The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-12-21

bernard frentco, COWBOY Wa
killed and Dick Moran. cook. was
seriously wounded in Deadwood, 8. D..
In Z duel over q woman.
Commissioner Lane of the interstate
commerce board will begin an investi-
CATION OF the Pullman company In re-
gard to prices charged for berths on
trains.
At the annual meeting OF the PENN
sular and Oriental Navigation CON-
pany In London the chairman said
that the entire trade Of the line be-
tween Bombay and Japan had been
wiped out by the Japanese competi-
tors.
Receivers were appointed for the
Electric Vehicle company, a 100000
900 New Jersey corporation, with
manufacturing plant at Hartford,
Conn.
The costly residence Of Samuel
Baum of Danville, ILL.,, retired farm
er, was partly wrecked by an internal
machine.
The Stock Yards Bank of Com
merce. Of Kansas City, which closed
because Of the failure Of the National
Bank of Commerce, resumed business.
Rear Admiral Evans formally as
sumed command of the great feet OF
battleships assembled at Hampton
roads for the cruise to the Pacific.
The White Pigeon (Mich.) carbonite
and gas plant was totally wrecked by
an explosion. Several persons were
severely injured and every window In
town was cracked. The shock was
felt for IL miles.
The special holiday statute passed
in extraordinary session of the Cali
fornia legislature, to protect the
banks and at the same time provide
for the business of the courts, was sus-
tanned by the United States supreme
court. Is
William r. Parker, one of the found
ers of the Republican party in Illinois,
| died at his home in Sterling.
The Missouri Pacific railway aban-
boned its only passenger trains out of
Topeka. Kan. The officials gave the
two-cent fare enforcement as the rea-
son.
The Dominion Atlantic Railway CON-
pany's steamer Yarmouth, bound from
Digby, N. s., went ashore at Black
Point, near st. John, N b.
One of battery Of nine boilers in
the plant of the American Steel &
Wire company at Allentown, Pa, blew
up, instantly killing two men and in
.juring two others. one Of whom died
three hours later.
Alfred II. Smith, vice president and
general manager of the New York
Central railroad, was placed on trial
before Justice Kellogg, in the supreme
court of New York, on charge of
manslaughter in the second degree,
growing out of the wreck of the
Brewster express at Woodlawn last
February, in which "a persons lost
their lives and 67 were injured.
In the midst of his speech at the
annual dinner of the Minnesota So
ciety Of New York, Frank Kellogg, of
st. Paul. Mimi. who is the prosecutor
in the case of the United States
against the Standard Oil company for
dissolution of the corporation. sud
denly collapsed from fatigue due to
overwork.
Both Cullman and Walker counties,
in Alabama, went prohibition by large
majorities.
William J. Rogers, for 40 years
prominent In southern cotton markets,
died in Lexington, Ky.
Joseph Armstrong, manager of the
Christian Science publications and one
Of the most prominent leaders of that
faith in this country, died at his home
in Boston.
James Henry Stoddart. the veteran
actor, died at his home in Sewaren, NJ
j. Mr.. Stoddart was born in England
| in 1927
Assistant Secretary of State Robert
Bacon has been awarded a bronze
medal by the Massachusetts Humane
society for his bravery in saving two
Harvard men from drowning in the
| Charles river October IL last
Mrs. Taft, wife of the secretary Of
war, narrowly escaped death on ten
| der outside the harbor of Boulogne,
the boat being caught in a violent
| storm.
Maj Ahern, head of the forestry
bureau Of the Philippine islands, is in
New York to interest lumbermen in
the forests of the Philippines.
Three sons of N. e. Carmal of Tama,
Ia. were drowned while skating.
Fire in Pawnee, Okla. destroyed a
block of buildings, the loss being $780,
600.
Robbers broke into the First Ma
tional bank at Rothsay, Mimi, and Sc
cured $500 In currency.
The fourth assistant postmaster. gen.
eral makes an earnest plea for local
parcels-post service on rural routes In
his annual report.
President Roosevelt entertained at
dinner number of bear hunters from
the Louisiana cane brakes.
The State bank, of Admire, Kan.
and the Bank of Stotesbury, at Stotes-
bury, Mo-. closed as a result OF the
failure Of the National Bank Of Com
merce Of Kansas City.
Viscount Kaneko cabled President