The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-08-22

young boys. were drowned near Mar
quette, Mich.
The isthmian canal zone has {
/ plague OF dogs and a ukase has gone
forth that all dogs at large must b
muzzled.
The Methodist Episcopal church has
begun an active crusade for the cleo
ton OF a speaker who will allow con
gress to vote on the interstate liquor
shipment BILL"
Six persons were killed and Is In
jured in a gun explosion aboard the
French gunnery school ship Couronne
OF Les Salins d'Hyeres.
Charles E. Higbee, aged So years,
OF Denver, one OF the worlds most
noted tunnel builders, was almost In
stantly killed by an accident at Shos-
hone, IL miles east Of Glenwood
| Springs, Col
The American Federation Of Catho-
lie societies finished its seventh an
nual convention In Boston by re-
electing Edward Feeney of Brooklyn
president and selecting Pittsburg for
next years meeting.
Six men were severely injured when
Grand Trunk passenger train struck
street car in Detroit in binding
rain storm.
The Colorado Federation of Labor,
in convention at Denver, by viva
voce vote indorsed the Democratic
party in the national campaign.
With her feet tightly bound to
gether and a stocking stuffed down
her throat, Mrs. Adeline M. Miller of
st. Louis was found dead by her hus-
band, mail clerk.
One thousand Chinese soldiers sta
toned at Konghau, near Wuchow,
mutinied, murdered their commander.
his clerk and secretary and then at
tackled camp of soldiers at Onyung.
Wilbur Wright made a splendid
flight with his aeroplane at lie Mans,
France, circling the field five times
and remaining In the air minutes
sc 2-5 seconds.
e. ]. Lewis, treasurer of the Savings
Life Insurance company of Peoria,
committed suicide by taking poison.
He was a thirty-second degree Mason.
The decree of divorce granted in
February to the Countess of Var
mouth, sister of Harry Thaw, was
made absolute by the British court.
At Trinidad, Col, Abe w. Cohn
was shot and killed by Charles w.
Moore when about to leave the city
in company with Mrs. Moore on
Colorado & Southern train.
j. Montgomery Sears, young mill
ionaire of Boston, was killed when his
automobile plunged over an embank-
ment. He was candidate for the
Massachusetts senate.
Republicans of Texas nominated a
ticket, headed by Col. j. L. Simpson
of Dallas for governor.
Wilbur Wright of Dayton, o., made
the longest and most successful flight
OF the series Of aeroplane trials which
he is conducting at Lemans, France,
remaining in the air three minutes
and forty-four seconds. The machine
circled the field three times at the
rate of &c miles an hour.
Fifteen workmen were held up and
robbed in relays of their months pay
near Stirling City. Cal.
A messengers pouch containing
United States government pay checks
for nearly $4,000 was stolen from in
front of the building occupied by the
department of commerce and labor In |
Washington.
AS result of an explosion of fire |
damp in the Dudweiler mine, five
miles from Saarbruekin, Germany,
l5 persons were killed and six badly |
hurt.
Bandits robbed railway stations at |
Crown Point and Griffith, Ind, OF
nearly $1,000 in money and tickets.
Miss May Williams of Kansas City,
Mo-, who won a prize last spring as
the most beautiful girl in Missouri,
committed suicide because her prof. |
ected marriage was about to be pre-
vented by her removal to an industrial
school.
Fire destroyed the mining camp of
Ripetown, New, the loss being $780, |
600.
The railroad commission of Texas
filed formal complaint with the in. |
terstate commerce commission against |
81 railroads and other common car
riers, alleging a conspiracy on the |
part of the defendants through the |
Traffic association for |
the suppression OF competition and |
restraint of trade in the recent action
increasing freight rates to common
points in Texas.
Eight men were killed, nearly q
score of others more or less seriously |
injured and thousands of dollars |
worth Of property damaged by the ex-
plosion Of boiler in the York (Pa.) |
rolling mill.
Four children lost their lives and |
five persons were seriously injured in |
a fire which practically destroyed a
five-story tenement building In New
York.
During riot at camp Of Austrians
near the smelter town OF Garfield, |
Utah. Constable Ben Culley and Sam
Nekis were shot and baby was
killed.
Two police officers of Methuen,