The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-06-25

tests from all parts Of tho state, GOV.
Gillett Of California took steps TO pre-
vent the championship fight between
James J. Jeffries and Jack johnson.
scheduled to be held In San Francisco
July I. In q letter to Attorney Gen.
eral Webb the governor directs that
the aid Of the courts be invoked to
prevent the match.
With $30.O0e.000 provided for the
completion of irrigation projects and
various other amendments. the house
bill authorizing the withdrawal OF pub
lie lands by the president passed the
senate.
The cross-examination of Legislator
Charles A. White in the Illinois sena-
torial bribery case was finished, and
after two days Of attack Whites ac-
count of how he was bribed by
Browne to vote for Lorimer for sena,
tor stood mistaken. This was the
Judgment OF those who followed
closely the course Of the Quizzing.
Oberammergau. the scene Of the
Passion Play. Is cut on from railway
communication with outside points by
the food that has invaded the district.
or the 600 strangers In the place to
witness the sacred performance. 800
are Americans.
Charles Plantus has been convicted
in Detroit of concealing himself In a
trunk designated as jewelry and then
escaping in order to defraud an ex-
press company.
Sidney Hursey, young lawyer OF
Dillon. s. c., was shot and probably
MORALLY wounded as he left a court
room, by Richard 8. Davis, hotel
man. Davis said Hursey ruined his
home.
A jury at Freeport. ILL.,. awarded $10,-
900 to II. w. Coffman OF German Val
ley against Henney Jansen of Chica-
go, charged with alternating the affec-
tons of Coffman's wife.
1t is estimated that 200 persons lost
their lives in flood that swept the
valley of the River Abr in the Eifel re-
gion. Eighty-seven bodies have been
recovered. These were found along the
left stranded as the waters subsidized.
Niagara's first international carnival
nearly came to a tragic end when
Oscar Williams, local steeplejack.
who essayed a trip across the gorge
on wire, hung at the base Of the
cataract, sustaining his weight by his
teeth, came {, stop when about the
middle of the river and hung AZ min
utes until rescued by the Maid of the
Mist.
The Republican leaders In congress
advised the president to cancel his out
of-town engagements. They told him
that If all goes well they expect to
bring about an adjournment Of con-
gress by Saturday, June rs.
At the thirty-third annual conven-
ton of the Danish Evangelical Luz
theran Church of America. in session
In Ludington, Mich. Rev. X. G. Bod
holdt of Racine, Wis.,. the president
for eight years, was reelected for that
office.
The greatest international religious
meeting Of the year, the Protestant
Worlds Missionary conference. opened
in Edinburgh, Scotland, every nation
of the globe being represented by lead
ing laymen and churchmen.
About rs cars started from Cincin-
natl IL the reliability tour of the Amer
lean Automobile association for the
Glidden and Chicago tropics. The tour
ends in Chicago on June 80.
Great loss of life occurred in the
Abr valley of the Eifel region
in Germany as the result of
cloudburst which swept the dis
trict. Late estimates place the total
number of dead at $50.
Briefs have been filed by the attor-
neys for the prosecution" and de
tense" with the Ballinger-Plnchot in
vestigating committee. The commit
tee will assemble next Saturday to pre-
pare for its deliberations.
Vice-President Sherman, while at
Utica. N. Y, attending the wedding of
his niece, said that he believes the
Insurgent movement in political af-
fairs is subsiding, basing his opinion
on conditions found in Wisconsin and
Iowa.
The Venezuelan government schoon-
er Van Herdt has been wrecked on
the northeast coast of Curacao. The
captain, crew and passengers, with
the exception of four sailors and one
passenger, were drowned.
The insurgents In the prefecture of
Jurua. In the Acre district of west
ern Brazil, have driven out the gov
ernor and declared their independence.
Charles w. Freeman of Alton, ILL.,,
after obtaining good position. is
forced by the government to live up to
a contract regarding a mail-carrying
agreement in Yellowstone park. He
must accept or pay fine.
The torpedo boat Foote was taken
to Southport. N. c., by the steamer
General @. w. Getty, having been dis
abled in a gale and picked up on
Frying Pan shoals.
In feud battle In Breathitt county,
Kentucky. two members of the Craw-
ford family were shot to death and a
member Of the johnson family fatally
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