The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-12-12

I1mOtny N. fhimer, WIN iocABhcu
recently az president Of the Minnesota
Mutual Life Insurance Company. COM
mitted suicide in st. Paul because OF
| Ill health.
Thirty-fvef Japanese fishing boats
we're wrecked in 4 typhoon. $50 men
losing their lives.
John Gill. a Jail turnkey at jackson,
Miss, committed suicide. His only
explanation was he had tried to be
gentleman and failed.
Burglars blew open the safe OF the
First National bank OF Pepperell.
Mass, took $4,000. and escaped In an
automobile.
The Federal Council Of the Church
OF Christ in America was formally
opened In the Academy Of Music at
Philadelphia with impressive ceremo-
MES.
A prepossessing and richly-gowned
young woman, who had registered at a
Brooklyn hotel as Mrs. 8. H. Falconer
OF Sioux Falls, 8. D., committed sui
eide by shooting.
Fire destroyed the clothing and jew
elry store of Anthony Shapiro at Dick
son City, Pa. and Mr.. Shapiro. a son
and daughter and Mrs. Shapiro's par
ents lost their lives.
Lystia Wahoo Winnebago, a girl stu
dent at Carlisle Indian school. eloped
with Joseph Twin, an Indian from the
west.
British officers working among the
Sikhs and Hindus Of the Pacific coast,
unearthed the details OF a proposed
uprising against British rule In India,
to take place In April.
Pu-Yi, the three-year-old son OF
Prince Chun. assembled the Dragon
throne and was crowned emperor Of
China under the name Of Hsuan Tung.
The business section Of Beckville,
Tex. was burned. the loss being
100000.
The will OF the late Delos Blodgett
of Grand Rapids left an estate valued
at sl2, 100000 to his three children.
News was received Of the sinking
OF the Japanese steamer Ginsei Maru.
20 lives being lost.
The Stearns Salt & Lumber Company
OF Ludington. Mich. was fined $4,000
for accepting rebates from the Pere
Marquette
Martial law was proclaimed in
Prague because OF the riots between
Czechs and Germans.
While out hunting rabbits, Will
Hough, aged IS years, shot and killed
his brother Guy. aged rs years. near
Mason City. la.
The rule Of Nord Alexis, president
Of Hayti. is nearly ended, for he can
not stop the steady advance Of the
revolutionists. Gen. Antoine Simon is
about to attack Jacmel, and will then
resume his march on the capital.
Mrs. Nicholas P. Errington Of Chi
cago killed her 11-year-old daughter
Theresa and herself in Memphis ho-
tel by means Of poison. Her husband ]
could give no explanation of his wifes
deed.
The government refused to let the
citizens Of Pine Bluff. Ark, cut
through levee to save the town, and
every available man was put to work
strengthening the river banks.
The celebration of the diamond jubi
lee Of Emperor Francis Joseph began
with an illumination of Vienna mors
gorgeous than anything ever before
seen. The crowd was so dense that
two persons were killed and many
others injured.
Race riots in Prague became so
serious that 1t seemed probable mar.
tial law would be declared.
John Alan White, 20 years old, of
Walton, N. Y, a student in the Yale
graduate school, committed suicide by
jumping from the top Of West Rock
to the ground below, distance Of 100
feet.
A plot to overthrow the government
Of President Figueroa of Salvador was
discovered and frustrated. Martial law
was proclaimed.
Lee Levy and Adolph s. Asher, II.
quor dealers, were found guilty in the
federal court at st. Louis of sending
improper advertisements through the
mails and Of sending liquors bearing
Improper labels by express. The case
ia the celebrated gin-label affair that
played. a. prominent part in the Prohi-
bition campaign in. Tepnessee.
The will OF Mrs. William Astor of
New York. fled .foE:bfbbate, disposes
of real estate worth "as much as $780,
600 and personal property as much as
100000" Two daughters-Mrs. Will
son and Mrs. Haig.are' the chief
beneficiaries. :.
Two Japanese steamships collided
and sank off the port of .ChAfoo, China,
and 1t was reported that TOO persons,
including many Americans and Eu-
peans. were drowned.
Twenty-one out OF 1l6. Chinese held
at the Pacific Mail dock in San Fran
cisco pending the decision of the i'm
migration officers, as to. whether or
not they were entitled to enter the
United States. escaped from the deten-
tion shed.
The cost Of taking the next census,
as estimated by Director North in his
annual report Just issued. will be $12,.
$4,000.
Mrs. H. G. Moore. wife Of Col.