The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1907-03-09

ant rIbn wa OopOooQ IfOm tno pT0oa
dency of the Illinois Central because
he used the company's funds to fur
Their his own interests.
z. H. Hartman was before the In
terstate commerce commission all
day. partly explaining and trying to
justify the financial transactions OF
himself and others in connection with
the Chicago & Alton railway deal.
Charles w. Hilliard, controller OF
the Alton road, told the interstate
commerce commission the company's
treasury was empty when the road
was turned over to the Rock Island.
Baron Charles v. Bendetti OF Flor.
ence. Italy, and Miss Jeanette Locke,
grand opera singer Of Lexington,
KY. were married in New York.
During a heavy fog an accommoda-
ton train on the Wabash railroad
and a freight train came into collision
near Mexico. Mo-, resulting In the
death OF the passenger engineer and
injury to 20 others.
The plant of the old Vincennes Dis
filling company at Vincennes, Ind,
was partly destroyed by fire. The loss
is estimated at $4,000.
T. M. Taylor, professor Of chemis-
try in the Carnegie schools of Pitts
burg. committed suicide while under
nervous collapse.
The municipality Of St. Petersburg
decided to open IS meat markets
where the poor may buy meat at cost.
Six rurales were murdered In their
sleep by Enrique Chaves, the noto-
rious Mexican bandit.
Six detectives and a special officer
of the St. Louis force were accused
of protecting thieves.
The body Of Deputy Game Warden
Earl Eldridge of McHenry county,
Illinois, was found in the woods with
bullet wound through the heart.
The Des Moines, Iowa, street rail-
way was declared in court decision
to have a perpetual franchise.
The district court of Minnesota de-
cided the electric trolley lines Of the
state had no right of eminent domain.
Mrs. Alexander Henderson Of Paw
tucket, r. l., was killed in her candy
store by robber.
A census bureau bulletin showed
that tuberculosis was the most fatal
disease in America, with pneumonia
second.
The senate Of Kansas passed a bill
providing for two-cent fares, carrying
the proviso that railroads must sell
500-mile books. The house passed a
two-cent fat rate bill.
The Indiana house of representa-
tives passed bill appropriating S.
900 for a statue of Gen. Lew Wallace
to be placed in Statuary Hall at
Washington.
John F. Stevens resigned as chief
engineer of the Panama canal and
the president named Maj. G. w. Goe-
thals as chairman and engineer-in.
chief, and appointed on the commits.
sion Maj. Du B. Gaillard and Maj. w.
l.. Sibert. Senator Blackburn also is
| to be made a commissioner and the
plan of having the work done by con
tract has been abandoned for the
| present.
Principal Sarah Maxwell and 16
children persisted in fire in the
Hochelaga school in Montreal.
Nearly 20 persons were hurt. many
seriously. at Knoxville, Ia, when a
floor in the home of c. X. Davis, col
lapsed during the wedding of his
daughter.
On recommendation of the state
board of health, in view of the small
pox epidemic, Mayor Wallau of JET
ferson City. Mo-, issued a proclama
ton closing all places of public
amusement
The secret report of Gen. Smirnof
on the surrender Of Port Arthur de
nounced Gen. Stoessel as incompetent
and traitor and coward.
Three persons were killed and
many injured in the wreck of Crane
Trunk train. at Guelph, Ont.
John~E. Wilkie, chief of the secre
service, started for Chicago to hell
find the man who stole $4,000 from
the subtreasury.
| lWO lTdlnueu were klileu dne
many persons injured in a collision
on the Intercolonial railroad.
Out of 215 American candidates fol
the Rhodes scholarships at the Uni
versity of Oxford 1913 passed.
J. Henley Smith. veteran newspa
per man, died at his home In Atlanta
Ca, aged IS. In 1869. with Alexander
II. Stephens, he established the At
lanta Sun.
An agreement to build passenger
and freight terminals at Kansas City
at an estimated cost to the railways
of $50,0O0,000 has been reached. The
passenger station Is to cost $4,000, 600
1t is feared that the schooner Hilda
coal laden, Is lost between Philadel
phia and Savannah, Ga. She carried
crew of eight, including the captain
King Menellk of Abyssinia is send
ing to President Roosevelt an auto
graph letter comforting royal order
upon him.
Archbishop Nuttall announced that
the British parliament will arrange @
loan of $5.000.000 to rebuild part OF
Kingston.
Gov Hanlv If Indiana sipned the