The L'Anse sentinel., 1909-03-27

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Mayor McClellan Joined In praisine
Grover Cleveland at the celebration Of
the dead presidents seventy-second
birthday anniversary in New York.
BENJAMIN l.. Winchell. president Of
the Rock Island railroad. In . speech
at Council Bluffs. Ia. complained OF
the restricting laws against railroads.
William Whitla, eight-year-old SON
Of James H. Whitla. an attorney Of
Sharon. Pa. and nephew OF Frank H.
Buhl. millionaire. was kidnapped and
a ransom OF $4,000 demanded.
Fire destroyed the Union railway
station in Louisville. KY. causing .
loss OF 100000.
More than 100 women stormed the
| Iowa senate and denounced recent
blows at prohibition by the legislature.
That party lines will be erased by
the fight over the tariff was shown by
Mr.. Broussard's desertion Of the Dem
| ocrats In the interests Of his home dis
trict.
A bill has been introduced in the
house by Mr.. Bennett providing for
postage of one cent an ounce on de-
mestic letters.
William st. Clair, arrested at Fort
Collins, Col, was identified by two
mail clerks as one of the men that
held up and robbed the Rio Grande
passenger train February 13.
Secret service men are collecting
evidence at Bellefontaine, o., to be
used in the governments prosecution
of Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma In the
cases charging alleged land frauds.
Miss Isabel v. Lyon, Mark Twain's
social and literary secretary, was mar
ried to Ralph Ashcraft, who is a close
friend of Mr.. Clemens and who is also.
his business adviser
The linemen, repairers and mechan.
les joined the telegraph operators and
mail carriers in the Paris strike.
The Central Illinois Teachers asso-
citation met for its twenty-fifth annual
convention in Decatur, Ill.
Robbers broke into the bank at
Birds, ILL.,, and stole $1,000. They
blew open the safe with nitro
glycerine.
ItODcIt idhhCi, d6Su ~ ySoio, hiS
son aged ten, and his little daughter
aged eight, were asphyxiated by gas
at their home in Montreal, Ont. The
gas had been turned on accidentally
II is thought
A Canadian Pacific passenger train,
after the enginemen had leaped from
the locomotive to escape scalding,
Gx,t~
killed four persons and injured 30.
John w. Gates, according to q re-
port, is behind a merger Of several
steel companies which will fight the
big trust. The new concern Is to
have $500, 0,000, 900 capital.
Reports from Rome say the police
Of the whole country are making every
effort to arrest the slayers OF Lieut..
Petrosino of the New York police de-
partment
President Taft has accepted an in
vitation to attend the annual spring
dinner of the Gridiron club April II.
The Japanese naval training squad
ron, consisting of the armored cruiser
Aso and the protected cruiser Soya,
mand Of Capt. Isojr The ships carry
1S0 cadets OF the japan navy. They
will visit San Francisco and Seattle.
Senior Espinoza, minister from Mic
aragua, told Secretary Knox his coun-
try had no intention of attacking any
of her sister republics and wants
peace.
A Onn nj tan n
wages in all departments Of the Penn
sylvania Steel Company's plant at
North Lebanon is announced for
April 1. 1t affects all local employees,
numbering about 600.
Secretary of War j. M. Dickinson
has written to the New Orleans Prog
ressive Union accepting the invitation
Of that body to stop over in New Or
leans on his way to visit the Panama
canal.
Saying his conscience. hurt him SO
badly as to force him to surrender,
e. r. May, wanted for forgery at
Mountain Grove, Mo-, walked into the
sheriff's ONCE at Alexandria, La, and
gave himself up. He was taken back
to Missouri.
A dog sent to find Joseph Small
wood at Indianapolis returned and led
the mans wife to his dead body. He
had committed suicide.
In a debate in parliament fear was
expressed that Germany will soon
outstrip England in naval strength
and be able to wrest the rule of the
seas from Great Britain.
The plan of reorganization of the
Chicago & Great Western railway has
been completed. 1t provides for the
authorization of 5000 900 first mort
gage four per cent. bonds, of which
$17,000,000 will be reserved to retire
outstanding divisional bonds.
Peter Augustus Jay. secretary OF the
American embassy at Tokyo, and
Miss Susan Alexander McCook, daugh-
ter of Col. John j. McCook, were mar
ried In the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church In New York.
Indians in the Mackenzie river dis
trict of the Hudson's Bay Company are