The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-12-24

l uiC CnhlI auu put uAiH oue W As-
misery. He has been blind for 81
years and is threatened with the loss
Of his voice.
The stocks and bonds commission.
appointed by President Taft under the
authority of the railway act of the last
session OF congress TO investigate the
report on the best method for federal
regulation of the issues OF stocks and
bonds OF interstate carriers. re-opened
its sessions In New York city with
President Arthur T. Hadley OF Yale in
the chair
The last will and testament OF Mary
Baker G. Eddy was fled In the pro-
bate ONCE at Concord. N. II. After
| providing various sums for members OF
her household and friends and giving
$4,000 each to her son and his chill.
dren, the 'testator leaves her estate
to the mother church, A diamond
cross Is left to Mrs. Augusta Stetson.
the accommodated New York lead
er OF the denomination.
Surrounded by 81 trustees of his
choosing. comprising former cabinet
members, ex-ambassadors. college pres
| idents. lawyers and educators. Andrew
Carnegie at Washington transferred
| $10,000,000 in five per cent. first mort
gage bonds. value 81 800 900. to be
devoted primarily to the establish
ment Of universal peace by the aboli-
| ton of war between nations and such
friction as may impair the progress
and happiness of man"
A sensational report from the war
department showing that the country
Is inadequately protected against in
vasion from foreign governments was
sent to the house Of representatives at
Washington as a secret document and,
after a number of conferences and hur-
ried telephone messages, was returned
to the war department on the ground
the house could not receive a secret
report
Seven residents of Colorado we're in.
dicted for using the United States
mails to further an irrigation scheme
declared by the officials of the interior
department to be wildly and fragrant
ly fraudulent"
AS result OF an explosion In the
mine of the Bond Coal company at
Greene, six miles east of Norton, Va.
~ men lost their lives. Thirteen we're
in the mine and only two escaped. one
OF whom died shortly after being taken
out.
Thomas j. Navin. member of the
Michigan Republican state central
committee, died In Detroit He served
five years. from 1885 to 1890. in the
Jackson penitentiary for forgery.
Bobby" Leach's proposed trip over
Niagara falls In safety" lifeboat of
his own invention has been postponed
owing to the wrecking Of the boat in
trial trip, In which 1t was sent over
the falls without passenger
In disturbance which approached
riot in the reichstag at Berlin. Ger
many. Chancellor Won Bethmann-Holl-
veg was called liar by Herr Hubert,
q Socialist.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt broke the
silence he had maintained since the
fall elections. Speaking at banquet
-
chamber of commerce, he assailed
those persons who he said tried to
create the impression he was a mod
fed" anarchist. The colonel praised
the appointment of an ex-Confederate
and Democrat to the chief justiceship
Of the United States Supreme court.
and pleaded for equal Justice for cor
porations and workers.
Mrs. Aileen Christopher, the woman
whose charges inspired the federal
brick trust investigation at Chicago
but who defled the court in trying to
shield an unknown person involved In
the alleged conspiracy, was sentenced
to 30 days in the county Jail by Judge
Lands for contempt of court. Her
counsel. John A. Brown. was commit
ted for 70 days.
After narrowly escaping death in
a shipwreck, the LOG persons who
were on the steamer Olympia when
she was driven on the rocks of Bligh
Island, Prince William Sound, dur
ing furious gale, have been landed
In safety at Valdez. Alaska.
Reductions In the prices OF meat,
eggs. poultry and vegetables, which
began about a month ago on New
York markets, have suddenly been
followed by a reversion to the old
high prices that prevailed last year.
The Missouri supreme court SEN
fenced Mort Holman to hang In Pike
county for an attack on woman and
Eugene Tucker to hang In Green coun-
ty for murder. Both executions will
be on January &c. 1911.
The viceroy of Manchuria has sent q
memorial to Peking urging that the
three provinces be thrown open to all
nations. The purpose is to Offset Jap
anese and Russian activity in Man
churia by the influx from other coun-
tries.
The body of Bert z. Corbin, vice.
president Of the Union Savings, Build
ing and Trust company of Boise,
Idaho, was found near Big Springs,
Idaho. He had been missing since No
vember 10, and died OF exposure while
hunting
Works of art, brc-a-brac and house
furnishings which had been admired
by the guests Of Robert Emerson