The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-02-27

President-elect Taft and Frank H.
Hitchcock conferred In Cincinnati over
the appointment Of q secretary OF the
treasury, but gave out no information
concerning the result. Mr.. Taft IL still
trying to get suitable Chicagoan for
the post.
BY vote OF Sc TO ~ the house Of
representatives of Nebraska voted
down the Raper bill for the abolition
OF capital punishment. The chief argu-
ment against the bill was that the
present Nebraska law allowing jury
to decree either capital punishment
or life Imprisonment for murder
In the first degree is as good as can
be enforced as long as the governor
is given pardoning power.
The steamship Mauretania, the
largest afioat. again broke the record
for the westward ocean voyage. She
averaged rs knots an hour on her
trip to New York.
There was an outbreak of rioting at
Granada, Spain, over the question of
the collection of duties on foodstuffs
into the city In which two persons
were killed and Ave wounded.
The duke of the Abruzzi is at pres
ent In Paris incognito as Signor Ne
gretto. He is buying medical out
fit to be used on his approaching ex-
petition to the Himalaya mountains.
Joseph Pulitzer. owner, and Caleb
M. Van Hamm and Robert H. Lyman.
editors of the New York World, and
Delavan Smith and Charles r. VIII
Jams, owner and editor of the Indian
apolis News. were indicted for Grim
inal libel in connection with stories
their papers published concerning the
purchase of the Panama canal proper
ty. The persons alleged to have been
libeled are President Roosevelt, ].
Pierpont Morgan, Elihu Root, Charles
p. Taft, William Nelson Cromwell and
Douglas Robinson.
Resolutions demanding the appoint
ment of permanent tariff commits
sion and a revision Of the present
schedules Immediately were adopted
In the tariff convention In Indianap-
oils.
Reports have Just been received that
1000 persons lost their lives in an
earthquake in western Persia on Janu-
airy %. Porto Rico and Alaska have
recently had severe shocks.
In addition to being called before
the army retiring board. Col. William
F.. Tucker has been sued for separate
maintenance by his wife. Mrs. Tucker
is daughter Of Gen. John A. Logan.
Maj. Gen. Bell, chief of staff Of the
United States army. says America IL
more in danger Of war than 1t ever has
been in the past and urges that the
country be prepared for a conflict.
&C. M. Garnet" who attempted Il
blackmail Lawrence M. Jones, Kan
sas City (Mo.) merchant, out Of $1,000
by threatening to blow him to atoms
with a bomb, confessed that he Il
Robert Benjamin Bledsoe and that h
lived on farm five miles north of Dial
las. Tex. He has wife and two chill
dren.
Woman's suffrage legislation is on
Of the question in Oklahoma for twt
years. The senate by vote Of 81 Il
Is sustained the unfavorable report o
the committee on the bill granting
suffrage to both sexes.
The house of representatives o
Montana by vote Of 80 to "a re
jected the senate miscegenation bill
which forbids intermarriage between
Caucasians and Africans. Mongolian
| and persons of African or Monaghan
| descent.
| Turkey, Bulgaria and Austria wer
visited by an earthquake which causes
100 deaths in Sivas, Turkey, and de
stroyed the city. Other towns wer
damaged and the people terro
| stricken.
The Racine police arrested Jimmy
Morgan, one of the most notorious
bank sneaks in the country for thu
theft of $500 from the First Ma
tional bank in Milwaukee. He con
fessed saying he had four accomplices
Capt. Mogg and Eve men who Sc
out IA months ago to explore the arc
tic regions and were given up as lost
have been heard from. They are a
Point Barrow, according to a messag,
received at Port Townsend.
Geronimo, the Apache Indian chief
after being in prison 20 years, died a
Fort Sill, Okla. The old Indian wa
one of the most savage of his trib,
and fought for years before he finall.
was run down and captured by Gen
Miles men.
After a sensational filibuster, lastin,
several days, 1t appears that Prohibi
tion has been killed in South Caro-
lima. The senate has majority o
four for local option and the house Il
equally as close.
The lives of many guests who wer'
asleep in the Hotel Clarendon at Sci
Breeze. Fla. were saved by the nigh
clerk who warned them of the DANCE
of fire which destroyed the hostelr!
and burned ten cottages nearby.
The United States feet Of 16 bat
tleships, which started to cruis,
around the world IA months ago, will
steam into Hampton roads on Wash
ington's birthday. II will be reviewed
| by President Roosevelt and greete,
hv n largo crowd