The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-05-09

Two seamen Of the German battle
ship Elsass were killed and six otherI
were wounded ut Kiel, as the result Of
| the explosion Of . mine.
Mulai Hand. the Sultan of the
South In Morocco, suffered defeat
and fed.
Three thousand Christian Ar
menians are reported TO have been
massacred by Kurds In the provincea
Of Persia recently invaded by Rus
sian troops on q punitive mission.
Several of the buildings on the
jamestown exposition grounds were
destroyed ty fire.
The Japanese training cruiser Mat.
sushima was sunk on the Pescadores
islands by the explosion of a projec.
tile. About $50 men, including the
captain OF the Matsushima. are lost.
Mrs. Belle Guinness. 40 years old.
and her three children. were burned
to death In a fire which destroyed
their home near Laporte Ind. and Ray
Lamphere, formerly in her employ.
was arrested.
Nine men were killed and 80 per.
sons injured in collision of interur.
ban trolley cars near Ypsilanti, Mich.
Democrats of New Jersey refused
to instruct their delegates for Bryan.
Republicans OF Colorado and Arkan.
sas instructed for Taft.
Three men were killed by an ex.
plosion of the Egyptian Powder mills
Ave miles from Marion, Ill.
Mrs. Leonora Pierce and Miss Grey
ia Fulmer were arrested in Denver on
a charge of swindling a Blind woman
out of $4,000 by spiritualistic seances.
Four armed men held up guards who
were conveying $4,000 from Welch to
Dairy. w. Va, to pay off the employees
of the United States Coal and Coke
company.
Safe-blowers robbed the Peoples
State bank at Monterey, Mimi, of
1900.
A great gathering of the Catholic
hierarchy assembled In the cathedral
of New York and gave thanks for a
century of Catholicism in that city.
The second Atlantic torpedo fiotilla
arrived at San Diego, Cal.
The British torpedo boat destroyer
Gala was cut in two and sunk in the
North sea by the scout Attentive. One
man was drowned.
Robert Bachman killed the little
daughter of his brother-in-law, Henry
Smith, Of Alliance. Pa, while in re-
ligious frenzy.
Mrs. Helena Taraba of Chicago
killed herself by leaping from win
dow Of hospital, where she was
patient.
Several men were injured by a
boiler explosion on the British battle
ship Britannia.
Fifteen persons were drowned near
Helena. Ark, by the capsizing OF a
steamer carrying members of a carni-
val company.
The attorney general Of Iowa ruled
that the laws of that state did not per-
NIT a corporation to engage in the re-
tail sale Of intoxicating liquors.
Mrs. Sarah Brennan. respected
resident Of Brownville, N. Y. was
murdered with an ak and her body
concealed In trunk, presumably by
robbers.
Northern Wisconsin was swept by
violent gales accompanied by snow
and severe cold.
Santa Barbara's flower festival in
honor Of the Atlantic feet of battle
ships began with floral parade and
battle Of flowers.
| Despondent because of Ill health,
Mrs. Ora Longmoor. the young wife
OF Jacob Longmoor, teller Of the
Third National bank of st. Louis. com.
mitted suicide by shooting.
Cleveland's street car troubles were
ended by consolidation of the vari
GUS traction lines with the promise
of three-cent fares.
The secretary Of the treasury an
nounced a, further call upon the ma
tional banks for approximately $45,
600, 900, $20,000.000 to be paid on On
before May 9, and the remaining $25,
100000 on or before May %. 1908.
The tri-centennial of the coming Of
the Dutch to America was celebrated
at Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Stone and
Boyd Ward were drowned at Muske
gon, Mich.
The Banco Espanol-Filipino al
Manila has been the victim of exten
sive frauds. totaling over $4,000 pesos
or about 100000 in gold.
Half the little French hamlet OF
Notre Dame De Salette. 16 miles from
Buckingham, Ont. on the Lievre river
was buried under a sliding mountain
and at least 80 of its small population
are known to have persisted.
A severe blizzard, with snow. gales
and cold, ragged over Great Britain,
doing much damage.
For the first time in 80 years, and
the second time in the history of the
science Of medicine. an operation for
the extraction of venom from the dead
ly lance-head viper, said to be the
most poisonous of all known reptiles,
was performed at the Bronx Geological
park In New York. The third Of a
teaspoonful Of the fluid obtained will
meet the demands of the medical
world for 80 years.
Fire In Joliet Ill destrOyed the