The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-05-14

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their ways into the criminal courtroom
Mrs. Logan D. 6wops went on the wit
ness stand and. generally speaking
calmly gave . synopsis Of the swops
tragedies. With Mrs. swope's testi
mony In the state rested its case.
President Taft gave a vigorous de
nunciation Of William j. Bryan for thu
letters of criticism OF the appointment
OF Gov. Charles e. Hughes of New
York as associate justice of the Unitet
States Supreme court. Mr.. Taft de
cried the cant of the demagogue" ant
the disposition of public journals" t
make unjust charges against men II
public life. "All am speaking fol
Is Justice and square DEAL" he said
mot especially for myself, for. indeed
am In position where I can ge
along better than some of the res
without 1t. But I am appealing fol
justice in dealing with all classes.
Mr.. Taft was speaking at a luncheon
given by the Business Mems league
In st. Louis.
| Recent rioting in Chang-Sha prov
ince, China. has placed that country
in an embarrassing position regarding
the proposed Hankow-Canton railway
loan. and It is believed that the dis
order was planned previously by de-
signing persons.
Fired by Greek verse recited by the
poet Spiros Matsoukas, 1000 mem
/ HS he
chester, N. H.. have subscribed $780,
900 toward an American fund for q
Greek battleship, to be christened the
New Generation.
An experiment carried out In Lon
don shows 1t Is possible to diagnose
heart troubles by telephone, a dis
lance of 100 miles. Physicians, using
an ordinary telephone, on the Isle-of-
Wight, listened interestedly to the
beating Of woman's heart In London.
While circus elephant was on
rampant at Marietta, O., William
Evans, who had taken refuge on a
wagon. fell and was killed. Samuel
Montgomery was trampled by the AMI
NAL and fatally hurt.
Isaac Quigno, the famous old Indian
chief of Hartford, Mich, will soon
take the trail" for Washington to
consult President Taft about the Chi
cago lake front, which is claimed BY
the Pottawatomie tribe.
Syracuse IN. ~ police are search
ing for clever thief. who. hatless and
coatless, robbed the First National
bank there Of $1,000 while the pres
ident. Charles w. Snow. was in an
other department
The administration railroad bill
virtually was ripped to pieces In the
senate. The slashing was not confined
to the upper branch alone, for the
house bored several big holes In the
measure. When the dismantling proc.
ess was halted by adjournment the
Taft measure was so badly disfgured
that Attorney General Wickersham,
who drafted 1t under the eye of the
president, would have found 1t din.
cult to recognize It.
Edgar Street Cooke Of Chicago, who
has been much in the limelight during
the last several months, was indicted
by the Hamilton county (Ohio) grand
Jury on charge of stealing $4,000
from the funds of the Big Four rail
road.
Grand jury Investigation of the legis
lative bribery scandal was temporarily
halted at Chicago by the absence oil
States Attorney Wayman. who went
forth supposedly in search Of evidence
to corroborate the story Of Repre-
sentative Charles A. White.
The funeral of Bjornstjerne Bjorn
son. the Norwegian writer. who died
recently In Paris. was held at Chris
tiania with imposing ceremonies. II
was attended by the king and queen,
the members of the various legations
and many high officials.
The decree of the supreme court Of
Tennessee. ousting the Standard Oil
company of Kentucky from doing
business in the state of Tennessee.
was affirmed by the Supreme court OF
the United States.
A formal protest against the con-
firmation of Charles e. Hughes as an
associate Justice of the United States
Supreme court was filed with the sen.
ate judiciary committee at Washington
by the American Antitrust league.
President Taft ended his two days
stay in Pittsburg with speech at the
Grant day dinner In which he paid a
striking tribute to the secretary of
state. Mr.. Knox. He vigorously de-
Tended and justified the secretary's
Nicaraguan policy, flayed those who
invented the phrase dollar diploma
cy" with the idea of bringing con-
tempt to a policy in which he said the
nation is vitality interested and con-
cluded with the declaration that the
record of the state department during
the first year Of the present admins
tration was one to which he pointed
with the greatest pride.
Two expert witnesses were put on
the stand in the Swope poisoning case.
DR.. Ludwig Hektoen of Chicago was
grilled by Frank p. Walsh, who read
from the experts own books to dis
credit his testimony. DR.. Walter 8.
Haines' own tests failed to show a
trace of strychnine In the case OF