The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-09-28
BRIEF REVIEW OF
A Weeks EVENTS
RECORD OF THE MOST iMPoR.
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
lied FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
Information Gathered from All Quar-
ters Of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the PerusaI Of tho
Busy Man.

Busy Man.
The British admiralty has decided
to substitute OIL for coal as fuel for
the navy, and already has made heavy
purchases OF oil in Texas and Europe
and will develop the Nigeria fields.
Joseph Harrison, convicted OF abb
duction in North Carolina and denied
q new trial, committed suicide in
Norfolk, Va, as the police were about
to arrest him.
Droga Seigel, an heiress, 20 years OF
age, and daughter of colonel in the
Austrian army, now dead, was fatally
shot in New York by julius Hoffman,
a married man and formerly lieu
tenant OF Col. Siegel's regiment. The
tragedy was the outcome of jealousy
on the part of Hoffman, who. after
shooting Miss Seigel, tried to shoot
himself but was prevented by the dy.
ing girl.
The hearing in New York in the fed
eral suit against the oil trust revealed
the large earnings of the subsidiary
companies Of the Standard. The
Standard of Indiana made more than
1000 per cent profits in 1908 and
1906.
The long.expected arrests Of those
held to be responsible for the frauds
committed in the furnishing and dec
Grating of Pennsylvania $13,000,0 900
capitol were made in Harrisburg, the
attorney general causing warrants to
be issued for IA of the Is persons and
firms named by the capitol investiga-
tion commission as being involved In
the scandal.
The governor general OF the Philip
pines has issued a formal proclama-
tion convening the national assembly
on October 16. Plans have been made
to render the inaugural session of the
assembly brilliant function.
Forty thousand dollars, mainly in
large bills, is declared to have been
secured by the robbers who held up
the Great Northern train near Rex
ford, Mont, September IL.
Directors OF copper companies con-
trolled by the Amalgamated ordered
the output reduced 80 per cent.
The Shipbuilders Federation of
England announced that between 40
900 and $4,000 members of the Boiler
makers society would be locked out.
Motive power officials of the Harri-
man railway lines recommended the
installation and use of steel passen-
ger coaches on the Pacific coast.
Three men were imprisoned in a
burning mine at Sparta, MINI.
Alvah w. Trowbridge, former presi-
dent Of the American Bankers associ-
alton, died at his home In Hacken-
sack, N. J.
Edward Richards, Of Dayton, an
aeronaut, dropped 1000 feet to death
at the Miami county fair grounds at
Troy, o.
At meeting of the directors of the
Illinois Central railroad the charges
recently made against President J. T.
Harahan and Vice.President j. G. Hack
staff by StuyvesaRt Fish were dropped
upon the recommendation Of COM
mittee Of investigation,
The decision of the Belgian govern.
ment to oppose obligatory arbitration
is attributed to the command of King
Leopold, who is fearful that his claims
in the Congo might be effected in the
event of the adoption of the proposal.
The kings action in this connection
is regarded at The Hague as being in
the nature Of scandal.
Japan claims the right to occupy
Pratas island, near the Philippines,
because II is mo mans land" having
hitherto been unclaimed.
Trouble has arisen over the extra
dition Of w. II. Adsell, accused of
murder at Hongkong He took refuge
on the American warship Galveston at
Chefoo and the American authorities
insist on trying him themselves.
Nurse, bride and widow all within
few hours was the experience of
Mrs Adler OF New York. Her fiance,
glove manufacturer, was stricken
with typhoid fever. She nursed him
in hospital, at his request they were
married as he lay dying and three
hours after he was dead.
Japanese steamer, the Tafoo
Maru, has been burned three miles
on Ching Kiang, on the right bank of
the Yangtsekiang, As miles from Nan
king. 1t Is reported that 100 lives
were lost.
Charles Garner, a mine boss at
Creweberg. Kan, and his sister. Mrs.
George Rexford, were waylaid on
lonely road while returning home by
number OF Italians and shot and
fatally wounded. Garner returned the
fire and shot and killed two Italians,
names unknown.
DIR. Henry L. Colt, of Newark. N. j.,
president OF the American Association
OF Medical Milk Commissions, strong
ly opposed, in an address at the inter
national milk congress at Brussels,
the compulsory pasteurization of milk
as a means Of effectively improving
the supply Of milk.