The L'Anse sentinel., 1909-12-11


opened at Omaha. Neb.. With exhibits
by the federal government and ~
states, and vast quantity of COM
petitive entries made by grain raisers.
Representatives of many civic and
educational organizations met In New
York to devise means Of co-ordinat-
| ing civic activities and to plan more
effective methods Of studying political
problems.
J. Pierpont Morgan has gained con-
troll Of the Equitable Life Assurance
Company with its $472,000.000 assets
through the purchase Of stock held by
Thomas F. Ryan. the latter having
bought the interests formerly owned
by James H. Hyde.
Following the abrupt termination OF
diplomatic relations with Nicaragua
the government has dispatched the
cruiser Prairie from Philadelphia with
700 marines on board. the cruiser AL
bany and gunboat Yorktown to Gen.
tral American waters and II Is deter
mined that a stable government shall
be established and maintained In the
war-riven republic.
A delegation of Chicago business
men visited President Taft and made
plea for the suspension Of the pro-
visions of the corporation tax law.
The president gave them but little
encouragement. saying he would take
their petition under advisement.
Albert I. Patrick, the New York
lawyer under sentence of death for
Staying Millionaire Rice, has lost his
ninth fight for freedom through the
dismissal by the appellate court at
Brooklyn of the habeas corpus writ
secured by him to determine whether
he is being illegally retained by the
state.
Danger of violence In the switch
mems strike has caused the chief OF
police of st. Paul, Mimi, to require
all members of the day force to stay
on duty during portion of the night
In order that any outbreaks In the
railroad yards may be promptly put
down.
The fight for the heavyweight cham
pionship of the world between Jeffries
and Johnson will be held In the VI
cinity of San Francisco on July 4,
1910. Rickard and Gleason's bid of
$101 900 and two-thirds of the moving
picture privileges to the contestants
has been formally accepted.
Woman suffrage advocates through
out New York state are raising fund
of several thousand dollars to be used
for promoting the suffrage bill which
will be put before the legislature of
New York state this winter.
Vermont will erect memorial to
Champlain, the explorer, and will not
join New York in such an undertake
ing. .
The average temperature for No
vember In Kansas City, Mo-, was So
degrees, and the highest was 80 on
November 3. This breaks all records
for the month since the weather bu-
reau was established there.
Contracts are to be placed for two
submarines for the Russian navy.
They are planned to cruise In COM
| pany with battleship feet.
In the trial of James F. Bendernagel
and FIVE other former employees OF the
American Sugar Refining Company on
the charge of defrauding the govern
ment by underweights, testimony was
adduced showing that every ton Of
sugar was 13 pounds short Of weight
and the government stood to lose the
duty on $3.50 pounds every hour.
The National Society for the Pro
motion of Industrial Education met in
annual session In Milwaukee, dele
gates from more than twenty states
being present. Eminent educators dis
cussed every phase Of trade and cor
poration schools.
Every line of industry in the north
west dependent on the movement of
supplies is seriously affected by the
strike of the railroad switchmen. AL
ready 10000 men are idle and others
will soon be by the closing down of
-four mills, mines and smelters.
A man. believed to be insane, shot
and seriously wounded Gen. verand
on the steps of the Hotel Continental.
Paris, Just after President Fallieres
had left King Manuel of Portugal upon
whom he had been calling
The season of heavy gold receipts
at the United States assay offico in
Seattle ended with total Of $11,733..
4S9 for the six months beginning June
L. This Is falling of of $5,776,141
compared with the same period In
| 1908.
| Twenty-three hundred switchmen
on 13 railroads between Lake Superior
and the Pacific coast have struck for
higher wages and better conditions
Unless the strike Is speedily settled q
serious interruption In trafnc Is likely
The Iowa Implement Dealers asso
citation met In its fourteenth annual
session in Des Moines.
Combined resources Of all the
banks of the United States reach
more than $4,000. .000, 900, or about
one-fifth Of the entire wealth Of the
country. according to special report,
compiled for the use of the nationa
monetary commission.
In a pamphlet issued ,by the Ken