The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1907-01-05


motor vehicle in the country be
burned in one great bonfire before
1908, and the resultant scrap metal
sold for the benefit of those who have
been MANNED or crushed by automo-
biles.
The coal house of the Northwestern
railroad at Pierre, 8. D., with all rail.
road coal on hand, was totally des-
troyed by fire.
Negroes OF Wahalak, Miss, threat
ened the 25 white residents Of the
town and state troops were sent from
Meridian to protect them.
A sail boat with % persons on board
was overturned near Montego bay, ia
maica, and 16 of the passengers were
drowned.
The Standard Oil company won a
victory in common pleas court at
Finclay, o., when Judge w. s. Dun
can decided that the probate court
had no Jurisdiction in the suit brought
against 1t in the probate court, and
threw out the recent verdict Of guilty
against the company.
Secretary Taft has appointed a
board Of officers to meet January 10
at the Springfield armory, Springfield,
Mass, for the purpose of ascertaining
design of automatic pistol or re-
volver best adapted to fulfill the re-
quirements of the military service.
The state department was officially
advised in dispatch from Guayaquil
Of the election by the national assem-
bly, Of Eloy Alfaro to be constitutional
president of Ecuador.
J. e. Woodward & Co., Omaha coal
dealers. operating a mine at Dietz,
Wyo., brought suit for $4,000 against
the Burlington Railway company for
| coal alleged to have been confiscated.
Frank Hair, for Is years In charge
of the musical department of the
Baker university at Baldwin, Kan.
and composer Of choir music used all
over the country, died suddenly at Ex-
celsior Springs, Mo.
General Superintendent Kimball, Of
the life saving service, shows In his
annual report that the number Of ma
rine disasters was $40 In the waters
of the United States. In these, 40
vessels and 20 lives were lost and 81
persons were shccored at the various
stations. The total vaue of property
saved was $12,266,10 while that lost
was $2,775,400. In the disasters $500
lives were imperiled.
Three men were killed and a dozen
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Sugar Pine branch Of the Sierra rail-
road near Stockton, Cal.
| Two masked men held up II occu-
| pants of the lobby barroom of the Co.
lumbia hotel at Goldfield, New, and Sc
cured 1925 from the gambling games,
but overlooked $4,000 which was in
tho safe.
Colonel ]. e. Pepper, the distiller
OF Kentucky, died in New York.
Gordon Mcdonald shot and killed
Coley Cheney and Perchel Burns at
Cochran, Ca, as result of quar-.
rel.
Mrs. A. U. Popolaski, woman OF
Polish birth, aged 104 years, died at
Fairmont, MINI.
Clyde King, aged 25, shot and killed
Ellis Jobes, his brother-in-law, at Osseo,
town few miles from Minneapolis
H. eastman, Charles Slaight and
Dan Slaight drove into an air-hole In
the Missouri river opposite Fort Ran.
dali, s. D., and were drowned.
Commander Alfred B. Canaga, in
charge of the steam engineering de.
partment of the Charlestown navy
yard, died suddenly Of apoplexy at
Boston.
Henry Watterson and Mrs. Waiter
son, of Louisville, KY, are at BARGE.
Iona, Spain, whence they will go to
Egypt.
Col. Obrowcheff, commander of the
Eighty-first Russian infantry, has been
killed on his estate near Lukow, Po
land, by an unknown man.
Two women and two children were
burned to death at Morris Neck. Va
and two women and an infant were
suffocated in a fire at Steubenville, o.
Harlan Cleveland, one of the lead
ing lawyers of the Cincinnati bar, died
from Bright's disease.
Commander Peary's steamer Roose.
welt has arrived at New York.
The Illinois supreme court entered
an order disbarring John Stirlen, OF
Chicago, and Arthur Keithley, Of Pc
oria, for unprofessional conduct.
Frank J. Russell, private secretary
to John M. Dubois, the millionaire lum
herman of Dubois, Pa, committed sui
eide because of financial trouble.
A check for $75,430.20 was sent to
State Treasurer William N. Berry In
full payment of the claim Of the state
of Pennsylvania against the Farmers
and Drovers' National bank OF
Waynesburg, Pa, which was recently
closed.
Nine men were killed and 81 badly
injured in a collision between a pas.
senger train and freight at Enderlin,
N. ID.
The steamer Strathcona was burned
60 miles from Halifax, N. s., but the
engineers and fremen stuck to their
posts until she could be beached and
the $50 passengers were saved.
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