The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-04-06

at Elkins. w. Va.
Twenty-four persons were injured.
some seriously, and two-story build.
ing occupied by five-cent theater.
was wrecked at Greenfield, Ind, by an
explosion Of natural gas used to heat
the building.
The Morton Salt block, In Hutchin.
son, Kan, the largest In the world,
owned chiefly by Joy Morton and Paul
Morton. former secretary Of the navy,
was destroyed by fire. the loss being
$5O0,O00.
Alexander Beaubien, the first white
child born In Chicago, died, aged S5
years.
Abraham Ruef of San Francisco
withdrew his writ of error In the fed
eral supreme court and said he was
ready for trial on the charge OF ex-
| tortion.
Attilla F. Mallory, one of the most
prominent citizens of Pensacola and
a brother of United States Senator
| Stephen b. Mallory, was found dead In
his office.
Peter Clark shot and fatally wound
| ed Mrs. Ollie Hill on an interurban
car near Girard; H., because she re-
pulsed him. Both principals in the
| tragedy had been divorced because of
| their relations with each other.
An immense landslip at Steuben-
Vile, o., buried railway tracks and
broke gas mains.
Mrs. William Moore and her daugh-
ter Emma were fatally burned at
Decker, Ind.
Rev. Stephen Safer Ortynskyi. Of the
Order of st. Basil the Great, has been
appointed bishop for the Catholics OF
the Greek Ruthenian rite in the Unit
ed States.
James Young who, with M. M.
Towle, founded Hammond, Ind, 30
years ago, died at San Diego, Cal.
In an effort to enforce recognition of
their unions, 1000 skirt, cloak and slut
makers of Boston, employed in about
100 shops, went out on strike.
John Hippo, white man, 35 years
of age, hanged himself in a toilet
room on Louisville G Nashville
train.
Miss Emma Rousey, of Hunting
ton, w. Va, was killed by a railway
train, as was Perry Meadows, a Sec
tion hand, who tried to save her.
United States Judge Emory Speer
in a decision in the case of Lucy
Snead, Administrative, against the
Central Of Georgia Railway company.
upheld the consututionality of the EN-.
ployers' liability act passed by the
last congress.
Strikers in a chocolate factory, at
Vevey, Switzerland, became riotous
and were fired upon by gendarmes.
several being injured.
Speaker Cannon and members OF
Panama canal.
Only two white laborers in the
canal zone died during February.
Three men were killed by the explo-
sion of locomotive boiler at Onava,
N. M.
Col. Albert l.. Meyer, Eleventh cav
airy, has been selected for promotion
to the rank of brigadier general to fill
the vacancy created by the death Of
Gen. W1nt.
William John Merrall, vice presi.
dent and director of the Acker, Mer-
rail- G Condit company, died at his
home in New York city. He was 76
years old
A male teacher of English in Gra-
been unmasked.
A great gas well near Sapulpa, l. T.,
caught fire and could not be extin-
guished.
A collision between the Dover-Ca-
lais mail steamers Princess Henriette
and Lord Warden near Dover, Eng
land. caused excitement on both ves-
sells, but no one was injured.
The Pennsylvania railroad an
nounced in Philadelphia that it may
countermand orders for $25,000,O00
worth Of improvements owing to the
two-cent fare agitation
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., informed
his Bible class In New York that his
health is near breakdown. He will
take long rest.
The prefect of police, Client, Bel.
gium. will add women to the force.
Six persons were killed and II in
jured when special carrying stu.
dents and the Overland limited ON the
Santa Fe collided headon at Los An.
geles.
Elmer Sheppard, co!ored, who was
only II years old but weighed GAO
pounds, died in Appleton, Wis.
Fire in the F. II. Lawson tinplate
factory at Cincinnati did 100000
damage.
| Joseph Demar, a wealthy Italian,
was murdered by Black Hand agents
at Bellefontaine, o.
Fire destroyed the store OF a. q.
Spalding Bros. in Chicago, with $780,
900 worth OF sporting goods.
The ruling dynasty in China was
reported to be In grave peril as re-
suit Of the famine. and the United
States and Europe were concerned for
tho safety Of white residents In China.
fund was being raised in Port.
land. Ore. To employ Hensy and Burns
of San Francisco 10 uncover municj.
pal graft In the Oregon city
Nine hundred veterans In the OId
/ -.