The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-12-28

package Oh OI2mOuo JoWoHy ves-
ued at more than $4,000 was stolen
from . wagon Of the United States
Express company In New York.
| The Smelter City bank of Durango.
Col. q state institution. closed IT.
| doors.
Mrs. Nellie @. Cochran Of Chicago.
38 years old, was shot and probably
fatally wounded by M. L. Dillon. .
salesman, who then killed himself.
The British torpedo boat destroyer
Tartar broke all records in fast
steaming in her final trials over the
official course. attaining speed OF
37.037 knots.
Daniel Rodgers, a colored man. said
to be 100 years old, was arrested in
Joliet, Ill. He was applying for an
Increase in pension and 1t was dis
covered that he had violated prison
parole In 1898.
| Sixteen hundred Polish schools have
been closed by an order issued by
Gen. SkalIon. The funds. $4,000.
have been sent abroad to avoid con-
| fiscation.
AS result OF remarkable surgical
operation Bertha Stublow, Ave years
old, OF Sumner, Wash. has been sup
piled with an upper lip and palate.
Col. w. F. Cody's sonin-law, Lieut..
Clarence A. Stott of the Twelfth cav
airy. is dead. He was serving with
his troop in South Dakota in connec-
ton with the Indian troubles.
An explosion occurred in a coal
mine at Yolande, Ala, and about go
men were believed to have perished.
Shoots in Pennington. Big Falls and
New Ulm, Mimi, were closed because
of the prevalence of diphtheria and
scarlet fever.
The licenses of the Commonwealth
Fire Insurance company OF Texas and
German Fire Insurance company Of
Indiana were revoked by State Super
intendent of Insurance Barnes, Of
Kansas, by telegraph.
Upon recommendation by Adjt. Gen.
Johnston, Gov. Wilson. of Kentucky,
ordered company H, of the First Ken
lucky militia, to leave Louisville for
Hopkinsville.
The rumor to the effect that James
Bryce, the British ambassador to the
United States. Is to leave the Wash
ington embassy Is declared absolutely
untrue in London.
Mrs. Alexander Gilmour, formerly
Miss Ethel Watterson. and the young
est daughter of Col. Henry Watterson.
died at Louisville, Ky.
The payment of gold and silver In
any amounts to those who desire 1t
was formally resumed by Portland
banks.
President Gompers, Of the American
Federation of Labor, speaking at the
banquet of the National Civic Fedora
tion in New York, warned employers
that. the working men would fight to
the utmost against, any reduction Of
wages at the present time.
Bernard E. Wallace killed Elsie Ker-
lin and himself In an automobile cab
In Brooklyn.
A deliberately planned and sensa-
tional duel occurred on the main
| street of Laurel, Miss, in which Ed
ward Bragg was killed, and B. w.
Scarborough. former state senator,
was wounded.
Six hundred quarts of nitroglycerin
in the Dupont Powder works, two and
half miles from Bowling Green, O.,
exploded. II is not believed there was
loss Of life.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Lewis, who in
herited fortune of $1,500,000, has
been released from New York in
sane asylum after rs years incarcera-
tion and will now be allowed to look
after her estate.
The geological survey Is planning to
establish an experiment station In
Pittsburg for the study of mine dis
asters with view to abating the
dangers Of underground explosions.
James and William Campbell and
the latter's wife were struck by an
Illinois Central passenger train at a
crossing near Epworth, Ia, and killed.
Virtually a complete transformation
In the state railroad system Is about
to be introduced In Prussia. On all
except main trunk lines, automobile
cars, which run singly, will replace
.
locomotives drawing ordinary trains.
Frank Frankenberg, aged 60 years
cashier Of the Colonial Savings bank
, of Columbus, o.. dropped dead.
Fire destroyed the four-story build
ing Of the Harmony Knitting mills Al
Troy, N. Y. The loss is $150,000.
4, Col. A. 8. Colyar, aged 90 years
noted jurist, statesman and author
died at his home in Nashville, Tenn.
Miss Catherine Andrews, dressed ii
boys clothes, called at the Unite,
States recruiting office In Sioux City
: Ia, and sought to enlist in the arm
of the Philippines.
: DIR. Vladimir Sviatlowsky, professo
of political economy In the Universit
y OF st. Petersburg, Russia, reported I
/ the New York police that he had bee
defrauded of $3.50 when box contair
! ing two quarts of chestnuts wa
palmed OF on him as one containin
valuable diamonds.
9 The cry of a babe In lodging hous
o proved an alarm that saved eight froI
4 death by fire In Allentown. Pa. Tw
Q were asphyxiated.
A brilliant naval and military ba
q was given af the Hotel Chamherlaf,