The L'Anse sentinel., 1908-02-15

| crown PRINCE Lulx fnluppos Wor0 unos
TO death % they sat IN the royal car.
riage. by band OF revolutionists. His
majesty. accompanied by Queen
Amelia, Crown Prince Luiz and Prince
Manuel. were returning from the villa
Vicosa, where they had been tempo,
rarily residing. when q company OF
men leaped from behind barrier and.
leveling carbines at the royal family,
fred. No revolutionary outbreak fol-
lowed the murders, and the second
son OF Carlos was proclaimed king un.
der the name OF Manuel II.
Under q new regime, with a new
king and the establishment Of a new
cabinet, Portugal seemed to be for
the moment at peace. There was an
underlying current OF revolutions.
however, and the strictest measures
were taken to preserve order. Premier
Franco resigned and was succeeded by
Admiral do Amaral, who acted with
great energy, proclaiming martial law
and deporting nearly 100 political pris'
oners.
Admiral do Amaral, the new Por-
tuguese premier, succeeded In uniting
the various factions In a new cabinet
and It was given out that the entire
policy of Franco will be reversed.
repressive measure being abolished
and government by decree being with
drawn.
King Manuel of Portugal signed
three DEGREES abolishing repressive
measures. Franco, the former pre-
mier, was said to have fed to Spain.
Revolutionists in Oporto captured the
city hall and raised red flag, but
were routed by the municipal guard.
Viscount Aoki, ex-ambassador to
Washington, was made privy coun'
cillor by the emperor Of Japan.
The Old Dominion liner Jefferson
sank three-masted schooner OF Vir-
ginia and three members Of the sailing
vessels crew lost their lives.
Caught between collapsing floors,
seven firemen were injured in New
York while fighting a fire which de-
stroyed five-story structure occupied
by dry goods firms at 43 Worth street,
in the heart of the wholesale dry goods
district. One man was missing.
Alderman r. ID. Haven, Republican,
was elected mayor of Duluth over Emil
A. Tessman, Democrat and president
of the city council, In the bitterest
campaign ever conducted in Duluth.
Capt Smith, master of the British
steamer Ashfield, committed suicide
by drinking poison in his stateroom
following a mutiny of the crew while
on the high seas.
When fire in the Ontario Powder
works at Tweed, Ont, reached the ex-
plosive building the resulting explosion
destroyed IL buildings and shattered
windows for miles around. There were
no casualties.
The trustees of Hanover college,
near Madison, Ind, elected Prof. w.
A. Mills president of the institution.
E. S. d. Shortridge. former governor
o. North Dakota. died at the age Of IS.
Charles H. May, publisher of the
Peoria craftsmanship, has acquired
the controlling interest of the Spring
field Evening News.
Chairman Payne OF the house COM
mittee on ways and means and Speak.
er Cannon told delegation of bust.
ness men that tariff revision would
not be taken up until the short ses-
sion next winter and that the present
congress would not appoint tariff re-
vision commission.
Max Sackman of New York, having
sought work in vain for three months,
killed himself, his wife and baby by
turning on the gas.
Congressman Robert ]. Cousins Of
Iowa announced that he would not be
a candidate for reelection.
Two fires in the business section of
Berlin, N. H., caused an aggregate
loss estimated at approximately $780,
600.
Hundreds Of the unemployed gath
cred in St. Louis to attend a conven-
tion OF the Brotherhood Welfare asso-
citation.
~ Nathan Shaffner, formerly owner of
the Biswell hotel in Pittsburg, Pa, and
well known In eastern business circles,
died Of apoplexy at Bartlesville, Okla
The plaza in front of the new
Union station in Washington was Sc
lected as the site for the proposed me.
mortal to Christopher Columbus for
which congress has appropriated
100000.
Three prominent Ice dealers of To
ledo, o., were sent to prison for six
months for conspiracy in restraint OF
trade.
Mrs. Mary Sherry died in Brock
ton, N. y, aged 102 years.
Two volunteer firemen in Xenia, o.
were killed by falling wall
George d. Wise, for many years 9
member Of congress from the Thirt
Virginia district, died In Richmond
He was unmarried and 72 years old.
The Smithsonian institution has of
fered prize of $1,000 for the bes
treatise on THE Relation Of Atmos
pheric Air to Tuberculosis"
Mrs. Elizabeth b. Nichols of New
ark, N. j.. received a letter, writer
by a former girl schoolmate, after 4
has lain in the mails for "a years
How 1t came to be finally put on III
way from New Orleans is not known.