The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1907-02-23

Negotiable securities OF a value of
$4,000 are missing from the vaults
OF the Savings Bank Of New Britain.
Conn, OF which institution the treas
urer, William F. Walker, mysteriously
dropped out OF sight in New York.
More than half million dollars
worth OF securities were taken from
the vaults Of the Savings bank OF
New Britain. Conn, by the missing
treasurer, William +. Walker, accord
ing to a statement issued by the board
Of directors.
At the wedding OF Carl Clifford and
Lena Pence, at Russiaville, Ind, a
charivari party exploded 80 pounds OF
dynamite near the house. The build
Ing was damaged and several guests
tainted.
Fire in Cramps shipyards at Phila-
delphia destroyed the patterns of
number of battleships, and several
firemen were injured.
The, body of Willard d. Barr of
Lawrence county, H., An orchardist
whose mind became unbalanced when
his wife deserted him a month ago,
was found on the banks of the Wa
bash river after a search Of three
weeks.
Prof. John A. Brashear of the Allie
gheny observatory announced dis
covery Of one of the greatest sun
spots ever called to the attention Of
astronomers.
Pulajanes attacked and burned two
towns in Occidental Negroes, p. l., and
killed six of the constabulary. Two
American teachers, w. X. Batchelder
and Walter J. Ise, are reported to be
missing.
The federal grand jury at Cleveland,
O., returned indictments against eight
contracting companies and firms on
the charge of violating the eight-hour
labor law in connection with govern
ment work.
Fire at Crazy, N. D., destroyed
seven business houses. among them
Boe's opera house. and several resi-
dences, causing a loss of $4,000.
Edna May, the America actress, Is
engaged to marry Oscar Lewisohn,
son of Adolph Lewisohn, of New York.
Nine blocks of residences occupied
by employees of the Cotton Belt shops,
several storehouses, the Third Avenue
hotel and the Riverside Methodist
church at Pine Bluff, Ark, were de-
stroyed by fire.
Three persons were killed and sew.
eral others injured by an explosion Of
gas in Los Angeles.
Two men were killed and others in
juredj when a locomotive boiler blew
up on the Ontario & Western road at
Luzon, N. Y.
Rodolphe Julian, the noted art
teacher. Is dead in Paris. He was &c
years old.
The st. Albert hot-l, one Of the
| Oldest In Charleston, w. Va, was
ruined by fire. The loss will be $780,
900. ]. H. Grouse, of Baltimore, a
travelling salesman, leaped from a
window and was fatally injured.
Judge William b. Teasdale, of the
circuit court, died at his home in Kan
sas City, Mo-, OF cancer, aged 81
years.
The safe in the Citizens bank at
Yeddo, Ind. was blown open by Eve
men and $1,000 was secured.
Policemen James Wright and James
Barrett, of Middlesboro, KY, shot and
killed each other in a raid on an al
legged gambling resort.
The Western Union Telegraph CON-
pany announced an increase of ten
per cent. in the wages of it's operators
at the principal offices.
An epidemic of meningitis has ap-
peared among the cattle of Morgan
county, Illinois.
Frank e. Grimes, ex-state treasurer
paid the state $4,000 to covered an al
legged shortage found under his admin
istration, stopped a movement to have
the legislature reimburse him.
Frank Wayland Higgins, former gov
ernor of New York, died at his home
in Olean, N. Y.
M. Pobiednostsef, former procura.
tor general Of the holy synod, is seri-
ously Ill of influenza.
| An official bank messenger. while on
his way to Moscow bank, was beset
by ten armed men and robbed of $685.
900.
| The new battleship Vermont, built
by the Fore River Shipbuilding COM
pany, was formally turned over to the
government at the Charlestown navy
yard.
President Stickney told a Minnesota
legislative committee that he sold wa
tered stock Of the Chicago Great West
ern and intended to sell lot more.
Warren Beckwith was granted a d.
vorce at Mount Pleasant, Ia. from
Jessie Lincoln Beckwith. daughter of
Robert T. Lincoln and a granddaugh-
ter OF Abraham Lincoln.
The breaking of an Ice gorge in the
Loup river near Columbus, Neb., caus-
ed flood In which family Of four
drowned.
The last will of Count John A.
Creighton of Omaha is missing.
A severe earthquake shock was felt
at Albania. province of Murcia, Spain.