The L'Anse sentinel., 1910-10-08

"A national commission TO devise
means TO suppress the white slave
trafio started from Chicago on tour
OF the south and west n
Testimony showing Ira @. Rawn,
late Monon president and former vice
| president of the Illinois Central Rail-
road company. and other Illinois Gen.
| trail ofiicials owned stock In the Oster-
mann Manufacturing company. which.
II Is alleged. swindled the Illinois Gen.
trail out of $1.000,O00. was given by
Henry c. Ostermann. organizer OF the
Ostermann company. at Chicago.
Completing his unbroken series OF
victories as ruler OF. the New York
Republican state convention. Col.
Theodore Roosevelt won his final tri-
umph when Henry l.. Stimson OF New
York was nominated for governor on
the first ballot From the time the
convention opened until It adjourned
] sine die the ex-president won every
point In dispute between his forces
and the old guard, including the direct
primary plank In the state platform.
Senator d. w. Holstlaw, who con.
| fessed that Senator John Broderick
gave him $4,000 to vote for Lorimer
| for senator, took the witness stand
before the senatorial investigating
committee at Chicago and testified
that he had agreed to vote for Lorimer
before the bribe offer was made to
him. He said that the bribe had not
Influenced his vote.
New York state volunteers In the
Spanish-American war will get $4,000
additional pay from the government.
Members of several regiments have
been pressing the claim for several
years.
A st. Paul (Minn.) saloonkeeper
who was robbed Of $51.05 three years
ago, when highwayman held up and
nearly killed his bartender, has just
received postal order for the amount
stolen.
Private advices from Italy reaching
Paris assert Italian emigrants from the
cholera infected districts of that coun-
try are being embarked at Genoa for
America, their original starting point
being concealed.
A lockout of 10000 bricklayers. or
dered by the New York Builders as
sociation. Is in full swing. The en-
ployers assert the union violated an
agreement and threaten to bring non-
union men from all parts OF the coun-
try.
Residences worth more than $1,000
900 are to be sold by the village
treasurer Of South Orange. N. j.. be-
cause Of the refusal of their owners
to pay assessments for curbfng.
Figures compiled by the census
bureau show a decrease In the per-
centage of deaths from tuberculosis
In 1909, compared with previous
years. The rate in 1909 was 1875
per 100000. compared with 1888 In
1908. There was an increase OF 343
in the number of deaths. however.
Catholic newspapers In Madrid.
Spain. predict that the demonstra-
tions planned for next Sunday will be
followed by the resignation of Pre-
mier Canalejas.
The Brotherhood OF st. Andrew met
in annual session at Nashville. Tenn.
to celebrate the silver anniversary OF
its founding by James L. Houghteling.
Tired of life of drudgery, Mrs.
Florence Callahan, young farmers
wife of Guilford, N. Y, gave her six
months-old baby poison and then took
half teaspoonful herself during the
absence of her husband and two elder
children. The baby is dead and the
mother is not expected to recover.
Nearly 10000 persons have died OF
Asiatic cholera In the Naples district
since the scourge appeared there a
month ago. One hundred thousand
persons of the better classes have
fled from Naples and Its vicinity since
August, It is reported.
r. B. Wilson. assistant cashier OF
the First National bank of Marengo.
H., before the Sangamon county
grand jury testified that 40 500 bills
had been deposited In that bank In
1907 to the credit of the F. G. Janke
Lumber company, which company. he
testified, was owned by Speaker Shurt-
leff He said the money was depos-
tied after the passage Of house bill TIT.
The first casualty of the Adirondack
hunting season has been reported at
Glens Falls, N. Y. Mistaken by his
son for deer. William Aubre was IA
tally shot in the mountains near
| there
Kermit Roosevelt returned to New
York from Europe. and denied that
he went abroad to WOO Miss Ruther-
ford. a stepdaughter Of w. X. Van
derbilt.
Joseph H. Miles Of Falls City, Neb..
has been declared by the courts to
be the rightful heir to an estate
valued at $1,600.000. His brother
contested their fathers will for many
years.
George Robertson. one time Van
derbilt cup race winner and one of
the best-known automobile drivers OF
tAmerica. was thrown on the Massa-
pequa curve on the Long Island
motor parkway and painfully injured
Robertson was going seventy miles