The L'Anse sentinel., 1908-02-08

penitentiary for the murder OF their
cousin, Fred Nawfal. last January.
Bert Swan. q wealthy farmer near
Missouri Valley, Ia. committed sui
eide by cutting his throat with a razor.
Several persons were fatally shot In
political riots on the streets Of Lisbon
Two masked men robbed the office
of the Adams Express company al
Mansfield. O., of $4,000, but missed a
bag containing $4,000 in gold.
The jury In the Schooley- Crawford
will contest at Scranton, Pa, declared
the paper presented by George b
Schooley as the last will Of James L.
Crawford. the millionaire coal opera
tor, to be forgery.
Nolan j. Whiteside, at a religious
revival in Minneapolis, confessed to
a long series OF crimes.
Mistaking his father-in-law, William
Conner, for a burglar, A. C. Burr shot
and instantly killed him at Dallas
Tex.
Rev. John w. venebal, for many
years pastor of Grace Episcopal
church at Hopkinsville, KY, and fol
the past 40 years sovereign grand
chaplain OF the Odd Fellows in the
United States, died.
Fire In Newton, Kan. destroyed
half dozen stores, the loss being
$15O,0O0.
During the last quarter of 1907 the
net earnings of the United States
Steel corporation were $32,553,995.
1t seems likely that prosecutions
may follow the coroner's inquest into
the Rhoades opera house disaster al
Boyertown, Pa, which cost 169 lives
In the testimony there were strong
hints OF graft as we'll as admissions OF
gross negligence.
Ambridge, a little town of II miles
northwest of Pittsburg. was the scene
of an extraordinary double tragedy in
which two lovers killed each other In
a quarrel.
Fire in the heart of Chicago's down
town district did about $1,700,000, the
heaviest losers being Alfred Peats &
Co., wall paper; Edison Keith & Co..
wholesale millinery, and John A.
Colby & Son, furniture.
The Coburn warehouses In Indianap-
oils we're burned, the loss being
s500.00
Flames destroyed part Of Nelson
Morris & Co.'S packing plant In Kan
sas City, half million dollars dam
age being done.
The Partisan laundry building in
Detroit was gutted by fire, the loss
being estimated at over 100000.
Gen. John Coburn, lawyer and for
mer congressman, died suddenly in
indianapolis from an attack Of heart
failure. His age was SO.
The Alva Bank of Commerce of
Enid, Okla, with $4,000 capital stock,
was closed and Cashier Lou Westfall
with $4,000 is missing.
Heavy winds and a great rainfall
have done much damage to the Porto
Rican roads and to the new railroad
to Caguas. The tobacco crop was
badly damaged.
Francois Marie Benjamin Richard,
cardinal and archbishop Of Paris, died
of congestion of the lungs after a
short illness. He was born in 1919.
George Barlow, 80 years old, was
killed and two others probably fatally
hurt when an Iowa & Illinois train
struck their buggy at Princeton, la.
Four cars Of fast New Orleans &
Northeastern passenger train toppled
of a low trstle near Hattiesburg,
Miss, and rolled down an embank-
ment without killing or fatally injur-
ing a person.
Robert s. Hewey was appointed re-
ceiver for the Montana Grand Lodge
of Ancient Order of United Workmen
The Crocker heirs gave block on
Mob Hill, San Francisco. as a site for
an Episcopal cathedral.
The Michigan constitutional conven-
tion rejected the public utilities COM
mission plan.
United States Lighthouse Inspector
Olin N. Wexel of Chicago was killed
by switch engine while he was walk
ing on the railroad tracks at Muske-
gon. Mich.
An address to congress, remonstrat-
ing against further increase in the
navy, was adopted by the board of
directors Of the American Peace So
ciety at a meeting held in Boston.
Because a portion of his congrega-
tion objected to his breeding dogs,
Rev. L. Moore Smith, pastor of the
Scotch Plains (N. J) Baptist church,
resigned his charge.
An old Roman coin has been dug up
at Springfield, Mass, which is discov-
cred to be worth $500.
President Iya Remsen, of the Johns
Hopkins university, has been asked by
President Roosevelt to head the board
of scientists who are to form con-
sultlng committee on the enforcement
of the purD food and drug law.
John A. Lovely, former associate
justice OF the Minnesota supreme
court. diei at the age Of "a In AL
bert Lea.
DIR. Gustav e. Karsten, head OF the
department of modern languages and
professor of German. at the University
OF Illinois, died at his home In Urbana.
John c. Hubinger, formerly one of
the richest men In Iowa and inventor
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