The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-01-29

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London quarter of . century ago.
was revealed with the finding Of the
headless body of Mrs. Jennie Cleg-
horn. 4s years old. woman Of form
or wealth, In q cheaply furnished
room at "a West Seventeenth street.
The head had been cut from the wom-
ans shoulders and carried away by
the murderer. The heart and other
organs had been cut out and then re-
placed
Paul o. Stensland and Henry w.
Herring, president and cashier, respec-
lively, of the defunct Milwaukee Ave
nue. bank Of Chicago, will become FREQ
men before the end Of the week. AS
q result Of the action taken by the
board Of pardons at Joliet, ILL.,. they
will be released from the Illinois state
penitentiary.
The Canadian parliamentary miner
al committee has decided to investi.
gate the operations Of the so-called
nickel trust. The company is con-
trolled by American capital.
President Taft won half victory
in the Republican caucus to select the
house members of the Ballinger-Pin-
chot investigating committee. He had
the name Of Mr.. Rainey Of Illinois.
one of the Democratic caucus nomi-
nees. taken OF the list Of the members
Of that committee. Also the "insur-
gent" Republicans won half victory.
They succeeded In keeping on the
committee Mr.. James OF Kentucky. to
whom the president also objected.
Four girls and one man leaped to
their death in panic caused by a
fire in the four-story. factory building
at Philadelphia. Five others received
probably fatal injuries and many more
were less seriously hurt. Nearly all
Of the dead and severely injured were
employed in the shirtwaist factory OF
Joseph Chachkin.
Revolving conditions OF white
slavery" among Chinese restaurant
and laundry men of Michigan have
been revealed through the arrest Of
two young Battle Creek girls In
Chinese Joint at Ann Arbor. One war
rant. for Lem 10y of Saginaw. was
issued. while others will follow. Both
girls have confessed to depravity so
disgusting as to be unprintable.
Speculative manipulation In the
stock of the Columbus & Hooking
Coal & Iron Company. overreached It.
self with the result that two strong
financial houses. Lathrop. Haskins &
Co.. and ]. M. Fiske & Co., were
forced to the wall and at least one, II
not three others are tottering on the
brink of ruin. The failure Of the two
firms means a loss estimated at from
100000 to 100000 to the mem
bers Of the firms and their customers.
A bill was filed In the circuit court
alleging that John c. Fetzer. a prom.
inent Chicago fnancier; Benjamin
Thomas. former president OF the Chi
cago & Western Indiana Railroad
Company, and Charles r. Kappes, a
former real estate agent Of the COM
pany, had defrauded, through the
manipulation of a series Of real es-
tate deals. the Chicago & Western In
diana Railroad Company out of $780,.
600.
Even behind the bars In the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth the pow
erful influences that kept John r.
Walsh out of cell for two years aft
er he was proved felon have pre-
vailed. John R. Walsh, convict No.
6.S61, is enjoying practically every
luxury that was enjoyed by Walsh,
the possessor Of $40,000.000 and an
income that could satisfy the wishes
OF any human being.
For the third time the house OF rep
resentatives passed bill giving sep
arate statehood to the territories of
New Mexico and Arizona. The vote
was taken amid applause. The ab-
sence of opposition to the measure
was the most striking feature Of the
debate. ~
Italy, Spain, Turkey. Switzerland
and some parts Of the British empire
are favored as trade customers of the
United States In proclamations Issued
under the Payne tariff law by Presi.
dent Taft Germany and France are
| on the outside.
One passenger was killed, a brake
man was fatally injured and nine 9TH
er persons were seriously hurt In a
head-on collision between two passen.
ger trains on the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul railroad at Keystone, rs
miles west of Cedar Rapids. la.
President Taft. It is authoritat lively
learned. Is in favor Of raising the
wreck Of the American battleship
Maine, which rests at the bottom of
the harbor Of Havana. so that all the
world will know whether the explo-
sion which destroyed the battleship
originated inside or outside Of the
vessel.
New York State Comptroller Clark
William has begun proceedings to
have the estates of George Smith, the
Chicago millionaire. and his nephew.
James Henry Smith, known in Wall
street as silent" Smith. reappraised
on the charge that the executors
have attempted to defraud the state
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