day, Of Syracuse uni
versity, declared the nation was in a
spasm over corporate wealth and
swollen fortunes.
Cotton mill operatives numbering
10000, employed in different sections
Of New England, received an advance
in wages, or a promise OF advance at
an early date.
channel the British steamer Airing
ton collided with and sank the Bel
gian steamer Cap JUDY. Twelve of the
crew of the Cap JUDY were drowned.
The New York Central train known
as the Buffalo local. was wrecked
about mile east of Palmyra, N. Y.
The engineer was fatally injured and
the entire train, with the exception of
one Pullman, was burned to the
trucks.
Gearge Burnham, Jr., vice president
and general counsel for the Mutual Re-
serve Life Insurance company, con-
victed of grand larceny, was sentenced
to two years in Sing Sing.
A merger of the Peoples Savings
bank and the State Savings bank Of
Detroit, Mich, having a combined cap
ital of $1.500,00O, surplus of $780,
600 and aggregate deposits of 100000
900, was announced.
A landslide buried a number Of
houses in the little hamlet of Cuzons
in the Hautes Pyrenees. Eleven per-
sons were entombed.
Nine sailors belonging to the crew
of the battleship Hindustan were
drowned at Portsmouth, England,
owing to the upsetting of cutter in
which they were returning to the war
ship.
IS. Peter and Paul's Catholic church
at Spring Valley, ILL.,, was completely
destroyed by fire. The loss is $4,000.
Capt. James w. Lambert, proprietor
and publisher of the Natchez Demo-
crat and one OF the best known men
OF Mississippi, died of Brights dis
ease.
George Boote, for many years one
of San Francisco's most prominent
ship owners and ship builders, died
after short illness resulting from q
fall from street car six weeks ago.
He was 81 years of age.
National Bank Examiner John B.
Cunningham has found $950,000 dis
crepancies in the Farmers and Drov-
ers' National bank of Waynesburg,
Pa. which failed.
Frank Steinhart, the American con-
sui general at Havana, rendered his
resignation to Gov. Magoon, he having
received an offer to represent in Cuba
a prominent American financial insti-
tuition.
Secretaries Strans, Metcalf and
Bonaparte were sworn in as members
of the reorganized cabinet.
The planning mill of the Chicago G.
Alton railroad shops at Bloomington,
H., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $780,
900.
The two men who attacked Admiral
Dubassoff, ex-governor general of Mos
COW, in the Taurida palace garden,
firing ten shots from revolvers and
throwing bombs at him, were exc
cuted
Thousands Of enemies of the Vati-
can gathered at the French embassy
In Rome and riotously expressed their
approval Of the action of France In
the church trouble They were
charged upon by the garrison OF
Rome.
General Murray. chief Of artillery,
says in his annual report: Both the
coast and the field artillery are badly
deficient in both personnel and ma
terial; neither is in even approximate
ly proper condition for instruction in
time Of peace much less in condition
for reasonably efficient cervice in war,
end the time necessary to put either
In the latter condition Is not a matter
of days or weeks, but of years."
Reports from all parts of Russian
Poland show that revolution there has
been utterly suppressed, but at the
cost of thousands Of lives; business Is
stagnant and the trades and industries