The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-07-25

VI odn rTunCibCO were the sstdT per
formers in the Olympic games at Lon
don, winning two gold medals for
America. Sheridan was first in the
discus throwing and Rose was first in
putting the shot.
The third day Of the Olympic games
Great Britain won two gold medals
and France and Sweden one each.
America won second place In a team
race.
American athletes captured two gold
medals on the second day Of the
Olympic games in London. John ].
Flanagan won the hammer throw.
breaking the Olympic record. and M.
W. Sheppard won the 1.500-meter run.
Count Boni de Castellane filed suit
for such revision of the decree Of d.
vorce obtained against him by his
wife. who was Miss Anna Gould Of
New York, as will give him the GUS
tody of his three children.
Circuit Judge Reynolds of St. Louis
ruled that steam laundries may go
as far as they like in combining to
maintain prices, as, owing to other
methods of washing clothes, such a
combination would not be in restraint
of trade.
Seven mine workers were killed and
ten others injured by terrific ex-
plosion of gas in the Williamstown
(pa.) colliery of the Summit Branch
Mining company. The mine was
wrecked and set on fire.
Republican Chairman Hitchcock
called conference of party leaders at
Colorado Springs, Col, for the opening
of the campaign in the west
BY the burning of one-story frame
building in st. Paul, Mimi, the struc-
ture in which the first volunteer for
the union armies enlisted In 1861 was
destroyed.
The shriners at st. Paul elected E. l.
Alderman of Marion, Ia, imperial
potentate and decided to hold next
years conclave in Louisville.
One man was killed and rs or 80
others were injured. some perhaps
fatally, when trolley car on the
Johnstown pa Passenger Railway
company, after striking a traction en-
CINE at a crossing a mile from here,
started backwards and went over
steep embankment.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
j. E. Wilson, w. de G.. Ravenel of the
National museum and w. M. Geddes of
treasury department were appointed
by the president as a United States
government board of managers of the
Alaskan-Yukon exposition at Seattle,
Wash.
Five workmen were killed by the
cave-in of a new sewer in Youngs-
town, o.
Fire in the business district of Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich, destroyed 100000
of property.
Sheriff Riley of Nowata, Okla,
burned roadhouse and saloon, in ac-
cordance with the Oklahoma liquor
law.
James Phillips, a farmer, committed
suicide in Oskaloosa, Ia, by drinking
carbolic acid in olive oil.
James Guyot and his son were killed
by lightning near Clay City, Ill.
Fire in the town of circuit, Cal, in
the Santa Maria oil fields, destroyed
property valued at 100000.
Frank H. Montgomery, a leading
physician of Chicago, and his stenog-
rapher, Mrs. Head. were drowned
while sailing In White lake, Michigan.
Mrs. Catherine Bruha, aged rs, and
her grandson, aged IA, were probably
fnt a11 h,,r In,
plosion in La Crosse, Wis.
Lightning struck and destroyed the
beautiful summer home of George w.
Elkins at Ogontz, suburb of Phila-
delphia.
A plot against the car Of Russia
was discovered at Sosnowice, Russian
Poland, and many arrests were made.
H. L. Palmer, president of the
Northwestern Life Insurance company,
retired after so years service with the
company.
The Democratic national committee
adopted a resolution, dictated by
Bryan, declaring for publication of
campaign contributions, limiting them
to $4,000 and declaring none would
be accepted from corporations.
The National Deposit bank of Phila-
delphia was closed by direction of the
comptroller Of the currency because
1t had not kept its reserve up to re-
quirements.
Standing within few feet of the
spot where, little more than two
years ago, he shot and killed his IA
DR.. James Weddell Simp-
son, dentist Of New York, was shot
and perhaps MORALLY wounded at
N. Y, by his mother-in-law,
Mrs. BARLEY T. Horner, the woman he
made widow.
Four persons were drowned through
an explosion on board 45.foot launch
OF Marion. Mass. They were Roland
Worthington Of Boston, John T. Trull
of Woburn, Joseph s. Beal Of Milton,
and George Savory of Marblehead.
A. P. Tarbell Of Marblehead and Ed
ward Pecker of Boston we're rescued
after being In the water IL hours.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor land
the head of 100000
voters of organized labor affiliated