The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-10-26
BRIEF REVIEW OF
4 Weeks EVENTS
RECORD or THE MOST iMPoR.
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM.
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Busy Man.
The town Of Eontanet, Ind. wa
practically destroyed by the explosion
OF the plant OF the Dupont Powde
company. The dead number from q
TO SO. Over 600 persons were injured
and every building In the town wa'
wholly or partially leveled with the
ground. Seven mills blew up, one
after another, and when the grea
magazine exploded the shock was fell
for many miles.
Thirty-eight lives snuffed out, 60t
injured. Of which number so were
seriously hurt, and a property loss ol
approximately $750.000 was the latest
estimate of the destruction wrought
by the explosion at the Dupont Pow
Oer mlllS at rOutduet, luu.
The Illinois house and senate adopt
ed two joint resolutions, one providing
for submission to the people in the
general election next fall of proposal
for a constitutional amendment to al
low a s20,O00,000 bond issue for funds
TO proceed for the deep waterways
work, and the other providing for a
deep waterway commission to submit
a report on the subject in time to in.
form the people so they may vote In
telligently on the proposed amend
ment
Marguerite Magill testified at Deca.
tur in behalf OF her father and STEP
mother on trial for the death Of Ma
gilrs former wife, and her story
strongly supported the suicide theory.
1t was unshaken by cross-examination.
Sergio Osmena. nationalist, who for
merly was governor Of the island of
Cebu, was chosen president Of the
Philippine assembly.
Secretary Of State Root returned
from his Mexican visit, pleased with
the trip and bearing many gifts.
The Heinze corner in United Cop
per collapsed in New York and prices
especially of copper stocks, decIIned
violently. The stock exchange firm OF
Grous & Keeberg suspended.
Marx Bros. Paris, antiquaries, who
sold the statue of st. Catherine to the
Metropolitan Museum Of Art in New
York last May, while unable to &c
count for the exact origin of the
statue. are quite certain that 1t Is no
a product of the recent church rob
berries in France.
The wooden steamer Case Of th'
Gilchrist fleet was sunk in a collision
with the Pittsburg Steamship com
pany's steel steamer Mariska opposit'
Amherstburg, Ont, in the Lime Kiln
Crossing.
President Andrews Of the Universit.
of Nebraska in speech at Washing
ton advocated hanging for muck
rakers who maliciously misrepresen
the acts of public or prominent men.
Five men were drowned and Q
others narrowly escaped like dealt
by the capsixing of small boat In TIL
Illinois and Michigan canal about te
miles from Joliet.
Fire which started in the oper
house at Plant City, Fla. destroye
20 business houses and residences
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Hospital physicians having declare
both Rev. Maxwell Walenta, pastor @
st. Lucas German Evangelical Luti
eran church Of Williamsburg. and Mr.
Dora Bauer, his "afflnity," insane. tn
couple was discharged In police cour
in New York.
Burglars butchered Mr.. and Mr.
Charles Seifred. an aged couple. .nes
Franklin, La.
DR.. G. w. Hotchkiss was arreste
in his home In East Springfield, Pa
on a charge Of arson. He Is accuse
Of having burned his home and ofiic
to secure the insurance of $4,000 o
the contents.
George II. Kuhl, of Chicago. seer
tary of the National Racing associ'
tion and one of the bestknown rae
horse men in the United States. die
in Pueblo. Col, from intestinal tube
culosis.
The Cargill company's branch hous
In Columbus, O., has closed. 1t wa
a racehorse investment concern whic
paid from three to Ave per cent. DC
week. The general offices are in Ne
York.
Five political prisoners were shot
Hayti according to dispatch receive
at the state departmental Washing
ton.
The Oceanic Steamship company
steamer Mariposa. which was adri
without fuel 70 miles on Montere
was towed into port by the tui
Dauntless and Relief.
Chicago Nationals won the world
championship by defeating Detro
Americans for the fourth time.
The emperor OF Austria was d
clared to be- considerably worse an
his physicians feared an attack /
lobular pneumonia.
Rev DR.. Willard Scott. pastor {
Piedmont church, Worcester, Mass
for nine years, resigned to devote a
bis iimf TO golf.