The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-03-23

tne commander OF the Dattleshlp
Capt. Vertier, chief Of star of the Med
iterranean squadron, and from 70 tc
so bluejackets were killed and Rear
Admiral Manceron and hundreds oil
other men we're injured.
Trinity college, school for negroes
located at Athens. Ala. and owned by
the Congregational Society of New
York. was destroyed by fire.'
Roll calls show that the probable
number of deaths resulting from the
explosion on the French battleship
lena at Toulon is 120.
Pat Egee. an insane farmer who
lived near Hill City, Kan. shot and
killed j. j. Plumb, a neighbor, and
then forced another neighbor to hand
him some poison, with which he com
mitted suicide.
Mrs. 8. N. Castle, an early mission.
airy in the Hawaiian islands, died at
Honolulu, aged 80 years.
Harry H. Blake. a well known Eng
lish actor who had been leading man
with Crane, Gillette and Nat Goodwin,
died at Colorado Springs, Col, OF
tuberculosis.
j. s. Nixon, president OF whole
sale grocery firm and one of the most
prominent men in Augusta, Ca, was
arrested on a charge OF violating the
bankruptcy laws by accepting more
than the ten per cent. that was due
him.
Engineer Kellogg and his fireman
were killed In wreck on the Chicago
Great Western railroad at Dubuque.
Fifteen persons were crushed when
Southern Pacific freight engine
crashed into Maple avenue street
car at crossing near Ascot park in
Los Angeles, Cal.
The supreme court at Columbus, o.,
affirmed the decision of the Lucus
county circuit court. The law, which
is sustained by this decision, gives
local option to cities by petition in
stead of by election.
The government Is investigating
land entries in Idaho which. it is said,
will disclose the greatest frauds ever
in this country.
Horace G.. Mcdowell, president of
the Farmers bank of Canton, o., shot
and killed himself.
Adolph Huntemann, who died in the
general hospital, in Kansas City, Mo-,
leaving an estate valued at 100000,
has no heirs, as far as the public ad-
can learn.
The big wall paper factory of Jane
way G. Carpenter at New Brunswick,
Y. j., was badly damaged by fire.
Many of the women employed were
overcome by fright and were carried
rom the building in fainting condi-
ion
Two thousand persons were made |
by fire that destroyed
most of the town of Borsano, Italy.
John Arbuckles "P. o." ranch of
5000 acres and its stock, near Chey-
snne, Wyo., were put on the market.
Secretary Taft has given orders to
he engineer officers of the war de-
partment to enforce to the letter the
language of the eight-hour law as ap-
piled to public works under their di-
rection.
The Union Pacific railroad an
that work on the Athol Hill
cutoff near Cheyenne, Wyo., would
be discontinued because of adverse
legislation towards that road ending
In cut of rates.
Seven nephews and nieces OF the
late Count John Creighton of Omaha
are planning to contest his will
The British tramp steamer Gowan-
burn went ashore off Blue Point on
the south shore of Long Island.
Conditions in general in the Pana-
ma canal zone are declared to be ex-
tremely favorable for completion of
the canal within the eight years end
ing January 1, 1915, as estimated by
the engineers in charge of the work,
in the opinion of the committees from
clubs in Boston, Chicago,
Cincinnati and st. Louis, who arrived
at Charleston, s. c., after a visit to
the isthmus.
Three members of the board of pub
lie service of Columbus, o., two city
employees, the president of the Cleve-
Paving company and
two Of its employees, and the Columbus
of the American Sewer Pipe
company were indicted by the grand
jury as the result of an investigation
of charges of bribery in connection
with the contract for paving East
Broad street, the most fashionable
residence street of the city.
Col. John Temple Graves, editor of
the Georgian, was assaulted in the
street at Atlanta, Ga, by j. H. Crutch-
field, who recently was tried for at
assassination of Mrs. Crutch-
field.
Eight hundred boilermakers en-
ployed by the Chicago Shipbuilding
in the South Chicago plant
voted to strike. The action will result
in complete tie-up Of the plant. in
which are employed nearly 1.500 work
men.
The wireless station at Point Iona,
near San Diego, CAL. was in communi-
cation with Pensacola, Washington,
and the battleship Connecticut at New
York.
Two indictments against the school