The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-10-31

Metz, 20 miles north of Alpena. Mich,
to safety from the forest fires which
were sweeping away their homes. The
, train was ditched by spreading rails
at Nowicki Siding. few miles south
OF Metz. and the the cars we're burned.
IL women and children and four men
perishing. The forest fires in North
ern Michigan were reported to be
raging with most disastrous results.
Hundreds made homeless by Michi-
gan forest fires need shelter and food
and Gov Warner issued an appeal for
help. Relief work was started prompt
ly in Detroit and elsewhere.
The verified known death list result
ing from the forest fires in Pressure
Isle and Alpena counties. Michigan.
stands at Al, with several people still
reported missing and growing prob
ability of severe loss Of life In North
ern Pulawski and Krakow townships
In Pressure Isle county.
Forest fires driven by high winds
were reported to be raging fiercely In
the Adirondacks.
Sugar Island, Mich, was reported on
fire from end to end. Near Detour
several towns we're surrounded by for
est fires. rs
Fires In Vincennes, Ind, destroyed
the grain elevators of Bartlett, Kuhn
& Co. and the plant of the Empire Pa
per Company.
Mrs. Nels Ingvarhorn and her two
children were killed by the explosion
of gasoline stove at Sisseton, S. d.
William p. Dillingham; and Carroll
s. Page were formally elected to rep
resent Vermont in the United States
senate, at joint session of the gener
al assembly.
John w. Kern, Democratic vice.
presidential candidate, was called
home from his campaign tour by the
serious illness of his little son in Indi-
annapolis.
An incendiary fire destroyed the ele-
vator of the Hungarian Mills Com
pany at Denver, the loss being $780,
600.
The timely intervention of physi-
clan who was not satisfied with the
appearance of the body prevented the
burial alive of Mrs. Thomas Chapman,
wife of one of the best-known citizens
of Ellis, Kan.
A grandstand at Savannah, Mo-, was
blown down by tornado and 20 high
school boys were injured, one of them
fatally.
xr,tI ha To lyn n
appropriation of $35,000,000 for carry
ing on the work on the isthmian canal
during 1910.
BY the terms of the will of Gregory
Koering, filed in probate court at ST.
Paul, Mimi, $4,000 is left in trust to
Catholic church.
The steamer New York of the AL
bany line was burned at her pier In
New York and four colored walters
were believed to have persisted.
A bank at Hurst, ILL.,, was robbed of
81, 800 by safe-blowers.
Sidney c.. Tapp of Atlanta, Ca.
nominated for president of the United
| States at convention of the Liberal
party held at Chattanooga, Tenn, was
notified at Chicago.
Servians were enraged because an
envoy from Montenegro to Belgrade
was arrested by Austrians at Agram,
searched and detained for many hours.
About three thousand persons lost
their lives in the recent typhoon on
| the China coast
Four men were killed by the burst
ing of steam pipe on barge near
Manistee, Mich.
The Kentucky racing commission re-
voked the license of the Latonia
Jockey club. because the club violated
the rules of the commission.
The remains of a prehistoric animal
40 feet long and 22 feet in height have
been found in the bad lands south OF
Glasgow, Mont, by Barnum Brown OF
New York, connected with the Ameri
can Museum of Natural History.
Four homesteaders were killed near
Clayton, N. NJ as the result of tor
nado and cloudburst. Twenty other
persons were injured and many build
ings in the city were destroyed Sc
we're storms did much damage a,
Sharon Springs, Kan, and Lamar
Col.
Edward Mcdonald of New York shot
and killed himself and his fiancee
Nellie Walden, attempted to drown
herself
The reception accorded the Ameri
can Atlantic fleet by the government
and people of Japan is conceded b,
the American naval officers to be tn,
heartiest and most perfectly carrie,
out of the many receptions received b,
the fleet since It sailed from Hampton
Roads.
Deputy Warden c. B. Peyton an,
four Flathead Indians are dead as re
suit of pitched battle between Pey
: ton, his assistants and a band of Ir
dams near Hollands Prairie, Mont.
1t is feared there will be an ou
break of the Sioux Indians at For
Yates. s. d., II the government orde
providing for the removal Of the II
dian graves in the military cemeter
4 there be carried out.
Judge David b. Howell of Newarl
N. j., committed suicide by shootin,