The L'Anse sentinel., 1908-06-27

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killed and fourth wounded By q
wealthy italian merchant OF New Or
leans from whom they had attempted
to extort money.
The Cunarder Lusitania was stopped
| for 20 minutes In the narrows at New
| York because the great guns OF Forts
Wadsworth and Hamilton were being
fred In the war game"
The Democratic state convention or
Mississippi instructed the delegates to
vote first and last for the selection OF
William ]. Bryan as the presidential
nominee.
DR.. w. F. King. for 40 years presi-
dent OF Cornell college at Mount Yer
non, Ia, resigned on account OF Ill
health. Prof. James Harlan was
chosen president.
Four hundred feet Of the Missouri.
Kansas & Texas railway embankment.
which served as a levee protecting st.
Charles county (Mo) farms from the
Missouri river, gave way and 1000
acres of farm lands we're inundated.
Miss Miriam Frances Bloomer,
daughter of James F. Bloomer OF Gin
cinnati, drank poison by mistake In
New York and died.
Thomas Hagen, marine, was killed
by blow over the heart in boxing
bout on the battleship Mississippi at
Philadelphia.
Two hundred lives were endangered
by an incendiary attempt to burn a
tenement house in New York.
Joseph Fangele, wealthy merchant
and brewer of Gallitzin. Pa, commit
ted suicide.
The Lemoine diamond case came to
sudden end in Paris with the fight
OF Lemoine and the discovery that his
formula for making diamonds is a
fantastic farce.
The Imperial hotel at Petoskey,
Mich, was destroyed by fire, the loss
being $4,000. 1t had not been opened
for the season.
w. H. Stewart, an editor of Sails
bury, N. c., killed Frank Smith, col
ored, who was trying to rob Stewards
home.
The thirty-second national saenger-
fest of the North American Saenger-
bund opened in indianapolis, Ind.
Three men attempted to hold up and
rob New Orleans street car, and one
of them and the motorman were
shot.
The governments suit for injunc-
tion against seven coal carrying rail-
roads that transport anthracite from
their own mines was argued in Phila-
delphia.
Three men at Enid, Okla, accused
Of lynching negro, were acquitted by
jury.
Mrs J. d. Tuthill of Brooklyn, N. Y.
sister OF J. s. Pomeroy, cashier Of the
Security National bank, Minneapolis,
committed suicide by jumping into
Lake Minnetonka at Breezy Point.
Mrs. Mary Stuart Coffin, the only
practicing woman lawyer in Detroit.
Mich, committer suicide by taking
laudanum.
The plant OF the Royal Coal Mine
company at Argentine, Pa, was de-
opoySu Wy uyhaAhilc, tho iooo pSih6
$4,000.
Fifty Japanese fishing boats were
wrecked in a storm, $50 men being
drowned.
The battleship Georgia made the
worlds record. taking on board 1,779
tons Of coal in five hours and IL min
| utes.
The supreme court of Arkansas de-
cided that the Amis antiracetrack
betting law is constitutional.
The worlds centennial congress
held exercises at the grave in Glens
Falls, N. Y, of William ]. Clark,
founder Of the temperance movement
In America.
| Pine Plains, N Y, the concentra-
ton camp of the federal soldiers and
national guardsmen, was torn up from
one end to the other by a violent
storm. Tents were all blown down
and many horses stampeded.
The Hull-Prouty congressional cleo
ton in Iowa resulted in a tie, and
must be settled in the courts.
A motor car ran away and plunged
into the North river in New York.
two women, one man and child being
drowned
Grand Army men hauled down a
confederate flag which was hoisted by
a printer in Ossining, N. Y.
A wireless message from Capt. Rob
erts Of the steamer New York, which
left New York for Southampton, an.
nounced that Miss Marion X. Hilford
was aboard without funds or change
of clothing.
The Louisiana house OF representa-.
tives indefinitely postponed considera-
ton of the Doussan bill providing for
a referendum on statewide prohibi.
tion.
The physicians Of Gov. William NJ.
o. Dawson of West Virginia have In.
formed him that he has developed tu.
berculosis.
J. 4. Hall of Lawrence and Daniel
Matthews Of Arkansas, Kan, the lat.
ter university student. were killed
by live electric wire at the Univer.
sity of Kansas at Lawrence.
The application Of Albert H. Patrick
who Is serving life sentence in Sing
Sing prison for the murder OF William