The L'Anse sentinel., 1908-02-29
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elgn Items.
Heavy snowfalls and high winds
throughout the states OF the middle
west partly tied up rail traffic anc
caused serious interruption Of bust
ness. In southern Indiana there was
great suffering due to the floods.
Speaker Cannon was indorsed by
unanimous vote for the Republican
nomination for president at the meet
ing OF the Illinois Republican state
central committee In Springfield. The
resolution of Endorsement also praised
President Roosevelt.
William J. Bryan's visit to Colum
bus, O., was sIgnalized by the Demo
cratic state central committee unani
mousely indorsing his candidacy fol
the presidency.
The divorce question was excluded
from the new Michigan constitution
which is receiving its finishing touches
at the hands of the constitutional con
vention.
Wah Shun Cab. chief of the Kav
Indians, died at his home near Arkan
sas City, Kan, aged SO years.
Private Benjamin G. Steenerson OF
the marine corps, who was, drowned
in Narragansett bay, lost his life in
trying to save his comrade, John M
Mcintosh, from death in the water
according to the naval board which in.
vestigated the case,
Former Coy. Pennypacker took the
stand in the Pennsylvania state cap.
itol graft case as witness for former
Auditor General Snyder, former State
Treasurer Mathues, and former Su-
perintendent Shumaker, Pennypack-
er's colleagues on the board Of grounds
and buildings during the equipment
of the capitol
Assistant Matron Clara Sterling of
the Children home at Canal Dover,
o. confessed to having driven a tack
through the end Of childs tongue as
punishment and was fined ten dollars.
It has developed that r. Fred An
derson, who committed suicide at
Cobalt Ont. was the absconding treas
urer of Jennings township, Missaukee
county, Michigan.
A. Wengler of Chicago broke the
worlds record at the Cincinnati
tournament by bowling 600 points.
Gen. Tung Fuh Slang, the leader Of
the Boxers In the uprising in 1900, is
dead. He had been banished to
Kan Su.
T. e. Pritchard, third officer on the
steamer Crispin, and victim of yell
low fever, died. making the second
victim of the disease since the vessel
went into quarantine at Galveston.
Rev. w. g. Whitaker of Exeter, Neb.,
accused Of using the mails to defraud,
was bound to the federal grand jury in
the sum of $500 at Springfield, o.
The president of the republic Of
Brazil, to commemorate the visit of
the Atlantic fleet to the city of Rio
Janeiro, signed a decree authorizing
the continuation Of rebates on tariff
charges on articles of American mer.
1908.
All but one of the 2S men and boys
who were entombed in the Mid-Valley
colliery were rescued. Frank Orloskie
fell down a chute after the accident
and was killed.
The court of appeals of New York
decided that Chester Gillette of Cort-
land must die in the electric chair for
the murder Of his sweetheart. Grace
Brown Of South Otselic, Chenango
county, at Big Moose lake in the Ad.
irondacks or July IL, 1906.
The West Point 0a.) bank closed
its doors. IL is owned by Riley Smith
OF Colusa, iii.
Out OF total of $14,750,000 that
will be paid in dividends by the
Standard OIL company at the rate of
SIS a share on March IA next, John
ID. Rockefeller, who owns 25 per cent.
OF all the stock, will get $3,750.O00,
bringing up the total Of his returns
from Standard stock for the six
months to s6,250.OOO
= - GIhitH, lHe MISSOURI, Kansas
& Texas brakeman on the El Dorado
train. which was robbed of a package
containing $4,000, confessed to the
robbery md gave up the money.
George Chester of West Livingston.
N. j.. dreamed three times OF seeing
bis wife'g lost wedding ring under
stone and then went out and found It
at the spot indicated.
Adolph stemwetz. paying teller of
the National Bank of Commerce of
Minneapolis. was arrested for an al
legged shortage Of $3,450.
Macon county. Georgia, went dry
by majority OF 900. Seventy of the
ia counties of Missouri have now
voted for local option.
The viii OF Mrs. Rylands, widow of
John Rylands. of the famous Manches.
ter tEngJ cotton firm, bequeaths
s2,o65,0o0 to various charities, includ-
ing s1.o0o,00o to the John Rylands IL
brary at Manchester.
An explosion in coal mine at
Glencoe Natal coaf 67 Iivoa