The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-07-30

nifty marines and her full complement
Of blue-Jackets aboard, has been dis
patched to the scene, with orders to
land men under arms for the protec-
ton of the life of the consul and Of
American property there at all costs.
While he was making a crosscoun-
try flight at Barcelona, Spain. Aviator
Ehrmann's aeroplane was struck by
lightning and fell blazing to the
ground. The aviator escaped unin-
jured, which is regarded as almost
miraculous.
The second day of the strike on the
Grand Trunk was uneventful through
out Ontario. Through passenger trains
were running fairly on time. A few
locals were abandoned. No attempt
was made to move freight. The
freight situation in Toronto Is serious.
The yards and sidings are congested
with cars. The ice companies are
suffering and much perishable freight
Is being ruined.
The embankment of the Belle
Fourche irrigation dam In South Da-
a month. About $1,000 cubic yards of
earth were excavated and placed in
the reclamation service at Washing
ton. making total OF $4,000 yards;
or 81 per cent. of the total embank-
ment.
placed valuation of $1.000.000 on
John d. Rockefeller's Forest hill es-
tate, an increase of 800 per cent. over
last appraisal, when the valuation was
fixed at $260.220.
The foreign office at Berlin, Ger
many instructed the German embassy
at Constantinople to demand an ex-
PLANTATION from the Turkish govern
ment of the shooting of German
subject by three natives. near Haifa.
Syria.
II is estimated that 10000 men are
out OF employment as result OF the
strike Of employees Of the Grand Trunk
railroad system. The strike order was
obeyed by 5000 conductors and train
men and the company locked out TO-
900 men in the shops In the hope that
they would accept the positions de-
serted by the conductors and train
men.
General Estrada, president Of the
Nicaraguan provisional government,
has sent to Consul General Sussman,
at. New Orleans, and he to the state
department at Washington, an inter
copied telegram sent by Jose Madriz,
claimant to the Nicaraguan presidency,
to Gen. Roberto Gonzalez, commander
| of the Madrlz forces at San Ubaldo,
| instructing the latter to shoot without
| trial all rebels and prisoners taken by
his men.
At a conference held at Cincinnati
between representatives Of the Bucks
Stove & Range company Of st. Louis
and of several unions the matters In
dispute were settled and written agree
ments were entered into. The stove
plant will be a union shop. President
Samuel Gompers of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, presided at the meet.
ing. which resulted in the settlement.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. J. McEvilly and lit.
| y,
killed when the Freeport passenger
train on the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad struck their automobile al
Peck's Crossing, near Aurora. Ill.
Because of an article by Theodore
Roosevelt condemning prize fighting
in the Outlook, the last issue of the
magazine has been barred from sale in
Hutchinson, Kan. The magazine
comes under the ban of a recent ordi
nance which prohibits the exhibition
of prize fight pictures and the sale OF
| newspapers or magazines printing
such pictures or stories Of prize fights.
Illinois miners and operators have
been unable to reach any agreement
in the controversy over wages, accord.
ing to a statement from President T.
L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers.
| The next chief justice of the United
States Supreme court probably will
succeed the late Chief Justice Fuller
as member of the permanent court
of arbitration at The Hague.
Dean C. Worcester, American sec
rotary of interior for the Philippines
was set upon by renegade Moros, On
the island Of Palawan. and escaped
assassination only through the alert
ness of his bodyguard. who shot down
the outlaws, killing three of them out
right and severely wounding several
others.
The threatened strike OF street car
men In New Orleans has been averted
The men voted to accept the com
pany's offer to pay them 22% cents an
hour for the first year. % cents for
the second and 2SA cents for the
third.
Joseph G. Cannon. speaker OF the
house of representatives, collapsed
from the heat at Winfield. Kan. on the
chautauqua platform after speaking fol
an hour and three-Quarters. Prompt
aid prevented him from fainting. Blu,
he was unable to continue his address
Later he recovered and no Ill effect II
expected to resuk
H. ]. Airress. saloon steward Of the
White star Dominion liner Megantic
is positive that Doctor Crippen, the
alleged London wife slayer. arrived al
| Moptroal IN thai atoamehi0 and his