The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1907-08-10

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land, Cal. and ended his own life will
a bullet from the same revolver.
Paradise. the painter OF Trieste, hal
found two hitherto unknown pictures
by Titan in church in the village
| Of TRACT, Dalmatia-
Cortlandt Parker. aged SO, nestor Of
the New Jersey bar. died at his home
In Newark.
The federal government has. let
contract to the United States Steel
corporation for transmission towers
which are to be utilized for wireless
telegraph service in Alaska. The
towers will be 176 feet high.
The engagement Of Miss Edith Root
only daughter of the secretary OF
state and Mrs. Elihu Root, to Lieut.
Ulysses 8. Grant III. u. 8. A., son OF
Maj Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, has
been announced.
Fire destroyed three business blocks
in the village of Moravia, N. Y, en-
failing loss Of $4,000.
George Tipler and his 14-year-old
son were drowned In a well on a farm
near Luther. la.
The foundation stone of the Andrew
Carnegie palace Of peace was laid at
Zorgvlfet, near The Hague.
Within half an hour after his son.
Henry, made an unsuccessful attempt
to commit suicide, Maj. Henry A.
Huntington, retired American sol.
der, died at his home In Versailles.
France. He never regained conscious
ness after a brief interview with his
estranged son, which was followed by
the shooting down of the veterans
two sons and two daughters by their
brother.
The striking ore handlers at Du-
luth proposed arbitration Of the trou-
bles but the employers were expected
to reject the offer.
The murder charge against Fred
Magill and his wife, of Clinton, ILL.,.
were taken up by special grand jury.
An Intellectual attempt was made
on the life of Grand Duke Peter Mich
olaievitch, cousin of the car, a petard
being exploded under his train.
Eight soldiers were executed for
plotting against the president Of Ecua-
dor and seven more were condemned
to death.
Miss Laura Matthews, Of Chicago.
was found dead at Colorado Springs,
Col, and was believed to have COM
mitted suicide because a wealthy
automobile dealer of Chicago had not
kept promise to marry her.
Thomas w. Lawson, of Boston, has
purchased the plant Of the Arizona
Smelling company. The deal involves
$17,000.000 and carries control OF
many mines in that section.
Father Martogessian and FIVE other
Armenians were arrested in New
York as a result Of the investigation
of the Matchmaking operations against
wealthy Armenians.
Enormous numbers of boil weevil
grubs have been baked to death by
the scorchjng sun In Louisiana. &C
cording to the state crop pest com
mssioners' report.
Charles B. Hogge, alias Benton,
pleaded guilty at Canyon City, Col,
to forging a check on bank at Flor
ence, Col, and was sentenced to the
penitentiary for ten to IA years.
Gen. William Booth, the head OF
the Salvation Army, who is engaged
in a motor tour of Great Britain, an.
nounced at Blackburn that the same
electric flash that carried the news OF
hi. Hath u,n,,Jd v,uhlioh tho mama ~
the new general for the army.
Two jealous husbands in Indian
Territory, Edgar Ball, at Wapanucka,
and ]. ID. Stackhouse, at Tulsa, killed
their wives and themselves,
Barney Oldfield opened the Fargo,
s. D., interstate fair by breaking two
worlds automobile records on half.
mile track, going the first mile Of a
three-mile race in 1:15h and the
three miles In 3:51.
William r. Kenyon, twice mayor Of
Butte, Mont, and formerly business
partner of Senator w. A. Clark, died
suddenly at his country home near
Amsterdam, N. Y, aged 81. He was
a native of Oswego, N. Y.
Walter T. Wilcox of New York
ditched his automobile and injured
his wife and number of guests In
order to avoid running down two
children.
Thomas Black, a prominent lawyer
and former mayor of Kenton, O., &C
knowledged the forgery of papers in
volving $4,000 and surrendered to
the police.
A socialist parade was broken w
by policemen at Hancock. Mich, be
cause many Of the marchers carried
red flags, in defiance of a recently en-
acted city ordinance.
A heavy rain choked up the Branch
street sewer and the huge drainage
artery burst in North st. Louis, food
ing an area occupied by six city
blocks.
United States Senator e. w. Pettus
Of Alabama, died of apoplexy at Hot
Springs, N. c., aged SO years. Hi
successor will be former Gov. JOSEPH
F. Johnston. of Birmingham.
In the early morning IRE at Mem
phis, Tenn, originating on the elev
enth floor of the Memphis Cold Stor
age company's building, which was y
the course Of erection, one fireman
lost his life and $500, 900 damage wa