The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1907-06-15

Marvin and Don Mathers. brothers,
fought duel at Ashland. Miss.. the
former being killed and the latter t.
tally wounded.
The rules OF the national civil serv.
Ice commission have been 10 amended
az to prohibit all persons In tho olAssi.
fed civil service from taking an active
part In political campaigns.
Nelson Saylor. q prominent Cincln.
natl attorney. died. aged Is years,
Johnson r. Morris. of 81. Louis. was
sentenced to two years In the pcniten.
tiary and fined $1,000 for selling col.
ored oleomargarine without paying
the government tar.
Three men were killed, and ten In.
jured at Reddick. ILL.,. by the explo-
sion Of freight car loaded with gas
oline.
Saving their way through the steel
bars OF their cell In Castle William.
three army prisoners escaped from
Governors island. A boat is missing
from the island, and the men carried
the steel window bars with them a.
weapons.
Accidental discovery of a bomb In
the shape of a box filed with dyna-
mite and Illuminating powder and in
train with fuse. in the home of Jo-
seph Kennel, police Judge of New
Durham, N. j., prevented probably the
destruction of the house with its doz-
en- inmates. The attempt to kill Mr..
Kennel is laid to criminal Italians, OF
whom he has sent to prison a score or
more for theft and blackmail.
A syndicate with headquarters at
Rhinelander, Wis, has purchased the
properties of the Spanish River Pulp
& Paper company for $2.500.000.
One hundred armed confederate vet
Grams from Tennessee, carrying the
stars and bars. were denied admission
to the United States capitol until they
had lowered their flag and disarmed.
A special dispatch from Hongkong
says that Mr.. Pollard, Methodist
missionary at Chaotungfu, has been
mercilessly beaten by the Chinese.
The bursting of an air motor at No.
IA colliery of the Pennsylvania Coal
company, at Port Blapchard, Pa, killed
two men, fatally injured two others
and caused minor injuries to eight
more.
William S. McChesney, Jr., general
manager of the Terminal Railroad as
ISOLATION of st. Louis, announced
plans for three new freight yards In
st. Louis, to cost about $10,000,000.
The jury was completed for the trial
of Mayor Eugene Schmitz on the first
of the five indictments returned
against him by the oliver grand jury,
charging extortion.
Judge w. H. Munger, of the United
States circuit court, decided in favor
of the city Of Omaha the suit brought
by the Omaha Water company to COM
pei the city to purchase its plant at
the price fixed by majority Of the
board Of appraisers, $6.263, 295.49.
The Ohio supreme court in a deci-
sion in the suit of the city of Cleve-
land against William Reynolds gave
great victory for the Cleveland Con-
solidated Railways company and
blow at low fares, upholding the valid
ity of the company's franchises.
The plant of the Knoxville (Tenn.)
Sentinel was seriously damaged by
fire, the loss being estimated at about
$4,000.
Pope Plus has ordered that the honor
airy degree of doctor of laws should be
conferred on Edward Box, the editor
of the Ladies' Home Journal through
the Augustine college of Villanova,
just outside of Philadelphia.
Reports are current in New York
that the Carnegie Trust company, with
Leslie M. Shaw at its head, is to be
the nucleus of a $4,000, 900 merger.
Capt. Ainsworth, of the revenue cut
ter Rush. has informed the treasury
department in Washington that he
seized the British sealing schooner
Charlotte G. Cox, found catching seals
illegally In Alaskan waters.
Prominent citizens of Lincoln, ILL.,,
were summoned before a federal
grand jury to tell what they knew
about Rev. James r. Kaye, in whose
possession were found molds Of Unit
ed States coins.
The extended strike of the French
seamen virtually came to an end with
the capitulauon of the strikers.
Harry Hamlin, one of the best
known and wealthiest citizens OF Buff
falo, N. Y, was killed in an automo-
bile accident. He was so years old
and the son Of the late Cicero ]. Ham,
lin. famous breeder of trotting horses.
A statue OF Jefferson Davis, the
gift of the Daughters of the Confed-
eracy, was unveiled at Richmond, Va,
the ceremony being the eliminating
feature Of the Confederate Veterans
reunion.
Fifty mothers of Philadelphia pre-
sented to the coroner petition sign
ed by 500 mothers asking him to ar.
rest G. F. Baer, because of numerou,
fatal railway accidents at a grade
crossing there.
Edwin c. pendleton, until recently
In command o. the battleship Mis-.
souri,, entered uron his duties as COM
mandant Of the League island navy
yard, Philadelphia. He succeeds Rear
Admiral Tilley, who died in March.