The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-10-26

The Wholesale price of splrits Va
advanced one oont = gallon 1t Ciz
cinnati. o. The advancs brings Ii
basis price Of proof gallon Of spirit
up to Sl.36 per gallon. minus the rev'
nue. duty. the highest reached sine
the civil war.
Simon Won vetsera, scion Of . nobl
Austrian family and q notorious foo
pad at the time Of his incarceratio
In San Quentin prison. California, wa
released on the ground that his ser
tence had been too severe. He ha
served seven years.
According to advices received b.
the steamer Empress Of China at Vic
toria. B. c.. the Japanese governmen
will organize bureau Of immigrs
tion and colonization.
The drubbing of Theodore Roose
welt, Jr.. in the Exeter Harvard foot
ball game was deliberately admins
tered. say the college boys, to test thu
presidents sons nerve.
At St Gregory's hospital In New
York five stitches were taken In the
eyeball OF Frank Post, an iron work
or. silk thread split four times beine
used.
An attempt to extort $4,000 from
J.. Grier, manager OF the Homestake
gold mine. under threat Of dynamitins
his home unless the money was placed
in a designated place was frustrated
at Lead. 8. d., by the arrest OF the al
legged blackmailers.
That the uniform bill Of lading
which It is proposed to put into effect
on all the railroads Of the country on
January I next by the interstate COM
merce commission Is not satisfactory
to the commercial interests and that
two separate bills OF lading should be
adopted instead, was pointed out at q
hearing Of these interests before the
commerce commission.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Lane announced that his inquiry In
San Francisco had disclosed the fact
that the Southern Pacific had been
paying rebates since the Hepburn rate
law went into effect.
The state department designated
Algernon Sartoris, Of the District of
to be secretary Of legation
at Montevideo. Mr.. Sartoris Is the
grandson of President Grant. Gustavus
l.. Monroe, Jr.. Of Michigan, has been
designated as secretary Of legation at
La Paz, Bolivia.
The supreme court of Wisconsin de-
cided that fine-cut tobacco in a leaf
wrapper is not a cigarette and that the
sale Of such product is not a violation
Of the anti-cigarette law.
Henry Nieland of Dane county. Wis
consin, committed suicide by hanging
himself In the toilet room on a Chi
cago & Northwestern train.
w. w. Ward, mayor of Fairmount,
Mimi. disappeared and 1t was feared
he had met with foul play.
George White. aged 35 years, shot
and mortally wounded his brother
Louis, aged 80. in Philadelphia, and
then attempted to end his own life
by sending a bullet into his head.
Bion J. Arnold, for FIVE years. ad-
wiser of the city of Chicago in trans.
portation matters. was appointed con-
sulting engineer for the subway sys-
TENS in New York city by the public
service commission.
A fall Of slate In coal mine at
Portview. Pa, crushed a man and a
young girl to death. The girls mother
was probably fatally injured.
Nineteen persons were killed and
many injured when train left the
tracks and was wrecked near Shrews.
bury, England.
Standing on temporary platform,
where an office desk served as a pul.
pit, and with his back to the gray
stone Of the old custom house, the
bishop Of London preached the Gospel
In the open air Of Wall street. New
York.
All the railroads entering Toledo
were served with notice from freight
handlers that ten days would be given
the roads to increase the wages of the
handlers.
The heavy rumbling of an earth
quake was felt In Lowell, Mass, and
all suburban towns. The shock LASTED
two or three seconds and was followed
by what appeared to be sharp ex
plosion.
The failure Of the First Nationa
bank of Dresden, o., was announced
by the comptroller of the currency II
Washington. Bank Examiner Rober
Lyons has been appointed temporar.
receiver.
Five persons suspected of beinl
the parties who dynamited the JopliI
(Mo.) News-Herald plant on the nigh
Of September 13 were arrested. The,
are Minnie st. Clair. Charles Smith
w. s. Martin. Bessie Bean and Haze
Ray. alias Hazel Reed.
In the arrest near Matalbany, La
OF Mrs. Georgia Wren and her younI
son Charles. the .Tanginahoa parisl
authorities allege that they have tw
highway robbers who have been tel
rorizing the people Of that section O
the state.
Miss Ida H. Scott, 10 years old, sii
ter Of Mrs. Augusta Hartje of Pitts
burg. Pa, whose husband is suing 10
divorce. has quit Miss Dana's Morris
town IN. J.) seminary for girls. on az
count Of unpleasant notoriety connect