The L'Anse sentinel., 1907-11-30
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 fer the Psrusal Of the
Busy Man.

Prepared fer the Psrusal OF the
Busy Man.
President Gompers told the Amer
can Federation of Labor that last Oe
tober man giving the name o
Charles Brandenburg and represent
Ing himself az acting for the Manu-
facturers' association, tried to brib
him to betray organized labor. II
New York Broughton Brandenbure
president Of the National Institute o
immigration and a magazine writer
said he was the man referred to b!
President Gompers, denied that he hat
attempted to bribe Gompers and de
clared that he had no connection Will
the National Manufacturers associa
ton.
Ell Gross. of lions View. was prob
ably fatally injured and eight othel
persons were hurt In a panic II
Quickel's church, six miles north o.
York, Pa.
United States Senator Joseph Ben
son Foraker. of Ohio, was endorsed
for both reelection to the senate ant
the Republican nomination for presi
dent, at a joint meeting of the execu
tive and advisory committees Of the
Ohio League of Republican clubs al
Columbus, o.
J. II. Fowlkes, farmer, was mur
dered and robbed Of $1,000 in a box
car at Poplar Bluff, Mo.
Speaker Cannon was in railroad
wreck at Bismarck, Ill. He escaped
injury, although his life was In great
danger.
The army transport Crook sailed
from San Francisco for Manila with
over 700 sacks Of Christmas mail and
200 packages of gifts for the men of
the army and their wives stationed in
and about Manila.
Five thousand enlisted men Of the
navy presented Miss Helen Gould with
a loving cup because she gave $45O.O0O
for their new Y. M. c. A. home in
Brooklyn.
Six men were killed, one fatally in
jured and number seriously hurt, as
the result of the explosion OF boiler
at the John L. Roper lumber mills at
Gilmerton, Va.
One trainman was killed and seven
persons injured when an Alton pas
senger train and a Vandalia freight
collided at Farmdale, Ill.
That Mrs. Bradley did not go to
Washington with any intention of kill
ing former Senator Arthur M. Brown,
OF Utah, and that she did not even re-
member shooting him. she told the
Jury In her trial.
Another trial for Kemp V. Bigelow,
the Ohio youth who sent dynamite
bombs to a number Of prominent Den.
yer citizens, was ordered by Judge
Bliss and he may be sent TO the peni.
tentiary.
Col. Atherton Thayer, aged 81, for
merly well known in dramatic and
fraternal circles in the east, died at
Butte, Mont, of apoplexy.
John Hall, Of Camden, NJ c., while
driving to Elizabeth City with Miss
Maggie Sawyer to be married, was
shot by Edmund Daily, his rival, who
then kidnapped the young woman.
The Missouri railroad and ware
house board ordered 20 per cent. re-
duction in express rates.
At Gaylord, Mich, Frank Valot,
aged 21 years, shot and killed his sis.
ter Laura, aged Is, and then ended his
own life.
Deputy Sheriff M. T. Kigginu shot
and killed an unidentified man near
Hillsboro, ILL.,, supposed to be one OF a
gang of burglars that have been ter
rorizing the community.
Representatives of the Switchmen's
Union of North America. who have
been in wage conference with rail-
road committee, decided not to press
their demands for advances at the
present time.
Frank ]. Goldman, prominent
druggist, Odd Fellow and Grand Army
man of Elkhart, Ind. committed sui
eide by shooting while temporarily in
sane.
Aud McMunn, charged with killing
Arch Brown, was acquitted by a jury
at Kennett, Mo. The verdict was
based on the ''unwritten law"
Daniel Sinclair, the oldest editor In
Minnesota, died at Winona, Mimi,
aged 76. He contributed largely to
the defeat of James @. Blaine for the
Republican nomination for president
in 1880.
In the course of his first lecture on
temperance at Minneapolis Frank M.
Eddy. former congressman from
Minnesota. said that drink had cost
him the governorship Of the state.
Lyman J. King, proprietor OF poul-
try farm in the Bronx, New York,
shot and killed two chicken thieves.
James Orcut was fatally hurt during
a football game at Warsaw, Ind, be-
tween two high school teams.
Secretary Metcalf signed contracts
aggregating in amount s..270,000 with
the Electric Boat company OF New
York for the construction OF seven
submarine toroedo boats.