The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-10-17

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editor of the Morrill, News, and Their
committed suicide.
Leaking gas In an Italian boarding
house at Waterbury, Conn, killed four
persons and made SIX others uncon-
, scious.
In an attempt to escape after being
arrested, Lucian Ferriss was shot and
instantly killed by sergt. George
Smith at Nashville, Tenn.
After rescuing an aged woman from
burning house Policeman Nicholas
Nestor of Jersey City plunged again
into the blazing building and met
death by suffocation.
Mlstaking a cannon firecracker for
q candle, Mrs. Sophia Brehm Of Lin
coin, Neb., lighted the fuse and went
into the cellar to get vegetables. The
explosion shattered her right hand.
She probably will die.
Wilbur Wright made an aeroplane
flight at lie Mans, France, with Mrs.
Hart o. Berg as a passenger.
One fireman was killed and eight
were injured by the falling walls Of a
burning grain elevator in Buffalo,
N. Y.
Capt. ]. Clayton Erb, confidential
secretary to Israel w. Durham and
one OF the political leaders Of Phila-
delphia, was shot and instantly killed
at his country home, and Mrs. Cath
crime Baisdell. his wife's sister, Is said
to have admitted shooting him during
family quarrel.
AS a part of the Founders week
celebration in Philadelphia a monu-
ment was unveiled to Francis Daniel
Pastorius, the first German immigrant
to come 70 America.
Messages of congratulation from
President Roosevelt and Messrs. Bry-
an and Taft were read In the trans
Mississippi congress in San Fran
cisco.
Robbers in Slobodze, Russia, killed
IL members Of Jewish family.
1t was reported that President Cas-
tro of Venezuela was seriously Ill and
might have to turn over the govern
ment to the vice-president.
Detroit won the American league
championship pennant.
Norman E. Mack Of Buffalo, chair
man of the Democratic national COM
mittee, collapsed in his room at the
Auditorium Annex hotel, Chicago. from
overwork, hard cold and chill.
Two more Ohio counties voted to
GUST the saloons.
Ben Price. colored, charged with at
lacking his daughter, was hanged by
mob at Grandforam, Tex.
The State bank of Danube, Mimi,
was dynamited and robbed Of $4,000.
Democrats of Rhode Island nomi-
mated state ticket headed by Olney
Arnold for governor.
Fog caused a wreck on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad near Lancaster, Pa, in
which one man was killed and num-
| Der injured.
Anatomy hall, formerly the medical
building at the Minnesota state uni.
versity, was destroyed by fire. The
loss is $4,000.
Mabel Jackson of Chicago set fire
to her clothing by stepping on match
| and was burned to death.
Eleven boys who escaped from the
reform school at st. Charles, ILL.,, are
believed to have set fire to a lumber
yard there. The loss was $4,000.
A woman, believed to have been
Mrs. l.. ID. Draper of Saginaw, Mich,
committed suicide by leaping over
Niagara Falls.
Twenty thousand soldiers and sail
ors took part In the first of the pa
rades in celebration of Founders week
in Philadelphia. A bronze tablet at
the city hall marking the site of the
encampment of the French army un
der Gen. Rochambeau was unveiled.
The medical board of army officers
in the case of Col. William F. Stewart
U. s. A., placed in command Of the
ungarrisoned post at Fort Grant, Ariz.
by President Roosevelt, reported that
officer incapacitated from active serv
ice. y
Managers of % OF tho largest parks
and circuses in the country have
formed a syndicate controlling 1872,
100000 worth of park and circus prop
erty.
The janitor Of one OF the largest
public schools in the Bronx, New Yorl
city, discovered charge of dynamite
in the foundation walls.
The Trans Mississippi congress:
opened In San Francisco with thou
sand delegates present.
While temporarily insane Jacol
Hemphing, aged 70, prosperou
farmer who lived at Atwood, KY, sho
and fatally wounded his wife, an,
: then killed himself
Eleven persons were killed. NOR
than a dozen were injured and 80 es
capped death by the narrowest margin
in an incendiary fire which wrecke
a tenement house on Mulberry street
J New York.
The Belgian steamer Tiflis, pickle
up 200 miles southwest of tn
bahamas, raft on board of whic
was the sole survivor of the crew @
the American schooner Beulah Mo
Cabe. which foundered in hurricane
War In eastern Europe was mad
almost certain by the announced dc
termination Of Bulgaria to declare he
independence from Turkey and tn